Re: [MD] Intellect's Symposium

2010-01-18 Thread Joseph Maurer
HI percepts DQ! Concepts SQ! Joe On 1/18/10 2:58 PM, Krimel kri...@krimel.com wrote: [Krimel] This problem of continuous and discontinuous is a major big deal. James handles it very well in Some Problems of Philosophy where he makes a distinction between perception which is continuous

Re: [MD] Philosophy of Logic for the esoterically minded

2010-01-15 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 1/12/10 11:40 AM, John Carl ridgecoy...@gmail.com channels Royce: snip Attention to this generalization of Kempe leads Royce to propose a 'working postulate of our process of comprehending things through our successive discrimination', namely 'Between any two there is a third' (Royce 1901

Re: [MD] Where does logic itself belong inside the MOQ?

2010-01-10 Thread Joseph Maurer
. Infinitely yours, Mary -Original Message- From: moq_discuss-boun...@lists.moqtalk.org [mailto:moq_discuss-boun...@lists.moqtalk.org] On Behalf Of Joseph Maurer Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 4:53 PM To: moq_disc...@moqtalk.org Subject: Re: [MD] Where does logic itself belong inside

Re: [MD] Intellectual and Social

2010-01-09 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 1/7/10 9:30 AM, Matt Kundert pirsigafflict...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Steve, Steve said about his idea: It comes from Wim. Remember him? Matt: Yes, I do: Wim Nusselder. We started writing here at just about the same time. I liked him. Steve said: I'm not sure that it makes

Re: [MD] Music and the Moq

2010-01-05 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 1/2/10 6:39 PM, Mary Clark marysonth...@gmail.com wrote: snip I have no idea how any of this relates to the MoQ, but you brought it up, after all, and I'm beginning to think that is DOES. Why do we see Quality in music constructed using the Western octave? Is this a learned response or a

Re: [MD] Where does logic itself belong inside the MOQ?

2010-01-05 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 1/1/10 11:48 PM, skut...@online.no skut...@online.no wrote: On Saturday 1 January 2010 11: 48 PM Bo writes: snip If you say what I believe you say, we agree. DQ will not become whatever I say it is. The known static sequence is mandatory, the intellectual level could not spring out of the

Re: [MD] Where does logic itself belong inside the MOQ?

2009-12-31 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 12/31/09 12:15 AM, skut...@online.no skut...@online.no wrote: snip Please no new levels!!! (the MOQ is no level to forestall comments) I've never placed logic ITSELF at the social level. The point is that Pirsig declared it an intellectual (nonS/O pattern) but if applying logic (in the

Re: [MD] Where does logic itself belong inside the MOQ?

2009-12-30 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 12/30/09 11:14 AM, skut...@online.no skut...@online.no wrote: snip Symbolizes ...? 2+2=4 written this way may look intellectual but dots or dashes, or pebbles is symbols all right and apes can do the latter (I'm told) and if so the intellectual level is moved down into the biological realm.

Re: [MD] Intellectual and Social

2009-12-26 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 12/26/09 12:25 PM, Matt Kundert pirsigafflict...@hotmail.com wrote: snip In fact, I think these narratives are extraordinarily important in defining what the hell we are talking about with the phrases social patterns and intellectual patterns. Because if you can't tell a Darwinian story about

Re: [MD] The Quality of Freedom

2009-12-21 Thread Joseph Maurer
Ham snip The patterns of Pirsig's defined SQ are precisely that -- defined phenomena. Indeed, the only undefined entity in existence is the knowing subject and his/her emotional (valuistic) sensibility. To express what Socrates called the unexamined self in a comprehensible fashion, we must

Re: [MD] The Quality of Freedom

2009-12-20 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 12/18/09 3:07 PM, Joseph Maurer jh...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Hi Ham and all, I am happy to participate in your frivolity. Hopefully it clears the air. I thought you were a serious thinker, but posting the above to a site discussing Pirsig¹s metaphysics DQ undefined/SQ defined, evoked

Re: [MD] The Quality of Freedom

2009-12-18 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 12/13/09 12:36 AM, Ham Priday hampd...@verizon.net wrote: I disagree that not everything [you] know is definable. Empirical knowledge is by definition definable. Hi Ham and all, I am happy to participate in your frivolity. Hopefully it clears the air. I thought you were a serious thinker,

Re: [MD] The Quality of Freedom

2009-12-18 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 12/15/09 8:27 PM, Ham Priday hampd...@verizon.net wrote: Hi Ham, I do appreciate your humor! Joe I was not aware that a logic could be derived from Pirsig's description of DQ/SQ. But, however you arrived at these conclusions, they are illogical. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo,

Re: [MD] The Quality of Freedom

2009-12-15 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 12/14/09 11:18 PM, Ham Priday hampd...@verizon.net wrote: What is manifested is the appearance of beingness that we call existence. What is Real is the source of this appearance. The source (or cause) is logically primary to the effect. Here is the logic as I see it: Mathematics (the ordered

Re: [MD] The Quality of Freedom

2009-12-14 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 12/10/09 11:31 PM, Ham Priday hampd...@verizon.net wrote: snip Ham Joe, maybe it's the late hour, but I have no idea what triggered all this cynicism, even if it's directed at me. I can accept criticism, but can't respond intelligently to this collage of unclarified assertions. Perhaps you

Re: [MD] The Quality of Freedom

2009-12-12 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 12/10/09 11:31 PM, Ham Priday hampd...@verizon.net wrote: I do not have to define existence because it is defined by experience. Hi Ham and all, And, of course, experience is defined by existence unless you are experiencing the non-existent, which I think is called fiction, and then you

Re: [MD] The Quality of Freedom

2009-12-10 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 12/7/09 9:55 PM, Ham Priday hampd...@verizon.net wrote: On Monday 07 December 2009 9:55 PM Ham writes: Ham Well, I'm sorry that my Idealism is more than you can deal with. But if your ontology is based on the premise that existence is prior to reality, I would suggest that you subscribe to

Re: [MD] The Quality of Freedom

2009-12-07 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 12/6/09 10:38 PM, Ham Priday hampd...@verizon.net wrote: On Sunday 06 December 2009 10:38 PM Ham wrote: I suspect you may be confused by my terminology. Reality in my vernacular connotes what REALLY (ultimately) IS. Existence is that which only appears to be, and 'existents' are the finite

Re: [MD] Is Quality Different from (Mother) Nature?

2009-12-03 Thread Joseph Maurer
, never dynamic logic. There are no analogues in defined mathematics and its use is more limited in a dialog about what is real.. Imho Joe On Tuesday, 12/01/09 1:56 PM, Joseph Maurer jh...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Hi Ham and all, As I try to make sense of your negation of essence for individuated

Re: [MD] Is Quality Different from (Mother) Nature?

2009-12-01 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 11/29/09 11:29 PM, Ham Priday hampd...@verizon.net wrote: snip For the record, Essence is immutable and indivisible. It does not evolve or branch out into pluralistic layers of quality, however you define them. No wonder you are confused! There are no essences. All of the above cited

Re: [MD] in defence of the relative

2009-12-01 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 11/29/09 10:55 PM, markhsmit markhs...@aol.com wrote: I was just pointing out another way of looking at things. If one assumes that there is no creation, no big bang, no creator, it puts a different spin on things. I don't think it is to unask the question, I think it's answering the

Re: [MD] Is Quality Different from (Mother) Nature?

2009-11-29 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 11/27/09 10:42 PM, Ham Priday hampd...@verizon.net wrote: Hi Ham and All, I was musing about DQ in levels of evolution as the root of morality. DQ gravity identifies the inorganic level. DQ instinctive procreation by cell splitting is the organic level. DQ instinctive procreation by the

Re: [MD] in defence of the relative

2009-11-29 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 11/28/09 8:25 PM, markhsmit markhs...@aol.com wrote: Hi Mark, If existence is perpetual How could we ever know that? I know unask the question. Does existence come in levels? I know unask the question. What is growing? Unask the question. Metaphysics becomes unask the question. What is

Re: [MD] in defence of the relative

2009-11-28 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 11/27/09 5:35 PM, John Carl ridgecoy...@gmail.com wrote: Pirsig subtitles Lila with ³An Inquiry into Morals². My take on that subtitle is that he expects a discussion to follow evolution as a foundation for morality. This is exactly backwards and a significant error, in my view (and

Re: [MD] Is Quality Different from (Mother) Nature?

2009-11-27 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 11/27/09 9:55 AM, Ham Priday hampd...@verizon.net wrote: snip Okay, let's use prime essence. I prefer it to quality which doesn't exist until it is realized and measured. What is Quality without an observer? Do you suppose the quality of the Mona Lisa exists on the canvas independently of

Re: [MD] in defence of the relative

2009-11-26 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 11/23/09 6:42 PM, Matt Kundert pirsigafflict...@hotmail.com wrote: snip If everything is experience, what could it possibly mean for something to be more empirical? How can we drive a metaphysical wedge between the experience of low quality associated with the hot stove and the hot stove

Re: [MD] MOQ and the Future: An Inquiry into Usefulness

2009-11-20 Thread Joseph Maurer
past each other. I had hoped my terminology was familiar to you since the logic in mathematics had been discussed. I was struck by the words primary contingencies of existence. Joe On Wednesday, 11/18/09 at 4:17 PM, Joseph Maurer wrote: Hi Ham and all, How are awareness/otherness

Re: [MD] MOQ and the Future: An Inquiry into Usefulness

2009-11-18 Thread Joseph Maurer
a difference? I can only conceptualize 1 and there is no change in my awareness of otherness. Joe On 11/17/09 6:56 PM, Joseph Maurer wrote: Hi Ham and all, In the face of undefined gravity it is not a huge leap of faith to analogize the experience of a rock falling, or atoms

Re: [MD] MOQ and the Future: An Inquiry into Usefulness

2009-11-17 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 11/16/09 10:58 PM, Ham Priday hampd...@verizon.net wrote: On Monday 16 November 2009 10:58 PM Ham writes: snip Pirsig had the opportunity to posit Quality as the primary source, thus affording a metaphysical foundation for his thesis. He chose Experience instead in deference to the

Re: [MD] Emotions

2009-11-10 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 11/9/09 5:57 PM, mark_maxw...@talktalk.net mark_maxw...@talktalk.net wrote: Andre: Emotions are a biological patterns of value. 'The MoQ sees emotions as a biological response to quality'...' (Lila's Child). They have been given social meaning and cultural (social and intellectual PoV's)

Re: [MD] Thus spoke Lila...

2009-11-09 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 11/9/09 1:24 AM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: snip 'I'm just asking questions,' the Captain said. 'Fuck your questions! I'm whatever your questions turn me into. You don't see that. It's your questions that make me who I am. If you think I'm an angel then that's what I am. If you think I'm

Re: [MD] a brief explanation of me

2009-11-07 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 11/7/09 12:29 PM, John Carl ridgecoy...@gmail.com wrote: snip b) I have an idea where I'm going and how I'm getting there, but none at all on where I end up. snip Hi John, At the age of 76 I have no idea where I¹m going nor how I¹m getting there, but a few indications on where I will end

Re: [MD] Emotions

2009-11-03 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 11/3/09 9:11 AM, John Carl ridgecoy...@gmail.com wrote: but it is emotions that provide the groundwork for selection based on social quality. Without emotions there could be no social status, celebrity, honor, etc., but emotions themselves are part of a mammal's biological response to its

Re: [MD] QRE: The 4th. level's two interpretations. Part 2

2009-11-01 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 11/1/09 1:10 PM, mark_maxw...@talktalk.net mark_maxw...@talktalk.net wrote: snip Squonk: Well, what you could do, and which you have not tried to do since our discussion began, is this: Explain in your own terms how it was possible for Cosmology, Geometry and Mathematics to have been used

Re: [MD] The 4th. level's two interpretations. Part 2

2009-10-31 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 10/31/09 11:44 AM, mark_maxw...@talktalk.net mark_maxw...@talktalk.net wrote: snip Squonk: I¹ve provided an example of an intellectual pattern that is not a subject or an object. Therefore, your statement here has been challenged: Either, 1. The intellectual level grew out of the social level

Re: [MD] The 4th. level's two interpretations. Part 2

2009-10-29 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 10/29/09 12:57 AM, Ian Glendinning ian.glendinn...@gmail.com wrote: snip I actually think you are onto something with one point here, but you miss the difficulties others are raising. Yes the social level also involve(d/s) patterns of subjects and objects - all that the step to the SOMist

Re: [MD] Some historical perspective

2009-10-27 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 10/24/09 10:17 AM, Matt Kundert pirsigafflict...@hotmail.com wrote: snip Historically speaking, if by subject Bo means a self-conscious thinker and by object he means a material thing, then Bo doesn't have a leg to stand on in saying the Intellect is S/O and that it began in Greece. snip Hi

Re: [MD] Intellect Worship

2009-10-23 Thread Joseph Maurer
your statement : ³Evolution as a paradigm:² I find myself in an idealist camp. I am confused! I do not know how to reconcile the two points of view from a metaphysical perspective except by an agreement to disagree. Joe On Oct 9, 2009, at 2:05:18 PM, Joseph Maurer jh...@sbcglobal.net wrote

Re: [MD] Marsha's (s)OL

2009-10-17 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 10/17/09 11:40 AM, Ham Priday hampd...@verizon.net wrote: snip The concept of negation is rooted in the precept that an absolute can only create an other by denying some aspect of itself. An analogy I use is that of the mountain-climber who has ascended to the summit and can only proceed by

Re: [MD] irony and socrates

2009-10-15 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 10/13/09 2:02 AM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: On Tuesday 13 October2009 2:02 AM Marsha writes to Bo: snip Patterned experience (sq or static patterns of value) is conceptually constructed, ever-changing, relative and interrelated. Unpatterned experience (DQ) is indivisible, undefinable and

Re: [MD] Problems with Intellectual control of Society

2009-10-12 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 10/11/09 6:47 AM, skut...@online.no skut...@online.no wrote: snip John said: My emotions are responses to social relations. That EMOTION is the social expression par excellence is for sure, as it is that biology's is SENSATION and intellect's is REASON (for rhyme's sake the inorganic

Re: [MD] Intellect Worship

2009-10-09 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 10/8/09 10:46 PM, markhsmit markhs...@aol.com wrote: snip It is quite easy to be bewitched by intellect, and succumb to its enchantment. If one uses the philosophy of Wittgenstein for language (or that for thought, by Kant), are these tools by which one can understand the laws of the

Re: [MD] Problems with Intellectual control of Society

2009-10-07 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 10/5/09 4:41 PM, Todd A. Carter tcar...@activelinkarts.com wrote: This appears to be what RMP walked away from in chapter 13 of Lila. I believe that this analysis will allow us to generalize from many specific examples and possibly shed some light on the levels and the morality between. My

Re: [MD] Problems with Intellectual control of Society

2009-10-07 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 10/6/09 8:18 AM, John Carl ridgecoy...@gmail.com wrote: Joe I disagree with your conclusion. There has to be a better way! What you see is what you get. John you can only get what you can see to grab, but what there is, is more than you can see. Hi John and All, Wysiwyg!

Re: [MD] Boromir's Journey

2009-09-24 Thread Joseph Maurer
writes to Joe: On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Joseph Maurer jh...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Hi Steve, and all, I was musing on Logos (word) is ergon (deed). I wasn't following that thread too closely, but I think that to say that a belief is a habit of action (as I would as a pragmatist

Re: [MD] Boromir's Journey

2009-09-22 Thread Joseph Maurer
as answering mine? Can you explain how? Best, Steve On Sep 21, 2009, at 4:38 PM, Joseph Maurer wrote: On Monday 21 September 2009 11.54 AM ³Steve Peterson² wrote: snip If belief is a habit of action, as the pragmatists say, is all action best described as some belief? Is faith

Re: [MD] Boromir's Journey

2009-09-21 Thread Joseph Maurer
On Monday 21 September 2009 11.54 AM ³Steve Peterson² wrote: snip If belief is a habit of action, as the pragmatists say, is all action best described as some belief? Is faith--the aspect of faith that does not concern factual belief--something that could benefit from a pragmatist's

Re: [MD] Logos is not ergon

2009-09-19 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hey Ron, On 9/19/09 3:03 PM, John Carl ridgecoy...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Joe, On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Joseph Maurer jh...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Hi John and all, You use words in a strange way. yeah Joe? I can definitely see how you would say that. There is no doubt

Re: [MD] Logos is not ergon

2009-09-18 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 9/18/09 11:46 AM, John Carl ridgecoy...@gmail.com wrote: A Sum much bigger than its parts - for it grows infinitely, and thus is not prone to mathematical enclosures. (Sorry Joe) John indulging in a quickie... Hi John and all, You use words in a strange way. Imho DQ remains undefined,

Re: [MD] Uncertainty

2009-09-16 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 9/15/09 10:39 PM, John Carl ridgecoy...@gmail.com wrote: I believe that the MoQ teaches that while Quality is undefinable as a concept, it is an apprehensible experience. In other words, Quality can only be defined in experience. This experience is all the precision needed for

Re: [MD] Uncertainty

2009-09-15 Thread Joseph Maurer
, Your words dance in my head like a song I can't quite understand but enjoy on levels of unconsciousness. So keep singing to me, but forgive me if I don't even try and harmonize. On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Joseph Maurer jh...@sbcglobal.net wrote: On 9/10/09 9:06 PM, John Carl

Re: [MD] Uncertainty

2009-09-11 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 9/10/09 9:06 PM, John Carl ridgecoy...@gmail.com wrote: I'm here for the words, sucking 'em in, spewing 'em out. Finding good ones and going Hey guys! I found some good ones! Like these! As it is said, Reality has no comparison, because there is nothing to which it may be likened; the

Re: [MD] Imaginings

2009-09-10 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 9/9/09 2:43 PM, platthol...@gmail.com platthol...@gmail.com wrote: It is easy to offend, not so easy to mend. On 9 Sep 2009 at 14:34, Joseph Maurer wrote: On 9/9/09 9:53 AM, platthol...@gmail.com platthol...@gmail.com wrote: Plasshole, your use of Obozo is offensive. Your use

Re: [MD] Sharing My Testimony

2009-09-10 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 9/10/09 8:57 AM, John Carl ridgecoy...@gmail.com wrote: snip And on that day I walked away from the religion into which I had been born. On that day, I was saved. Praise Good! snip Hi John and all, In a Catholic Seminary I studied Greek and Latin! After six years ³Naw, he¹s no

Re: [MD] Imaginings

2009-09-09 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 9/9/09 9:53 AM, platthol...@gmail.com platthol...@gmail.com wrote: Plasshole, your use of Obozo is offensive. Joe On 9 Sep 2009 at 12:21, Arlo Bensinger wrote: [Platt] Once again, Arlo fears truth. [Arlo] Fear it? I just posted it! (Included again below). As I said, Obozo's

Re: [MD] The relativity of the MoQ

2009-09-08 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 9/8/09 8:28 AM, Arlo Bensinger ajb...@psu.edu wrote: Hi Arlo, Marsha and all, snip Do I think that simply reading ZMM induces enlightenment? While I suppose it *can*, my guess is that its not so machinistically causal. In ZMM, he describes *his* path to enlightenment, and walking that

Re: [MD] concerning SOL??

2009-09-05 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 9/5/09 7:31 AM, X Acto xa...@rocketmail.com wrote: Bo: Paul Turner weren't able to reconciliate ZAM's moq and the MOQ and left. DMB also saw that his Jamesian travesty couldn't explain a single thing and left. That's the way it is, no one admits anything just leaves in hurt silence.

Re: [MD] concerning SOL??

2009-09-04 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 9/4/09 6:57 AM, Steve Peterson peterson.st...@gmail.com wrote: snip Bo: It was SOM (represented by his colleagues) that asked Phaedrus this question and the fact that they saw it as a dilemma shows that it was regarded unavoidable - Quality HAD to fit the S/O matrix - something that shows

Re: [MD] The relativity of the MoQ

2009-09-02 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 8/27/09 12:55 PM, X Acto xa...@rocketmail.com wrote: inorganic organic social intellect only in reference in the sustaining of the afore mentioned but not much else Hi Ron and all, DQ/SQ. Undefined/Defined. Imho: SOM! For thousands of years S hid behind an indefinable curtain: ³You

Re: [MD] Consciousness (explained?)

2009-08-23 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 8/22/09 11:06 AM, Ham Priday hampd...@verizon.net wrote: snip Pirsig postulates that the universal notion of reality is a Subject/Object paradigm, which is to say, a mind relating to matter. (He has called this universal notion SOM, despite the fact that it is neither metaphysics nor a

Re: [MD] Consciousness (explained?)

2009-08-21 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 8/21/09 10:59 AM, Ham Priday hampd...@verizon.net wrote: snip Phew to you, Bo! You claim that using metaphors to label the conflicting elements resolves the paradoxes. You deny subjectivity, objective reality, and a primary source, accepting at face value Pirsig's equivalency theory:

Re: [MD] Consciousness (explained?)

2009-08-20 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 8/20/09 9:33 AM, Ham Priday hampd...@verizon.net wrote: [Ham] Human consciousness simply doesn't have the capacity for unconditional awareness. The human being is a separate organic entity with a psyche or mind of its own. We exist as finite integers of what Essence is absolutely, value

Re: [MD] Consciousness (explained?)

2009-08-19 Thread Joseph Maurer
for an omnipotent leader at the social level as Bo has so eloquently described in regard to the madness of the Taliban in their appeal to Allah for their brutality. All imho. Joe On 8/17/09, 3:09 PM, Joseph Maurer wrote: Hi Ham and all, I have not the slightest idea how you put words together. Being

Re: [MD] Consciousness (explained?)

2009-08-16 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 8/14/09 9:39 PM, markhsmit markhs...@aol.com wrote: Where I get stuck is where does personal consciousness come in? At some point, it seems to me that this Consciousness gets divided up. This may be called an illusion by some, but it's one hell of an illusion! Cheers, Willblake2 Hi

Re: [MD] Philosophy and Philosophology

2009-08-14 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 8/14/09 12:01 PM, david buchanan dmbucha...@hotmail.com wrote: snip I'd also point out that the central mission in ZAMM is to expand rationality and that the MOQ's moral hierarchy of static patterns puts intellect at the top. I mean, the content of Pirsig's philosophy doesn't support

Re: [MD] Ironistic Metaphysics

2009-08-13 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 8/13/09 9:24 AM, Steve Peterson peterson.st...@gmail.com wrote: I don't understand the claims that metaphysics is unavoidable. Why must we call not seeing a way to privilege one metaphysical system above all other possible views itself a metaphysical view? Why not call this a

Re: [MD] Philosophy and Philosophology

2009-08-09 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 8/8/09 3:26 PM, Ham Priday hampd...@verizon.net wrote: Where is the despair in my description of the world of appearances? (That term is Hegel's, not mine, by the way.) Is it the fact that experience is constantly changing? Or is it that we can't have access to absolute truth? I know it's

Re: [MD] Philosophy and Philosophology

2009-08-08 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 8/8/09 12:01 PM, Ham Priday hampd...@verizon.net wrote: We live in a space/time world of appearances. The phenomena we experience are all the result of change and difference which frames the universe. The only truly static entity in reality is the uncreated source, and that we can only

Re: [MD] philosophy and education

2009-08-08 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 8/8/09 12:43 PM, John Carl ridgecoy...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, John! I feel better. Joe Gav, your friend Tess's reaction to sacred and powerful things presented in a classroom environment wherein a teacher expounds and murders to dissect reminded me powerfully of my own introduction

Re: [MD] The case for an Uncreated Source

2009-08-07 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 8/5/09 5:59 PM, markhsmit markhs...@aol.com wrote: Hi Joe, I agree that morality is a good way to use the concept of evolution. Now, do the laws of evolution shape morality, or is it the other way around? Does the river create the banks, or do the banks guide the river? Cheers,

Re: [MD] The case for an Uncreated Source

2009-08-07 Thread Joseph Maurer
, or is there an additional force beyond that which we now call Evolution?  Is Quality evolution, or is evolution Quality? Cheers, Willblake2 On Aug 6, 2009, at 3:16:20 PM, Joseph Maurer jh...@sbcglobal.net wrote: From: Joseph Maurer jh...@sbcglobal.net Subject:Re: [MD] The case for an Uncreated

Re: [MD] The case for an Uncreated Source

2009-08-06 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 8/4/09 11:27 PM, Ham Priday hampd...@verizon.net wrote: [Ham] Did you mean to say that the direction of evolution is morality? If that's what you meant, and it seems to be what Pirsig is saying, then you have a different concept of morality than I do. For me, morality requires human

Re: [MD] The case for an Uncreated Source

2009-08-04 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 8/3/09 10:31 PM, markhsmit markhs...@aol.com wrote: [Willblake2] The trouble with the evolutionary lens, is that it is one-sided. Evolution proposes growth through change (perhaps directional), on an unchanging backdrop. With our short lives this is imaginable since we do not

Re: [MD] Evolution

2009-08-03 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 8/2/09 10:28 PM, markhsmit markhs...@aol.com wrote: Hi John, I would say that reality goes way beyond what you know. I suppose that a small subset of reality is what you know. What about what I know, is that not real? Hi Willblake2 and all, And the plot thickens. Joe Hi John, I

Re: [MD] Evolution

2009-08-03 Thread Joseph Maurer
-Original Message- From: moq_discuss-boun...@lists.moqtalk.org [mailto:moq_discuss-boun...@lists.moqtalk.org] On Behalf Of Joseph Maurer Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 4:38 PM To: moq_disc...@moqtalk.org Subject: Re: [MD] Evolution On 7/20/09 1:26 PM, MarshaV val...@att.net

Re: [MD] Evolution

2009-08-01 Thread Joseph Maurer
is behind names, definitions and explanation.? Marsha -Original Message- From: moq_discuss-boun...@lists.moqtalk.org [mailto:moq_discuss-boun...@lists.moqtal k.org] On Behalf Of Joseph Maurer Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 4:38 PM To: moq_disc...@moqtalk.org Subject: Re: [MD

Re: [MD] (Fwd) Re: John Carl Critiques Pure Experience:INST01

2009-07-31 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 7/30/09 1:56 PM, John Carl ridgecoy...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Joseph Maurer jh...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Joe the Plumber? Actually, I've never met a humble plumber Joe, so you are unique Hi John and all, I am a humble plumber! Joe the Plumber? [Joe

Re: [MD] (Fwd) Re: John Carl Critiques Pure Experience:INST01

2009-07-30 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 7/30/09 11:07 AM, John Carl ridgecoy...@gmail.com wrote: Well one doesn't need to be ANY sort of Annie Oakley to take a potshot at that last statement. How the heck do you talk about keeping language out of philosophy? Talk about absurd. If you ask me, what we need around here, besides

Re: [MD] MOQ evolution

2009-07-29 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 7/28/09 1:42 PM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: Hi Marsha, I hope you do paint it, it was delightful. Joe -Original Message- From: moq_discuss-boun...@lists.moqtalk.org [mailto:moq_discuss-boun...@lists.moqtalk.org] On Behalf Of Joseph Maurer Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 3

Re: [MD] MOQ evolution

2009-07-29 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 7/29/09 6:18 AM, X Acto xa...@rocketmail.com wrote: Hi Ron, I hope the image of the little girl wanting to dance in Church lightened the notion that morality is based on evolution. Joe Hello Joe, Joe, I often do not know how to respond to your posts, they are often so dynamic

Re: [MD] MOQ evolution

2009-07-28 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 7/28 Joe quotes Bo and Ron: John (the raiser of a thousand issues per post ;) 24 July wrote: I am clearly making a distinction between images and words here, based upon the MoQ hierarchy of the social vs. the intellectual. Images are a form of social communication and words are

Re: [MD] Moq Evolution

2009-07-27 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 7/27/09 12:02 AM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: Greetings Joe, It seems to me that Evolution is a concern for how things got to be the way they are, and how they got to function the way that they do. Within MoQ Evolution do we just change the word 'things' to the word 'patterns'?

Re: [MD] Moq Evolution

2009-07-26 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 7/24/09 1:36 PM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: -Original Message- From: moq_discuss-boun...@lists.moqtalk.org [mailto:moq_discuss-boun...@lists.moqtalk.org] On Behalf Of Joseph Maurer Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 3:58 PM To: moq_disc...@moqtalk.org Subject: Re: [MD] Moq

Re: [MD] F*CK YOU, God!!!

2009-07-26 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 7/25/09 1:04 PM, John Carl ridgecoy...@gmail.com wrote: The Prince of this world cometh, and he hath nothing on me Jesus Hi Ron' I was reading Maurice Nicoll's PSYCHOLOGICAL COMMENTARIES: When I was a pupil of Dr. Jung in Zurich, he said one day:

Re: [MD] Moq Evolution

2009-07-26 Thread Joseph Maurer
is not very long. Marsha -Original Message- From: moq_discuss-boun...@lists.moqtalk.org [mailto:moq_discuss-boun...@lists.moqtalk.org] On Behalf Of Joseph Maurer Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2009 3:17 PM To: moq_disc...@moqtalk.org Subject: Re: [MD] Moq Evolution

Re: [MD] Moq Evolution

2009-07-24 Thread Joseph Maurer
and currents) but is absolute and immutable in itself because waves and currents are water too. Thanks Bo! Joe -Original Message- From: moq_discuss-boun...@lists.moqtalk.org [mailto:moq_discuss-boun...@lists.moqtalk.org] On Behalf Of Joseph Maurer Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 6:30 PM

Re: [MD] Empirical and Historical

2009-07-23 Thread Joseph Maurer
². Joe On 7/22/09 3:25 PM, Joseph Maurer wrote: Hi Ham, I am pursuing a thread on MOQ Evolution. Your statement: But the ultimate source of sensibility, value, change and difference is itself immutable is flat out contradicted by description of the evolution of QUALITY by Pirsig

Re: [MD] MOQ Evolution

2009-07-22 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 7/21/09 1:38 PM, Joseph Maurer jh...@sbcglobal.net wrote: On 7/20/09 1:26 PM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: [Marsha] Evolution is a high quality intellectual (scientific) static pattern of value concerned with the order of existence. [Marsha] Holy Moly, I'm from Michigan too

Re: [MD] Moq Evolution

2009-07-22 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 7/21/09 1:38 PM, Joseph Maurer jh...@sbcglobal.net wrote: [Marsha:] Evolution is a high quality intellectual (scientific) static pattern of value concerned with the order of existence. [Marsha:] Holy Moly, I'm from Michigan too. Small world. My favorite place was Irish Hills where my Oma

Re: [MD] Evolution

2009-07-22 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 7/21/09 2:04 PM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: [Marsha:] Evolution is a high quality intellectual (scientific) static pattern of value concerned with the order of existence. [Marsha:] Holy Moly, I'm from Michigan too. Small world. My favorite place was Irish Hills where my Oma lived on

Re: [MD] Empirical and Historical

2009-07-22 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 7/21/09 11:35 PM, Ham Priday hampd...@verizon.net wrote: Ham writes: [Ham] What we sense is Value. What we conceptualize (intellectually, after the fact) are the existentially defined phenomena that experience creates (valuistically). The defined dynamic properties of existential

Re: [MD] John's Reading of Absolute Idealism Confirmed by Bob

2009-07-22 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 7/22/09 12:38 PM, Louise Pryor bypryordes...@gmail.com wrote: [Lu] I seem to be getting into a lot of conversations lately with this sort of problem - people are so married to their own ideas about, or understanding of, God (whether they are for or against), that those ideas sort of become

Re: [MD] Moq Evolution

2009-07-22 Thread Joseph Maurer
guitar, and I always think you are talking about harmony and making beautiful music. Marsha [Joe] AW GI Joe -Original Message- From: moq_discuss-boun...@lists.moqtalk.org [mailto:moq_discuss-boun...@lists.moqtalk.org] On Behalf Of Joseph Maurer Sent: Wednesday

Re: [MD] Evolution

2009-07-21 Thread Joseph Maurer
: not this, not that. I love the Metaphysics of Quality, an inquiry into morals. Marsha -Original Message- From: moq_discuss-boun...@lists.moqtalk.org [mailto:moq_discuss-boun...@lists.moqtalk.org] On Behalf Of Joseph Maurer Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2009 5:29 PM

Re: [MD] Evolution

2009-07-20 Thread Joseph Maurer
the Metaphysics of Quality, an inquiry into morals. Marsha -Original Message- From: moq_discuss-boun...@lists.moqtalk.org [mailto:moq_discuss-boun...@lists.moqtalk.org] On Behalf Of Joseph Maurer Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2009 5:29 PM To: moq_disc...@moqtalk.org

Re: [MD] Evolution

2009-07-19 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 7/19/09 12:43 AM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: Hi Marsha and all, My thought as I typed ³Absolute² was that Pirsig tied morals to evolution. On my copy of Lila the subtitle is AN INQUIRY INTO MORALS. My sense is that for Pirsig evolution is not speculation, but the metaphysical

Re: [MD] Evolution

2009-07-18 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Marsha I don¹t want the denial or falseness of any truth to be true! I prefer the denial of absolute truth to be a limit to perception. I want to know as much as I can. Am I a star in the heavens? How silly! I accept that the truth that I know is limited to who I am. Maybe if I accept

Re: [MD] Evolution

2009-07-18 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 7/18/09 12:55 PM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: Hi Marsha and all. My story is chance. I studied in a Catholic Seminary, College and Monastery for 12 years. After 12 years of studying St Thomas Aquinas, I thought I knew Philosophy. I was married to Louise after Anna was born. We

Re: [MD] Empirical and Historical

2009-07-17 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 7/17/09 1:27 AM, skut...@online.no skut...@online.no wrote Hi Bo, I am a somewhat asleep hero-worshiper. When you stated that the Taliban abused the social level for their own machinations and that it was a very very wrong to do, I was impressed at the quality and depth or your

Re: [MD] my rant

2009-07-17 Thread Joseph Maurer
On 7/17/09 5:59 AM, X Acto xa...@rocketmail.com wrote: Hi Ron, I recognize the keep on truckin! I want to talk about evolution as in levels in existence. Are you interested? Joe Bo: Not until Robert Pirsig. I came across Zen and the Art .. in 1978 and it turned my tables. Phaedrus

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