{"id":18547,"date":"2013-01-12T20:44:02","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T20:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=18547"},"modified":"2013-01-12T20:44:02","modified_gmt":"2013-01-12T20:44:02","slug":"two-pebbles-in-the-pond-of-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=18547","title":{"rendered":"Two pebbles in the pond of thought"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron<\/strong> — regarding the idea that Islam might be monolithic as well as monotheistic, and more generally, the patterns created when concentric ripples intersect ]
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Drop these two pebbles into the pond of thought, and watch the ripples as they intersect, overlap, enhance one another, cancel each other out and continue…<\/p>\n

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It may seem obvious that Islam is not, and could not possibly be, a monolithic entity — but I want to suggest something more than that fairly basic fact. <\/p>\n

I want to suggest that just as we have all enjoyed watching the way concentric ripples fan out from the place where a pebble — or a raindrop — hits a pond, and the fascinating ways win which two or more such ripples intersect —<\/p>\n

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— in much the same way, it can be fascinating — and often illuminating — to watch the way in which ripples of thought in the thought pond intersect.<\/p>\n

In fact, that’s the basic “move” behind all creativity.<\/p>\n

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My sources for the two quotes above:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Small Wars Journal<\/a>, Disruptive thinking
\nWikipedia<\/a>, Islam<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My sources for the two images above:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Doodles and jots<\/a>, ripple effects
\nDavid Armano<\/a> on “ripples of influence”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron — regarding the idea that Islam might be monolithic as well as monotheistic, and more generally, the patterns created when concentric ripples intersect ] . . Drop these two pebbles into the pond of thought, and watch the ripples as they intersect, overlap, enhance one another, cancel each other out and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[361,12,46,350,321,526,21,753,687,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-analogy","category-analytic","category-army","category-blogosphere","category-charles-cameron","category-creativity","category-islam","category-specs","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18547"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18564,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18547\/revisions\/18564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}