[Arlo previously] And, of course you may see this inevitable question, isn't it more mystically degenerate for you (for us all) to be here than to be off doing something more mystically immediate? If so, then why are you (we) here? Should Horse shut this place down for our own good?
[djh] No - non-painting and non-poetry are not morally superior as - to speak from a Zen perspective - they are still doing something! [Arlo] Your previous argument rested on 'degrees' of degenerateness. You had argued that between two options, the one that was MORE mystically degenerate was a morally inferior option to one that would be LESS mystically degenerate. In this context, you were arguing that 'intellectual' metaphysiquing was morally inferior (MORE mystically degenerate) than someone 'pursuing DQ'. Now you've seem to have changed the parameters, suggesting that everything we do is equally metaphysically degenerate, that 'painting' and 'non-painting', or 'writing a metaphysics' and 'painting' are both equally degenerate so pick one, it doesn't matter which, and do it 'good'. Before I continue, I'm going to ask you to clarify which of these positions you're arguing, because they both have different trajectories. 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
