[MD] until death do us part

[John Carl]

I have a simple answer for what the intellectual level can do - Teach!

We spend a lot of time in high school on many different subjects - almost
none on two of the most important and intertwined life skills -
child-rearing and marriage - that are the most central to human existence.

Intelligence and luck both have a lot to do with success in these
all-important endeavors, but I'm betting that education would help a lot.

Likewise, understanding the levels structure helps us make more rational
weighings of the wisdom of hooking up with a particular partner.

When I got married the first time, I hadn't read ZAMM or Lila yet and that
marriage was a disaster.  When I met Lu, I had a firm grasp of the MoQ and
that marriage has been a success.  Correlation or causation?

That's the tricky thing about empiricism, it gives us facts, but WE must
give the meaning.





On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 3:16 AM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:

>
> Greetings All,
>
> Thank you for responding.  It is good to hear of long-lived marriages that
> still have value.
> Maybe my question is in what can the intellectual level do to help the
> social level with a
> pattern such as marriage.  Possibly by intelligent individuals setting a
> good example?
> But that doesn't seem right.  Luck seems a better answer.  But, but but...
>
> When I consider the levels, I see their association with evolution as a
> practical enticement
> to the West to introduce/consider a monism based on Value to replace a
> dualism based
> on subjects and objects.  I cannot understand how the level structure
> actually helps make
> improvement other than hypothetically.  How can the level structure be
> anything but stepping
> stones to a Quality?
>
>
>





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