From: Gert-Jan Peeters (gjpeeters@wish.nl)
Date: Fri Dec 13 2002 - 21:15:24 GMT
The Quality of Winter
So, At last.. It is winter.
In these west european part of the world winter can hardly be called winter.
Usually it is 'just darker' and a bit colder. But this time the weather is
'finally' getting some serious thing done.. It is accually freezing.
I often get a lot of surprising looks when I tell people that I like winter
more then summer. They usually want me to explain why that is. I often reply
with the question why they like summer more then winter. "Because it is warm
and the days last longer." They obviously know. For some reason they seem
right and I seem wrong for liking winter more then summer.
It became time to analyze the Quality of Winter. Offcourse I didn't have
anny clue where to start. But the Levels spread out in Lila seemed the right
point. So, there we go.
Why do I like Winter more then Summer.
On the anorganic level there is no more quality in cold material then in
warm material. My clothes don't really care if it is several degrees below
zero or the opposite.(Here we use Celsius) My first opinion would be to skip
the anorganic level. I don't get far there.
It gets more interesting if we step to the biological level. Because there
the most inevitable outcome would be to like summer more then Winter. It al
depends on what kind of summer offcourse. But the West European summers are
not sahara like and only in extreem moments people die by the hand off
weather. The summer gives organic live forms a better chance of survival and
we all know that the number one ingredient for the plants is sunlight. It
struggles to get some.
So on the biological level spring and summer are good things and have a lot
of Biological Quality.
On the Social Level the summer gives a lot of opportunities to show our
ammount of biological Quality. Running around half dressed over some
White-sand-jellyfishfree-beach doing our annual fertility-dance. Showing our
just-for-this-occasion-biceps. Well, Summer is a great time for them who
have a great body. Well. The social aspect in this all is that summer would
be not-so-great for them who don't have this not-so-great body. Not spending
your teenaging period of your life prouncing around with your friends who DO
have this ability is provoking the social structure of the friendship with
those friends. You don't want that, so there you go.. trying to get yourself
burned in the sun, because its social.
Offcourse this wouldn't be a problem for me because I - like anny other west
european bloke - have a GREAT body. So the winter would have an equal
ammount of Quality if we should only look to this bodyshowing aspect.
It is clear that the season provides their own special scenes for different
social settings. I'm probably not a beach person. Maybe I'm more a ski down
the slope person. But I also tried that and.. well.. That also doesn't do
the thing. So what could be the social thing that is better in winter than
in summer..? Hmm, still have no clue..
Maybe it is an Intellectual thing. But, as it happens a lot when I try to
explain something in this level, I get hopelesly lost. Maybe.. Just maybe..
the average temperature of my cells is lower during wintertime. They will
crumble together as it always goes when things cool down. My brain structure
would be more compact. And the little electronic pulses reach their goals
faster. Bottomline, I think quicker when its colder..
Yes.. It would explain the intellectual growth in the parts of the world
where the different between the seasons is bigger. Think about it. The parts
of the world where the weather is quite constant is usually not famous about
their filosofies and inventions. It all comes down to weather.
Winter has Quality, because it makes me feel smarter..
Well, as I said: I get lost after the first step in the intellectual level.
I don't get it.
I still don't know why I like winter more then summer. Is it Intellectual
Quality, Social Quality, Biological Quality or Anorganic Quality..
Maybe it has something to do with the bloody sneezing I start with every
spring. I start sneezing somewhere around april and stop somewhere in
september. Thats 6 &*^%% months.
The Girl says "I like you"
I say "HAA CHEEEE"
The boss says "I'll give you a raise if you come up with a solution right
now"
I say "HAA CHEEE"
The wife says "How should we call our son?"
I say..
Well .. It's terrible.. It is a biological Quality that is a Social
Anti-Quality (or whatever die hard MoQ'ers call it)
Annyway.. To complete this Quest for Quality, I should give the punchline.
But there is none. And when there is none, just say it is written by some
old forgotten chinese fellow and tell everybody it can only be understood if
one is enlightened. Yes.. it could be - how do you call it - a Koan. Here it
is..
A pupil asked Master Haa Chee "Master, what is the Quality of winter?"
The master looked at the pupil and replied, "You allready know the answer"
The pupil asked further, "Is making a fire the Quality of Winter?"
The master answered, "No, but your getting warm"
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