Re: LS Degenerate activity

From: Hettinger (hettingr@iglou.com)
Date: Tue Mar 30 1999 - 11:46:57 BST


rich pretti wrote:

> ....
>
> Quality is that which is Real.
> It's existence is the essence of what we name "Goodness", "Truth", and
> "Beauty".
> It is realized (discovered - experienced) Dynamically by humanity
> through Religion, Science and Art.
> It is consciously understood as static patterns of Value from our living
> "physical" and "mental" experience of Quality Events.
>
> It follows, I think, that a Metaphysics of Quality may be valuable
> studied and practised as a religion, a science and an art.

I want to add an area to the ones Rich has listed, one we HAVEN'T been
talking about. This is an area of Dynamic experience that we either don't
see because we take it for granted (an invisible social thing) or because it
is part of the experience of the past, but not so much the future. From
Thomas Carlyle:

Great Men
...Great Men, taken up in any way, are profitable company. We cannot look,
however imperfectly, upon a great man, without gaining something by him. He
is the living light-fountain, which it is good and pleasant to be near. The
light which enlightens, which has enlightened the darkness of the world; and
this is not a kindled lamp only, but rather as a natural luminary shining by
the gift of heaven; a flowing light-fountain, and say, native original
insight, of manhood and heroic nobleness; --in whose radiance all souls feel
it is well with them. On any terms whatsoever, you will not grudge to
wander in such neighborhood for a while.

Thomas Carlyle

I don't know whether you all have had this experience, but I have, and it's
a direct pipeline to DQ.

So, I guess we have this:
It is realized (discovered - experienced) Dynamically by humanity
through Religion, Science and Art and being around Great People.

Said blandly, it sounds somehow inferior, but the experience is not.

Maggie

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