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SUBJECTS
PMI Events, Vancouver Conference
Logistics
Information Highway
Human Memory
Aristotle, Truth
Youth Lacked Respect for Elders
Religion
Science of Life, Wisdom, Long Term Cycles
Science Life Religion Wisdom Long Term Cycles

1011 -    ..
1012 - Summary/Objective
1013 -
101301 - Followed up work at ref SDS 11 line 26.  Morris suggested going to the
101302 - visitor's center for directions on sight seeing ideas.  He said there
101303 - is a museum of family history and a museum of the Morman Church near
101304 - the visitor center.
101305 -
101306 - Mormon Temple.
101307 -
101308 - While walking to the Visitor Center, we saw a building wth the name:
101309 -
101310 -
101311 -                      Knowledge Data Systems
101312 -
101313 -
101314 -    ...decided to stop in to see if any of the organizations in the
101315 -    building are really working in the field of knowledge creation.
101316 -
101317 -    Met Steve with A.I. Systems, see.
101318 -
101319 - Started out in the library of Family History.  An elderly attendent
101320 - showed us how to use the research computers to look up the Welch
101321 - family in Montana.  Another attendent, a younger woman, spent about 20
101322 - minutes with us.  We were unable to find any record of my father's
101323 - birth in Sims.  Could not find anything on Millie either.  We
101324 - concluded we are both "strays."
101325 -
101326 -
101327 - Went next door to a museum of history.  This was very enjoyable.
101328 -
101329 - Millie took advantage of the audio equipment offered at the front
101330 - desk, which explained each exhibit.  I examined the exhibits. Enjoyed
101331 - reading the diaries and notes of various figures, e.g. Smith, Young,
101332 - and others who made the trip across the West.
101333 -
101334 -
101335 -  ..
101336 - Generational Human Memory
101337 -
101338 - I met an attendant who is a retired educator.  He was about 75 years
101339 - old and lamented the changing attitudes of children and parents toward
101340 - education and the role of schools, which he perceived occurred over
101341 - his 30 year career.  I asked if his perception today, might be
101342 - influenced by his added experience?  As a younger man he may have been
101343 - less aware or overlooked attitudes which someone more senior would
101344 - recognize as a result of being more experienced and so more sensitive.
101345 -
101346 - He acknowledged this possibility.
101347 -
101348 - We considered Aristotle's reputed observation that the "younger"
101349 - generation of his time lacked respect for their elders and tradition,
101350 - and was too interested in frivolities? Somehow every generation seems
101351 - to mature and build a better world.
101352 -
101353 -  ..
101354 - Religion Science of Life Cycles
101355 -
101356 - Or, maybe it goes in cycles.  One generation struggles so hard it
101357 - creates a time of peace and harmony that then masks for the the next
101358 - generation the need for vigilence. That generation seeks merely to
101359 - enjoy the fruits of its parents' labor, but gradually the community
101360 - spirals down as a result of lost perspective, vigilence and diligence.
101361 - Envy, sloth and suspicion engender conflict, hunger and pestilence. It
101362 - takes another generation of struggle to rise again and return to the
101363 - path of progress.
101364 -
101365 -        [On 000722 explained wisdom in relation to religion that
101366 -        recognizes long term biological cycles. ref SDS 14 5022
101367 -
101368 -     This is sort of the tale in the bible about Moses leading folks
101369 -     out of Egypt, then enduring 40 years of whatever.  After world war
101370 -     I, there were the 20's, then the depression, then world war II,
101371 -     then the 60's and 70's where at least in the US, the kids tore the
101372 -     place apart.  The cold war required an extended period of
101373 -     vigilence, which now that it is over, seems to create a vacuum of
101374 -     purpose.
101375 -
101376 - Religion has a sense of historical consequences, of cause and effect.
101377 - This perspective urges people toward continued diligence, based on bad
101378 - things that will happen for failing to do good "good," i.e., god like,
101379 - and rewards for doing good, even though at the moment it doesn't make
101380 - a lot of common sense to restrict ourselves from straying off the
101381 - reservation.
101382 -
101383 - Faith is the medium that enables good conduct when people lack
101384 - experience from the ages that make clear why conduct is harmful.  It
101385 -
101386 - The curator explained that many of the great art works in the museum
101387 - were painted by a farmer who took up a pesonal crusade to preserve the
101388 - his- tory of the Morman Church in the early years.  He felt his
101389 - contempor- aries in the late 1800's, were unaware of the struggle
101390 - their parents and grandparents had made to build a safe and prosperous
101391 - communicty for Mormans.  The farmer traveled throughout the
101392 - courntryside to find and interview older Mormons who had made the trek
101393 - West in the original movement.  He took careful and copious notes of
101394 - their memories.  He received notes and diaries that existed from that
101395 - earlier time.  Then during the winter months when could not farm due
101396 - to weather, he painted very large scale murals to tell and preserve
101397 - the story.  After completing a number of paintings he used the
101398 - paintings to show younger generation of Mormons the story, by
101399 - unfurrelling the tapestry, while a colleague read the notes taken from
101400 - the elders from which the painting had been made.  The elderly
101401 - attendant was worried that the pressures, attractions and temptations
101402 - of modern life, are again leading the younger generation to overlook
101403 - the lessons of history.
101404 -
101405 -      [Used this at ref SDS 12 line 157 and later in NWO paper at ref
101406 -      SDS 13 line 71.]
101407 -
101408 - I told him of the mission Wayne Wetzel's son is doing in Siberia
101409 - Russia (reported on 941020, ref SDS 9 4O9H).  Also discussed work on
101410 - SDS that enables people to remember the past so they do not lose sight
101411 - of where they have been or where they are going and why, which
101412 - effectively lifts the capacity to think, remember and communicate,
101413 - which I call POIMS.  He thought this could be helpful, and so perhaps
101414 - the younger generation may turn out all right afterall.
101415 -
101416 - We considered the prospect that the human mind creates tools which
101417 - enable the biological drives for competition and aggression lead
101418 - toward severe calamity.  I explained the notion of the mind creating a
101419 - world for which it is not well suited.
101420 -
101421 - The curator showed the ship which is a replica of those chartered by
101422 - the Morman Church during the late 1800's to bring people from Europe
101423 - to the US.
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