Overview of Questions and Ideas

Level 0: Everything

Level 1: Representations of Everything

Question How do the four structures relate to caring about God, relationships with God, relationships with others, and others?

Answer  I think the Eightfold Way deals with our care for our relationship with God (we pray to God, he talks to us, we are open to his point of view), emotional responses - care for our relationship with others (deals with predictability, we are open to their point of view), counterquestions - care for others (thinking like a person in general, we take their point of view), "I Am.." - care for God (we take his point of view).

Question  What do the four representations say about the four objectives?

Question  How do the various structures relate to the various wishes?

Question  Show how, starting with God is Love, we have four aspects of caring: we are shaped, involved, invited, included.  How are these the basis for the various structures?

Idea:
Have one God and no others.  -  Care about God.
Do not say God's name without reason.  -  Care about relationship with God.
Celebrate the seventh day.  -  Care about relationships with others.
Honor your father and mother.  -  Care about others.

4 representations of nullsome <=> 4 signs

Idea

Everything that wishes for nothing:  There is neither sensitivity nor responsivity.
Everything that wishes for not everything:  There is sensitivity.
Everything that wishes for not nothing:  There is responsivity.
Everything that wishes for everything:  There is sensitivity and responsivity.
 
 

Structure	Purpose = Wish
Christ's statements "I am..."	Obeying God.
Operating principles	Noting the bias of our mind in how it approaches things.
Sixsome	Being human.
Contents of Christ's sayings	Understanding how our judgement guides us.
Maslow's hierarchy of needs	Having motivation to respond.

 

Structure	Purpose = Wish
Counterquestions	Taking us outside of our experience, expressing the voices of the heart and the world.
Intuition Matrix	Working with that which is bigger than our minds, something we can share with others.
Doubts	Making evident what matters to us.
Issues	Let us deal with something fixed and concrete so we can meanwhile address other things as well.
Divisions of everything	Defining, making definite.
Narratives	Understanding where things are headed.
Visualizations	Allowing us to approach from afar.
Representations	Working with what we do not conceive directly.
Markings of the Foursome	Be able to work with signs, so as to approach information in more than one way at the same time.
Topologies	Be able to experience.

 

Structure	Purpose = Wish
Directions of the good	Living flexible, ready for the good to come from any direction.
Emotional responses	Being alive.
Ways things get done	Making clear our options.

 

Structure	Purpose = Wish
Eightfold way	Connecting with God.
Internalization	Relating our participation with God's participation.

Level 2: Representations of Anything

Conclusion  A useful formulation for six of our objectives is:

• Why think about our own actions?  We wish to focus on the responsibility that goes beyond our roles.
• Why think about our own thoughts?  We wish to focus on the joy that goes beyond our gifts.
• Why think about our own stands?  We wish to focus on the challenge that goes beyond our strengths.
• Why think about other actions?  We wish to focus on the rights that go beyond our environments.
• Why think about other thoughts?  We wish to focus on the belief that goes beyond our knowledge.
• Why think about other stands?  We wish to focus on the importance that goes beyond our priorities.

Task  Write up some of the other big things, like the Good Will Exercises, and figure out where they fall into the overall system.

Question  How are the facts that shaping, involving, inviting and including are independent give rise to the auxiliary structures?

Question  How do we relate the six commandments that arise from each of the four structures?  Where A arise from Christ's statements "I am...", B arise from counterquestions and the antitheses of Christ, C are the ways that Christ addresses the good, D are what Christ has us focus on, and have the structure of the eightfold way (and are also from the antitheses), E are the ways of loving our neighbor.

A) Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not commit adultery, Do not lie, Do not covet other people's things, Do not covet over people's spouses.
B) How does it seem to me? What else should I be doing? Would it make any difference? What do I have control over? Am I able to consider the question? Is this the way things should be?
C) Inner adherence with outer adherence, will achieve with able to do, could be doing with are doing, isolating with isolated, investedness with interest, willingness to change with unwillingness to change.
D) Save not blame, Get along not judge, Unconditional not consistent, Take a stand not convince, Come to our senses not measure, Open not comfortable.
E) Responsibility beyond roles, Joy beyond gifts, Challenge beyond strengths, Rights beyond environments, Beliefs beyond knowledge, Importance beyond priorities.

Question  In addition, how do we relate F) shifts in the four basic structures, G) the six auxiliary structures, H) the qualities of signs, I) the six objectives fostering thinking, J) Maslow's hierarchy of needs, K) Markings of the foursome, L) six representations of divisions?

Question  In addition, how do we relate to:  virtues and emotions, internal and external perspectives, topologies,

Idea   Conclusions from the antitheses (compare with types of auxiliary structure):  D) Save not blame (essence does not need parts), Get along not judge (essence does not need additions), Unconditional not consistent (essence does not need limitations), Take a stand not convince. (essence does not need a foundation), Come to our senses not measure (essence does not need resistance), Open not comfortable (essence does not need to be fixed).
 

D) Christ focuses on.		E) Objectives fostering thinking.
Open not comfortable.	Slack to think.	Joy beyond gifts.
Take a stand not convince.	Slack to be what I think.	Beliefs beyond knowledge.
Come to our senses not measure.	Slack to think what I do.	Importance beyond priorities.
Get along not judge.	Slack to act.	Challenge beyond strengths.
Save not blame.	Slack to be.	Rights beyond environments.
Unconditional not consistent.	Slack to do what I am.	Responsibility beyond roles.

 

A) Commandments	J) Maslow's hierarchy of needs
Do not kill.	Survival.
Do not steal.	Security.
Do not commit adultery.	Social.
Do not lie.	Self-esteem.
Do not covet other people's things.	Freedom.
Do not covet other people's spouses.	Self-fulfillment.

H) Qualities of signs	K) Markings of the foursome
malleable	Icon changes, thing stays the same.
modifiable	Index changes, thing stays the same.
mobile	Index changes, icon stays the same.
memorable	Symbol changes, index stays the same.
meaningful	Symbol changes, icon stays the same.
motivated	Symbol changes, thing stays the same.

Idea
So the thing changes not at all, the icon changes only through our own stands, the index changes only through our own actions and our own thoughts, and the symbol changes only through other stands, action, and thoughts.

Idea

• God is malleable: Structure of criteria:  Change in the counterquestion what I truly want. - The perfect one of the Christ's statements "I Am..." stays the same.
• God is modifiable:  Structure of divisions: Change in the emotional response peace - The perfect one of the Christ's statements "I Am..." stays the same.
• God is mobile:  Structure of topologies:  Change in the emotional response peace. - The counterquestion what I truly want stays the same.
• God is memorable: Language of verbalization:  Change in the one who loves me more than I love myself of the Eightfold way - The emotional response peace stays the same.
• God is meaningful: Language of argumentation:  Change in the one who loves me more than I love myself of the Eightfold way - The counterquestion what I truly want stays the same.
• God is motivated: Language of narration:  Change in the one who loves me more than I love myself of the Eightfold way - The perfect one of the Christ's statements "I Am..." stays the same.

Question  How did I figure out the definitions below?  I think I went through the six issues, and fixed each one, and considered how the double perspective became a single perspective as I went from the Heart's answer to the associated counterquestion, to the World's answer.  What else was on my mind, perhaps the pairs of questions that remain from the counterquestions?  How are these six related to other stuff?

There are six criteria. For two of the criteria, the single perspective arises as a limiting case of the double perspective.

• Spread When I spread, then over the course of a given interval, there are some things that I will not come upon because they fall outside of the interval (perhaps we have already come upon them, perhaps we would only come upon them much later). But there are other things that I can never come upon regardless of the interval. A double perspective distinguishes what I cannot come upon from what I will not come upon. If the interval is extended in every way, then this extension has, as its limiting case, a single perspective in which ultimately everything either flows into me or not.
• Cleave When I cleave away from myself, there are some things that are no longer part of me. But there are other things that were never a part of me. A double perspective distinguishes what was once a part of me from what was never a part of me. If I cleave further and further out, then the limiting case is a single perspective in which I am tracing out the boundaries of what belongs to me and what does not.

• Extend When a function is extended, then the extended function is in agreement with the original function wherever they are both defined. A double perspective considers the two functions separately and distinguishes the matter of where the functions are defined from whether their values agree where they are both defined. A single perspective, however, treats one function as an extension of the other, and focuses on where one is defined, but not the other.
• Induce I judge steps relative to each other, but I take them absolutely. A double perspective distinguishes the calculation I make from the decision, with all of its consequences, that I live through. A single perspective is resigned to the view that what we decide does not keep up with what we live through.
• Accept I select what I will accept based on what I have already accepted. A double perspective distinguishes what I have already accepted from what I will receive. A single perspective identifies the two, and concludes that there is a basis for accepting and rejecting.
• Apply We demand that a rule apply to all situations. A double perspective distinguishes whether the rule holds for situations where it was meant to apply, from whether it holds for other situations as well. A single perspective does not distinguish between the two, and simply looks for possibilities where the rule no longer holds.

• Divisions  Underlying many roles is one responsibility.
• Criteria  Underlying many gifts is one joy.
• Topologies  Underlying many strengths is one challenge.
• Argumentation  Underlying many environments is one challenge.
• Verbalization  Underlying many knowledges is one belief.
• Narration  Underlying many priorities is one importance.

Level 3: Anything - Life