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======Conflicts of Personality III ...======
Thursday, September 15, 2011. Some people have a very systematic approach
to things. They are looking for the grand solutions. Others like to act
more on an ad-hoc basis, they solve problems when they arise and they do not
solve problems, which have not yet caused any difficulties and possibly
never will.
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**Systematic or Ad Hoc? ...**
The question of on what level you address a problem is very important when you
try to bring a group of people together to do something. But there are not only two
approaches, but even "systematic" can mean quite different things. As an example
think about cleaning up at home.
When I clean up, I first tend to quickly move everything to some
temporary place and then try to sort things going down from top to bottom in
terms of the order. I try to save time by ignoring the detailed work first and
get the main lines set up.
My wife is quite different. She takes a piece and then resolves the story for it
completely. That includes doing what ever is needed to put it into the right place
- even if it means to start to sort a completely different area of our life, call
friends or the school etc. It is also kind of systematic, but the system is not
staying within the task for the original problem, more going into full life solutions.
That does not help to quickly clean some area, but of course it solves many things
on the way which otherwise might remain unsolved.
I had similar points in my science. When I wrote the PhD, I tried to find a notation
which is systematic and can remain long-term. But my supervisor was much more focussed
on the communication process with some basic notation. Looking back after years,
I think that he was much more efficient. The big solution does not work in terms
of scientific notation, since it changes slightly all the time and you really need
to focus on the individual paper or book and try to communicate as clearly as possible.
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**God's Solutions ...**
God also had tasks and solutions are given to us by what happened with Jesus. God's
task was to save mankind, to provide a salvation which communicates his justice, his
truth and his love. I think he approached it quite systematically, meaning that he
started to communicate already in early history of mankind with the forefathers of
faith. And he started to prepare the story of Jesus already two thousand years before
it happened.
But God is also quite focussed on communication and relationships. The way things
happened were quite down to an individual treatment. Christianity is not the big
system, which would put us all into a little place where we need to function. No! It
is the loving father, who wants individual relationships. That is much more to ad-hoc
type of activity than to the universal scheme. But it is universal in the sense that
is is valid for every human on the planet!
I like to play with the different types of approaches - and the New Testament seems
to leave space for both in the community of believers. That is very good and
encouraging!
(Roland Potthast)
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