[MD] Reading & Comprehension

[Mary]

Squwibbling.

A new word.  It means squabbling and quibbling.

Hi John,

I was going to say I agree with you, then remembered the 5000 posts in a
thread somewhere where people are squwibbling over the meaning of truth.

So I guess I can't until that's worked out 'cause I want to know the truth
about it.

Can I have a cookie anyway?  I mean, just to hold me over until lunch.

Mary
> 
> Sorry Mary,
> 
> Ron said it was a good answer and I AM NOT GIVING BACK THE COOKIE.
> 
> Not to mention I already drank the chocolate milk.
> 
> What intellect values is Truth.  That's right.  I capitalized the "T".
> 
> Deal with it.
> 
> Idealistically yours,
> 
> John
> 
> 
> On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Mary <marysonthego at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi John,
> >
> > >
> > > Ok Mary, I'll give it a try.  Its a really good question, "what
> should
> > > our
> > > intellectual patterns value?"
> > >
> > > I don't have a ready answer, but I like the question and I've been
> > > pondering
> > > it so in a conversational way, I offer some tentative ideas:
> > >
> > > First, every level sustains and perpetuates itself, right?  Like
> > > inorganic
> > > rocks keep on being rocks which demonstrates they "value" beingness
> > > enough
> > > to keep their molecular matrixes all in order.  Like wise, living
> > > beings
> > > want to keep on living, and social patterns try to persist through
> > > generations.
> > >
> > > So also does knowing value more knowing.  We learn and
> conceptualize
> > > that we
> > > might have more powerful thought-patterns with which to know and
> > > conceptualize, infinitely.
> > >
> > > But the purpose of intellect, also stabilizes the so called "lower
> > > levels"
> > > as well.  Like Marsha and a lot of people these days want to keep
> bees,
> > > because bees are in trouble.
> > >
> > > Intellect attempts to embrace the all, and cares about everything
> in
> > > its
> > > view.  This is placing relative value upon everything it sees.  It
> is
> > > man's
> > > intellect that has evolved to its position, in order to think about
> > > everything else.
> > >
> > > Since that is what it does, that must be its purpose.
> >
> >
> > [Mary Replies]
> > What you describe is what the human intellect does, but what does the
> > Intellectual Level value?  A different question entirely.
> >
> > > > The question was, what does the Intellectual Level value, not
> what
> > > values
> > > > have made the Intellectual Level possible.
> > >
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