Hello everyone On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Mary <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Dan, > > Nice to hear from you. Wish you would post more often.
Hi Mary It's good to hear from you as well. Though I'd like to post more often, unlike John, I rarely get two hour lunches. > > On Behalf Of Dan Glover >> Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2010 11:04 PM >> >> I am not being mean-spirited when I say Bo's SOM as Quality's >> intellect doesn't make sense in the context of the MOQ. I am stating a >> fact. > > [Mary Replies] > Ummm, not a fact, but a belief you have acquired. Facts are agreed with by > everybody, like "the world is flat" was in 1491. Well, there was this one > guy. I think Queen Isabella liked him. Dan: All facts are beliefs but not all beliefs are facts. I maintain I am stating a fact. I can back it up with quotes if need be. >Dan: > And if others choose to believe in nonsense I can't stop them. >> No one can. You say you want an example of some "thing" that's not a >> subject or object yet you're convinced subjects and objects are all >> there is. Do you see the problem? >> > [Mary Replies] > Where did I ever say, "subjects and objects are all there is"? Static and > Dynamic Quality is all there is. imHo, the Intellectual Level is what says > "subjects and objects are all there is". Dan: I don't know if you actually said that. But you seemed to infer it by your question. The idea that subjects and objects are primary to reality is a good idea. It allows us to survive and thrive in a hard world. But that idea is not the intellectual level of the MOQ. It is just one way of viewing reality. > >> >Mary: >> > Most - no - all human disagreement arises from differing fundamental >> > beliefs. >> >> Dan: >> Disagreements drive the evolution of intellect. >> > [Mary Replies] > You Lamarckian, you. :) Dan: :) > >> >Mary: >> > Beliefs are static and difficult to overcome - so be careful what you >> choose >> > to convince your children of. >> >> Dan: >> Children grow up. If we teach them well, they'll do good. We have to >> trust in that... right? >> > [Mary Replies] > Yeah. To learn to trust, they must first be trusted. > Or, I guess you could say, they need a lot of rope. Few things are quite so > enlightening as reaching the end of it. Oops! Dan: I find I'm old enough now that the very thought of raising children terrifies me. That, after raising five of them. God, how did I do that? And have them all turn out as good as they did... > > Have a good one! You too, Dan 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/md/archives.html
