Post by shawnhartnell on Mar 24, 2015 12:45:15 GMT -6
Hullo, everyone, it's your friendly neighborhood GRAND HIGH TOTAL SHITHEAD and this week's topic is :
Is the Cult of Cthulhu a real Fourth Way School TM?
And the answer is ... No.
We're the motherfuckin' Cult of Cthulhu.
We're an autonomous organization that can do what we want how we want to do it, and if Johnny Judgmental Punkass has something to say about it -- so what?
If some people think that to be a Fourth Way school you have to have a direct lineage (sorta like a vampire or Sith thing) from teacher to student all the way back to the OG himself, Mr. Gurdgeiff, who appearantly learned the Fourth Way from a passing interstellar traveller or perhaps a Ouiji board or a cabbage or something. Again, so what? [1]
We're not a Fourth Way school TM. We're a community of practice [2] which encompasses several interrelated esoteric subjects, practices and disciplines -- one of which is the Fourth Way.
We include the Fourth Way because we find it useful. Studying and practicing the the Fourth Way has benefits as advertised. In short, it works. We don't need any other reason than that to use a tool that does what it's supposed to. And we certianly don't need any certification of some dogmatist or purist -- that would be like requiring your wrench be blessed by The Pope in order to work with it.
Summing up for conclusion:
We're NOT a "real" Fourth Way School TM.
We're the motherfuckin' Cult of Cthulhu.
Therefore: The point is moot, the argument is invalid, hey, look, a squirrel!
[1] I'm not saying it's not a very good thing to be mentored by someone who's Worked on themselves. I'm saying we don't buy the mystical relay baton theory. Mentorship, good. Mystical relay baton, stupid.
[2] We're one of these:
"A community of practice (CoP) is, according to cognitive anthropologists Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger, a group of people who share a craft and/or a profession. The group can evolve naturally because of the members' common interest in a particular domain or area, or it can be created specifically with the goal of gaining knowledge related to their field. It is through the process of sharing information and experiences with the group that the members learn from each other, and have an opportunity to develop themselves personally and professionally (Lave & Wenger 1991).
Communities of practice are not new phenomena: this type of learning practice has existed for as long as people have been learning and sharing their experiences through storytelling. The idea is rooted in American pragmatism, especially C.S. Pierce's concept of "the community of inquiry" (Shields 2003), but also John Dewey's principle of learning through occupation (Wallace 2007). Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger coined the phrase in their 1991 book, 'Situated learning' (Lave & Wenger 1991), and Wenger then significantly expanded on the concept in his 1998 book, 'Communities of Practice' (Wenger 1998)."
Source:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_of_practice
Is the Cult of Cthulhu a real Fourth Way School TM?
And the answer is ... No.
We're the motherfuckin' Cult of Cthulhu.
We're an autonomous organization that can do what we want how we want to do it, and if Johnny Judgmental Punkass has something to say about it -- so what?
If some people think that to be a Fourth Way school you have to have a direct lineage (sorta like a vampire or Sith thing) from teacher to student all the way back to the OG himself, Mr. Gurdgeiff, who appearantly learned the Fourth Way from a passing interstellar traveller or perhaps a Ouiji board or a cabbage or something. Again, so what? [1]
We're not a Fourth Way school TM. We're a community of practice [2] which encompasses several interrelated esoteric subjects, practices and disciplines -- one of which is the Fourth Way.
We include the Fourth Way because we find it useful. Studying and practicing the the Fourth Way has benefits as advertised. In short, it works. We don't need any other reason than that to use a tool that does what it's supposed to. And we certianly don't need any certification of some dogmatist or purist -- that would be like requiring your wrench be blessed by The Pope in order to work with it.
Summing up for conclusion:
We're NOT a "real" Fourth Way School TM.
We're the motherfuckin' Cult of Cthulhu.
Therefore: The point is moot, the argument is invalid, hey, look, a squirrel!
[1] I'm not saying it's not a very good thing to be mentored by someone who's Worked on themselves. I'm saying we don't buy the mystical relay baton theory. Mentorship, good. Mystical relay baton, stupid.
[2] We're one of these:
"A community of practice (CoP) is, according to cognitive anthropologists Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger, a group of people who share a craft and/or a profession. The group can evolve naturally because of the members' common interest in a particular domain or area, or it can be created specifically with the goal of gaining knowledge related to their field. It is through the process of sharing information and experiences with the group that the members learn from each other, and have an opportunity to develop themselves personally and professionally (Lave & Wenger 1991).
Communities of practice are not new phenomena: this type of learning practice has existed for as long as people have been learning and sharing their experiences through storytelling. The idea is rooted in American pragmatism, especially C.S. Pierce's concept of "the community of inquiry" (Shields 2003), but also John Dewey's principle of learning through occupation (Wallace 2007). Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger coined the phrase in their 1991 book, 'Situated learning' (Lave & Wenger 1991), and Wenger then significantly expanded on the concept in his 1998 book, 'Communities of Practice' (Wenger 1998)."
Source:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_of_practice