Richard Marken wrote:
[From Rick Marken (2001.11.15.0830)]
from Ray 2001.11.16.1220CST Aust
Thanks Rick for explaining things re descriptions in a clear, and helpful to me,
way.
I struggled with expressing myself with regard to the hard and easy part. In no
way did I mean nor do I think that what you have done and modelled was easy. I
think I was trying to say was that I am asking questions that are hard to answer
because a lot of other questions and answers, a lot of detail is missed out. I
really enjoy and find it helpful when you and others are able to clarify and
point out details that a lot of others just gloss over.
I think the work you have done with regards to catching fly balls etc. was mind
stretching for me just to read about it.
I apologise if you took umbridge at my clumsy way of writing about things. I much
prefer it when you ask directing questions that help me to be clearer and to
think further about that which I am saying.
Lately the discussion has been about terrorism. How is terrorism to be seen
through perceptual control glasses? When answering this and some of those other
questions that have arisen I was looking to grow in my understanding of others in
relation to what is it that people are controlling for that brings about their
own death and the deaths of others. What is it that has them disrupt .....others?
What I see is brutal, powerful and life wrecking. If I talk about it this way, I
don't think my understanding grows. If I talk about in PCT terms it might.
What would be some of the questions you would ask to help understanding of this
kind of phenomenon? What were the questions some of the others in this group
asked to help their understandings grow or to help them to reorganise?
One question I asked was do people (including myself here of course) talk drivel,
digress, etc... to help give them time to reorganise?
How do I now live when I know that there are people who are willing and able to
blow up planes to help them control for something I am not really sure of? How do
I (we) now live when we have to come to terms with people's 'natures', ability to
create disturbances that end life?
To use the analogy of the sunset, how are we now to live knowing that it is not
the sun going down but the earth turning? And knowing that the earth is turning
has me focus on different things, one being that it might spin faster and I could
fall off.
Maybe the group has had enough of this kind of thinking. What has it been
controlling for then by digressing into all of these other areas that we have
touched on? What has it been controlling for by testing out people's buttons?
Have people been trying to understand control or is it really not hard to
understand control, just hard to understand why and for what people control?
Is there some hope in knowing that the world is more accurately and
scientifically undertood if we use 'perceptual control glasses'?
A bit of a ramble, but that is where I am at the moment. Does anyone have
something to say that might help?
Regards,
Ray