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WindGillsPlease · 01-24-2006, 08:59 PM

I don't know, maybe you don't need to get the bullet analogy.
What you said, nezmot, is along the lines of what I mean. It might make more sense to take that thought, (how one person has delay in perceiving and responding) And instead pretend all of humanity is one body, expanding on your thoughts from one individual to many. Groups of humans at least. These groups have the same lag. Even if a few individuals might become aware of something, the rest of the group hasn't precieved, or responded to it yet.
One question might be, How complex is this lag in organizations of humanity?
Take the playing out of western culture, for example. Socrates or Plato's Ideas are still trickling through how we govern today. We are still becoming aware of different implications of how Plato's words translate to us, and therefore, we build off of them. Sometimes we lose the meaning because we never understood, sometimes the meaning is refined through our understanding. How do we know we might have lost the meaning? I know western culture is based off plato, but I couldn't separate out the plato from the nonplato policies to anyone. Jesus lived 500 years after them. It's just shocking to think about how growth happens. On the one hand, Ideas may travel around the globe, but on the other, people might not yet really even understand what the ideas completely MEANT. How far, how long does this lag in meaning go?

To tie this to my other post, God may move through Nebcanezzar, Socrates, Jesus, Martin Luther King, or whoever, But He was there, and now He's gone on. We're looking at God's back, where he just was, and trying to find a story. As glorious as that is, can we hope to keep in step with the Living God?

01-24-2006, 08:59 PM	#5 (permalink)
WindGillsPlease Upright	I don't know, maybe you don't need to get the bullet analogy. What you said, nezmot, is along the lines of what I mean. It might make more sense to take that thought, (how one person has delay in perceiving and responding) And instead pretend all of humanity is one body, expanding on your thoughts from one individual to many. Groups of humans at least. These groups have the same lag. Even if a few individuals might become aware of something, the rest of the group hasn't precieved, or responded to it yet. One question might be, How complex is this lag in organizations of humanity? Take the playing out of western culture, for example. Socrates or Plato's Ideas are still trickling through how we govern today. We are still becoming aware of different implications of how Plato's words translate to us, and therefore, we build off of them. Sometimes we lose the meaning because we never understood, sometimes the meaning is refined through our understanding. How do we know we might have lost the meaning? I know western culture is based off plato, but I couldn't separate out the plato from the nonplato policies to anyone. Jesus lived 500 years after them. It's just shocking to think about how growth happens. On the one hand, Ideas may travel around the globe, but on the other, people might not yet really even understand what the ideas completely MEANT. How far, how long does this lag in meaning go? To tie this to my other post, God may move through Nebcanezzar, Socrates, Jesus, Martin Luther King, or whoever, But He was there, and now He's gone on. We're looking at God's back, where he just was, and trying to find a story. As glorious as that is, can we hope to keep in step with the Living God? __________________ Lungs are logical standing on the ground- I ask also for Gills- That I may thrive, and not suffocate in the atmosphere of dreams.