Joe, I had been away from my computer and hadn't caught up reading past emails. I'm very sorry about your loss.
Marsha At 02:14 PM 5/9/2007, you wrote: >On Monday 07 May 2007 12:21 PM MarshaV writes to Joe > >And how about little girls are sugar and spice, and everything nice? > >Hi MarshaV and all, > >Little boys are frogs and snails, and puppy dog tails? When I talked to >Louise about gender issues she always objected to the terms 'female-male', I >got in the habit of using Man-Woman. At the organic level, reproduction >seems to be dynamic. Our language is full of different terms for individuals >involved. > >On the inorganic level when I was throwing stones I kept a hammer handy so I >wouldn't run out, or if the stone was too big to throw very far. Collision >is king. > >IMO According to Pirsig evolution from a low to a higher level is the basis >for a morality of existence. The lower level must exist in the higher level. >If the higher level is destroyed evolution stops. If the next lower level is >destroyed, evolution stops. > >Inorganic level reproduction by collision evolves to: collision inside >Mitosis, collision form outside Meiosis. Stamen-pistol, bull-cow, sow-boar, >stallion-mare, prick-cunt, birds-bees, doe-stag, hen-rooster, dog-bitch, >egg-sperm, girl-boy, etc. Our language provides for three lower levels >evolving into the social, proprietary awareness, individual, conscious >level, etc., which evolves to the law, intellectual, political, king, >president, guru, imam, god, supreme being etc., level. > >According to esoteric thought, the octave based on auditory sounds, is the >model for a hierarchical order. In this scheme there are two further steps >in an evolution of consciousness a higher emotional, and a higher >intellectual order exemplified in the history of enlightened individuals, >e.g. mystics, philosophers, prophets, artists, etc., not mechanical types. >You can know them when you see then. You know the light bulb above your >head. > >Joe > > > > > At 01:48 PM 5/7/2007, Joe wrote: > >>IMO it is unclear what Pirsig means by the biological level. In one place > >>he > >>discusses the penetration of the cell wall by a sperm cell as a dynamic > >>event. Arguing for that insight I see the biological level as divided into > >>two, reproduction by collision Man, and reproduction by an egg being > >>penetrated Woman. > > > > > > And how about little girls are sugar and spice, and everything nice? > > > > > > > > > > > > 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.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > > > >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.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ 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.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
