[MD] Science Wars

[MarshaV]

Greetings

OMG, there it is, TiTs or tits, it's the same thing, man's desire for 
security and certainty.

I watched the Joseph Campbell 'Mythos' last week, and frankly I just 
wanted to slap him sillyl!!!


Marsha



At 06:42 PM 4/29/2009, you wrote:
>Sounds like our society will soon be more than a meaningless body of 
>men gathered together for no good purpose.
>
>--- On Wed, 4/29/09, MarshaV <marshalz at charter.net> wrote:
>
>From: MarshaV <marshalz at charter.net>
>Subject: Re: [MD] Science Wars
>To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
>Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2009, 9:34 PM
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>Platt,
>
>That's easy.  It is Spring and Arlo is beautiful.
>
>
>Marsha
>
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>At 05:16 PM 4/29/2009, you wrote:
> >I wonder what Arlo's purpose was in writing this post?
> >
> >On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Arlo Bensinger <ajb102 at psu.edu> wrote:
> >
> > > [Andre]
> > > Something like that or is this too simple a representation?
> > >
> > > [Arlo]
> > > Yeah, I think that captures it. "Intellectual patterns" remove 
> us from the
> > > DQ moment of NOW! but they also afford us great power in controlling the
> > > flow of the future. "Purpose" is one such pattern, that 
> attempts to derive
> > > "power-to-act" in the future by encoding the past in a certain 
> way. As such
> > > it can be a great motivator, and can inspire people to do great 
> things. But
> > > it can also inspire great evil. Dharma, the point of Quality, is
> > in the NOW!
> > > and as such approaching it requires the abandonment of all intellectual
> > > patterns (which, of course, includes "purpose"). Like "the 
> self", "purpose"
> > > is a nice illusion that should be held when useful but only lightly and
> > > always with the understanding that it is a metaphor, a tool, a device,
> > > nothing more. When "purpose" becomes seen as more than this, when
> > it becomes
> > > a "reality" outside human intellectual constructions, then one is back in
> > > that S/O land the MOQ tries to overcome (not to mention in a dead,
> > > mechanistic cosmos where we are naught but marionnettes 
> enacting some god's
> > > whims).
> > >
> > > And let's be honest. Apart from appealing to the human affective need to
> > > feel special, "Purpose" is nearly always a control word. As such, I
> > > personally find it better to avoid the concept altogether. Its limiting,
> > > stagnating, manipulative and pandering. Beer will almost always make you
> > > feel the same way as "purpose" does, but without the haughty 
> narcissism and
> > > philosophical inanity of "purpose".
> > >
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