[MD] theories of truth

[ARLO JAMES BENSINGER JR]

[DJH]
Both of those activities are mystically degenerate to the extent that they're intellectual.  The more intellectual they are - the more mystically degenerate. 

Generally speaking (with obvious exceptions) painting is less intellectual an activity than motorcycle repair and so motorcycle repair is more mystically degenerate.

[Arlo]
To clarify, you're saying that the only activity that is mystically 'degenerate' is intellectual activity? Eating/sex (biological activity), playing baseball/the legal system (social activity), painting (to the extent it is non-intellectual) are all non-degenerate? But motorcycle repair (to the extent that it is intellectual) IS a degenerate activity.

Two follow-ups (risking hitting my quota quickly): (1) how would you distinguish the painting the painting of, say, a landscape from the crafting of a metaphysics? what is the specific point(s) of degeneracy in one that is absent in the other? (2) if motorcycle repair is a mystically 'degenerate' activity, what does that mean in terms of how motorcycle repair should be approached? 

[DJH corrects himself]
Actually, they're mystically degenerate to the extent that they're static. Not just 'intellectual'.  The Code of Art isn't Intellectual vs DQ but DQ vs all levels..

[Arlo]
In this correction, wouldn't eating (or even, say, 'the body'), playing baseball and producing paintings to hang on walls all be as equally mystically degenerate as writing a metaphysics? This seems to say that everything apart from DQ is mystically degenerate? 

Also, "to the extent that they're static" confuses me? Are you suggesting that a metaphysical treatise is more static than a painting? Or in active terms, that crafting a metaphysical treatise is more static than painting a landscape? How so?