Greetings Dan,
On Jul 23, 2012, at 3:03 AM, Dan Glover <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone > > On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Joseph Maurer <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Dan and All, >> >> IMHO It is not useful to describe Dynamic Quality as the "source of all >> things, completely simple and always new." DQ is a metaphysical term, >> described as being indefinable experience. > > Dan: > > Hi Joe! > It is always a pleasure to hear from you... thank you for writing! > > Well, I am merely quoting the author of the MOQ here: > > "Dynamic Quality is the pre-intellectual cutting edge of reality, the > source of all things, completely simple and always new." [Lila] > > So if this isn't useful I am unsure what part of the MOQ is useful. > This seems like the foundation of it all. I get the feeling a number > of contributors here believe we all should just make it up as we go > along. > > I cannot help but wonder: how useful is that? I am operating under the > (perhaps mistaken) assumption that we are here to discuss Robert > Pirsig's work and in particular the MOQ as described in Lila... are we > not? > >> >> The experience of emotions seems to be a proper analogy for DQ. I do not >> see emotions as the "source of all things, completely simple and always >> new." Intellectual activity seems to be a higher reality. > > Dan: > I believe the MOQ classifies emotions as biological activity. So yes, > you are right... emotions are not the source of all things. > >> >> Emotions may have been present when the founding fathers created the >> constitution, but intellectual activity describes the results. DQ emotions >> are subject to intellectual activity as a lower level to a higher level as >> the delegates are to the constitution. DQ emotions as perceptions evolve >> into DQ/SQ intellectual conceptions. Evolution is alive and well. > > Dan: > If emotions are the intelligence of biological responses then they are > apart and separate from the intelligence of the mind. When I fall in > love I am completely irrational. I walk around with a silly grin on my > face for no reason at all. When I am close to her though my body > responds in ways my mind cannot fathom. I revel in her scent, her > touch, her taste; the sound of her voice is like music. > > So I know what love is but I cannot describe it any more than I can > describe the taste of an apple. It is all very mysterious and yet so > familiar. > Wow! Your making it up as you go along is amazing... Thank you. Marsha > But I am not telling you anything that you do not already know... > > Thank you, > > Dan > > http://www.danglover.com > 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
