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It's an old Ethiopian proverb: "When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion." What do you think this code phrase means to the EVOKE Network?
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this is just a description of what we ar ehere for. it is saying that UNITY IS STRENGTH.so our coming together with our little ideas will give a greater strength and impetus to it that its results will be fabulous and exciting.
Sometimes, when the smallest things happen in groups, they can change something big.
William Blake wrote:
"The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship."
Blake was pointing to some deep analogy connecting the behavior of all tings.
Along these lines, we could read the first part of the CODE PHRASE: "When human friendships unite..."
one great mystery in science is exactly how spiders know what pattern to weave.
Rupert Sheldrake cites studies in which spider eggs were completely isolated from their mothers and hatched. The buggers weave the exact same species-specific web that spiders not isolated from mothers weave. So, the web-weaving strategy of spiders must be encoded in their body plan somehow. It's one of those interesting natural processes I wonder about sometimes.
Human friendships, the proverb is telling us [with some help from Blake] can "tie up a lion." Lions were a potential terror for villages in Africa before there were guns. We've all probably heard that rogue and evil lion prides are a thing of legend in Africa, snatching up children and what not. I would say the proverb is pointing out how human friendship -- culture -- CONQUERS THE FEAR OF LIONS.
The lion is a natural ting whose terror is amplified beyond the reasonable by fear of what could happen in the future. We're dealing with major climatic problems -- food shortages, climate change, et al. -- whose legitimate terror can be eclipsed by the power of human creativity.
This is why we're on the scene, friends!
This is why we've responded to Alchemy's call!
That even the smallest fibers in the world, when combined, can take on the greatest challenges of life. We are each a fiber of this world and if we would just come together to combine our strengths there would be nothing that we could not conquer.
Be a fiber.
interesting... your equating the lion or rather the fear of the lion to issues that spark unreasonable fear ... those issue are complex problems as compared to simple and complicated problems. Humans can handle simple & complicated just fine, however complex issues spark irrational responses to real fear because humans in general can not encapsulate the problem let alone think of solutions...very deep and elegent analogy...bravo!
cameron michael keys said:William Blake wrote:
"The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship."
Blake was pointing to some deep analogy connecting the behavior of all tings.
Along these lines, we could read the first part of the CODE PHRASE: "When human friendships unite..."
one great mystery in science is exactly how spiders know what pattern to weave.
Rupert Sheldrake cites studies in which spider eggs were completely isolated from their mothers and hatched. The buggers weave the exact same species-specific web that spiders not isolated from mothers weave. So, the web-weaving strategy of spiders must be encoded in their body plan somehow. It's one of those interesting natural processes I wonder about sometimes.
Human friendships, the proverb is telling us [with some help from Blake] can "tie up a lion." Lions were a potential terror for villages in Africa before there were guns. We've all probably heard that rogue and evil lion prides are a thing of legend in Africa, snatching up children and what not. I would say the proverb is pointing out how human friendship -- culture -- CONQUERS THE FEAR OF LIONS.
The lion is a natural ting whose terror is amplified beyond the reasonable by fear of what could happen in the future. We're dealing with major climatic problems -- food shortages, climate change, et al. -- whose legitimate terror can be eclipsed by the power of human creativity.
This is why we're on the scene, friends!
This is why we've responded to Alchemy's call!
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