Zig-zag revolution

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On Thu, 10 May 2001 11:22:39

 

Joyce Short wrote:

>Yes, Ive always been thick where I should have been thin, and thin where I

>should have been thick - others will say Im now thick all over. Seems to

>depend on what view one is seeing and from which window in which house. All

>those stairs to run up and down on -seamless and stairless much better.

 

Yes, living on one level.

>Eventually, everything "fits" -(as long as the diet is right! and one isn't

>engaged in non-evolutionary activity such as gazing at fat ladies on indian

>walls.) On the Kenyan coast, some of the ladies are still stuffing the area

>around their bottoms with multi layers of fabric under the kangas in order

>to look attractive...kind of bustling about.

 

Isn't that interesting, how each culture has had their own concept of beauty and

some very different from ours. Too bad so many of them are disappearing, a

diversity the Western world might need.

> >I'm sure revolutions tend to go in

>> circles not just change everything 180 degrees.

>

>So we can't have a Zig-zag Revolution?

 

Heeh heeh heeh, depends on what you see as progress I guess.

>Well, I did dust off the cover of my Chardin in order to tackle this

>evolution topic -but the book was too heavy (whimper) - she mutters,

>"spiral, spiral". But, all the stuff you ladies were posting reminded me of

>my time as an apprentice with architect Paolo Solari in Arizona. He was

>basing his work (designing cities of the future) on the thought of Chardin.

>All of it completely beyond me then as it is now, but I had fun in the sun

>digging in the dirt and making wind bells.

 

Wind bells ? Wind chimes or some kind of clay bowls for the wind to howl in ?

 

Yeah, in the end it's the application which counts, the fruitful result of the

thoughts and whether or not they are useful for further building and expansion

of knowledge. The thoughts of Darwin and the later neo darwinists and recent

theories of genes and memes has in my eyes been extremely fruitful in the form

of a new understanding of the natural world which at the time was nothing short

of revolutionary and given rise to a host of new techniques in today's life

science fields. As usual with technology, these have also turned into quite a

double edged sword, the same way quantum mechanics resulted in among other

things the hydrogen bomb, so it's mankind's task to figure out what to use the

knowledge for.

 

Digging in the dirt is unbeatable, appreciation of the living species and

especially their behavior as it has been shaped through millennia of evolution

and natural selection is fascinating. In my time as a biology student there was

nothing more fun than going on field trips to observe animals in their

environment, collect material and do other kinds of hands on work like rearing

animal babies or perform dissections (the more blood the better).

 

Biological science and philosophy was something which fueled my mind and

provided an excellent frame for developing thought before my run in with Advaita

and I still enjoy doing tests (technological and design type tests on a private

basis) and little everyday experiments a lot. The science thinking of

hypothesis, deduction and experimentation just fit my mind and before I left

science, a friend suggested I could leave science but it would never leave me.

 

>"Off with her head" -comes from a book that is more suitable for me.

>Funny, I was just reading how the desert fathers used to greet each other.

>Instead of saying "Hello" one greets, "Die before you die," and the other

>responds, "Resurrect before resurrection."

 

Nice. I guess that comes with the territory of the headless state (or the

headless tribe).

 

 

Love,

 

Amanda.

 

 

 

 

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