[MD] Chaos

[MarshaV]

At 10:57 AM 12/8/2006, you wrote:
>[Marsha]
>Someone might say, "This is not "freedom" as I understand it, but 
>chaos."   This
>seems like the scientific version of 'BOO!!!'.  Any reason why this isn't
>baloney?
>
>[Arlo]
>Someone might say? You mean "Arlo said". I'm not using "chaos" in strictess
>mathematical sense here, simply stating that without those "static dictates"
>your existence would be akin to a feral child. Your "freedom" to go to a bar a
>drink a brew with a buddie depends on a whole mountain of "static dictates".
>Your "freedom" to go into the woods and listen to the birds entails not only a
>whole host of things you can safely walk away from and not worry about losing
>while you're there, but a host of poetry, knowledge and memories, all made
>possible by "static dictates". That you try to loosen them in the moment, to
>increase the flow of DQ and move forward, is a given, but that they underscore
>your experience, and help in making it possible, it also a given. When I am
>riding up Canadian Highway 41, from Napanee on the way to Algonquin Provincial
>Park, my Zen moments are made possible not only by following DQ, but several
>boatloads of static dictates underneath me, from the machine to the roads to
>money to buy poutine when I get hungry (and a system there that makes it
>available). Where it NOT for "static dictates", I would NOT have the 
>freedom to
>take that ride. That's my point.

Hi Arlo,

I thought it might be interesting to challenge the idea of 'chaos'.

And, by the way, the word "without" as in "without those "static 
dictates"" was not a word I used.  I think stop signs are a good 
thing.   That I should believe in a heavenly father, is not.

Marsha