At 12:00 PM 8/19/1999 -0400, you wrote: >Barry, Peg, Koos, and Michael, >I have just checked out the whole site and think you've done a great job and >can only imagine how hard the work must have been to put it all together!!!! >A true thank you. The only thing I am not sure of is whether OST is about >self organizing systems and so I include my comments below to invite members >of the list to a discussion about this. Maybe I am just about to demonstrate >my lack of grasping self organizing systems...... ******************************************************************* Thank God the heathen and great unwashed are still among us. And Birgitt most of all. Welcome Home!!!
For whatever it is worth I do think that OST is about Spirit manifesting in time and Space -- AND -- it is also about self-organizing systems. Same thing -- different words so far as I am concerned. first of all, does anybody really suppose that we are going to organize Spirit? Seems to me that is pretty much self (spirit) organization from the git-go. As far as having or not having self-organizing systems (SOS?) at our present stage of development -- I find myself firmly convinced that there are no non-self-organizing systems. There are, to be sure, some (deluded) folks who actually think that they did the organizing -- and worse -- think they are still in charge. And push come to shove -- I really want to say, it is self-organizing systems all the way -- past, present, and future. From the big Bang, to the present moment, to the eschaton (how's your Greek?) -- self organization all the way. Of course, you could say God did it., Which is probably also true. Or -- that is just a manifestation of Spirit. with which I would agree. Welcome Home Digit! -- I love it.... this is what my spell checker did to Birgitt. Go figure! Harrison Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, MD 20854 USA Summer address: 189 Beaucaire Ave. RR Box 4248 Camden, ME 04843 Website www.tmn.com/~owen Phone 301-469-9269 Fax 301-983-9314 Maine Phone 207-763-3261
