Hello everyone On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 2:34 AM, Marsha Valkyr <[email protected]> wrote: >>Marsha: >>> >>When I label intellectual patterns as SOM I am describing how they are >>> >>perceived, or how they function in consciousness. I-spov represent reified >>> >>concepts and the rules for their manipulation. Intellectual patterns create >>> >>false boundaries, giving the illusion of independence, or 'thingness'. I >>> >>understand this fourth level to represent a formalized subject/object >>> >>level where the subjective is supposedly stripped from the experience >>> >>to reveal an objective truth. >>> >>Dan: >>I understand intellectual patterns of value to represent ideas. > > > > Marsha: > Ideas that are ever-changing, dependent and impermanent? I am so much > more intrigued by the nature of all patterns, than the definition of the > levels.
Dan: Ideas arise, flourish, and fade away. I suspect that's the nature of all patterns. Marsha: > The most interesting patterns are of the 'not this' and 'not that' variety, > which > covers all of them if you take the time to understand them. But then it seems > to me that you only need to understand a few to understand all of them, and > there are better things to do with ones silence. - Too many words, right? Dan: I don't feel that I understand patterns of the 'not this, not that' variety in an intellectual way, where I could hold a discussion. > > Are you too busy fixing motorcycles to plant a garden? > Dan: I don't plant gardens in the usual sense. I have gardens though. I do enjoy fresh tomatoes and plant those all over the place... anwhere there's a little sun. I even have some down behind the shop. It's been an early planting season here, a good two or three weeks earlier than normal. I see corn already coming up in farmers' fields where most times they aren't planting till now. Thanks for asking, 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
