[MD] Intellectual Level

[MarshaV]

On Feb 15, 2011, at 10:49 PM, 118 wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 12:23 AM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:
> 
>>> [Mark]
>>> I think Mary's and Marsha's questions depict how we view Quality.
>>> 
>>> So, Marsha's question suggest a creation of quality in much the same
>>> way Ham sees Value.  That is, that quality is a human construct.
>> 
>> 
>> Marsha:
>> Despite the question, I do not think of quality as a human construct.  In the
>> MoQ Textbook it states that "‘Static quality’ refers to anything that can be
>> conceptualised..."  I don't, though, think, nor does it state, that a static pattern
>> of values is a concept.
>> 
>> 
> 
> [Mark]
> 
> Well perhaps your question belies your understanding of Quality.  I'm
> sure it was asked in the spur of the moment, and perhaps reflects your
> inner understanding.  As such, your apprehension of Quality, which you
> provide in your correction, is an intellectual construct still waiting
> to take hold.  Otherwise the question would not have been asked in the
> way it was.  There is a difference between intellectually
> understanding Quality, and knowing Quality.  The latter is part of an
> indoctrination which comes from traveling the path and paying
> attention to the signs; something which Pirsig has done.  The
> metaphysics of quality is more intellectual, and hard to impart to
> other aspects of life.  I am also guilty of an intellectual
> segregation of Quality, although I have improved since, say, ten years
> ago.
> 
> I have never understood your patterns of value.  But that is my fault
> more than anything.  I have tried to ask questions, but have come no
> closer to understanding what you mean.  So, I will not tread that path
> again.
> 
> Thanks for the correction.


Hi Mark,

Well perhaps my question will become any myth you choose it to be, 
but I remember writing the question and it was written with pure irony.  
Misplaced irony, but irony none-the-less.  I apologize.  It's was an 
attack of chiaroscuro.  I am painting the head of Buddha and having 
trouble with the reflected light on his nose.  

Here's a peace offering:  

	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw7J-r7Ea9M    


Thanks for accepting my correction.  


Marsha 
 
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