On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 5:19 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Platt,
Thank you for the proposal, good idea. I will review my posts from the recent to back when I was posting from my aol account. If nothing else it may bring clarity to myself. Much of my writing could be termed "automatic writing". That is, it stems from an awareness of the moment which I then try to transcribe into words, hopefully logically, but that is up to the interpreter. As such, sometimes I learn something from rereading my own posts. Strange I know. A summary could be analogous to Phaedrus collecting thoughts on cards and then shuffling them continuously to make sense of things. In terms of Phaedrus, I also went through a temporary breakdown in the early eighties. It was not destructive enough for shock therapy, and I did have a community which supported me at the time. However, at the root of it was serious questioning which resulted in a complete dissociation from any firm footing in reality as I was used to. It was all quicksand without grounding. The creation of certain premises that I accepted as true, allowed rebuilding. The notion of everything being an analogy can have destabilizing consequences, if one is not ready for it. However, it is in the presentation of such analogies and their acceptance, that we coexist. Our coexistence is based on agreement, and such agreement has no basis outside our own communication. We create a world of knowledge as a result of some Quality stimulus. Had to be there to understand, perhaps. Thus my insistence on lateral analogies for the expansion of the concept of Quality. The power of the word is somewhat limited and limiting as we know through discussion of SOM. If I choose, I can view the world free of SOM, converting that to discussion is the hard part. Just another jumble in my head I suppose. Cheers, Mark 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 > > > > > 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
