Subject: Re: Programming -Reply
From: Dennis Nelson (NELSOND@ny-smtp.army.mil)
Date: Mon 06 Dec 1999 - 15:29:00 MET
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 09:29:00 -0500 From: Dennis Nelson <NELSOND@ny-smtp.army.mil> Subject: Re: Programming -Reply
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Bill writes in part>>>The Gain Paradigm. It show that everything is
dependent on everything else. The is the deepest and most fundamental
change in our worldview in 5000 years. Also fortunately new
technologies are making it possible for humanity to act in accordance
with the Gain Paradigm.<<<
We always have known that all is dependent on everything else; our
effort remains to control our momentary emotions and desires to act
in accordance with the knowledge that all is dependent on everything
else.
When I am short with a spouse, child, parent, friend, neighbor, coworker,
I create a friction in that interdependency. When I fail to think through
and plan the use of a resource, I chance reducing the effectiveness,
efficiency and relativity of the resource expenditure and thus the overall
dependency.
Too often we confuse knowledge with acknowledgement. I know most
of my shortcomings. Yet too often when confronted with them I fail to
accept the help behind the confrontation and I get confrontational. Or I'm
too tired to make the effort, or others just don't understand.
Too often we become enraptured as someone else's jargon about the
truth of the ages makes clear to us relationships and truths that are
eternal, but of which we are just becoming conscious and able to
articulate. Our new understanding and language doesn't make the truth
or relationship new.
The new technologies do what new technologies always do: enable us
to do faster and more efficiently what we already were doing. If we
were doing what would benefit us all, we do that faster and better. If
were attempting to shortsightedly make our own situation better (as we
shortsightedly see or define better) we will do that also, at great harm to
our external interdependencies.
That we are one is eternal, not new.
That if we lived in accordance with our being one we all would be
healthier in every way is not new.
That we need each other just to see, remember and act in accordance
with these truths is not new.
New would be a greater moment-by-moment individual and collective
effort to support each other in thinking, acting and reacting in
accordance with the truth(s).
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