At 12:24 PM 3/22/2009, you wrote:
[Marsha]
ArloKrimel...
[Arlo]
Are we back to being merged into one person again?
[Marsha]
"All things tend towards patterns..."? I'm out!
[Arlo]
I wouldn't take this as dismissive of chance or DQ or change or whatnot. But I
think its evident looking around that "patterns" or "preferred responses"
are... err.... "preferred".
Arlo,
Maybe you mean 'patterns tend toward patterns', or 'processes tend
towards patterns'. Or at the very least, 'things ARE patterns'. I
thought this was too good to be true.
Hey, if you have any pull ;-) bring Woods-Woods back.
Marsha
Marsha
As humans, I think, we tend to be very habituated beings. We wake at the same
times, eat at the same times, enjoy televisions shows that are broadcast at
regular times, enjoy repeating our favorite activities, we keep the same
passwords, the same name, the same hair color and styles, we play our favorite
song over and over, we have our tea-rituals or coffee-times or whatnot...
indeed, the Zen approach in Japan (as Pirsig mentions in ZMM) is to embrace
habits to the point where they become unconscious and hence "non-interferring"
with meditation and the attempt to open oneself. Heck, the very fact that we
have so much stability in our experience is testament to the preferredness of
certain responses.
Imagine, just on our level, if you woke up every day (at random times,
sometimes 7am sometimes 9pm, and started that day with a different name, a
different hair style, different manners of dress, different address, different
personalities, different friends... it may be fun for a day or so, but
eventually (I'd wager) you'd feel a need to form some sort of stable routine,
some stable identity, some stable mannerisms. That's all I mean, we tend to
like stability overall. Being in a hurricane is certainly "Dynamic", but would
you want to live every moment of every day in there?
What I could say, if you'd prefer, is that "all things tend towards
preference". If this was not true, the cosmos would be a chaotic swirl of
randomness and nothing more. This does not mean we shouldn't challenge our
habits, and be open to change. Certainly not.
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