[MD] Reading & Comprehension

[MarshaV]

Ian,

Because if you are talking about an individual, I think they must 
be ever-changing, interdependent, impermanent, inorganic, 
biological, social and intellectual patterns.  Yes?  Or did you 
mean something else?     


Marsha


On Apr 19, 2010, at 11:32 AM, MarshaV wrote:

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> Ian,
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> What do you mean by 'Eastern Mystic'?   
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> Marsha
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> On Apr 19, 2010, at 4:15 AM, Ian Glendinning wrote:
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>> Mary, DMB, Jon, et al
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>> Dave quoted Mary saying ...
>> "Much to my own surprise, I find that I am becoming daily more and
>> more in the Eastern mysticism camp".
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>> I've been round this loop myself. A traditional rationalist,
>> objectivist "engineer" who found the Eastern Mysticism a source of
>> embarassment initially - and lets face it there are some whacky
>> extremes to be embarrassed about. But once understood how the
>> mysticism fits the pragmatism, as Dave says, there is no reason to see
>> these as diametrically opposed approaches. (Jon, DMB will explain -
>> how long have you got ?)
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>> Mary also said
>> "IMHO the MoQ has much greater explanatory power when the Intellectual
>> Level is viewed as SOM than when it is not. ..."
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>> I actually agree with this (and I've tried many times to tell Bo I
>> agree with him too) so I ask you a question. If we limit the
>> intellectual level to this kind of intellect ... where in the
>> evolutionary levels of the MoQ does your Eastern Mystic view fit ?
>> (Let me guess, everywhere and nowhere at the same time ?)
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>> Ian
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