OST, OSO, OSW... (an overall coment on "It always works revisited")
Winston Kinch
kinch at rogers.com
Wed Jun 11 03:36:36 PDT 2003
Good on you Larry!
Ken WilbEr would be proud of you.
Winston
> I have a couple of responses Autur. One as a social activist who worked
> his buns off to change the nature of homelessness in Canada. My social
> analysis led me to see the root causes of so many things, but
> particularly homelessness as things that "could" have been different.
> It could have been different if -- even to the point of saying that if I
> had done something different in my youth -- protested harder, loved
> more, had Paul's faith, gone to church more, become a celibate, not
> rebelled against my parents. I am convinced that had people,
> governments, citizens, Hitler, Mohammed all made different choices it
> could have been different. But, they did not make different choices and
> I cannot remake those choices now. I can only learn from "whatever
> happened" and make the choice I can make now. It is liberating for me
> to assume that "what ever happened was the only thing that could have".
> It is where we have gotten from the combination of choices that were
> made -- and like Ken Wilbur I think all of reality makes choices in
> becoming what it is in every moment, not just people.
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