Are you weird, Marsha ? Not to me. Beautifully human. That "NATURE is intellect" was preceded by the clause "IF intellect is SOM ...then .. " is an example of something you may have missed ? Arlo wasn't asserting anything forecfuly at all.
Ian On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 7:25 AM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Ian, > > I'm not sure how I responded to is "NATURE is intellect", but 'nature' is > a static pattern of value, not an absolute. No matter how forceful he > states it, I'm not going to take anything as a given until I consider it > fully. I was discussing a level of patterns, and I had the feeling he was > discussing 'thinking'. There is something in the way he uses the > word 'intellect' that makes me think it's about thinking in general. > > One can look at all patterns as 'conceptions', or one can look at > what patterns represent, their category or function. I can all too > easily toss it all off to conceptual vapor, and go chop wood. But I'm > curious to thoroughly understand how it works. If I can. It is not > unimportant to the way lives are lived. > > Am I weird? > > > > > > > > On May 16, 2010, at 1:02 AM, Ian Glendinning wrote: > >> Arlo, Marsha, >> >> Marsha, is your problem reacting to Arlo saying this is how it is - >> the insulting schoolmasterly impression - because you are missing that >> his sentences start with IF ? >> >> Just logical consequences of the statements of others. >> >> Ian >> >> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Arlo Bensinger <[email protected]> wrote: >>> [Marsha] >>> The >>> lament >>> is >>> based >>> on >>> a >>> misconception: >>> that >>> entities (self & object) >>> exist >>> independently. >>> >>> [Arlo] >>> Which is... TAADAA!.. SOM! If ALL intellectual patterns are SOM, this is NOT >>> a misconception, it is the NATURE of intellect. > > > > > ___ > > > 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
