One morning this weekend I had the teakettle heating water for coffee. I saw something MOVE on the handle, and realized it was a medium sized tan spider. On the teakettle? After escorting Spidey outside to a pleasant new home in a bush, I went back in and really LOOKED at the teakettle, which was approaching a roaring boil. In the spout was a fresh spiderweb. No wonder the spider wanted out! But what did he want in the first place? Coffee moths? Bad planning.
Ever see a spider revise his/her web? Repair it, yes, but I don't know if they do any web editing. . .
Our webs of belief, however, seem to do a lot of changing through the years, at least around the sometimes tattered edges. How about those core beliefs? Do we ever even review those? Find some outdated, ragged, irrelevent? Do we replace them with something else?
Spiders DO reinforce their webs, however, and conduct maintenance checks to see that the web is holding strong and true. Some of our spiders make the strategic error of building webs exactly where they shouldn't.
If you can observe a spider please do so and share what you observe with us.
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I have observed a spider build a partial web. It was a pretty rapid process.Today, I imagine from the spider's standpoint, it was performing an instinctive task. I imagine the intricacy of the web's design was not a thoughtful process.It is sort of like performing things we are designed to do without thought. Things like breathing, walking, or even the use of our five senses. When asked today are we living for real or in a dream? The analogy of the matrix made me think about how I have imagined that we could be a spider in a macrocosm. We think,that in this world we are the master's of it because we are the highest functioning organism that we are aware of. However, we could be a bacteria in a microcosm. I think I saw something like this once on the "Twightlight Zone".
Back to the spider, the web has an anatomy, that is a structure,the intricate, unique , transparent- like design and it has a function, to catch food and hold it to the web through a sticky substance,so the spider can feed at its leisure; and if you have ever walked into a web, it can startle you and literally have you slapping yourself in the face like Mo, Larry and Curly of the three Stooges. A web of belief is like a spiders' web in that it is unique,unseen, we adhere to the core and discard that which is not needed once we take in what nutures our belief system. When you destoy a spider's web, it builds it again and again. My web of belief is the same way, I am continually building, tearing down and modifying my belief system, but the core never changes.
www.puzzle-nonograms.com
That isn't indicative of a web of belief, but our syllogism entry isn't up until at least Monday and I'm sure I'll forget.
If X, and Y, then solution.
The fun part is I've hit a two of those puzzles that are mis-notated, so it's indicative of sophisms as well!
DRAT! Those sophists are everywhere.
www.puzzle-nonograms.com was not to be found. is it correct URL?
illogical.
Re: puzzle-nonograms.com.
I googled it, found the link on the list, clicked it, and I was there. Now I am addicted to these little puzzles. Michael, you will pay.
Doesn't have a lot to do with anything, but I thought it was neat. The Myers-Briggs personality test.
http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp
Well, if you really wanted to stretch it, you could argue that it's another way to quantify the "web of belief". Sorta kinda, not really. More like Astrology.
But it's neat anyway.
Synchronistically speaking, I was thinking of Myers-Briggs and wondering about inviting one of the folks who administers it to be a guest in our class. Did you know they have an interpretive Myers Briggs to help teachers understand their "style" and how they need to be aware of students' learning "styles" to be supportive of them?
I do think it is psychology/social science's answer to astrology. My Myers Briggs has changed substantially over time. Not sure that is supposed to happen.
Well I'm not sure that life would be worth living if it didn't. I've taken it about six times now myself over the period of ten years, and I know that mine change.
If that's not "supposed" to happen, the application of the test is fundamentally flawed.
But then: I'm an INTJ, a Sagittarius, and (I looked it up) a Tiger-Wood-Yang... so i'm supposed to say stuff like that.
I would have to say that my core values and web of belief has changed over the years. As I get older , I learn more and have changed what I believe and what I am pursuing in life.
That was a good story and you are exactly right, we all the time build a web and then have to repair/edit it with something else. I have seen a spider build a web and they carefully do so, and thats how we do, we carefully build a web belief with things that we believe in and we repair it with new things as I said earlier.
Sometimes I think the changes are more harmonic than dissonant - perhaps going up (or down) an octave rather than changing key.
Or like that overused double helix, we are on a circular staircase, always winding around and around the same core, seeing it from slightly different angles.
Or like mending a spiderweb. . .sometimes it needs to be stronger in different places, for different challenges.
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