Connecting the dots

To know is to connect the dots- to create meaning
To believe is the same, connecting the dots to get a meaningful pattern - an explanation, exclamation, exaggeration…to achieve emancipation from the shackles of isolation and terror of not knowing.

We do it everyday, connect A with B to be able to anticipate C.

A hand on a hot surface equals pain. If we fuck without a condom there might be a child. Some words may cause someone to cry. A bullet trough a prime ministers head will probably put you in jail for a considerable amount of time, and generate a certain reputation nationwide.

We gain knowledge of virtually thousands of these causal relations during the course of our lives.

Connecting the dots to create meaning.

Some of these causal relations are simple and uncontroversial,
some are complex with a huge potion of modality to the causative,
some are problematic and uncertain,
some are "out there", still waiting to be discovered,
some are discovered but not perfected, thus in need of revision and modification

to connect the dots and create meaning.

Some causal relations deal with your relationships to other people, finding patterns and causatives in order to predict responses. These are tricky ones, varying dependent relative time, situation, matter, person, mood; a lot of different variables need to be accounted for in making predictions. It’s hard, and we often fail

to connect the dots and create a meaningful pattern.

Communication, a bridge between people, a bridge of words, carrying meaning from one person to another. Interpreting, conveying message, connecting. The science of friendship.

The really great thinkers of our time usually don’t contribute much of their own; they just look at what’s already been said and done; and then approach it from a different angle.
The really original thinkers take our pre-understanding and connect the dots in a new way – and then an entirely different pattern appears.

to connect the old dots in a way to create a new, hopefully better, meaning.

The same dots can be connected in different ways giving different causatives and answers to our questions, finding different patterns of meaning. I don’t think that one way is necessarily the only right option; I think there are a vast number of possible patterns, meanings, answers

Multiple ways to connect the dots to create meaning

And some of patterns can co-exist, not being more “right” or accurate than the others.

The important thing is to connect the dots in a way that creates possibilities instead of constraints. Finding the positive pattern, instead of the negative. Seeing the constructive causative instead of the harmful

or at least, to let them co-exist

Looking at a cluster of dots; you have the potential of finding both in any given situation… The one you choose determines the outcome: the features of your reality

if the pattern forms a window of opportunity or the bars of a prison cell.