Dolphins cavort/Wolverines play/People cry/…
Dolphins cavort
Wolverines play
People cry
What is life?
Life arises
Life adventures
Life interacts
Life needs life
Life is together
:- Doug.
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Does our concept of religion sell us a dumb God—one who cannot speak, cannot move, cannot respond, cannot imagine creatures who can think and act on their own, cannot trust?
Does our concept of religion sell us a dumb God—one who cannot speak, cannot move, cannot respond, cannot imagine creatures who can think and act on their own, cannot trust?
:- Doug.
If God were creating a computer, would you expect it to be smart or dumb? Would the God you believe in have created a smart world or a dumb one?
If God were creating a computer, would you expect it to be smart or dumb? Would the God you believe in have created a smart world or a dumb one?
:- Doug.
What is the strongest geometry for people gathering?
What is the strongest geometry for people gathering?
:- Doug.
Are people working together still too much in their heads? We have heads and we should use them!…
Are people working together still too much in their heads? We have heads and we should use them! They are part of our equipment. They are part of our bodies. We just need to bring our bodies along.
:- Doug.
Goals are not blinders on the sides of our eyes but in front.
Goals are not blinders on the sides of our eyes but in front.
:- Doug.
Better to ask them to throw their hearts over the bar first, yes? So the idea is you name your live questions and high passions and see how people…
Open Space has a structure, but it flows necessarily from what is already in the hearts and minds of the people.
If our job is to teach something new and unknown to this group, like arithmetic, then we need teaching. If our job is to inspire by what others have done, although that is weak, we can bring in an outsider who has done it. It is weak because it is at a remove: it does not ask people to see what they are of a mind and heart to do; it asks them to passively receive and see if it tickles their fancy.
Better to ask them to throw their hearts over the bar first, yes? So the idea is you name your live questions and high passions and see how people will work together around them. Thus, we name the passions. Then from that whole, we pick what we each want to work on, and find that others share that motivation. Then we get to work. Gather, say, gather, do.
:- Doug.
Chris Corrigan » How to Save the World
Chris Corrigan » How to Save the World
You just tell the story–leave it to someone else to implement.
Great post! Thanks, Chris and Dave!
:- Doug.
What is the most life-giving thing we can do next?
What is the most life-giving thing we can do next?
:- Doug.
Now let us/Take our own/Adventures in/Loving life
Now let us
Take our own
Adventures in
Loving life
:- Doug.
…What is the net balance on life of what we propose to do?
Stretch what is here, make it better. Do not cut. Do not break. Do not destroy. Do caress. Do pull. Do build up. Invite.
Invite life. Invite living. But more than that: add to it.
Create life. Weave, process, engender, procreate.
How does this engender life? How does it destroy life? What is the net balance on life of what we propose to do?
:- Doug.
My job is fitting people with macroscopes. Why? So that we…
My job is fitting people with macroscopes. Why? So that we all start working together toward life. Life is working together, being together. Life is sustaining, engendering life.
:- Doug.
How do we become more real in the world, more of a part?
How do we become more real in the world, more of a part?
:- Doug.
What’s on the edge of your thinking about humanity, life, the larger picture?
What’s on the edge of your thinking about humanity, life, the larger picture?
:- Doug.
A group in process becomes a vibrant living thing.
A group in process becomes a vibrant living thing.
:- Doug.
A circle forms a boundary which gathers our attentions to the inside while inviting others from outside to join.
A circle forms a boundary which gathers our attentions to the inside while inviting others from outside to join.
:- Doug.
Do we perhaps need fat boundaries between people?…
Do we perhaps need fat boundaries between people? Is coming together something to be avoided? Most of the time, like we do?
:- Doug.
Apples, bananas and nuts, oh my!/Working together for good, oh my!
Apples, bananas and nuts, oh my!
Working together for good, oh my!
:- Doug.
Community Disorganizers—getting apples, bananas and nuts to work together for good.
We are Community Disorganizers—getting apples, bananas and nuts to work together for good.
:- Doug.
