Replying to LO25980 --
Dear Organlearners,
Richard Seel <richard@richard-seel.demon.co.uk> writes:
>At quotes Polyani as saying:
>
>>The Free Society has to protect this "it is only
>>by faith and trust in the all-encompassing grace
>>of God that we can project ourselves in that
>>supreme work of imagination -- the Kindom of God ....".
>In view of At's earlier post on spelling I was
>amused/amazed/moved to see the word
>"Kindom" in the above. Is this Polyani's word?
>Is it At's?
>
>Whichever, it seems very beautiful and meaningful
>there. God's kingdom is indeed a kindom - a domain
>of brotherhood and sisterhood. The deep sense of
>community which underlies the teaching of Jesus (but
>is too often hidden by parts of the church) is beautifully
>expressed here.
Greetings dear Richard,
It was indeed a typing mistake and I indeed did not see it as a spelling
mistake. You could have flooged me for it by words, but you made a
wonderful learning event from it. Thank you very much for your
constructive creativity.
To have constructive creativity, each of the seven essentialities has to
become more complex or mature. I think that you showed how we can mature
in wholeness. One if its patterns is that of associativity X * Y * X. In
sureness one of its patterns is Object * Context.
You could have used Object * Context to tell me to use a spell checker.
But should the word "kindom" also exist and not only "kingdom", this dumb
machine would never be able to exhibit such constructive creativity as you
did. The "kin" reminded you of the Old English "cynd"=kind along the
associative pattern
. "kin-dom" * kin * brothers&sisters.
Yes, children were refered to in OE as "cynds". In my mother tong
Afrikaans we still have "kind"=child.
The suffix "-dom" is interesting. The ancient Germanic languages had an
adverb sounding almost like "doem". It is in modern German "dumm" and in
Dutch and Afrikaans "dom". It means stupid, foolish, dumb and forsaken.
They did not have the suffix "-dom". It seems as if they imported this
suffix form their contact with the Roman empire and thus the Latin
"dominium"=empire, "dominus"=lord and "domus"=house. This suffix "-dom"
indeed refers in the Germanic languages to the totality of state of that
which it is affixed to.
>Some psychotherapists maintain that there
>are no accidents; perhaps there are also no
>spelling mistakes...
I know that construtive creativity transform every learning "mistake" into
authetic learning. Perhaps it is time for use to learn how to create
constructively. We will then have to grow in each of the seven
essentialities. You have given us a fine example how to grow in wholes,
i.e wholeness.
By the way, the seven essentialities have been very useful to me to delve
into the form of any system, even a system like knowledge.
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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