1609

Georg Merbitz, 80

Christoph Reiche, 80

1617

05.11. Blasius Merbitz, 61

21.12. Georg Pitzsch, 38

Martha Patz, 68

1622

21.07. Katharina, Barthel Franz, 79

16.08. Anna, Gregor Faust, 59

Martin Gladewitz, 50

1637

28.07. Anna, Hans Ehlig, 70

02.08. Georg Fickler

Barbara Köhler, 53

Barbara Gladewitz, 60

1731

Maria Reiche, 76

1713

Martin Reiche, 69

1752

Andreas Jentzsch, 71

1743

Barbara Jentzsch, 63

1756

Anna Rosina Adam, 33

1746

Elisabeth Adam, 60

1745

Johann Adam, 58

1745

Carl Heinrich Adam, 61

1675

Gertraut Meißner, 67

1640

Martin Meißner

1650

Andreas Jentzsch

1708

Martin Jentzsch, 78

1719

Regina Jentzsch, 80

1683

Martin Jentzsch, 32

1660

Maria Nietzsche

1648

Johannes Nietzsche, 66

1693

Maria Pretzschel, 68

1687

Johannes Pretzschel, 67

1650

Anna Matthes

1695

Maria Nietzsche, 74

1691

Martin Nietzsche, 73

1637

Magdalena Nietzsche

1718

Johannes Nietzsche, 38

1751

Martin Schmidt, 58

1705

Hans Kreyser

1640

Martha Pappertz

1637

Paul Pappertz

1673

Anna Pappertz

1680

Martin Pappertz, 70

1668

Christoph Kreyser

1632

Maria Schmidtgen

1734

Hans Schmidtgen, 86

1670

Clemens Pehlich

1585

Anna Zichner

1581

Philipp Müller

1579

Ursula Müller

1654

Magdalena Berger

1655

Walpurg Marx, 77

1591

Andreas Seyfart

1592

Euphemia Beyer

1585

Urban Beyer

1599

Egidius Rühle

1758

Martin Nitzsche, 75

1791

Johanna Rosina Palitzsch, 75

1648

Martha Kretzschmar

1625

Regina Kretzschmar, 23

1619

Peter Voigt

1654

Jacob Kretzschmar, 67

1574

Christoph Wilschdorf

1675

Maria Steude

1660

Adam Neider

1697

Abraham Hanefeld, 81

1703

Justina Hanefeld

1711

Peter Hörig, 70

1714

Maria Neider, 57

1726

Adam Neider, 68

1727

Georg Ritter, 80

1720

Margaretha Hörig, 76

1754

Christina Hörig, 61

1749

Peter Hörig, 68

1725

Caspar Schmidt, 80

1722

Regina Schmidt, 77

1727

Margaretha Ritter, 74

1874

Eva Rosina Gottleuber, 83

1792

Johann Gottfried Mildner, 65

1616

Martin Senger

1614

Mrs Martin Senger

1632

Martha Richter

1632

Georg Richter

1630

Christoph Steinich

1625

Martin Lotze

1672

Georg Lotze, 50

1676

Maria Lotze

1718

Georg Lotze, 65

1754

Georg Lotze, 55

1813

Johanna Sophia Hiekel

1812

Christian Gottlob Hiekel, 77

1844

Johanna Sophie Hiekel, 65

1838

Carl Friedrich Hiekel, 63

1752

Magdalena Berndt, 73

1618

Johannes Scheunpflug, 62

1634

Justina Scheunpflug, 52

1629

Caspar Schneider, 65

1636

Barbara Schab, 36

1630

Stephan Hempel, 86

1625

Melchior Schab, 68

Katharina Schab, 62

1647

Anna Wagner, 65

1665

Christoph Wagner, 92

1676

Christoph Schab, 91

Maria Schneider, 72

Christoph Wagner, 39

1654

Christina Schneider, 76

1656

Katharina Reifland, 43

1660

Nicol Reifland, 60

1683

Caspar Wagner

1700

Heinrich Meyer

1673

Christoph Zämbrich

1700

Christoph Zämbrich, 74

1687

Michael Zämbrich, 69

1693

Anna Zämbrich, 63

1670

Bartholomeus Türsche, 79

1734

Christoph Stiel

Christoph Zämbrich, 57

1715

Christoph Zämbrich, 66

1687

Elisabeth Stiel, 50

1688

Christoph Stiel, 31

1689

Melchior Glöckner, 66

1674

Barbara Lippmann, 69

1689

Dorothea Stiel, 35

Anna Stiel, 78

Christoph Stiel, 72

Elisabeth Lippe Fischer, 59

1726

Christoph Stiel

1676

Elisabeth Grießbach, 62

1669

Michael Grießbach, 63

1692

Agnes Stiel

1693

Paul Stiel, 86

1694

Christoph Stiel, 58

1703

Maria Stiel, 37

1715

Maria Türsche, 75

1712

Johann Schab, 72

1713

Friedrich Türsche, 67

1704

Johann Schneider, 90

1710

Susanna Schab, 67

1726

Justina Schneider, 85

1754

Johann Christoph Schneider, 76

1746

Anna Rosina Schneider, 70

1762

Elisabeth Schab, 79

1743

Johann Christian Schab, 63

1790

Maria Sophia Schab, 73

1780

Johann Christoph Schab, 70

1751

Christoph Meyer, 77

1751

Anna Sophia Meyer, 69

1791

Johann Heinrich Meyer, 82

1632

Christoph Fritzsche, 55

1633

Michael Grießbach, Elisabeth Henel

Ursula Mende

1628

Caspar Mende, 70

1645

Georg Lippmann

1632

Ursula Braun

1633

Christoph Fischer

1632

Burckhard Henel, 60

1632

Melchior, Anna Grießbach

1633

Anna Erler

1660

Paul Stiel

1617

Michael Braun

1618

Michael Erler

1831

Johanna Beate Meyer, 79

1824

Johann Gotthold Meyer, 77

Factors that will cause one to lose interest in the maintenance of their card index...

1698

Samuel Klotzsche, 0

1689

Anna Elisabeth Klotzsche, 0

1684

Martin Klotzsche, 69

1727

Hans Klotzsche, 67

1769

Regina Eulitz

The results from using the old version of Microsoft Excel.

1787

Johann Eulitz, 62

1774

Johann Eulitz, 78

1647

Maria Preuser, 53

1643

Hans Preuser, 58

1637

Sabina Lindich, 52

1632

Matthes Lindich, 52

1650

Maria Fichtner, 63

1669

Maria Lindich, 47

1676

Donat Lindich, 65

1679

Anna Fichtner, 50

1673

Georg Fichtner, 85

1733

Regina Fichtner, 75

1733

Georg Fichtner, 74

On the Jokerzettel

9/8j Im Zettelkasten ist ein Zettel, der das Argument enthält, das die Behauptungen auf allen anderen Zetteln widerlegt.

Aber dieser Zettel verschwindet, sobald man den Zettelkasten aufzieht.

D.h. er nimmt eine andere Nummer an, verstellt sich und ist dann nicht zu finden.

Ein Joker.

—Niklas Luhmann, ZK II: Zettel 9/8j

Translation:

9/8j In the slip box is a slip containing the argument that refutes the claims on all the other slips. But this slip disappears as soon as you open the slip box. That is, he assumes a different number, disguises himself and then cannot be found. A joker.

Many have asked about the meaning of this jokerzettel over the past several years. Here's my slightly extended interpretation, based on my own practice with thousands of cards, about what Luhmann meant:

Imagine you've spent your life making and collecting notes and ideas and placing them lovingly on index cards. You've made tens of thousands and they're a major part of your daily workflow and support your life's work. They define you and how you think. You agree with Friedrich Nietzsche's concession to Heinrich Köselitz that “You are right — our writing tools take part in the forming of our thoughts.” Your time is alive with McLuhan's idea that "The medium is the message." or in which his friend John Culkin said, "We shape our tools and thereafter they shape us."

Eventually you're going to worry about accidentally throwing your cards away, people stealing or copying them, fires (oh! the fires), floods, or other natural disasters. You don't have the ability to do digital back ups yet. You ask yourself, can I truly trust my spouse not to destroy them?,What about accidents like dropping them all over the floor and needing to reorganize them or worse, the ghost in the machine should rear its head?

You'll fear the worst, but the worst only grows logarithmically in proportion to your collection.

Eventually you pass on opportunities elsewhere because you're worried about moving your ever-growing collection. What if the war should obliterate your work? Maybe you should take them into the war with you, because you can't bear to be apart?

If you grow up at a time when Schrodinger's cat is in the zeitgeist, you're definitely going to have nightmares that what's written on your cards could horrifyingly change every time you look at them. Worse, knowing about the Heisenberg Uncertainly Principle, you're deathly afraid that there might be cards, like electrons, which are always changing position in ways you'll never be able to know or predict.

As a systems theorist, you view your own note taking system as a input/output machine. Then you see Claude Shannon's "useless machine" (based on an idea of Marvin Minsky) whose only function is to switch itself off. You become horrified with the idea that the knowledge machine you've painstakingly built and have documented the ways it acts as an independent thought partner may somehow become self-aware and shut itself off!?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNa9v8Z7Rac

And worst of all, on top of all this, all your hard work, effort, and untold hours of sweat creating thousands of cards will be wiped away by a potential unknowable single bit of information on a lone, malicious card and your only recourse is suicide, the unfortunate victim of dataism.

Of course, if you somehow manage to overcome the hurdle of suicidal thoughts, and your collection keeps growing without bound, then you're sure to die in a torrential whirlwind avalanche of information and cards, literally done in by information overload.

But, not wishing to admit any of this, much less all of this, you imagine a simple trickster, a joker, something silly. You write it down on yet another card and you file it away into the box, linked only to the card in front of it, the end of a short line of cards with nothing following it, because what could follow it? Put it out of your mind and hope your fears disappear away with it, lost in your box like the jokerzettel you imagined. You do this with a self-assured confidence that this way of making sense of the world works well for you, and you settle back into the methodical work of reading and writing, intent on making your next thousands of cards.

bent four is alive unless it bends at 1-1

1756

Andreas Vetter, 34

1737

Maria Mehnert, 56

1796

Anna Maria Mehnert, 74

1739

Hans Mehnert, 66

1797

Johann Georg Mehnert, 80

1715

Barbara Hauswald, 85

1693

Paul Wagner, 84

Jacob Hauswald, 67

1700

Maria Gumlich

1691

Martha Gumlich, 90

1677

Christoph Gumlich, 65

1708

Barbara Gumlich

1751

David Gumlich, 83

1679

Maria Wagner

1712

Martin Mentzel, 68

1725

Maria Mentzel, 81

1735

Johann Mentzel, 48

1628

Martin Proschmann

1633

Erasmus Mehner

1715

Martin Mehnert, 65

1705

Maria Mehnert, 53

1632

Martha Opitz

1619

Matthes Opitz

1641

Hans Ehlig

1693

Barbara Ehlig, 57

1679

Georg Ehlig, 48

1639

Hans Mehlich

1671

Hans Mehlich

1699

Samuel Mehlich, 52

1816

Samuel Mehnert, 70

1682

Hans Rühle, 79

1637

Michael Müller

1609

Mrs Nickel Kröll

1610

Anna Zocher

1601

Nickel Kröll

1616

Michael Sehnitz

1585

Mrs Asmus Zocher

Asmus Zocher

1592

Urban Kuntze

1600

Anna Kuntze, 13

1632

Barbara Mehser, 48

1631

Gertrud Schnitze, 56