[MD] Boromir's Journey

[peterson.steve]

Hi Marsha,

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:08 AM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:
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> Steve,
>
> Seems to me that 'hope' and 'faith' are static patterns of value, and so is
> that 'I' that possesses them.  "Personal investment" sounds like a noun, so
> too do 'belief' and 'things'.  Can intellectualizing do anything but slice
> and dice self and objects?

Steve:
"Hope," "faith," and "I" are indeed all intellectual patterns of
value. "Intellectualizing" is taking existing static intellectual
patterns of value and trying to create new better ones. It is a part
of life. It is participation in the migration of static patterns
toward dynamic quality. So is dancing naked in the forest, picking up
bar ladies, and creating a new metaphysics. There is no way to avoid
participation in this process. "It's just a ride," but there is no
getting off. The only question is, will you go willingly? In other
words, can you look at the world with faith, with "the courage to be,"
and say, "thus I willed it?"

You seem to have an aversion to "intellectualizing" as if it were a
more static activity than, say, the pattern of dancing naked in the
forest? Intellectual patterns are aesthetic creations just as forest
jigs are. Everything is. What else could they be?

Best,
Steve