The Law of Two Feet certainly emphasizes personal responsibility at all levels. But whether we need to change the words, I dont know. First off, two feet normally come attached to a single individual. If we were dealing with some other number of feet, it might be useful to specify the point of attachment, as in My Two Feet, His two feet, Their two feet, -- or whatever number of feet are attached to whatever bodies. Considering the possibilities of an Open Space including four footed creatures, centipedes (100 footed), and other randomly footed beings is mind blowing.
We then come to the issue of how we might actually change the words. Would this require a canonical council meeting over a number of years to consider the possibility and issue a global finding? Then again, if you feel the need of some different words, why not just use them? Most of us have, and doubtless will continue. Personally, I rather like the Law of Two Feet. Has a certain ring to it. Sounds kind of official and judicial! And goodness knows we certainly need to do everything in our power to clean up this Open Space business and make it respectable. Sounding judiciously official is certainly a good start. Harrison Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, Maryland 20845 Phone 301-365-2093 Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com <http://www.openspaceworld.com/> Open Space Institute www.openspaceworld.org Personal website http://mywebpages.comcast.net/hhowen/index.htm [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html -----Original Message----- From: OSLIST [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dominik Ringler Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2004 6:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: law of my two feet Dear All, after a wonderful open space we had in Strasbourg recently with participants from about 30 European countries, I found myself in front of the poster with the law of the two feet, thinking: wouldn't it be more personal, more concrete, more logical to call it "the law of my two feet?" For me the law is the most basic thing in os concerning self-organization... being responsible for myself and MY two feet. What do you think? For the Germans in the list: I tried to translate it, but I'm not satisfied yet about "Das Gesetz meiner (beiden) Füße"... Waiting for your opinions... Autumnal greetings from Berlin Dominik * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
