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A ladder parable

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paulaj
 
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Reply Sat 9 Oct, 2004 08:16 am
edgarblythe wrote:
My ladder is short a few rungs.
Laughing

I know what that's like.
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cavfancier
 
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Reply Sat 9 Oct, 2004 08:23 am
Random thought of the day: A ladder helps one climb. A ladder needs someone to form it. If you can't the former, be the ladder.
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Foxfyre
 
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Reply Sat 9 Oct, 2004 08:30 am
You forgot the climber Cav. Most people are neither formers nor ladders but simply climbers. When you get too many climbers, the ladder breaks and the formers can't keep up making new ones.
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cavfancier
 
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Reply Sat 9 Oct, 2004 08:33 am
The simple climber just doesn't see how a ladder can bend.
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sat 9 Oct, 2004 08:53 am
Actually, in my life, I have spliced ladder on ladder, sometimes having to backtrack and throw a few off to the side. Looks like a gargantuan tree from a distance.
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paulaj
 
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Reply Sat 9 Oct, 2004 09:28 am
edgarblythe wrote:
Actually, in my life, I have spliced ladder on ladder, sometimes having to backtrack and throw a few off to the side. Looks like a gargantuan tree from a distance.


Nothing wrong with rebuilding and modifying as needed, wo to the person who refuses to change or alter.

The gargantuan tree is a great reminder of all the learning lessons we get.

Learning lesson- we all get them, and we get them over and over again until we learn them.

I have a small forest that I get to view, there are a couple of 'sequoia' trees in it :wink:
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sat 9 Oct, 2004 09:36 am
It's beginning to get awful windy up here.
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paulaj
 
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Reply Sat 9 Oct, 2004 09:39 am
edgarblythe wrote:
It's beginning to get awful windy up here.


Hold on tight Smile
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paulaj
 
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Reply Sat 9 Oct, 2004 09:58 am
Foxfyre wrote:
You forgot the climber Cav. Most people are neither formers nor ladders but simply climbers. When you get too many climbers, the ladder breaks and the formers can't keep up making new ones.


If the formers can't keep up it will spurn the climbers to learn how to build their own ladder or find a new source of formers.
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sat 9 Oct, 2004 10:10 am
The only limits of ladders are in the imagination.
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paulaj
 
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Reply Sat 9 Oct, 2004 11:02 am
edgarblythe wrote:
The only limits of ladders are in the imagination.


Imagination is more important than knowledge- Albert Einstein
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sat 9 Oct, 2004 11:03 am
Albert who?
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paulaj
 
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Reply Sat 9 Oct, 2004 11:15 am
edgarblythe wrote:
Albert who?


You can't play dumb with me Very Happy
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sat 9 Oct, 2004 03:11 pm
I love Albert. I recall a snippet of a story concerning him in The Reader's Digest from many years ago. The narrator could not abide to see Einstein shave every morning without shave cream. So he bought a can and presented it to him. Einstein dutifuly used the can up. "You are right," he said, "it does make shaving smoother." But he reverted to plain water after that.
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JLNobody
 
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Reply Sat 9 Oct, 2004 08:25 pm
May I join? I once thought I was separate from the ladder and wanted to reach its top rung. So I cheated and turned it upside down. But I soon found that I was not separate from the ladder (consider Tywvel's first post), and that I was standing on my head.
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cavfancier
 
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Reply Sun 10 Oct, 2004 04:30 am
With feet in the air, the head is always well-grounded.
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Letty
 
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Reply Sun 10 Oct, 2004 04:42 am
Hmmmm, JL. Now I understand twyvel's avatar. <smile>

As for the four dimensional ladder, I suppose that could be man at his "tallest". Perhaps that is why so many folks who meditate, refer to the mountain top as their seat of oneness.
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cavfancier
 
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Reply Sun 10 Oct, 2004 05:18 am
A four-dimensional ladder doesn't go up or down, it's spherical.
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Letty
 
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Reply Sun 10 Oct, 2004 05:22 am
My goodness, Cav. We are certainly scientific this morning, no? All right then, a fat tall human.
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cavfancier
 
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Reply Sun 10 Oct, 2004 05:28 am
Oh, I thought I was being philosophical. Laughing I like the last analogy, the 'laughing Buddha' image comes to mind.
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