On Mar 13, 2011, at 2:37 PM, Dan Glover wrote: > Hello everyone > > On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 5:25 AM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> Desires are just a way to ward off one's only certainty: death. Desires >> project >> existence into the future so one does not have to deal with one's fear of >> death. > > Hi Marsha > > I think the MOQ would say that there is no one desire... rather, there > are different kinds of desire that all have different connotations. > There are biological desires, social desires, and intellectual > desires. From LILA: > > "Celebrity is to social patterns as sex is to biological patterns. Now > he was getting it. This celebrity is Dynamic Quality within a static > social level of evolution. It looks and feels like pure Dynamic > Quality for a while, but it isn't. Sexual desire is the Dynamic > Quality that primitive biological patterns once used to organize > themselves. Celebrity is the Dynamic Quality that primitive social > patterns once used to organize themselves. That gives celebrity a new > importance. > > "None of this celebrity has any meaning in a subject-object universe. > But in a value-structured universe celebrity comes roaring to the > front of reality as a huge fundamental parameter. It becomes an > organizing force of the whole social level of evolution. Without this > celebrity force, advanced complex human societies might be impossible. > Even simple ones." > > Dan comments: > > So, looking at intellectual desire from a value-centered universe, and > taking Marsha's quote into account, we could say that projecting > existence into the future is the Dynamic Quality that primitive > intellectual patterns once used to organize themselves. > > Thoughts? > > Dan
Sneaky are you Dan. ;-) I suppose if this were about using analogies, yours might be said to work; though I like my -prohibited- analogy better. But under all theories I've got everything-connected-to-everything without need of any analogies, except for fun. Intellectual fun I'd like to think; after all, this is a philosophy/ club where word games are played. - I was't thinking of any particular category of desire. Except for the wish to become enlightened, the Buddha has said that desire is the source of all suffering. I suppose I needed to work this out for myself, because desire has culturally been labeled good. Maybe it is more about en-joying the moment. 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
