Too many ‘Q’s

When I was younger, there were times when we were tested on our IQ.  For everything else, we just drew on our talents and education to develop our so-called socio-affective skills. Until the arrival of the EQ, the quotient for emotional intelligence.  In past years, we added the SQ or spiritual quotient to the list. So far, I’m OK with that.  Recently, a new quotient has emerged: the RQ or risk quotient that describes to what degree one is capable of understanding the risk levels in situations.

“To measure is to know”, but the question is: is man measurable and more importantly, does he have to be measured?  What does it contribute?  Does not it just mean that we will end up with  a statistical or mathematical calculation of what we should call a ‘normal human being’?  I prefer the smallest common multiple…

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Chores philosophy

Life is activity – from the elementary breathing and pumping of the heart, over thinking and feeling, to the painting of walls and tending the garden...  No action, no life.  Aristotle speaks of ‘action within the things’, the en-ergeia (energy), that can only be observed when it actualizes its potential. The Greek philosophers’ starting point is the thing, then the energy – and this requires a cause, a ‘maker’.  Alternatively, in the eastern view there is first the energy (always been, having neither start nor end) of which nothing further can be said.  Taoists call it ‘Qi’, Buddhists a conceptual Void, inaccessible to the mind.

How does all this relate to chores?  With each action, we express this energy – ‘filtered’ though it may be by our individual self.  And by my actions, my life, the whole is no longer as it was before.

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