Arlo, I also have been practicing mindfulness and meditation long enough to know how to detach from nonsense thoughts. They are mere vapor. And what do you suppose you get when you drop all thoughts for a period of time, even a small amount of time makes the experience impressive? Unpatterned experience!
Marsha On May 14, 2010, at 8:09 AM, MarshaV wrote: > > Arlo, > > Btw, I've read 'Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and > Possibility' by James Carse. I know I can quit this verbal game at any time. > > > Marsha > > > > > On May 14, 2010, at 8:05 AM, MarshaV wrote: > >> >> Arlo, >> >> The ideas of the sophists pretty much died with Pericles and Socrates. To >> say the intellectual level could have been different is much like saying >> human being could have evolved with wings and flippers: Idle speculation. >> >> >> Marsha >> >> >> >> >> >> On May 14, 2010, at 7:55 AM, MarshaV wrote: >> >>> >>> On May 14, 2010, at 7:16 AM, ARLO J BENSINGER JR wrote: >>> >>>> "Phædrus reads further and further into pre-Socratic Greek thought to find >>>> out, and eventually comes to the view that Plato’s hatred of the >>>> rhetoricians >>>> was part of a much larger struggle in which the reality of the Good, >>>> represented by the Sophists, and the reality of the True, represented by >>>> the >>>> dialecticians, were engaged in a huge struggle for the future mind of man. >>>> Truth won, the Good lost, and that is why today we have so little >>>> difficulty >>>> accepting the reality of truth and so much difficulty accepting the >>>> reality of >>>> Quality, even though there is no more agreement in one area than in the >>>> other." >>>> >>>> "And yet, Phædrus understands, what he is saying about Quality is somehow >>>> opposed to all this. It seems to agree much more closely with the >>>> Sophists." >>>> >>>> ""Man is the measure of all things." Yes, that’s what he is saying about >>>> Quality. Man is not the source of all things, as the subjective idealists >>>> would >>>> say. Nor is he the passive observer of all things, as the objective >>>> idealists >>>> and materialists would say. The Quality which creates the world emerges as >>>> a >>>> relationship between man and his experience. He is a participant in the >>>> creation of all things." (ZMM) >>>> >>>> The intellectual patterns emerging from the Sophists were not SOM. They >>>> were >>>> clearly something better. And it is HERE that the SOM infestation of >>>> Western >>>> culture began. And it is HERE that Pirsig begins his treatise on correcting >>>> this. >>>> >>>> Of course, you are more than welcome to rewrite ZMM and LILA to suit your >>>> SOL >>>> needs as Bo suggests (its the only way you can make an SOL even come close >>>> to >>>> making any sort of "sense"). >>> >>> >>> Hi Arlo, >>> >>> RMP does not reference SOM in ZMM. In my interpretation the Sophists see >>> the >>> world as relative. Plato&company see the world filled with fixed, concrete >>> , external >>> objects; objects of knowledge, objects of study, SOM. Experience as >>> relative, >>> dependent of value, is what Phaedrus recognized in the sophists as >>> 'better'. >>> >>> There is no rewriting, there is a difference in interpretation. >>> >>> >>> Marsha >>> >>> >>> >>> 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 >> >> >> >> ___ >> >> >> 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 > > > > ___ > > > 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 ___ 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
