<div dir="ltr">On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 12:43 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ablainey@aol.com" target="_blank">ablainey@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<font><font face="arial">I agree. We could learn al<tt><font><font face="arial">ot from a cyclic understanding of most things. We seem to want <tt><font><font face="arial">everything</font></font></tt> hammered down to a<tt><font><font face="arial"> straight line.</font></font></tt></font></font></tt></font></font> <br>
</tt></pre></div></div></font></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>It is my understanding that the Native North Americans (or at least some of them) tend to view most everything as cyclical. The seasons, for example, are taught as cycles. So if you want to see what the results are from such thinking, you might look at their culture, or what's left of it. </div>
<div style><br></div><div style>The Western culture of progress and science seems to have pretty completely dominated their ways of thinking overall, but there are still things we can learn from the previous tenants of what is now referred to colloquially as our land.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>-Kelly</div><div style><br></div></div></div></div>