[MD] Thus spoke Lila

[rapsncows at fastmail.fm]

Mark, Dave,

[Mark]
> Hi Dave,
> 
> What you present below is good for the beginner in Quality.

[Tim]
hmmmm, maybe I am still just a beginner then... though I thought I had
progressed - at least to intermediate!  Anyway, Dave, thanks for the
efforts, I think that I found your collection of extractions timely and
deepeningly-insightful - I don't know a proper word, but I think it will
certainly add to my re-reading experience when I do go back and re-read
these books again.  This is not to look past what they did now though.


 
> [Mark] In this forum, the word mystical is put in place of
> spiritual, as if it means something different.  We have a spiritual
> connection, which is kept at arms length in this forum by stating it
> is mystical and therefore somehow special.  Like one has to go into a
> trance of something.  This is complete nonsense!  This whole thing is
> a mystical experience, intellect and all.

[Tim]
This I liked a lot though, Mark.  There is nothing more spiritual for me
than the mere act of finding the word I was looking for.  Or a clear
sentence to replace a jumble of thoughts that wasn't coming out right. 
Etc & etc too.


>[Mark] Pirsig seems to think that our intellect has somehow changed since the
> caveman.  I do not think that such an assumption is necessary.

[Tim]
I agree with your conclusion about the assumption, but, to be sure, I
didn't get that Pirsig had ever made it.  I figured he would have said
something like our trains, and our mythos I guess, are just further down
the track, but it is still track and trains, and terra incognita off to
the sides.  (and of course the static patterns would be different.)


again, nice efforts Dave, thanks,
and thank you too Mark,
Tim
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