[MD] Intellectual Discussion and Dialectic - Finding agreement, Quality and beauty in the world.

[Marsha]

dmb,

On Apr 27, 2013, at 12:44 PM, david buchanan <dmbuchanan at hotmail.com> wrote:

> You know, words are cages, kill all intellectual patterns, metaphysics is inherently immoral, etc., etc..

Your complaints that these thoughts make me an anti-intellectual is ridiculous.  These are phrases that you've isolated from RMP quotes. 


"... The definition is a cage...  You set limits on what a word is.  You set limits on what your experience is.  And those limits, which you set in order that you can manipulate these words, are also a cage for that word.  It can't go beyond it one way or another."

   ('The MOQ at Oxford', Part 4: The Church of Reason)
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While sustaining biological and social patterns 
Kill all intellectual patterns. 
Kill them completely 
And then follow Dynamic Quality 
And morality will be served. 
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"When Phaedrus first went to India he'd wondered why, if this passage of enlightenment into pure Dynamic Quality was such a universal reality, did it only occur in certain parts of the world and not others? At the time he'd thought this was proof that the whole thing was just Oriental religious baloney, the equivalent of a magic land called 'heaven' that Westerners go to if they are good and get a ticket from the priests. Now he saw that enlightenment is distributed in all parts of the world just as the color yellow is distributed in all parts of the world, but some cultures accept it and others screen out recognition of it."

          (LILA, Chapter 32)
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RMP:
"Strictly speaking, the creation of any metaphysics is an immoral act since it's a lower form of evolution, intellect, trying to devour a higher mystic one. The same thing that's wrong with philosophology when it tries to control and devour philosophy is wrong with metaphysics when it tries to devour the world intellectually. It attempts to capture the Dynamic within a static pattern. But it never does. You never get it right. So why try? 

"It's like trying to construct a perfect unassailable chess game. No matter how smart you are you're never going to play a game that is 'right' for all people at all times, everywhere. Answers to ten questions led to a hundred more and answers to those led to a thousand more. Not only would he never get it right; the longer he worked on it the wronger it would probably get."

(RMP, 'LILA', Chapter 32)

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Marsha