Dear Organlearners,
Winfried Dressler <winfried.dressler@voith.de> writes:
> >Not all effective contacts are favourable. Nature is full of warnings
> >against effective contacts.
>
> With this, I am wondering how fruitfulness can be impaired. It is more
> like a valve for creativity, a control unit for entropy production. The
> effective contact with a lion in the desert is an example how more entropy
> would be produced than I could cope with.
Greetings Winfried,
Welcome back.
I must admit that I have a weapon which even a lion have to reckon with:
my snoring. Few can cope with it. Luckily my wife can - if she can get
asleep before me.
> May be the clue is in the second part of the seminal name: beget.
> Effective contacts need to be timed and arranged in a way, that they have
> the power to beget something new. Too many or too less or too intense
> effective contacts thus would impair fruitfulness: connect yes, but beget
> no..
Yes. Your insight makes me happy.
> "Semi-effective contacts" is an expression, that jumped into my mind, when
> I thought about fruitfulness. At, once you wrote that one should complete
> ones past uncompleted creations. This has also to do with the power to
> decide. An example: When I look at my desk, I find it full with papers
> which connect more or less with one or the other issue, that could be
> important. I would call my relation to this mess a semi-effective contact.
> I never learnt to deal with this effectively (which means I guess: to
> decide to make or make not contact). There are three aspects to this for
> me: 1.) It hurts physically to try to get an order into it. 2.) There is
> too much I am not at least interested in, but that belongs to my job, and
> it is unsure whether I will have to deal with it or not later. Only 10%
> become urgent some time. 3.) I tend to make things more complex that
> appropriate in a given situation.
>
> Can anybody give me a hint, how I could learn about fruitfulness by means
> of dealing with all these semi-effective contacts? This may be similar to
> complete past creations?
I read you clearly. I have the same problem when I forget about my calling
(mission in life). But as soon as I bring that into play, I connect with
the things which have the highest priorty. I still fear that the things
which I should have connected to, but did not have time for, will haunt
me. I use this fear to do the things which I do connect to as best as
possible.
Strangely enough, not one of these "un-connections" ever haunted me. Thus
it is stupid of me to fear them. Again I have to bow to the wisdom of
Jesus - that we should not fear the future when we are with God. The
Father knows what is best for us.
I will be away from Wednesday for two weeks with some friends on a
missionary trip to Malawi and then Tanzania. I know the deserts where few
people live. But now we are going to central Africa where water abounds
and thus millions of people with diseases (physical and spiritual)
prevailing among them. We have no personal experience to rely on. We had
to rely on written reports. We have prepared ourselves as best as we can,
but we still do not know really what to expect. There are no communication
channels (and thus not even Internet) in the places where we will be
going. Even my family knows that they will see me again only if we arrive
safely back.
I want to thank Rick for allowing my contributions on virtual faith and
the deemster problem. The last thing which I wanted and which I feared
much, is a religious flame war on this list. But I had to present God's
case in system thinking as best as I can. We had been planning this trip
to central Africa for three months now. If you got the idea that I was
moving rather fast the last couple of weeks, you now know the reason why.
It was of utmost priority to me to connect to God's case in system
thinking before we leave. (The printer wants me to connect to my book, but
that is less important. He will have to wait another three weeks.)
When I am back, if God permits, there are three topics which I want
to concentrate on.
1) Continuing the seven essentialities
2) A couple of contributions on thermodynamics for people who know
nothing about it, but need to know so much that they will be able
to follow a discussion of dissipative self-organising systems.
3) A couple of contributions on how to create a LO from the viewpoint
of dissipative self-organising systems. One reason why people
find the creation of a LO so difficult, is that "fifth
discipline" (systems thinking) is incomplete if it does not give
an account of how life (material and spiritual) evolves.
Best wishes
--
At de Lange Gold Fields Computer Centre for Education University of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa email: amdelange@gold.up.ac.za
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