14/12/2025
Some say that there are no stupid questions.
What about those questions by which one only seeks to confirm one's own beliefs and nothing more?
This is more of an attitude problem. Questions are like people. They reveal the author's being. Here we are again in a workshop where we exercise and develop our art of questioning.
We decided that we don't hold back from challenging each other's limits today; that we deliberately seek to provoke each other's impulsivity and maintain our capacity for reasoning despite the obstructive effect of our stress hormones. The group started in a freestyle spontaneous dynamic with no singular facilitator. Every reply was a catalyst for a subsequent reaction. Someone's enthusiasm was cut short by someone else like a sudded red traffic light. Was that an impulsive or rather a reasoned decision to stop? Do reason and impulse work together or are they forever antagonized by one another?
To master the art of letting opposites be together and enrich each other, we needed to keep experimenting. In the second part of our encounter, we divided our tasks: the one whose impulsiveness was more obvious became the counsellor; the one who was more obviously keen on structure and rather annoyed by chaos, was consulted; the observers watched how the consultation process unfolded and provided their observations at the end.
We enjoyed a beautiful demonstration of a mental martial art, in which it was quite obvious that who one is does not matter. We're just temporary actors on the social stage playing a temporary part in an all too familiar script. We all have all the characters inside of us. Life looks like a constant theater improvisation. You wear the robes that are left when you arrive late to the party and those of your choice when you arrive the first. Further reflective questions:
😶🌫️ Why is one irritated by the other's complicated discourses?
😶🌫️ Should the rules of a discussion be set by "the reasonable one" or agreed between the reasonable and the unreasonble together?
😶🌫️ Is the reasonble devoid of irrationality?
😶🌫️ Is the impulsive devoid of reason?
😶🌫️ Why do people want to be seen by the other and fear this possibility at the same time?
😶🌫️ Is it possible to connect to someone else who speaks and acts chaotically?
😶🌫️ Could it be wiser to float on chaos that to pe*****te it with the dilligent eye of the order-maker?
😶🌫️ What helps an impulsive fight become a philosophical dialogue?
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☀️ December 13th at Habitat B1
☀️ Previously at Master of PCC & IPP