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David Chapman

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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    1. Sister Sarah‏ @sarahdoingthing 15 Apr 2015
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      "Wholeness" and "life" are words Chris Alexander uses for The Timeless Quality. Body envelope violations an extreme example of its absence.

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    2. Sister Sarah‏ @sarahdoingthing 15 Apr 2015
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      Whole things get blown up and fragmented. Our task is to constantly be repairing wholeness. And sometimes burying people.

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    3. Sister Sarah‏ @sarahdoingthing 15 Apr 2015
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      Museums are one kind of home for scattered fragments of past wholeness, but they rarely even try to create new wholeness.

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    4. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 15 Apr 2015
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      @sarahdoingthing whole cultures can become museums of themselves if they resist fragmentation too rigorously. Tibetans have done this.

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    5. Sister Sarah‏ @sarahdoingthing 15 Apr 2015
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      @Meaningness change is what creates wholeness - the process of repair, not stasis

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    6. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 15 Apr 2015
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      @sarahdoingthing I like the word "repair" except it usually means "returning to previous state". "Bricolage" is good except implies newness.

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    7. St. Rev  ☯️ 🏴 😻‏ @St_Rev 15 Apr 2015
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      @Meaningness @sarahdoingthing Daoism has some technical vocabulary that is probably relevant here, in particular te https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_%28Chinese%29#Taoist_usages …

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    8. St. Rev  ☯️ 🏴 😻‏ @St_Rev 15 Apr 2015
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      @Meaningness @sarahdoingthing Lao Tzŭ said: "Tao produces a thing; Tê maintains it." – "Tao Tê Ching," 51.

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    9. St. Rev  ☯️ 🏴 😻‏ @St_Rev 15 Apr 2015
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      @Meaningness @sarahdoingthing Chuang Tzŭ said: "That which things get in order to live is called Tê." – Chapter XII.

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    10. St. Rev  ☯️ 🏴 😻‏ @St_Rev 15 Apr 2015
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      @Meaningness @sarahdoingthing The opposite of perturbation, relaxation toward an attractor, the integral of chi over time

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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 15 Apr 2015
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      @St_Rev @sarahdoingthing I love the image of ∫χdt , but I’m not quite sure what it means. I suppose cuz I’m not sure what chi is.

      6:17 PM - 15 Apr 2015
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        2. St. Rev  ☯️ 🏴 😻‏ @St_Rev 16 Apr 2015
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          @Meaningness @sarahdoingthing I was free-associating. I'm not sure what it means either!

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          @Meaningness @sarahdoingthing Chi is a very complicated (and at least partly incoherent) concept! The original root meaning is 'breath'.

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