John, Dave, I'm moved to awe. Excellent exchange.
Regards Ian PS, and yes Andre SOL is surely one such stepping stone on "the road beneath our wheels". On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 6:17 AM, david buchanan <[email protected]> wrote: > > John said: > ... For very, very many people, the whole GOD thing is a huge billboard > pointing them in a Quality direction. These people are your most primitive > types, admittedly. M. Scott Peck illustrates them as the criminals and > police. The drunkard and reformer. Often, from a life of pure hedonistic > selfishness, the only way to climb out of the chaotic patterns is to seek the > structures of religion or society. ... On the other hand, there are those who > get to the point where they're restless at this rest stop. The rituals > become hollow and meaningless, the priesthood venal and corrupt, the ideas > stale and outworn. For them, the rest stop with the big GOD billboard above > it becomes a trap, a trap they need to flee. ... And that's where I think the > MoQ is most helpful. > > > > dmb says: > > "Phaedrus saw nothing wrong with this ritualistic religion as long as the > rituals are seen as merely a static portrayal of Dynamic Quality, a sign-post > that allows socially pattern-dominated people to see Dynamic Quality. The > danger has always been that the rituals, the static patterns, are mistaken > for what they merely represent and are allowed to destroy the Dynamic Quality > they were originally intended to preserve. Suddenly the foliage opened up > and there it was: the ocean." > > 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
