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What could go wrong in 300 years?

:- Doug.

I find myself
watching the world
from within my latest live question

:- Doug.

We are the first fourth generation and we have a special opportunity. With opportunity comes responsibility.

:- Doug.

Particles are in the wave but not of it.

:- Doug.

What can story tell us of choosing?

:- Doug.

Our experience taught us which ladder and which wall: can it help us decide whether to climb? Or do anything at all? Or whether someone else is better suited?

:- Doug.

Not the particles
Nor the pattern
The dance!

:- Doug.

What is the arc of humanity? What is the problem of a better humanity?

:- Doug.

What are our anticipatory assumptions?

:- Doug.

What are your worries for humanity? Are those short, medium, or long term? Is there a meta worry? How do we find the meta worry?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1903

No, we don’t know whether we will have any effect. No, we don’t know what to do, what stories to tell, what messages to send. But we do have a power. Our power is try. Our power is far-sight. Our power is caring. Both directions.

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What quality of being human can be raised?

:- Doug.

What questions should we be asking to get at conveyable values?

:- Doug.

Listen to stories, ask deeper questions, ask them to ask deeper questions. Ask them.

:- Doug.

I am hopeful today: we humans love to stretch and be stretched; I think we will stay ahead of our creations by way of our imagination and our desire to stretch.

:- Doug.

Some scientists take the brain for the mind. Others say this is mistaken: there is a body-mind. Others see mind even larger, in the conversations among people. Yet life may be fooling us all, seeking to make the cosmos into mind, all conscious.

:- Doug.

Take the acorn seed and place it into the ground: it sprouts brain cells as roots and energy gathering cells as leaves: down and up. We look back and forward for our growth: our inspiration. Let us also look vertically: 360o all around. Then each of those in 360 powers: 360360. Then these to the power of imagination. (360360)i. Now we start.

:- Doug.

The purpose of life is to continue, that is, to expand. So too the purpose of God. Each becomes diffuse—which presents risk and opportunity.

:- Doug.

Take care
that our bettering
not limit our bettering

:- Doug.

Goals narrow to a point; purposes fan.

:- Doug.

Should we give grandchildren far-sight? To ask is to answer.

:- Doug.

Story can push out the limits of beauty and life.

:- Doug.

Do we talk about what is important? Do we devise deeper questions? Where are we going?

:- Doug.