What we don’t know of humanity
What we don’t know of humanity,
Its divinity, and diversity,
Is what we don’t know of conversity
:- Doug.
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How we move things forward
We are at the beginning
With only provisional answers
We move things forward
:- Doug.
Great discoveries are imminent
Great discoveries are imminent in our understanding of conversation. We have a new frontier.
:- Doug.
New video game option
Would that there were video games where one option were to sit down and converse.
:- Doug.
The point: we do not have the answers
That’s just the point, isn’t it–that we do not have the answers? It is going to take noodling together and moving beyond what we thought we knew for sure, to knowing for certain that we know nothing for certain. Once we get there, progress is more possible.
:- Doug.
Larger made of smaller
Structures are larger made of smaller, ↑. Properties emerge from the aggregate, ↓. Together, they describe the enigma of living beings.
Look at it this way, too: as we living becomings age, the arrows reverse. We grow “up” from infants to toddlers to children through teens and adult years; slowly at first we begin to fall apart. We lose stature and muscle. Then things that become noticeable in young-old years, in old-old years gives way to avalanche.
The same is true of the other arrow: we learn we learn and build up knowledge and experience in early years, then we gather and share wisdom, a building up of the species.
So two arrows in the same individuals, opposite directions. When they clash? Perhaps this is the time the individual dies and the groups war. Or something else. What do you think?
:- Doug.
acting not upon the world
acting not upon the world
with the world
to get some good things done today
:- Doug.
mosaics of swirls
We have here
every here
conversations of relationships
every relationship swirling for life
each must, must swirl our own
each turned by mosaics of swirls
kaleidoscopically morphing
each a stream strong, directing
no one stream controlling the larger flow
each only influencing, still
is asked to swirl the stream entire
:- Doug.
These politicians
These politicians
have blinders diff’rent from yours
and mine, but louder
:- Doug.
It takes a longer preparation
It takes a longer preparation
as teens to pull away from parents
than it did to gestate
than to differentiate
yourself from kitty dog book glass
to define yourself by family tribe school
It takes a longer preparation
to seek a mate
to make a family
to provide for them to raise them
It takes a longer preparation
all that went before
to slow to see and taste
our community
and unity with all
to soften to gather to love
to lose and in that to gain
:- Doug.
No, I’m not having fun
No, I’m not having fun
in my work
I’m having love
an exchange with one another
of words, wonder, and engagement
:- Doug.
Every last breath?
What’s important? Getting every last breath you can? Sharing every last hug you can?
:- Doug.
Gentle, life-generating
It is important to find essence, the part of life that is gentle, life-generating. So much of what we chase—money, clothing, houses, cars, respect, fame—melt away in the face of loving-kindness, comfort, and death. What is in these is essence we know. If we recognize it we ought seek it.
:- Doug.
The mystical things I do
The mystical things I do
Are those of
Kindness, caring, and loving
:- Doug.
