a door rather than a gate

[stormmarie.livejournal.com]

I understand wanting to go fast but sometimes a door is safer because when you need to block completely a door is solid a gate has holes but that doesn't mean you can't go to a gate someday.  Remember the tortise won the race not the rabbit  Storm

Comments

[tej-agni.livejournal.com]

um huh? ^^; I guess a gate would suck if like it was water you were trying to hold back :/
LeAnne

[spookshow-girl.livejournal.com]

Context?

--Me

[themournfulduck.livejournal.com]

?
http://community.livejournal.com/multiplicity/734269.html?thread=12062013#t12062013

[spookshow-girl.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Amazing what a little background information does. ;)

--Me

I'll be blunt

[spookshow-girl.livejournal.com]

On the concept of walls to keep the "bad ones" away.

That kind of attitude has never been helpful to us. All it's done is breed resentment and bad blood between us, getting in the way of actual communcation and compromise. How would you feel if you were on the other side of that wall?

So, in our case, that tortoise isn't even headed in the right direction.

Given that I've seen this happen with others, I don't think my experience is all that unique.

--Me

[tej-agni.livejournal.com]

so like from that comment link you're talking about a great wall of china or something across your planet to keep invaders away? what if they develop technology to create planes or something? then they can just fly over it!
LeAnne

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

You also might consider the concept of gates to permit or retain flow at appropriate times.

It works in Bali for their irrigation system, and if you think I'm off the track consider the significance of water in Bali. It is associated with the underworld, with negativity, and the forces of death, and is brought to the surface by the motions of great dragons swimming in underground lakes; yet it is the source of life. The system of irrigation is arranged by dates on a sacred calendar.

The Balinese do not seek to destroy or vanquish the forces of evil; they know this cannot be done; they seek to coexist, make peace with or at times to transform them.