A test of my new blog system: questions
So I've set up a macro on my computer to make writing a blog a 1-step process for me. Just press it and start typing, then press another key stroke and it's sent to the blog. No more logging in and toolin' around. I hope this'll make me more likely to do it.
I've been thinking about posting questions every once in a while. Questions of a specific flavor, actually. This statement came to my mind (after a thought train) when I was sitting in a class on internalizing racist inferiority or supremacy:
Questions point to an experience people have had, but haven't named themselves (because they hadn't a language yet, mental space, etc.) are very, very powerful. In essence, questions that name the already existing question of "what is this?" are a spiritual practice and good for community...especially in a culture that emphasizing knowing IMMEDIATELY with no effort and an unwillingness to hold not-knowing. (and at this point I laughed at how quickly KNOWING that came to me. lol)
And here's the first, out of a conversation with Dana Turner, a rockin' person in NY who's becoming even awesomer.
"If you were the kind of person that really, really liked yourself and was happy with what you'd been involved in in your life (like you took time to go do all the awesome things you might be putting off), how much cooler would that make you to people who ALREADY think you're cool? What would your honoring your interests deeply do for them and their ability to be more that way themselves? What would that do for community?"
Well?
I've been thinking about posting questions every once in a while. Questions of a specific flavor, actually. This statement came to my mind (after a thought train) when I was sitting in a class on internalizing racist inferiority or supremacy:
Questions point to an experience people have had, but haven't named themselves (because they hadn't a language yet, mental space, etc.) are very, very powerful. In essence, questions that name the already existing question of "what is this?" are a spiritual practice and good for community...especially in a culture that emphasizing knowing IMMEDIATELY with no effort and an unwillingness to hold not-knowing. (and at this point I laughed at how quickly KNOWING that came to me. lol)
And here's the first, out of a conversation with Dana Turner, a rockin' person in NY who's becoming even awesomer.
"If you were the kind of person that really, really liked yourself and was happy with what you'd been involved in in your life (like you took time to go do all the awesome things you might be putting off), how much cooler would that make you to people who ALREADY think you're cool? What would your honoring your interests deeply do for them and their ability to be more that way themselves? What would that do for community?"
Well?
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2/24/2008 08:03:00 PM
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