John D. Brey
Well-Known Member
The communal interchanges that takes place here are each one like a tree. They branch out in all directions such that the seed of each thread (the thread-seeder), produces multifarious branches, directions, as it expands out into new territory pretty much like the branches from the stump of a more traditional tree.
If the one who plants the seed, the thread-seeder, is willing to water it, and prune it, so that unruly branches don't threaten the beauty, or even the existence of the tree, then the tree, once mature, can provide a long-lasting source of beauty and shade for forlorn travelers traveling the same path where the tree was planted.
Case in point is the recent threads discussing Meiosis and Messiah (there was a veritable garden of them over the last month or so). The gardener cross-bred the various trees and their fruits to produce a shade-tree large enough to provide a relaxing rest-stop for anyone now or in the future who might be crossing over similar territory.
The point of bringing this up is what seems like an important relationship between the kinds of dialogues that take place here, and the possibility of producing valuable, edible, fruit, from the interchanges.
Every word in the essay, Meiosis: The Science of Messiah, was produced in the threads discussing that topic which grew here over the last month or so. The gardener merely had to harvest the discussions, clean them up a bit, to make them fit for a larger marketplace of ideas. The spirit, thoughts, work (if their was any) of every person who participated in those threads is alive and well in the essay brought to the market.
I felt compelled to point this out so that should someone one day find one of their ideas being sold in the marketplace of ideas they not reckon me a thief or a bum but merely someone who saw value in what other may have taken for granted and given away too thoughtlessly.
John
If the one who plants the seed, the thread-seeder, is willing to water it, and prune it, so that unruly branches don't threaten the beauty, or even the existence of the tree, then the tree, once mature, can provide a long-lasting source of beauty and shade for forlorn travelers traveling the same path where the tree was planted.
Case in point is the recent threads discussing Meiosis and Messiah (there was a veritable garden of them over the last month or so). The gardener cross-bred the various trees and their fruits to produce a shade-tree large enough to provide a relaxing rest-stop for anyone now or in the future who might be crossing over similar territory.
The point of bringing this up is what seems like an important relationship between the kinds of dialogues that take place here, and the possibility of producing valuable, edible, fruit, from the interchanges.
Every word in the essay, Meiosis: The Science of Messiah, was produced in the threads discussing that topic which grew here over the last month or so. The gardener merely had to harvest the discussions, clean them up a bit, to make them fit for a larger marketplace of ideas. The spirit, thoughts, work (if their was any) of every person who participated in those threads is alive and well in the essay brought to the market.
I felt compelled to point this out so that should someone one day find one of their ideas being sold in the marketplace of ideas they not reckon me a thief or a bum but merely someone who saw value in what other may have taken for granted and given away too thoughtlessly.
John
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