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  • From: John Schinnerer <JohnS@STLabs.com>
  • To: "'permaculture@listserv.oit.unc.edu'" <permaculture@listserv.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: Permaculture's point
  • Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 11:13:13 -0800

Aloha,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Elfpermacl@aol.com [SMTP:Elfpermacl@aol.com]
<snip>
>In my course I teach that there are two basic forces, affinity
and entropy.
>they appear to the limited human mind to oppose each other but
they do not
>cancel, they pulse back and forth so a comet is pulled toward
the sun by
>forces allied with affinity and hurled back into space by
entropy, always
>changing, always individual in terms of mass, spectrum,
direction and relation
>to every other particle and energy ray in the universe. the
pulsing as these
>two forces throb back and forth creates all form, and every
form above the
>sub-atomic or atomic levels appears to be individual. They are
joined by
>general laws in to general behavior.

What do you do when someone in a class you are teaching prefers
a different explanation for what moves comets and grows plants and
animals and so on?

John Schinnerer





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