Replying to LO24724 --
Dear Organlearners,
Winfried Dressler <winfried.dressler@voith.de> writes:
>What you wrote on inertia stemming from rote knowledge and
>rote belief stirred like a spoon in the usually inert soup of my
>experiences. The bubbles coming up from this stirring make me
>question seriously the inscription of the spoon: "beware rote ###".
Greetings Winfried,
Yes.
Dear other fellow learners, close your eyes or hit the ESC key should
formulae and terminology frustrate you.
Nothing can change without "entropy production". The lack of "entropy
production" and resistance to change are two sides of the same coin. For
example, when a voltage V is applied over an ohmic resistor R at
temperature T, the rate of "entropy production" is given by VxV / RxT.
The less the resistance, the greater the rate of "entropy production" and
vice versa. Observe that the linearity implies a production close to
equilibrium, unlike in a diode.
>Thank you for your additional stirring. I see the inscription
>much clearer now. The temptation for RMB is high, especially
>in mentally unsecure environment. In this environment RMB is
>easily justified, as I have tried. Now I see that the message of
>Easter is that nothing can be lost by AMB - independent of how
>destructive the environment may be. RMB is a disease, but I am
>not yet ready to be cured, just give me a little more reversible
>time... yet I am still loved and feel blessed, thanks for the
miracle.
Thank you for calling it a stirring. Others may call it a violently
agitating. But watch out for a "desert devil" (desert tornado).
Dear Winfried, your GREATEST danger now is that you may incorporate by
"rote learning" what I have been writing about "authentic learning". But
incorporating it by digestive after emergent learning is in order. That is
why I insist -- it is better to burn what I am saying because it may lead
to "rote learning" and rather learn self from your own experiences how
"authentic learning" becomes.
It reminds me how I became aware in 1969 that the apartheid
government was fooling around in my mind. (The full awareness
that the ideology of apartheid -- and not people -- did exactly same
came only some ten years later when I began to understand how
wholeness works.) After that I used to say:
The goverment says "do what I say" while
secretly not doing the saying to the fools.
This is how "rote learning" works.
Now I have to say to you (and I hope the subtility of language will
allow it):
Do not what I say while
openly doing what a few fools may say.
Perhaps this is how "authentic learning" works.
>Not entering the black hole: is this the core of resistance to
>change?
No -- when viewed from the emergent phase of creativity -- the edge of
chaos
Yes -- when viewed from the digestive phase of creativity -- or its copies
in rote mental behaviour up to now. It is just letting the crystal grow
and grow and grow. It will never emerge to a higher order and will prevent
others from growing too. Cutting it, with all the crying involved, into a
shape which pleases the human eye more, will also not help. It has to
collapse so as to emerge into more than a crystal.
People used to kill ostriches in the deserts of South Western Africa until
few were left over. Why? People wanted something very valuable in the
stomaches of these birds. These gigantic birds gobble up all kinds of
pebbles to help them with their digestion by the mauling action of these
pebbles together. A pebble is valuable to them as a pebble -- nothing
more. But what they do not know, is that the hardness (resistance to
change with respect to abbrasion) of a certain kind of pebble let the
number of these pebbles slowly increase in its stomach. So eventually it
has to pay with its life for that birdy ignorance of resistance to change.
If you want to know what kind of pebble it is, look up the scale of
hardness in the CRC handbook. It is the only kind with the maximum
hardness of 10.
Do you know what an ostrich do to ignore deliberately something? It puts
its head in a hole in the ground! Imagine it, this gigantic bird,
standing on straight legs, arse somewhat lifted so as to get the head
below ground level -- a sad sight for sore eyes.
Do you know that an ostrich male, when protecting his female with their
brood, can and will rip a person's thorax open with one mighty blow of one
of his legs. Its forward toe has a deadly, huge nail. He will swing one
leg straight up-forwards and then hook it downwards with a simultaneous
forward lurge. Should you ever hear his "ben-hur", "ben-hur" when
strolling in his kingdom, know that it is almost too late to do anything.
But you can do one brave thing -- pull of your pants, dodge his first kick
sideways while immediately afterwards pulling your pants over his head.
When blindfolded, he becomes tame.
It is better to be naked than to be kicked. But if you can get off your
shirt faster than you pants, rather do that ;-)
>Where is the loving (as opposed to demanding) kick in the ass
>I cannot resist?
I do not know.
But I do love your persistence on exploring the ways of chasten despite
all the calls to stop it.
In my last reply to Sajeela I told about the Namas and their exquisite
body langauge. Here is something which may comfort you. I have cleared it
out with my friend Jasper Nieuwoudt who grew up as a Namaqualander and is
aware of these things too.
(By the way, the name of the "Kwe" bird is "Corythyxoides concolor". See
if you can find a wav file for its sound somewhere.)
Perhaps you will find what you search for with the Namas.
The Namas have two different body languages for the "caring kick on the
butt".
(1) Caution
"I warn you to take caution."
Nama A will lift his knee of one leg upwards while slapping once
with his hand his own butt.
"I will become cautious"
Nama B will give a slight jump sideways, lifiting up both legs and
keeping them together.
(2) Hurry.
"I warn you to hurry."
Nama A will shuffle slightly with each leg straight once forwards
and once backwards (almost like a Bayerische Tanz) while
slapping once with his hand his own butt.
"I will hurry as soon as possible."
Nama B will shuffle slightly with each leg straight once sidewards
so as to move a little away.
The sounds for these two are
(1) Caution
"ta-ta-ta" with roughly a second interval between each "ta"
(2) Hurry
"toe-toe-toe", all taking less than a second.
Almost enough "toe-toe-toe" for the coming "ta-ta-ta"?
With care and best wishes
--At de Lange <amdelange@gold.up.ac.za> Snailmail: A M de Lange Gold Fields Computer Centre Faculty of Science - University of Pretoria Pretoria 0001 - Rep of South Africa
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