The Practice of Peace

[Eiwor Backelund]

Hallo Harrison and welcome to Sweden. You sure came here at the coldest
days of the year.

I am sure you are right about that Open Space leads towards peace. You
have harder to fight people you have met and talked seriously with and
often the dialogues in Open Space are very direct from people´s hearts.
Even if I try to not listen to much so I don´t get involved, I can´t help
to sometimes overhear what is said.

You are doing a great work out there. I heard something in the radio here
in Sweden a couple of weeks ago, they said some peace process was emerging
in Israel but noone from the government seemed to know anything about it.
And then I thought of you. I think you started something that can be like
a snowball that goes down the hill, getting larger all the time until it
suddenly smashes in the middle of the village so the snow is spread all
over the place.

It is great that you train more people here in Sweden in Open Space. We
will need many to work this way. I am going to Gotland in March to do an
Open Space meeting on ethical questions within the liberal adult learning
system. We now hear about new open space meetings everywhere and so the
snowball is growing here too.

Have a nice time in Gotland.
Eiwor

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>From  Thu Feb 21 09:24:55 2002
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Chris Corrigan schrieb:

> Um....unless my definition of symmetry is different, there are a few
> more dates and times aren't there?
>
> Like:
>
> 13:12 11-11-2131
>
> 11:12 11-11-2111
>
> 21:12 10-01-2112
>
> 03:45 20-02 4530
>
> 00:03 30-03 3000
>
> Or am I getting this all wrong?
>
> Chris
>
> -yes, dear chris,
> i think it´s getting all wrong,
> cause the counting of the years
> is a fiction which has nothing to do
> with an universal order.
> it seems to be to remember to the
> birth of someone who is important for some people
> but that person was born neither in the year 0 nor in 1
> but some time earlier.
> basing to hard on that way of counting the years
> is continuing the imperialism of western/christian thinking
> and managing.
> there are a lot of other ways and experience to count the times.
> counting seems to me the helpless try
> to understand or to handle the permanently
> swinging energy of the universe.
> symmetry could be being in balance within the universe
>
>
> let´s take it easy swinging.
>
> florian
>
> (now counting the sticky dots on poetry)
>
>
>

florian fischer
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