If Germann won’t go to the lake, the lake will….
If Germann won’t go to the lake, the lake will go to Germann.
:- Doug.
Archive for January 8th, 2010
There is a common view that we live on information. This is not true on two grounds:
There is a common view that we live on information. This is not true on two grounds: first of all, if life is primal, then the flow of information is what is important, not the information itself. Secondly, it is not even the information that life is after: it seeks instead meaning: what does this information, this intercourse, mean to me and to those around me? So it is the flow of meaning by which we live, and this is conversing. It is how these things interact, how life interacts with life, that is of significance.
:- Doug.
Life it seems necessitates and implies loving….
Life it seems necessitates and implies loving. To interact with your environment suggests that one needs the environment (for food, air, sunshine—life!), so to destroy your environment would make no sense at all and eventually there would be no environment, no life. To live is to give birth, to create, and if one ate one’s young we’d have a being eating its own tail, consuming itself till nothing was left. To create suggests that one wants the created to continue; to live suggests that one wants to continue: both require that wishing well of others and the environment, which is love. Life necessitates love; life implies loving.
:- Doug.
….The first thing we do is take in air, cry.
Conversing looks like a tool. But is it? It seems to be what life does—interacts, intercourses with its environment. Life eats and eliminates—it takes in and leaves behind what it has used. Waste is food for other life. Sentient life takes in feelings. Intelligent life takes in concepts and ideas and words and emotions—and this is food for us. We live on, are birthed as persons by, conversation. Basic, primal, rudimentary, foundational, seminal. The first thing we do is take in air, cry.
:- Doug.
Dreaming and storying are forms of living, of intensifying life….
Dreaming and storying are forms of living, of intensifying life. Conversing is what life does. It is more than conveying information and even more than conveying feelings and emotions: it is interacting with our environment, which is the essence of life. Storying and dreaming are means of that. Conversing is foundational.
:- Doug.
