Little inconveniences and lessons in life

(just lost most of this blog due to FFL - finger fault local - spewin! A lesson in life learnt whilst writing about a lesson in life!!!)

Anyway, as I have already typed!?! - Yesterday I locked my keys in the car at work. I did not realise until it was time to go home. I had finished late as it was so my sense of humour was taking severe hits. I had left the window down about an inch and a half and the keys were in the ignition.

I spent 25 minutes breaking into my car, the frustrating aspect being that it only took me 20 seconds to unlock the car - once I had figured out how to do it.

Tried with a coat hanger to unlock the door, but the locking lever would not flip over. Tried with the coat hanger to remove the keys from the ignition - to no avail, the angle was not quite right.

In effect tried two different solutions using the same method!

However, when it dawned on me to use a ruler to exert more pressure on the door lock, in no time at all I had access. ie, my first solution was successful, but required a different method.

Thus the axiom dawns - when faced with challenges we can either try different solutions with the same method, or different methods to achieve the same solution. Ed De Bono would have had a field day.

Is this profound? or just vague ramblings. Doesn't matter, but next time a framework for problem solving is required at least there is something to think about.

More importantly, there must be a spiritual application somewhere in there. Surely God has simple single solutions to situations that he wants to use us to achieve. Who chooses to be used is up to us. We therefore become his different methods.

What about the issue of omniscience and He being outside of time, knowing the end before the beginning? What about self-determination and free will? Individually we may be a single method but applicable to achieving different solutions that are within His will. Some things need to just be accepted until all will be revealed.

Too deep for a Fri afternoon. Not really, for the simple things in life should not confound us. Want too deep? Try this, the subject of my mental powers and academic attention for the next two weeks, hopefully at the end of which a paper will fall out!?!

Is Information and Technology Superiority relevant in the 21st century battlespace when adversaries adopt 19th and 20th century strategies?