Re: [MD] kill all intellectual patterns

2012-11-23 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi DMB, How does understanding embrace the indefinable? You can only get so close to the indefinable. Can you measure the indefinable? It feels right (good,wonderful etc.) is a legitimate argument. Joe On 11/23/12 11:56 AM, david buchanan dmbucha...@hotmail.com wrote: Is Pirsig correct?

Re: [MD] kill all intellectual patterns

2012-11-21 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi, I am confused! Two is not one! Joe On 11/21/12 11:19 AM, 118 ununocti...@gmail.com wrote: Hi dmb, Marsha I would propose that there is only one Truth. The pragmatists have relegated truths to usefulness which convert the basic meaning of truth to something else. I have presented

Re: [MD] discussing Pirsig's MoQ

2012-11-20 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Andre and All, SOM has been around for many years. Over that course flaws have been observed. Pirsig suggested DQ/SQ, a revision of metaphysics. Andre you have a superiority Please go away that suggests that you have a handle on a metaphysical description of reality that will knock my socks

Re: [MD] kill all intellectual patterns

2012-11-20 Thread Joseph Maurer
Ki Marsha and All, IMHO DQ. Joe On 11/19/12 11:55 PM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: to put it another way I would give all metaphors in return for one word drawn out of my breast like a rib for one word contained within the boundaries of my skin Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo,

Re: [MD] discussing Pirsig's MoQ

2012-11-19 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Andre and All, I echo peace. Pity so few... get the finger! Joe On 11/18/12 1:05 PM, Andre Broersen andrebroer...@gmail.com wrote: I hereby devote my deep respect for R.M. Pirsig. He is way ahead of his time. Pity so few of us understand the finger he is raising...for too many do not

Re: [MD] kill all intellectual patterns

2012-11-17 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi DMB and All, DQ/RE/MI/FA/SOL/LA/TI/DO. Which one is truth? Joe On 11/17/12 8:57 AM, david buchanan dmbucha...@hotmail.com wrote: But Marsha is right about one thing; she's not at all interested in truth. It doesn't matter if it's fancy or plain and simple. She just won't hear it no

Re: [MD] kill all intellectual patterns

2012-11-15 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi MarshaV and All; This quote is interesting. Can what we think, SQ, follow from the experience of DQ conceived as unrest in our minds? What is the trigger for knowing the indefinable? I suggest the experience of emotions. Logic is not in the forefront of an emotional response, but then

Re: [MD] Economics

2012-11-12 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Andre and All, One which is two? At the emotional level DQ is indefinable. In the logic of DQ/SQ metaphysics 1 and 2 are not available concepts emotionally. Individuality is indefinable! At the intellectual level 1 is not 2 according to mathematical logic. 1 being 2 is illogical. Joe

Re: [MD] DQ/SQ is SOM

2012-11-06 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Mark and All, IMHO Metaphysics does not describe balanced reality. Quality opens the logical doors for evolution as levels in existence. In evolution stasis is not logical good/bad! Joe On 11/5/12 10:46 PM, 118 ununocti...@gmail.com wrote: DQ and SQ must become balanced. The objective

Re: [MD] belief

2012-11-03 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi David and All, At the intellectual level metaphysics nurtures logic. At the emotional level value follows mysticism. In terms of certainty the intellectual level of evolution embraces logic SQ. At the emotional level indefinable DQ reality manifests. I embrace logic SQ as a higher level

Re: [MD] belief

2012-10-30 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Marsha and All, I experience emotions but I cannot define them. I like the word belief to stand between DQ and SQ. I am certainly aware of something when discussing the indefinable. Joe On 10/27/12 11:14 PM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: I have the MoQ as Reality =

Re: [MD] belief

2012-10-27 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Marsha and All, IMHO to believe is emotional DQ experience. To know my belief is intellectual DQ/SQ. Joe On 10/27/12 3:22 AM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: Mark, To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe. (Sartre, Jean-Paul) Not this,

Re: [MD] The Art of Philosophy

2012-10-26 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Mark and All, IMHO the perception of value is relative, evolution. Metaphysics is DQ/SQ not relativity. There has to be the primary perception of DQ/SQ to have existential merit in the creation of duality in an indefinable/definable format of metaphysics. Awareness is a strange word.

Re: [MD] The Art of Philosophy

2012-10-24 Thread Joseph Maurer
for the real world. Mark On Oct 23, 2012, at 1:42 PM, Joseph Maurer jh...@comcast.net wrote: Hi Mark and All, Logic and Evolution! If MOQ utilizes the tools of SOM it is SOM logic. Pirsig envisions a different logic embracing an indefinable DQ with definable SQ reality. In SOM S

Re: [MD] The Art of Philosophy

2012-10-24 Thread Joseph Maurer
.) Horse On 23/10/2012 21:42, Joseph Maurer wrote: Hi Mark and All, Logic and Evolution! If MOQ utilizes the tools of SOM it is SOM logic. Pirsig envisions a different logic embracing an indefinable DQ with definable SQ reality. In SOM S is definable and O is definable. MOQ uses

Re: [MD] The Art of Philosophy

2012-10-23 Thread Joseph Maurer
away with the battlefield of the objective and relative world. It provides a world of ever becoming. I appreciate your contributions. Cheers, Mark On Oct 22, 2012, at 4:37 PM, Joseph Maurer jh...@comcast.net wrote: Hi Mark and All, DQ indefinable. SQ definable. Strange

Re: [MD] The Art of Philosophy

2012-10-22 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Mark and All, DQ indefinable. SQ definable. Strange bedfellows in reality. Indefinable/Definable equals 1? IMHO MOQ Metaphysics is not SOM mathematics S/O. Joe On 10/21/12 1:31 PM, 118 ununocti...@gmail.com wrote: If we use DQ and SQ as variables, a system of homeostasis would be

Re: [MD] The Art of Philosophy

2012-10-19 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi DMB and All, The difficult moment is the indefinable moment in the perception of DQ. Indefinable emotions, evolve to logical SQ intellectual definitions. IMHO Pirsig saw that logic follows definition. Definition is the intellectual level. The emotional level DQ is experienced by all. It

Re: [MD] The Art of Philosophy

2012-10-10 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi DMB, I want to put these quotes in the dialectic of DQ/SQ. the ³virtuous hero must henceforth be a dialectician² There is a logic for evolution DQ/SQ in that sentence. The indefinable emotions support the definable intellect. There is so much juice in the Aha! experience that I want to use

Re: [MD] The Art of Philosophy

2012-10-09 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi David and All, IMHO Metaphysics follows the acceptance of the reality of logic. Pirsig adds to logic the statement that DQ is indefinable and logical in a description of metaphysical reality, evolution. DQ is enabled in logic and indefinable. The metaphysics of DQ/SQ has a structure of

Re: [MD] a Zen truth

2012-10-07 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Marsha The reality for truth following DQ/SQ. Thank You! Joe On 10/7/12 1:52 AM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: For no one can think what is not, or think anything different from that which he feels; and this is always true² (167b) Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc.

Re: [MD] a Zen truth

2012-10-06 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Marsha and All, Pirsig observed metaphysics DQ/SQ. He then tried to say it and discovered that the indefinable cannot be said only experienced. He broadened communication from the experience of words to include indefinable experience, no words possible. MOQ differs metaphysically from SOM.

Re: [MD] a Zen truth

2012-10-06 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Mark and All, Quality never changes! Definable/indefinable seems like a description of change. At the least it focuses my attention on words and meaning in communication. Joe On 10/5/12 10:55 PM, 118 ununocti...@gmail.com wrote: Quality has been presented in hundreds of ways over the

Re: [MD] a Zen truth

2012-10-06 Thread Joseph Maurer
PM, Joseph Maurer jh...@comcast.net wrote: To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true. Metaphysics, 101 lb Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http

Re: [MD] a Zen truth

2012-10-05 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Mark and all, IMHO To conceive evolution there must be an experience of levels in existence. I perceive DQ as emotional reality and SQ as intellectual reality. Communication with another is through definition, analogy and gesture. The other experiences a community in experiencing similar

Re: [MD] a Zen truth

2012-10-04 Thread Joseph Maurer
wouldn't say that letters are the post office, would we? Cheers, Mark On Oct 2, 2012, at 12:36 PM, Joseph Maurer jh...@comcast.net wrote: Hi MarshaV and all, The continuous present is indefinable. Logic must be used to create the value of communication/definition. Logic

Re: [MD] a Zen truth

2012-10-02 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi MarshaV and all, The continuous present is indefinable. Logic must be used to create the value of communication/definition. Logic as the intellectual level is more valuable than perception at the emotional level. I am not alone. Joe On 10/1/12 11:50 PM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: At

Re: [MD] a Zen truth

2012-10-02 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Marsha, I am metaphysically unsure of the Question and Answer. Joe On 10/2/12 12:57 PM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: Greetings Joe, Question asked; answer given. Marsha On Oct 2, 2012, at 3:36 PM, Joseph Maurer jh...@comcast.net wrote: Hi MarshaV and all

Re: [MD] Intent as Quality

2012-09-27 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Mark and All, There is no problem in experiencing the indefinable if individuality itself is indefinable. What is one? Mathematics defines 1 and runs with scientific logic which is static. Pirsig suggests that individuality is both definable Sq and indefinable DQ in an evolutionary format.

Re: [MD] What's up?

2012-09-26 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi David and All, IMHO there is no way to conceptualize DQ! SQ is conceptualized in definition. DQ is the experience of the individual. Through communication of not this not that a logic for existence can be agreed upon by two people. Friendship values this logical agreement. The realization

Re: [MD] What's up?

2012-09-24 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi David and All, IMHO Pirsig accepted that pragmatism unstiffens all our theories, limbers them up and sets each to work and DQ/SQ reality is the useful metaphysical structure. The fly in the ointment becomes what is my experience of indefinable reality? A logical solution to that question

Re: [MD] 4 Mark - corrected.

2012-09-15 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Mark, (alliteration is remarkable) In DQ/SQ metaphysics MOQ, something remains indefinable. How can I know the indefinable? Experience! How can I communicate the indefinable? Analogy, Metaphor nod at metaphysical terms. DQ dances to SQ. Joe On 9/15/12 10:10 AM, 118

Re: [MD] 4 Mark - corrected.

2012-09-14 Thread Joseph Maurer
(patterned) value into a four-level, evolutionary, hierarchical structure: inorganic, biological, social and intellectual, but I thought, in a philosophical discussion, you often preferred do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti. Marsha On Sep 12, 2012, at 3:33 PM, Joseph Maurer jh

Re: [MD] 4 Mark - corrected.

2012-09-14 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Mark and All, In a metaphysics formulated as DQ/SQ, experience becomes an arbiter for truth. There is always something in my experience which is indefinable, yet knowable. Perception through logic becomes important in communication. IMHO Hypothetical describes a rough draft. Indefinable DQ

Re: [MD] 4 Mark - corrected.

2012-09-12 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Marsha and all, In a philosophical discussion I do not like the word hypothetical applied to patterns in an environment where evolution has been suggested. I like evolution as levels in existence. Joe On 9/12/12 9:19 AM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: I prefer to think of patterns as

Re: [MD] Words and Metaphysical Mysticism.

2012-09-07 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi David and All, Bare bones metaphysics! Evolution, order, conception are still on the table. For myself I like a theory of knowledge based on the acceptance of emotions as DQ. Emotions are indefinable like DQ. Ladies seem to be closer to their emotions than men. IMHO the metaphysics of

Re: [MD] Circular truth

2012-09-04 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi David and All, Quality is universal. Quality is Existence. Evolution comes in different flavors. I suppose existence evolves. Do, re, mi_fa, sol la ti_Do. I Wonder! Joe On 9/4/12 1:13 AM, David Harding davidjhard...@gmail.com wrote: Quality is before you or me or anything else.

Re: [MD] Creative Freedom in Jazz

2012-08-29 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi DMB and All, Reality is DQ/SQ. As far as I know there are no definable restraints on indefinable DQ levels in existence, evolution, like mastery. Aha! is the proper response to metaphysics. Mastery is a worthy discipline for a mechanic. DQ/SQ vs SOM! Joe On 8/29/12 9:15 AM, david

Re: [MD] Good Mystic, Bad Mystic.

2012-08-28 Thread Joseph Maurer
/sq) View 2.) MoQ = theory, intellectual static pattern of value Marsha On Aug 27, 2012, at 3:01 PM, Joseph Maurer wrote: Hi Marsha, Hypothesis: an unproved scientific conclusion drawn from known facts and used as a basis for further investigation or experimentation. DQ

Re: [MD] Good Mystic, Bad Mystic.

2012-08-27 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Marsha, Hypothesis: an unproved scientific conclusion drawn from known facts and used as a basis for further investigation or experimentation. DQ is indefinable and not subject to any proof by logical investigation. With the conception of DQ/SQ metaphysics, Pirsig redefines hypothesis.

Re: [MD] LOVE hate

2012-08-26 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi MarshaV and All, What kind of Love? Love is emotion, is DQ! What is DQ? The experience of an individual like indefinable emotion. Emotion is analogical. There probably is an answer suggested in evolution. When I describe evolution as levels in existence metaphysics raises its hand to say

Re: [MD] Good Mystic, Bad Mystic.

2012-08-25 Thread Joseph Maurer
(unpatterned/patterned) - all meaningful. Marsha On Aug 24, 2012, at 2:00 PM, Joseph Maurer jh...@comcast.net wrote: Hi MarshaV, and All, I see Love and Hate as indefinable DQ. Since they are experienced I leave them at the indefinable emotional level. DQ/SQ is reality

Re: [MD] Good Mystic, Bad Mystic.

2012-08-25 Thread Joseph Maurer
, at 11:09 AM, Joseph Maurer jh...@comcast.net wrote: Hi Mark, O as nothing is indefinable. O as pre-intellectual is open to an emotional emptiness, perception, enabling Pirsig to describe metaphysics as DQ/SQ. Joe On 8/23/12 9:40 PM, 118 ununocti...@gmail.com wrote: However, you

Re: [MD] Good Mystic, Bad Mystic.

2012-08-24 Thread Joseph Maurer
, that you are treating love and hate as abstracted intellectual patterns of value. That might be a way to separate such emotions from experience, separated from experience in the present. Marsha On Aug 23, 2012, at 3:10 PM, Joseph Maurer jh...@comcast.net wrote: Hi MarshaV and All

Re: [MD] Good Mystic, Bad Mystic.

2012-08-24 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Mark, O as nothing is indefinable. O as pre-intellectual is open to an emotional emptiness, perception, enabling Pirsig to describe metaphysics as DQ/SQ. Joe On 8/23/12 9:40 PM, 118 ununocti...@gmail.com wrote: However, you point out a difference, in common perception, between physics

Re: [MD] Good Mystic, Bad Mystic.

2012-08-23 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi MarshaV and All: I am curious how do you separate emotions from the experience of Quality? Love/Hate are not separated by negation. Love. Not love! Hate. Not hate! Joe On 8/23/12 12:42 AM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: Dynamic Quality is not divisible, not definable and not knowable,

Re: [MD] Good Mystic, Bad Mystic.

2012-08-22 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Mark When the indefinable becomes definable you embrace the logic of physics. DQ/SQ is a metaphysical statement. Metaphysics stands outside of the logic of physics as a more far reaching discipline for describing evolution. The Mathematics of physical discipline is logically prevented from

Re: [MD] Good Mystic, Bad Mystic.

2012-08-22 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi MarhaV, IMHO emotions stand outside of logic. Dynamic Quality is an emotional experience. DQ is experienced and is contrary to inexperienced reality. Joe On 8/22/12 2:36 AM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: Dynamic Quality is not divisible, not definable and not knowable, though it can be

Re: [MD] Good Mystic, Bad Mystic.

2012-08-21 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi MarshaV and All, I do not know why my logic button says tilt at the phrase evolution as hypothetical? Mathematics, the language of physics, uses a logic button:. I is not 2. The button is not hypothetical! It is logical. The rigid logic of mathematics cannot encompass indefinable DQ. DQ

Re: [MD] Good Mystic, Bad Mystic.

2012-08-20 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Mark and All, Pirsig proposes a metaphysics of DQ indefinable and SQ definable. Definition must have some meaning to separate DQ/SQ. For myself I accept DQ as indefinable and SQ as definable. Since the definable has a greater range than the indefinable I would expect SQ to have a greater

Re: [MD] Good Mystic, Bad Mystic.

2012-08-18 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi MarshaV and all, Metaphysics is not Physics! Pirsig suggested DQ (indefinable) SQ (definable) as the base of metaphysics. I experience the indefinable. I experience the definable. DQ/SQ. How can definable SQ be a higher level than indefinable DQ? The concept of evolution is necessary to

Re: [MD] 'mystical' understanding

2012-08-16 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi MarshaV, If you are operating within an evolutionary environment it is just a mess! Joe On 8/16/12 3:20 AM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: Greetings, When you're living in a monastery it might be called religious or soteriological. If you're operating within an academic

Re: [MD] DQ and SQ interrelationship

2012-08-14 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Mark and All, IMHO Evolution is not analogy. Evolution describes levels in existence. Joe On 8/14/12 11:43 AM, 118 ununocti...@gmail.com wrote: Using cultural norms to criticize cultural normsŠ Yes, the levels are an analogy. They are not necessary to present Quality in metaphysical

Re: [MD] DQ and SQ interrelationship

2012-08-09 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Mark and All, I also see Quality as the mover in differentiation. I suggest that discrete levels in existence exemplified in the 7 toned musical scale manifest as the differentiator in the evolution of reality. Quality as a noun rather than the first adjective embodies 7 discrete levels in

Re: [MD] ever-changing static patterns

2012-08-02 Thread Joseph Maurer
in true/false limbo in the description of reality DQ/SQ. Joe On 8/2/12 12:51 AM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: Joe, Truth? Marsha On Aug 1, 2012, at 1:09 PM, Joseph Maurer jh...@comcast.net wrote: Hi Marsha, If Dynamic Quality is unknowable how can you write about

Re: [MD] humpty dumpty

2012-08-01 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Dan and All, The beauty in your writing leaves me in tears of wonder! Thank You! Joe On 7/31/12 8:18 PM, Dan Glover daneglo...@gmail.com wrote: I didn't understand a thing. Perhaps I still don't... Thank you, Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc.

Re: [MD] ever-changing static patterns

2012-08-01 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Marsha, If Dynamic Quality is unknowable how can you write about it from a truth sense? Joe On 8/1/12 7:21 AM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: Dynamic Quality is indivisible, undefinable and unknowable. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc.

Re: [MD] humpty dumpty

2012-07-31 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Dan and All, Pirsig proposes a metaphysical difference between DQ and SQ. DQ is indefinable experience and SQ is definable experience. Seeing the Sun is definable experience. But there is a time lag. Maybe the sun is exploding while you are watching, and you will need to get into your

Re: [MD] humpty dumpty

2012-07-30 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Dan and All, There is no accepted order of evolution. The word evolution is used outside of metaphysical discussions. For myself I accept that Evolution is a word that describes levels in existence. Dq describes existence without definition. Experience as the intellectual endeavor SQ

Re: [MD] humpty dumpty

2012-07-27 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi MarshaV, Evolution has been suggested as a word that describes the reality of a hierarchy in levels of individuality. For myself I like to conceptualize evolution as levels in existence. Joe On 7/27/12 12:26 AM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: All patterns from all levels have been

Re: [MD] humpty dumpty

2012-07-26 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Marsha and All, IMHO Metaphysics answers the question of What. In SOM existence was accepted as reality S/O. Pirsig redefined existence as DQ/SQ. Freewill DQ is indefinable. How I experience the indefinable falls in the realm of metaphysics. Science accepts Quantum investigation as

Re: [MD] Practical experience of MOQ Mondays

2012-07-23 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Ian and all, I have no idea how you view evolution. For myself I am content to view evolution as the hierarchy in existence. I agree that mathematically created numbers are physical terms not metaphysical logic. Joe On 7/23/12 8:30 AM, Ian Glendinning ian.glendinn...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [MD] Creative Freedom in Jazz

2012-07-22 Thread Joseph Maurer
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. The experience of emotions seems to be a proper analogy for DQ. I do not see emotions as the

Re: [MD] an apple

2012-07-19 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Marsha; Until Pirsig came on the scene, It was accepted that the knower and the known were separate. I am not what I know I only act that way. With DQ/SQ as a metaphysical description of reality the knower experiences indefinable reality. In knowledge experience is indefinable in being

Re: [MD] an apple

2012-07-19 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Marsha, I have not studied Buddhism. I am somewhat brainwashed. In logic it is difficult to discriminate between the knower and the known in the search for consciousness. It is difficult to accept indefinable reality. The brain does its best to ignore malfunctioning hardware in the body

Re: [MD] expanded rationality

2012-07-16 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Marsha and All, Nothing and indefinable describe differing metaphysical reality. Indefinable does not interdict an experience of DQ. Nothing denies the experience of DQ. What is the balancing act of knowing the indefinable? Experience! You can't argue from not this/not that for a reality

Re: [MD] expanded rationality

2012-07-14 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Marsha and All, Force, Mass, and Energy fall within the purview of mathematics for description. 1 is defined. Mathematical logic cannot embrace evolution. In MOQ DQ is indefinable. The mathematical logic of physics supports definition. The DQ/SQ logic of metaphysics is not bound in

Re: [MD] Is Quality a monism?

2012-07-12 Thread Joseph Maurer
and follow the clues. Cheers, Mark On 7/10/12, Joseph Maurer jh...@comcast.net wrote: Hi Mark and All, Is quality a lie? On 7/9/12 9:12 PM, 118 ununocti...@gmail.com wrote: The words and examples can be distracting, but so long as we keep in mind that Quality overrides truth, then we

Re: [MD] pure experience (DQ)

2012-07-10 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi DMB and All, MOQ DQ/SQ. Hi David and All, I guess the question to be asked is: Is MOQ metaphysics or reality? With a DQ/SQ base Quality apparently does not apply to reality in existence as a metaphysics. The central reality of mysticism, the reality that Phaedrus had called 'Quality' in

Re: [MD] Descriptions of Quality

2012-07-10 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Ham and All, Essence and Existence. Which word conveys reality? Or is there an indefinable reality DQ, definable reality SQ as Pirsig suggests? DQ/SQ metaphysics of Quality Joe On 7/9/12 1:55 PM, Ham Priday hampd...@verizon.net wrote: If you don't like the word Essence, then by all

Re: [MD] pure experience (DQ)

2012-07-10 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi David and All, I guess DQ is also inconceivable along with indefinable? Joe On 7/9/12 12:41 PM, david buchanan dmbucha...@hotmail.com wrote: Joe said to DMB: I guess in my last post I didn't include all the caps, but I am curious. Am I being guided to a particular interpretation? Or

Re: [MD] Descriptions of Quality

2012-07-09 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Ham and All, I realize you like the word Essence. For me it is a meaningless word! I do not know how a meaningless word can be an ultimate object in terms of a subject. I thought the word creator preempted all source things. Joe On 7/9/12 10:01 AM, Ham Priday hampd...@verizon.net wrote:

Re: [MD] pure experience (DQ)

2012-07-09 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi DMB, Would you mind telling me your reaction to the words capitalized? Is there any hidden meaning? Joe On 7/9/12 11:47 AM, david buchanan dmbucha...@hotmail.com wrote: Quality is indivisible, undefinable and unknowable IN THE SENSE that there is a KNOWER AND A KNOWN, but a metaphysics

Re: [MD] Is Quality a monism?

2012-07-09 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Mark, Is MOQ only self-evaluation? Joe On 7/9/12 11:39 AM, 118 ununocti...@gmail.com wrote: Metaphysics is just tricks with words. Now you see it now you don't. It is a ghost of reason. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc.

Re: [MD] pure experience (DQ)

2012-07-09 Thread Joseph Maurer
Any INTELLECTUALLY CONCEIVED object is always in the past and therefore unreal. REALITY is always the MOMENT OF VISION BEFORE the intellectualization takes place. There is no other reality. This PRE-INTELLECTUAL REALITY is what Phædrus felt he had properly identified as Quality. Hi DMB, I guess

Re: [MD] Is Quality a monism?

2012-07-08 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Jan and All, At 79 skating on thin ice is not recommended. Moq is thin ice! Yet here I am. I can't guarantee that I will read a lot. I think of emotions as a level in evolution. Inorganic, Organic 1, reproduction when cell splits into two cells, Organic 2, when reproduction occurs from a

Re: [MD] Is Quality a monism?

2012-07-08 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi David and All, In evolution I place a higher emotional level DQ only lower than a higher intellectual level. A higher emotional level DQ only is higher than the normal intellectual level, and lower than the higher intellectual level, heroes! Joe On 7/7/12 12:43 PM, david buchanan

Re: [MD] Descriptions of Quality

2012-07-08 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Ham, Metaphysics is a level for discourse beyond mathematical physics. To accept ultimate reality metaphysically, is there an analogy to the experience of beyond-logical Faith in an indefinable category DQ like emotions? On 7/8/12 11:17 AM, Ham Priday hampd...@verizon.net wrote: Ultimate

Re: [MD] Is Quality a monism?

2012-07-07 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi DMB and All, Concepts are static and discontinuous. Reality is dynamic and flowing! For myself this describes SQ/DQ. There is an aspect of reality that is indefinable DQ. And I know the indefinable! How? Emotionally!. Does that make women who are closer to babies emotionally more in

Re: [MD] Is Quality a monism?

2012-07-06 Thread Joseph Maurer
instructions that is important. We learn how to drive through instructions. However, driving is much more than those instructions. They just help one get started. Cheers, Mark On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Joseph Maurer jh...@comcast.net wrote: Hi Mark and all, You state Quality

Re: [MD] Is Quality a monism?

2012-07-06 Thread Joseph Maurer
a few things to say about insanity and its relationship to the social level. Cheers, Mark On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Joseph Maurer jh...@comcast.net wrote: HI Marsha and All, I am trying to clarify for myself the conception of metaphysics as different from physics. Physics uses

Re: [MD] Is Quality a monism?

2012-07-05 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Mark and all, You state Quality is not for everyone who qualifies? Metaphysics formats physics, and I would say that gravity is for everyone on a planet, physics. Metaphysics accepts Dq/SQ replacing SOM. IMHO Quality as a metaphysical term is everything. Joe On 7/4/12 5:52 PM, 118

Re: [MD] Is Quality a monism?

2012-07-05 Thread Joseph Maurer
HI Marsha and All, I am trying to clarify for myself the conception of metaphysics as different from physics. Physics uses mathematics as its logic for describing truth. DQ is indefinable, outside of mathematical logic yet knowable by an individual. Metaphysics, physics are different

Re: [MD] Is Quality a monism?

2012-07-04 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Marsha and All, Can indefinable be a concept? DQ, accepted as indefinable, cannot be outside of perception. DQ/SQ metaphysics. I've got a secret! In MOQ I experience indefinable DQ and definable SQ. Indefinable reality, evolution, is metaphysically real. Stretch! Is evolution just

Re: [MD] Is Quality a monism?

2012-07-03 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Ant McWatt, Ham, and All, I am interested in Pirsig's thought process leading to a proposal of a metaphysics of knowing an indefinable DQ and Definable SQ. It can't be only by usage since we are discussing metaphysics as definition not physics as reality. Psychology is a branch of physics

Re: [MD] Is Quality a monism?

2012-07-01 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Ham and All, Decide! I don't know that free-will can stand the heat. Joe On 7/1/12 11:36 AM, Ham Priday hampd...@verizon.net wrote: Existence is the value agent's relational perspective of otherness -- the reality in whose Oneness there is no other. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo,

Re: [MD] Is Quality a monism?

2012-06-29 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Andre and All, Quite a diatribe! DQ is not SQ and SQ is not DQ. If DQ/SQ is the source of knowledge and DQ and SQ are not definable as different then metaphysics are not a different logical discipline from physics. Mathematics and its inability to describe evolution (one is not one) becomes

Re: [MD] dark night

2012-06-28 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Marsha, DQ from a long time ago. On 6/27/12 10:51 AM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: Hi Joe, It is a beautiful translation, isn't it? I thought the references to darkness made it particularly poignant. Marsha On Jun 27, 2012, at 12:12 PM, Joseph Maurer wrote

Re: [MD] dark night

2012-06-27 Thread Joseph Maurer
a translation by S. Mitchell) On Jun 26, 2012, at 2:58 PM, Joseph Maurer jh...@comcast.net wrote: Hi Marsha and All, Fundamental nature is a mouthful! Is it a definition for reality? I conceptualize logic as being unable to describe evolution in terms of SQ/DQ, defined/indefinable

Re: [MD] dark night

2012-06-26 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Marsha and All, Fundamental nature is a mouthful! Is it a definition for reality? I conceptualize logic as being unable to describe evolution in terms of SQ/DQ, defined/indefinable reality. Indefinable reality is individualized DQ and can only be described in analogical terms. The

Re: [MD] dark night

2012-06-25 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Marsha and All, How do we know all that exists? Pirsig describes the experience of reality as DQ/SQ, indefinable/definable reality. I conceptualize a manifestation of the differences in species, as evolution, a manifestation of levels in existence. Indefinable DQ is individual perception.

Re: [MD] dark night

2012-06-24 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Marsha Some things that I know yesterday (Passage of time) I question today! DQ(instantaneous)/SQ(delay)! Singularity/duality! DQ/SQ not DQ and SQ. There is duality in my experience. I do not create the metaphysics DQ/SQ as differing entities. I accepy duality in the existing intellect.

Re: [MD] dark night

2012-06-24 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Marsha, I did not realize that Pirsig is a heart surgeon. It helps! Joe On 6/23/12 1:01 PM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: From my open heart to your open heart, Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives:

Re: [MD] dark night

2012-06-24 Thread Joseph Maurer
, at 12:46 PM, Joseph Maurer jh...@comcast.net wrote: Hi Mark, Why use two words DQ/SQ when one will do? The freedom to make something up in metaphysics is judged by agreement to existence not by being a word smith. Joe On 6/23/12 10:21 AM, 118 ununocti...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [MD] dark night

2012-06-23 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Marsha and All, Words are of no help for discussing an indefinable reality, DQ. Pirsig declares DQ a metaphysical base along with SQ for rationalizing MOQ. What do I accept as real, without words? How about Love! Love is DQ! Love is an emotion. By this all men will know that you are my

Re: [MD] dark night

2012-06-23 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Mark, Why use two words DQ/SQ when one will do? The freedom to make something up in metaphysics is judged by agreement to existence not by being a word smith. Joe On 6/23/12 10:21 AM, 118 ununocti...@gmail.com wrote: Definitions are something we make up. They are real for us if we

Re: [MD] dark night

2012-06-22 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Mark Understanding without definition. Pirsig described a metaphysics DQ/SQ in which DQ is indefinable. I accept that DQ can be experienced and remain indefinable. Physics differs from metaphysics in a way that SQ differs from DQ. I even recall a phrase: Forgive them! They know not what

Re: [MD] dark night

2012-06-21 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Marsha, Metaphysics formats knowledge. How is it possible for DQ, a metaphysical term, to be unknowable? That would place it outside Metaphysics into a basket of Faith. Indivisible could be a characteristic of indefinable? For me to see reality as indivisible negates evolution, and I am

Re: [MD] dark night

2012-06-20 Thread Joseph Maurer
nothing to know and no one to know it. Marsha On Jun 19, 2012, at 2:38 PM, Joseph Maurer jh...@comcast.net wrote: Hi MarshaV and All, DQ is Dark Night. Seemingly nothing, since is declared to be indefinable! DQ is not nothing! Comforting emotion makes my hair stand on end like

Re: [MD] dark night

2012-06-19 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi MarshaV and All, DQ is Dark Night. Seemingly nothing, since is declared to be indefinable! DQ is not nothing! Comforting emotion makes my hair stand on end like a madman. I feel so terribly alone. The wonder of wonders is that DQ can stand alone begging SQ for boundaries. The response to

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