Hi Mark, Sorry but I missed a lot of what you say you covered. Can you repeat your analogies and insights on a single page in summary form without compromising your thoughts? Someone once said, "If you can't write your idea on the back of business card, it's not a good idea." Probably an exaggeration, but it forces an Occam approach, like Pirsig's summary of the MOQ -- "Some things are better than others."
Any sort of brief summary would be appreciated. Thanks Platt On 2 Nov 2010 at 20:58, 118 wrote: Interesting how in a forum inspired by the Great Robert Pirsig, there would be closed mindedness to new methods for describing Quality. I have tried analogies from physics, from chemistry, from biology, from sports, from Tao, from Buddhism, from Vedic thought, from mathematics. I have expounded on the relationship of art to philosophy as a leading edge coming from the subconscious which is more in tune with quality (perhaps I should have mentioned Dewey), and divided the brain to encompass Quality's direct pre-intellectual stimuli. I have brought in mythology and astrology, (perhaps a little more Campbell may help). But to no avail. I get the same feedback, but perhaps I should conform, and, feeling like J. Alfred Prufock, question: Would it have been worth while To have bitten off the matter with a smile To have squeezed the universe into a ball To roll it toward some overwhelming question, To say: "I am Lazarus, come from the dead Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all"- If one, settling a pillow by her head, Should say: "That is not what I meant at all. That is not it at all." And I have proposed ways out of the subject object thinking, ways to describe Quality without such, and proposed the direct connection with Quality as being Intent, which all posses. And professed the arrow of quality as being real and not ineffable. Perhaps I should use the proper words, and accepted premises, but I question (as instructed by T.Stearns. Eliot): And would it have been worth it, after all, Would it have been worth while, After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets, After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the floor- And this, and so much more?- It is impossible to say just what I mean! But as if a magic lantern threw the nerves in patterns on a screen Would it have been worth while If one, settling a pillow or throwing off a shawl, And turning toward the window, should say: "That is not it at all, That is not what I meant, at all." No, I don't think so (ah, what Blasphemy!, how unpragmatic). Well, now I know how Phaedrus felt. Cheers, Mark 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
