Blimey Platt, That Wordsworth quote from Tables Turn'd is much quoted by me and even I think in my "manifesto". Next time Bo interferes with his logic in attempting to achieve some closed definition of MoQ and/or Intellect, you will remember to quote it back at him ?
Hear hear. Let's not cage the living MoQ in an ivory tower of logic, sliced and diced with the analytic knife, please. Regards Ian On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Platt Holden<[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 2:36 AM, markhsmit <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> ZMM came in somewhere between The Journey to Ixlan and >> the Tao of Physics, a personal odyssey resulting in a spiritual >> experience. Becoming one with Technology. When Pirsig had >> his Taoist insight, he subsequently tied it (in Lila) to the 19th >> century philosophy of Evolution (yes, it is a philosophy); >> and why not, everything else was being explained >> with the philosophy of evolution, from psychology to >> social behavior to the creation of the universe. MOQ >> was enclosed into cage of logic. Now, MOQ is being >> brought into the ivory towers where it will become another >> jewel on displayin the museum of philosophy. >> We all know that to define Quality is to diminish it. >> > > Well said. And needed saying. Wordsworth expressed a similar > weakening of meaning when logic interferes: > > "Our meddling intellect > Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things > We murder to dissect." > > Regards, > Platt > 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/
