On Sun, 29 Sep 1996, jack hirschfeld wrote:
> Replying to LO10219 --
>
> >Replying to LO10204, Jim Michmerhuizen eloquently expressed my own
> >responses to Mike McMasters' use of a gong to call people to "awakening".
> >Inter alia, JIm remarked:
>
> >Here is a group of
> >people subordinating their individual and collective judgements about
> >"what to do next" to a simple inanimate object, a GONG?
>
> ...to which I would add that it is not the object (the gong) to which the
> group subordinates judgement, but to the discipline contained in the
> practice. For me, this is one more example of the use of practices to
> promote learning.
Yes, thanks. I confess I somewhat melodramatically exaggerated the gong.
What happened was, in the middle of writing I got this mental image of a
stereotypical 19th-century anthropologist walking in on the group, and
trying to understand what was going on. And I almost laughed out loud
realizing what this would look like to him.
--
Regards
Jim Michmerhuizen jamzen@world.std.com
web residence at http://world.std.com/~jamzen/
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