Replying to LO28987 --
Dear Organlearners,
Leo Minnigh <minnigh@dds.nl> writes:
>From the original contribution of At (LO28964), I got the
>impression that At tried to open our eyes for connections
>and mergings. I wonder what the etymology of 'passion' is
>(I have no dictionary here in this place), but it will not
>surprise me if it has something to do with 'fitting'. It is as
>if searching for new cloths: searching, selecting, trying and
>changing for the perfect fitting, and wearing. Is this what
>*passion* means? At least, these were the hidden actions
>behind At's examples.
Greetings dear Leo,
I did not look up the etymology of passion. I think i would have felt
fetched down should i have done so. It comes from the Latin "passio" which
means suffering.
We here in South Africa have far too many "smart-vrate" ("smart"=sorrow,
"vrate"=gluttons). Consequently far too many claim that suffering
cultivates passion. I think that suffering cannot cause passion, although
passion can cause suffering. It happens when other people do not share a
person's passion and thus obstruct that person's activities.
We have in Afrikaans a word which comes much closer in describing passion
for me. It is the word "hart(s)tog" where "hart"=heart and "tog"=journey.
(I think that Dutch also has this word.) Perhaps it is this
"heart-journey" which makes me think of passion not as suffering, but
rather as an intense agitation of the mind.
I did not find any direct connection in the eytomology to 'fitting'. So i
looked up the etymology of 'fit". And here comes the interesting part --
it is related to the etymology of "fetch" and "foot" in which the
proto-Germanic word is "faet" (to go for, to go ind). This root comes from
the ancient proto-Aryan (Indo-Germanic) root "pad" which also meant to go
for or to go to find. This fitting="journey to obtain" then, after all,
seems to be related to the "heart-journey" -- to go for the heart.
>And once the ideal fit is created, it will be one with the
>very person, or perhaps better formulated, it will be
>oscillating with the person: the person feeels better and
>grows, the new cloth radiates the warmth and form which
>it receives. That is by the way, the difference with the cloths
>of the emperor which so much CEO's wear in these days.
Yes. We have a saying in our mother tongue Afrikaans that "the clothes
make the person". By this we mean that by watching carefully what clothes
a person wears, one will get a fair impression what counts in that
person's heart.
>I am still wondering why passionate teams generally
>don't survive for more the 10 years.
Leo, should we assume a connection between passion and free energy, then
withdrawing free energy too often and too intensely without filling up the
free energy in between at a calm pace, will impair the converter
gradually.
The battery of a motor car is a nice example to illustrate this. Drawing
electrical current often and rapidly heats up the plates in the battery so
that theybegin to buckle. Furthermore, the conversion of lead metal on the
one set of plastes and lead oxide on the other set of plates both to lead
sulphate is so rapid that some lead sulphate crystals drop to the bottom
rather that fit into the existing crystal structure on the plates.
Eventually the bent plates may break causing an open circuit or the rising
sludge of lead sulphate at the bottom touch the plates causing a short
circuit.
>> " Why do flowers bloom as they do? "
>
>Terry, thank you for this beautiful words, and they have
>made me thinking. I have not yet found a satisfactory
>answer. Of course, I can find all sorts of reasons sprouting
>from my mind, but my heart kept silent after these reasons.
>In other words, I could not find a passionate answer for
>your intriguing question.
Yes, Terry, thank you very much.
Leo, the plants might say they flower to reproduce themselves. The insects
might say that the flowers provide them with food. The artist might say
that the flowers serve for inspiration. The sage might say that the
flowers serve as warning about the temporality and fragility of life. But
the child will simply say, like you have done, "look at this beautiful
flower". Beauty goes beyond reason.
>I think the best way for me is to start a walk like
>Vincent (thank you Andrew, for the quotation!) and
>look around me again in that rich shop of nature.
Here in the inland of South Africa the first spring flowers burst open
late in August. It is always for me intrigueing to see who will won the
race -- the flowers or the swallows returing from Europe after three
months of stay there. Last Sunday morning, as i looked up in the sky, i
saw dozens of the first batch which arrived, probably during the night.
They were chirping with joy because once again they have beaten the
flowers. Nature has a passion of her own.
With care and best wishes
--At de Lange <amdelange@postino.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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