Sounds like our society will soon be more than a meaningless body of men gathered together for no good purpose.
--- On Wed, 4/29/09, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: From: MarshaV <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MD] Science Wars To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2009, 9:34 PM Platt, That's easy. It is Spring and Arlo is beautiful. Marsha At 05:16 PM 4/29/2009, you wrote: >I wonder what Arlo's purpose was in writing this post? > >On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Arlo Bensinger <[email protected]> wrote: > > > [Andre] > > Something like that or is this too simple a representation? > > > > [Arlo] > > Yeah, I think that captures it. "Intellectual patterns" remove us from the > > DQ moment of NOW! but they also afford us great power in controlling the > > flow of the future. "Purpose" is one such pattern, that attempts to derive > > "power-to-act" in the future by encoding the past in a certain way. As such > > it can be a great motivator, and can inspire people to do great things. But > > it can also inspire great evil. Dharma, the point of Quality, is > in the NOW! > > and as such approaching it requires the abandonment of all intellectual > > patterns (which, of course, includes "purpose"). Like "the self", "purpose" > > is a nice illusion that should be held when useful but only lightly and > > always with the understanding that it is a metaphor, a tool, a device, > > nothing more. When "purpose" becomes seen as more than this, when > it becomes > > a "reality" outside human intellectual constructions, then one is back in > > that S/O land the MOQ tries to overcome (not to mention in a dead, > > mechanistic cosmos where we are naught but marionnettes enacting some god's > > whims). > > > > And let's be honest. Apart from appealing to the human affective need to > > feel special, "Purpose" is nearly always a control word. As such, I > > personally find it better to avoid the concept altogether. Its limiting, > > stagnating, manipulative and pandering. Beer will almost always make you > > feel the same way as "purpose" does, but without the haughty narcissism and > > philosophical inanity of "purpose". > > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > > Archives: > > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > > >Moq_Discuss mailing list >Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. >http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org >Archives: >http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ >http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ . _____________ Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars......... . . Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
