Greetings
OMG, there it is, TiTs or tits, it's the same thing, man's desire for
security and certainty.
I watched the Joseph Campbell 'Mythos' last week, and frankly I just
wanted to slap him sillyl!!!
Marsha
At 06:42 PM 4/29/2009, you wrote:
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".
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