[OSList] Fall Reflections

Mon Aug 31 06:32:33 PDT 2015

And I think that you came up with this ahead of 80 - since Open Space has been around in it’s Technology form approx 30 years if Im not totally wrong :-)

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> 31 aug 2015 kl. 11:07 skrev Paul Levy via OSList <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>:
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> I think the clue lies in the wonderful word "self".
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> We are the selves that organise.
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> Beautiful.
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> On 31 Aug 2015, at 09:51, Arno Baltin via OSList <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org <mailto:oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>> wrote:
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>> 2015-08-30 22:16 GMT+03:00 Harrison via OSList <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org <mailto:oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>>:
>> There comes a moment here in Maine when the season turns. It is not a gentle, creep up on you quietly, sort of thing. It is an all at once, very suddenly, kind of thing. There is a change in the light, a different smell on the wind, a chill on the air. Fall. It’s here. Ending. Beginning. Now.
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>> It has taken me a lifetime of living. But. I have learned two things, or maybe better, come to two conclusions. 1) All Systems are open. 2) All systems are self organizing.
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>> All Systems are Open is a complicated way of saying that everything is connected, including all the things that aren’t really a “thing,” which we don’t even know about. The net result is an infinite complexity which is completely unthinkable. And what you can’t think, you surely can’t control. So much for THAT vain hope.
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>> All Systems are self Organizing -- I know of no way of actually proving this one, but it does seem a natural concomitant of the first conclusion. If you find yourself in an infinitely complex and interconnected environment, where nobody is, or can be, in control, such systems as are there, must have pretty well gotten themselves together all by themselves. Of course there are a number of people who are sure that God did it, and personally I don’t have any real problem with that. But ascribing it all to divine agency doesn’t help us very much. We still don’t have much control and the systems around us, including those we think we organized, have a source other than our selves. 
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>> Life under the conditions described above (Open, Self Organizing Systems) can seem a little peculiar to some people, but it is not so much irrational as different. Certain “strange” things always seem to happen. For example, Whoever comes are the right people, whatever happens is the only thing that could have, wherever it happens is the right place, whenever it happens is the right time, and when it is over it is over. Always works out  that way, so I’ve found.
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>> All this appears conducive to a very passive existence. Not much for us to do. And the truth of the matter is that doing less always seems to accomplish a great deal more. That said, there is one thing that we really have to do. Follow the Law of Two Feet! Strange sort of law which says – If ever you find yourself in a situation in which you are neither learning or contributing, you must move your two feet until you find yourself a new place where you can do the one, the other, or preferably, both. In a few words: Follow your passion and take responsibility for it.
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