<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Jenifer</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>I have loved your last two posts - they resonate very beautifully for me - I think maybe the streams and torrents of discourse are like blood flowing (and the extraverts' need for noise) in the OS corps. You and me (a lurky introvert - I would bang on about silence in OS but oddly it doesnt transalte!) are maybe just two of 100s in teh OS list who benignly get sprayed as the flow passes</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>I will risk a pebble (most of mine drop straight to the silt unnoticed) - which is (hopefully uncontroversial) that we are in a complex system here (life) and all frames are intriguing - how we make them, get stuck by them, cant see them, dont know they are there, misunderstand each others', have endless renaissance
and revitalisation - like Hollywood remakes - sometimes you wonder - why? But if it sells/belongs to a new crew. Actually, lets have a controversy (chewy word)</span></div><div></div><div> </div><div><font color="#a040ff" size="3" face="verdana"><b>Anne</b></font></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <div style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 0px; line-height: 0; font-size: 0px;" class="hr" contentEditable="false" readonly="true"></div> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Jenifer Toksvig <never@acompletelossforwords.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> World wide Open Space Technology email list <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight:
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<font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Dan: I have no spiritual beliefs. Honestly, I don’t even know what that is.<br>
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I think sometimes people make connections with one another, and sometimes people make connections with themselves, for all kinds of reasons. I think we’re all ultimately self-concerned, for all kinds of reasons.<br>
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Trying to explain those things through story is part of connecting. Trying to define those things through story is partly rejecting.<br>
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I like OST because it is not story, but rather, it is the way things are. It neither connects nor rejects.<br>
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It isn’t interested in me. It doesn’t ask me to be interested in it.<br>
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It is not possible to challenge it, or bend the rules, or break it. Nor can I see a reason why anyone would want to. <br>
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Frankly, I am always surprised that there is anything to talk about on the OS list. I return here after a break, and think: why are you people not just sharing recipes?<br>
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It’s not like I’m surprised people don’t get it. I’m just surprised people want to add to it. Sometimes I want to say “Seriously, what are you *discussing*? It’s OS. Now, who knows a good warm winter stew recipe?”<br>
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It is what it is. So is life. I will live, and things will happen, and I will die, and that is what it is. It’s not possible to challenge it, or bend the rules, or break it. Nor can I see a reason why I would want to. If you like: Life isn’t interested in me, and it doesn’t ask me to be interested in it.<br>
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I have no spiritual beliefs. Honestly, I don’t even know what that is.<br>
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Jen x <br>
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</span><font color="#808080"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><b>Jenifer Toksvig<br>
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<b>The Copenhagen Interpretation<br>
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