Passing Thoughts
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No doubt? No dialogue!
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What we need to understand may only be expressible
in a language that we do not yet know
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Everything does not do it for me
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If one does not understand how one is part of the problem,
one cannot understand the nature of the solution required
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Live like a forest -- or Die like a tree
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We can eat without recipes, whether well or badly.
But we cannot eat recipes
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What we now know to be true may later prove to be less meaningful
than understanding why we believed this to be so
before it was reframed by a larger truth
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Why endeavour to be elsewhere,
if one cannot be here?
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When and where can what be proven to be factual and
by which means:
how can this be achieved with any credibility, by whom;
why would they endeavour to do so?
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Most of those, whose views currently condition thinking,
are
long dead
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To define is to remove all that is fine
from that which one
perceives
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| 8-fold Continuity of flow |
When the timing is right
And where is well-found
Which way needs no choosing
For emergence of know-how
To enable what is called for
Through embodying an identity
In fulfilment of purpose --
Thus engendering a new cycle
No questions !? |
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Questions last -- Answers multiply and rot
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Questions are engendered by the encounter with the wilderness of knowing
-- answers are the urbanization and industrialization of knowing
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Beware of the principle of uncertainty underlying vision
-- whether the partiality of photo-opportunities
or the continuity of waving to the crowd
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If "development" engenders so many problems in modern society,
might it be "velopment" which would ensure sustainable improvements to quality
of life?
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Rather than "peak oil",
perhaps the concern should be with "peak meaning"
-- with the former but one metaphor for the latter.
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If objects object, objectively speaking,
to what are subjects
subject, subjectively speaking?
And conversely speaking?
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Why not reallocate some resources
from
the eternal challenges of
disagreeing about agreement
to the subtle possibilities of agreeing about disagreement?
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In pursuit of their political agendas,
are religions discredited by
exploiting "God"
as a Trojan horse ?
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How to know whether it is better
to know more and more about less and less,
or less and less about more and more?
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How can the wise "make a difference"
without disagreeing?
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If the purpose of "national intelligence" is
to destroy relationships threatening communities and lifestyles,
what kind of "intelligence" would be required
to build sustainable community and relationships?
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Who is the muse for whom one writes
-- thereby amusing oneself?
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"I have friends who are always telling me
how much management of complexity is required
to keep
things simple for me"
(with apologies to Gandhi and the Law of Requisite Variety)
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It is not the differences in point of view
that are problematic, but rather the lack of attention
to the topography that provides some justification
for all of them
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How is the wisdom of the airbrushed distinct
from that of the windswept -- or of the seriously bald?
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If wisdom is required to respond to the challenge of sustainable development,
how might that wisdom be best embodied in music and song?
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For everyone, dialogue may involve the reconciliation
of the clear "ping" of one's own insight
with the sharp and musty "pong" of the other's
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If that which one values most in oneself
lends itself least to ready description,
is the reverse also true?
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Every observation is an element
of what could be fruitfully
called into question
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If spiritual insight is as simple as acclaimed by the wise,
why the need for such lengthy religious texts?
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Paradoxically, any oversight role fails
through the accumulation
of its oversights
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To what extent does a project involve projection
of some form of projectile --
and how is any damage to be recognized?
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If the For...umms of the world cannot unite,
Why be astonished if its peoples fight?
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Optimists and positive thinkers buy lottery tickets,
in the expectation of mana from elsewhere.
Pessimists and cynics feel obliged to get their own act together
-- to deal with the challenges they face
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Everything is so deadly serious
that a viable Theory of Everything
can only be profoundly funny
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Nothing Is
Happening Here and Now
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Since "yoga" signifies "union" (in Sanskrit),
the corollary
may be that
the challenge of any "union" of significance
must
imply some form
of "yoga"
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Is global communication enabled by
currents
of feeling in an ocean of meaning
-- or is it currents of meaning in an ocean
of feeling?
Or both?
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Arguments for or against "moral equivalence"
are
pure exercises in scholasticism
to those terrorized by unrestrained violence
-- irrespective of the belief of those perpetrating it
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No authority with
the power to mislead
is able to prove with any credibility
that it is not in
the process of misleading
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The great thing about "terrorism"
for the intelligence communities
is that no thinking is required
-- it is always "al-Qaida" !
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So many impressive foundations
are created, but so little
is constructed upon them
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Are there as many black holes in the universe
as there are
individuals on Earth?
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As an acronym, is a theorem:
a reminder of divinity? a memory of the divine?
a memo from god?
a clue to divination? a divine glance?
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If, according to Socrates,
an unexamined life is not worth living,
might an unexamined faith render worthless the lives of others?
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The meta-pattern that connects is a synaesthetic pattern,
not to be re-membered through
a single sense or mode of knowing
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Agreement between those who claim special insight,
or who are perceived
as wise,
is only achieved by excluding those with whom they disagree
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What do we learn
from having the opportunity to do
what we subsequently fail to achieve?
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Philosophy is a process of draconian personal hygiene,
better
to be in time with others -- those not encountered out of time
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The inconvenient truth about truth
would seem to be that its
simplicity is not to be found
where it would be most convenient for it to be
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Is life the effort to process a free download
of information from the stars?
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How does one indicate a framework of higher dimensionality
from
within one of lower dimensionality -- by "pointing"?
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Given the number of keynote speakers
on vital strategic issues,
why can we not hear the music they elicit?
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Collaboration -- where neither party is committed
to do anything
in the expectation
that from that synergy
something will emerge?
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Any insight one has
impells one further out-of-sight for others
(if not out-of-mind)
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For those constrained to live in the plane of reality,
what options are there
when everything has been explaned?
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Envisaging a sustainable future
may require a degree of
eye-mortality
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Although those who cannot remember the
past
may be condemned to repeat it,
re-membrance of it may be valuable
in enabling its processes to be replicated at a subtler level
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Where is the "there"
at which I am
"here"?
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Sustainable governance is necessarily sexy
-- and if
it is not then
it is unlikely to be sustainable
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If truth is two-eyed then
governance is necessarily double-breasted
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Systemic ignorance
is not a valid plea before
Gaia's cybernetic law
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It is not a question of whether a model will fly,
but rather of whether one can engage with it
and thereby be enabled to fly it oneself
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Living is doing time
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One person's meat
is another person's bull
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To see the universe in a football game and heaven in a
ball ?
Hold infinity in awareness now and eternity in a mall ?
(with apologies to William
Blake, Auguries
of Innocence)
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Live like a forest or die a log
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A fact is but a memorial to a moment of knowing
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The sustainability of the environment is ensured
by the co-existence of
many species
that, by definition,
do not engage in fruitful intercourse.
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Wisdom is the art of being ignorant
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It is not whether it is relevant,
but where, when and how it is relevant
-- and why
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The reality of one person
necessarily implies a pattern of denial
for another
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It is the nature of distractions
to expand and expropriate
any available attention time
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Is increasing wisdom,
as claimed by those of advancing years,
merely a device
to intimidate those
puzzled by their increasing incomprehensibility?
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It is not whether it is relevant,
but where, when and how it is relevant
-- and why
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Being fully "here" is a prerequsite
for any meaningful reflction on
"having gone"
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Is it what one believes that matters, or whether others care?
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If one does not take care of globality
one will be taken care of
-- by globality
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Myth is a form of explanation
with which one can meaningfully engage
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The useless are getting ready
-- now that the useful have demonstrated
the nature of their incompetence
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Does the secret of global governance
lie in the riddle of a cross word?
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Does death result from exhausting
the cognitive geometry on which
we choose to live?
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"Toroidal brain" ?
Does the "global brain" have
a "hole in the head" ?
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If I am a strange loop
Could you be one too?
Stranger still the community
That might sustain us two?
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By the time
you have been re-cognized,
it is already too late
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Like "magic carpets",
the key to the transportation potential of values
lies in how they are
interwoven -- and how that is appreciated.
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Is meta-discourse necessarily unsustainable?
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How does an anomaly become irrelevant?
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The present is a moment of insight
precluding those of the future
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Governments now stand for nothing,
other than the appearance of standing for something
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Dialogue with those who know "the answer"
is much less fruitful than
dialogue between those who know they do not
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Factuality, objectivity and authority
are commodities whose
quality and price
vary according to market principles
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Science is a cultural product
suffering from the delusion
that it is not
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The greater one's sense of comprehension,
the greater one's probable incomprehensibility
-- especially to oneself
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Is nonsense everything
that is not sensationalist?
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