This is the second time I've read this, thanks for
reposting this Marsha. This is how I see what Case
wrote. These are the patterns that emerged with me as
follows:
I went on an overnight walk and only brought a
blanket and a lighter. It was during the cold season
some time during the year (years ago). I wandered off
the trail looking to camp for the night, I settled
upon the rocky, sandy shoreline of a creek. I would
be in the open, near the bubbling creek, and as long
as I would have a fire, warmth would be available. I
gathered wood and dried leaves. I found a fallen tree
along the shoreline were I could sleep up next to, to
protect me from any wind and air stirred from the
passing creek. I went to light the dried leaves...
chiss,.. chiss... the lighter wouldn't work. It
worked before I left, but now it wouldn't work.
Sunlight was disappearing. I tried over and over
again.
Well, sleeping near a warm fire, listening to the
musical creek, and sitting around before I would fall
asleep for the night - all disappeared. Deer came
down to the creek on the other side, but I was moving
around. I was getting cold - fast. I went up into
the woods where many sycamore trees grew. Their
leaves are big and have fallen in abundance. I layed
down, put the blanket over me, and reached out
gathering leaves over me into a pile that completely
covered me. In short time, I became hot enough that I
kept my face exposed the whole night. When I awoke at
first light I walked down to the creek. Overnight ice
formed almost completely across the creek, except in
the narrow, deeper, faster flowing channel.
The lighter wouldn't work - shit happens, so
improvise.
Thanks Case.
woods,
SA
[Case]
> Part One:
> Or
> What the hell is going on here?
>
> Several years James Burke hosted a PBS series called
> Connections where he
> showed how various advance in technology had lead to
> deep and racial changes
> in culture. For example he claimed that the printing
> press was more
> responsible for the Reformation than theology
> because it allowed ideas to
> travel farther and faster than ever before in
> history.
>
> You and I are used to seeing knowledge accelerate,
> doubling and quadrupling
> in our lifetimes and we expect this. That's just the
> way it is. So I think
> it is hard for many to imagine a time when knowledge
> and wisdom did not
> change and time stood still. People lived the same
> lives their parents did
> for generation after generation. While it is
> fashionable to pay homage to
> their use of myth and metaphor, we tend to be a bit
> smug about the
> quaintness of their conceptions.
>
> In many parts of the world ancient people, faced to
> making sense of the
> natural world, appealed to the supernatural. They
> figured, there must be
> something out there messing with us this way, what
> can we do to suck up?
> Radiating out of the Middle East and India there are
> pantheons of gods and
> goddess doing what they do.
>
> I think the best example of this comes from the Book
> of Job. It is one of
> the oldest books in the Bible. This is the Case
> short form summary:
>
> Satan is out walking to and fro upon the earth. He
> comes into the court of
> heaven one day.
>
> God asks him, "What up, down there?"
> Satan says, "Not much?"
> God says, "So how has my servant Job doing?"
> Satan says, "Oh, he fine his praises you all the
> time. But that's only
> because you are nice to him. If you were to fuck
> with him he would curse
> your name."
> God says, "No way!"
> Satan says, "Betcha, he would."
> God says, "You're on!"
>
> Next thing you know Job is having a party downstairs
> when some servants come
> in and tell him all his flocks are dead, and his
> family has been killed.
>
> Job is like, "Oh shit!"
>
> But he does not curse the Lord. When Satan comes
> back, God says, "See I told
> you."
>
> Satan say, "Yeah but that's only because you only
> let be fuck with his
> stuff, not him personally. If I could hassle him, he
> would curse you."
>
> God says, "No way!"
> Satan say, "Betcha!"
> God says, "You're on!"
>
> So for the rest of the book Job is sitting in an ash
> heap, covered in boils
> pissing and moaning about his fate. He is all like,
> "Why me? What the hell
> did I do? I don't deserve this kind of shit!"
>
> His friends come by to cheer him up and they offer
> all kinds of reasons why
> a merciful, just God this would let this happen to
> his servant.
>
> Bad Karma.
> Vanity.
> This was God's way of sparing Job from something
> worse.
> On and on they drone and to each argument Job says,
> "That's bullshit!"
>
> Finally God steps in. Job says, "God, why did to let
> Satan mess with me this
> way?"
>
> God answers, "Who are you to ask me what I can and
> can not do? I am God. I
> don't need a reason. Shit happens. Deal with it."
>
> Now you are no doubt saying to yourself what has
> this got to do with Taoism
> or the MoQ? The short answer is that religion,
> science and philosophy are
> all responses to God's answer to Job.
>
> Shit happens, that is Dynamic Quality.
>
> End of Part One.
>
>
>
>
> Part Two
> or
> Shit happens. How do we deal with it?
>
> My brother is an earthy kind of guy. But
> intellectual pretentiousness seems
> to run in our family. He used to work on a loading
> dock and he would be
> spouting off to his co-workers about politics and
> this and that and
> generally making himself annoying. Finally one day
> one of his business
> associates interrupted one of his tirades and said,
> "Look man, don't take
> this wrong but if it ain't got to do with fishin' or
> fuckin' I really don't
> give a damn."
>
> Imagine you are a hunter gatherer 15,000 years ago.
> About all your social
> group can offer you is knowledge about fishin' and
> fuckin'. Nothing else
> really matters.
>
> Eat this.
> Don't eat that.
> Make yourself useful.
> If you need to do something smelly, go outside the
> camp.
> Pretty basic stuff.
>
> The game migrates and you either follow it or wait
> depending on where you
> live. The seasons change. Flowers blooms, nuts fall
> from the trees, the
> berries sprout from the thorn bushes. It is said
> that the oldest profession
> in the free market economy is prostitution as in "I
> trade you some of this
> for some of those purple berries." But I tend to
> think that the second and
> third and fourth professions were Pharmacy,
> Engineering and Astronomy.
>
> Modern pharmacy grows from the herbalist traditions
> that run as far back as
> anyone can remember. Herbal lore accumulates over
> time and generations. It
> is essential and must be passed on from generation
> to generation because
> there is just too much to for one person to figure
> out on their own in a
> life time. These leaves can stop that itching. If
> you suck this root your
> head will stop hurting. If you eat this mushroom the
> world will melt around
> you.
>
> Engineering begins with banging rocks together and
> lo and behold they crack
> and the shape changes. Hey, I'll bet we could use a
> shape like that to dig a
> deeper hole. You got another one? Wow, that's sharp!
> What if we tie it to a
> stick? Can you show me how you made that?
>
> But Astronomy? Today most of us ignore or can't see
> the lights in the sky
> but for most of our ancestors they were an ongoing
> mystery, bright and
> unmistakable in the heavens. Almost all prehistoric
> peoples that we have met
> in historic times, that is the native and aboriginal
> peoples, can mark the
>
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