Hi Marsha, On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:08 AM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: > > Steve, > > Seems to me that 'hope' and 'faith' are static patterns of value, and so is > that 'I' that possesses them. "Personal investment" sounds like a noun, so > too do 'belief' and 'things'. Can intellectualizing do anything but slice > and dice self and objects?
Steve: "Hope," "faith," and "I" are indeed all intellectual patterns of value. "Intellectualizing" is taking existing static intellectual patterns of value and trying to create new better ones. It is a part of life. It is participation in the migration of static patterns toward dynamic quality. So is dancing naked in the forest, picking up bar ladies, and creating a new metaphysics. There is no way to avoid participation in this process. "It's just a ride," but there is no getting off. The only question is, will you go willingly? In other words, can you look at the world with faith, with "the courage to be," and say, "thus I willed it?" You seem to have an aversion to "intellectualizing" as if it were a more static activity than, say, the pattern of dancing naked in the forest? Intellectual patterns are aesthetic creations just as forest jigs are. Everything is. What else could they be? Best, Steve 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/
