A way of thinking that begins with the conclusion and spends the rest of its time trying to find ways to justify the conclusion, rather than the other-way around.
During an interview with the Monty Python troupe in 1979, they professed that "Life of Brian" was a condemnation of closed systems of thought. Example: after Brian escapes from the Romans, he is followed by a group of people who mistakenly believe he is the Messiah based on the fact that he does not finish his statement and therefore is "mysterious" to them. When he tells them he is not the messiah, they claim that only the true messiah would deny this. That is where dogma comes in. In the early stages of their new religion, Brian's unlikely followers built their faith out fo whole-cloth. They recover a gourd that is briefly owned by Brian, proclaim that it is a holy artifact and begin to assign greater meaning and significance to it. Upon finding his shoe, a schism emerges among his new followers. They are instantly dedicated to the emerging dogma to the religion of Brian. They are so eager to believe in Brian as the messiah that they immediately begin fashioning the tenants of their faith; the dogma of their religion.
-- Dogma & Theology - Life of Brian | Renegade Cut
-- Dogma & Theology - Life of Brian | Renegade Cut
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(adverb) The unintended actions as a result of a system performing whatever it does but not necessarily in the way the originator of the system intended. Play on system and antic.
Systematic is the behavour that the system maker persieves the system is doing.
Systematic is the behavour that the system maker persieves the system is doing.
(1) The Nile Aswan dam generated a lot of electricity and prevented the Nile from flooding - but the desertification of the Nile banks was a systemantic result.
(2) In protecting our children from dirt, processing their food, sanitising their environment, they are becoming sensitive to food, cleaning products and their environment (athsma cases increase, psorisis cases increase, chocolate, peanut, lactose, gluten intolerance...)
"Objects have energy, systems have synergy - and the law of conservation of energy can be applied to synergy. When you create a system, however careful you are, synergy will be formed from whatever the system was formed from. This synergy if not applied back will have unforseen effects."
- John Gall, Systemantics
(2) In protecting our children from dirt, processing their food, sanitising their environment, they are becoming sensitive to food, cleaning products and their environment (athsma cases increase, psorisis cases increase, chocolate, peanut, lactose, gluten intolerance...)
"Objects have energy, systems have synergy - and the law of conservation of energy can be applied to synergy. When you create a system, however careful you are, synergy will be formed from whatever the system was formed from. This synergy if not applied back will have unforseen effects."
- John Gall, Systemantics
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