[MD] The Quality/MOQ meta-metaphysics

[MarshaV]

On Jun 29, 2010, at 11:38 AM, Arlo Bensinger wrote:

> [Marsha]
> Marsha processes all kinds of patterns.  She processes millions of patterns in a single day, some intellectual, some not.  I am not an intellectual;  I am not a single definition of anything.  I'm not even a grandmother.  Can you even consider what it is not to attach to such superficial self-identification.  I'm this.  I'm that.  What utter ridiculousness!
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> [Arlo]
> This is quite a tangent from my point, but...
> 
> If you are not attached to "superficial self-identification", why do you sign all your posts "Marsha"?


Convention.   


> 
> I'd never say you are "one thing" and forever trapped in that definition. Even as a "son" or "father", that role changes over the course of a lifetime. But to claim that you are totally free from being "this" or "that" is utter ridiculousness. When you daughter calls you, do you tell her "I don't have a daughter, and I am not a mother"?

I may mother (verb), but I'm not a mother.



> What would the point of that be? I am not sure if your mother is still with you, but if she is or when she was, did you tell her "you are not my mother because I am not a daughter"?

I may receive mothering or behave as a daughter, but I am neither mother nor daughter, and I realized if I use those labels they are used by convention in a temporary situation.   


> Do you tell your grandchildren you are not their grandmother because you are not this and not that? If they are not your grandchildren, why do you treat them differently than any other child that age you come across?

I don't have such conversations with my grandchildren, and I tend to like all little children.  I hope the one I am interacting with gets my attention.   Of your daughter was living in my home, I would hope I act towards her in a loving way.


> When you sign all your posts "Marsha", there is a stable pattern of identification, a desire to thread consistency through your posts, that is the pointer "Marsha".

Any consistency is imagined.  And I bet if you went through all my posts  you would find mostly inconsistency.  


> You are not an intellectual because you've been assigned that label, you are an intellectual because you enjoy the activity of philosophy, of thinking about metaphysical issues, of playing with patterns of thinking.

I do enjoy such mental activity, but I am not an intellectual.


> It is not more derogatory a label than "mother", which you affirm every time you nurture and console and teach and support and raise and advise and love and provide for your child. "Grandmother" is not an artificial trap of some kind, it is a testament to your activity.

These are short-lived activities.  I am not attached to them as a label.  I am not this and not that.  Scratching my nose is an activity.   Walking.  Reading.  Painting.  Cooking.  Peeing.  The list is endless.  Which are important enough to categorize me? Well I don't want that kind of importance.  I am as much non-intellectual as an intellectual, more even.  Do you remember the last scene in LILA?  I am swirling with the delight of not being anything.  -  Well, at least working towards it as best I can.   


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