Replying to LO26728 --
Dear Organlearners,
Andrew Campbell < ACampnona@aol.com > writes:
>"The very best constructions for organizational life
>imitate life itself. They continually seek new ways
>to change themselves."
>
>Just who penned these lines? And, does it matter?
Greetings dear Andrew,
I do not know. Please enlighten me.
I do not try to remember who wrote what and when any more. I do not even
make notes or photo copies any more. I study whatever writing I encounter
carefully, trying to make sure where I correspond and where I differ. The
parts on which I agree are not better than the parts on which I differ.
The "agree" merely indicates a temporaly equilibrium which may very not
exist in all future. The "differ" indicates "entropic forces" which I use
to understand myself as well as that person better. I use that "entropic
forces" to let complementary "entropic fluxes" (quantitative information)
flow into my own mind.
It has gotten so worse that I often do not even remember what I have
written self in the past. So you could have quoted me for all which it
matters. As for the present, I agree with what you have quoted.
>Flames have been on my mind of late At;-)
Dear Andrew, this I have noticed from your recent writings and
questioning.
I have learned from my own experiences as a child and comparing them with
observing many other children (icluding my own children and grandchildren)
that when they experiment with fire, the spirit of discovery and thus
humanity burns high. So I merely caution them with a family proverb
"children who play with fire may wet their beds in sleep."
>Flames At, like flames;-)
>
>Like flowers At flowers.
>
>Flames like scented flowers, At.
I had a couple of times the wonderful opportunity to look through an
infrared video camera (IRVC) with a resolution of 0.1C (degrees
centigrade).
Looking at cactus flowers opening at night (many species bud in the day,
bloom at night and wilt the next morning) through a IRVC is a shocking
experience. They look like preciously formed flames. One cactus genus
(very rare and very difficult to grow), namely Discocactus also produced
the most exquisite fragrance possible. The world seen through the eyes of
a might moth is indeed a world glowing with fires.
Technically, the IRVC is capable to pick up the increased metabolism and
thus associated dissipation of even a tiny flower coming into bloom.
Sadly, rather than letting kids explore the beauty of nature through a
IRVC, these instruments are most secretly used by soldiers in making war
whether children will be causualties or not.
>Some psycho--logical folk think love's expensive?
>So love must be hard?...Mmmmm.
>
>I feel it cheap too. Love is very cheap, so damned
>cheap it's free.
For me love-agape is truely free, but surely not damned cheap. The most
precious way of giving love-agape is by creative collapses. For those who
accumulate wealth the giving up of wealth may seem to be cheap. And it
indeed becomes cheap when done to impress people openly rather than
benefit people without them knowing what it cost.
>Why do people cage love At?
For the same reason they want to cage fire. Our modern technology is
empowered by the caging of fire, whether it is nuclear fire, sun fire,
chemical fire or animal fire. Our technology is our slave, even though we
conveniently forget how many souls have to become enslaved to have these
slaves without souls.
Once a fire has been caged, it becomes the slave of one-to-one-mapping and
thus efficiency. When the same is done to love-agape, it immerges into
selfish want (auto-eros).
>"Then folks echo a cheap new joy and
>a divine voice leaping from their veins:
>how beautiful is candour."
> Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass.
Walt knew his English. The word "cheap" like the words "cape", "keep" and
"coop" come from the ancient proto Germanic word sounding perhaps like
"ceap". It meant "although obtained as if a bargain, it is an outcome
worthy of intent staring." In my mother tongue Afrikaans we still ask "Kop
jy dit?" Morphologically translated, it is "head you it?" It means "do you
understand it?"
We also have another saying in my mother tongue "op die keper beskou"
where this "keper" is the noun formed from the verb "keep". The closest
saying in English would be the phrase "observed at the edge" (of chaos?).
With care and best wishes
--At de Lange <amdelange@gold.up.ac.za> Snailmail: A M de Lange Gold Fields Computer Centre Faculty of Science - University of Pretoria Pretoria 0001 - Rep of South Africa
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