[MD] Quality/Tao

[Dan Glover]

Hello everyone

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 7:20 AM,  <plattholden at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Platt:
> I guess if a flap of a
>> butterfly's wings can create a hurricane that destroys a city, a thought can
>> create its physical equivalent. But then again, how come I'm ain't rich?
>
> Dan:
> There's an old joke about the guy who keeps praying, "Oh God, please
> let me win the lottery." He does this over and over and over, day
> after day. Finally, there comes a booming voice from heaven: "Buy a
> ticket!"
>
> Do you really want to be rich? And if so, have you bought a ticket?
> What I mean to say is, have you paved the way to riches by taking
> specific steps in obtaining a specific goal? Or have you pissed and
> moaned the fact you haven't won the lottery while all the while
> refusing to play the game?
>
>
>>Platt:
>> Still, a concept not to be dismissed out of hand.
>
> Dan:
> Sure it is. Which is why it doesn't work for most people. They never
> buy a ticket. And then they holler, why ain't I rich? Gee. I wonder.
> ;)

>Platt:
>
> Hi Dan,
>
> If Idealism was true (subjects create the world) I would make a world in which
> I was twice as rich.

Dan:

Yeah, well, I already had you pegged as a greedy fuck. This confirms it.

Seriously though, no one is saying idealism is true. As you know, the
MOQ marries idealism to materialism by putting them into a framework
of Quality. Inorganic and biological patterns make up materialism
while social and intellectual patterns correspond to idealism.

Oh.

That's right.

You subscribe to Bodvar's SOL. You see yourself as a subject forever
apart and separate from the objects of your observation.

So you really have no idea what I'm talking about, do you?

Dan