Week 7, Ordered Chaos

The term ordered chaos is fascinating for me because it points very much to the human experience: on one end, we understand that there must be a wholeness somewhere so much bigger than us that we can't understand it; at the other end, we are so consumed by our existence we think we can figure these mysteries out. If we look at the patterns of the universe and the planet from the more whole-istic point of view, we seem to intuitively know that, in it's own way, the universe is carrying on, doing its thing without much particular attention to us and our need to understand. It carries its own order with it. From a human-istic point of view, the random patterns are pure chaos because they make no sense in out relatively small and limited minds.