Re: LS PROGRAM: MOQ and Self

From: David L Thomas (dlt44@ipa.net)
Date: Sat Jul 24 1999 - 15:25:36 BST


LS

I started this Self-ish month with a dictionary definition:

> Self:the identity, character, or essential QUALITIES of any person.

which to my mind is essentially the same as:

"You're a sort of culture, a culture of one. A culture is an evolved static
pattern of quality capable of dynamic change. That's what you are. That's
the best definition of you that's ever been invented." [RMP]

Now if this "static pattern quality" that is you has evolved the intellect
capable of recognizing and sorting out the logic of-

"...the intellectual pattern that says there is an external world of things
out there which are independent of intellectual patterns. That is one of the
highest quality intellectual patterns there is. And in this highest quality
intellectual pattern, external objects appear historically before intellectual
patterns, not after, as is commonly presumed by the materialists." [RMP]

then surely that "YOU' must be capable of developing the corresponding high
quality intellectual pattern that is YOU or SELF.

Soulfully-

"There is Lila, this single private person [Self] who slept beside him
[another Self] now, who was born and now lived and tossed in her dreams and
will soon enough die and then there is someone else-call here lila-who is
immortal, who inhabits Lila for a while and then moves on." P6 Bantam Hardback

> Soul: an entity which is regarded as being the IMMORTAL or spiritual part of a
> person and, through no physical or spirtual reality, is credited with the
> functions of thinking and willing, and hence determining all behavior.

"The sleeping Lila he had just met tonight. But the waking Lila,who never
sleeps,had been watching him and he had been watching her for a long time." P6
Bantam Hardback

Does the immortal, spiritual soul of the MoQ never sleep or is it that-

"Persons who know ..history .. will recognize the sweet smell of phlogistion
here and the warm glow of the luminiferous ether, two other..entities which
were arrived at deductively and which have never showed up under the
microscope or anywhere else?" p101 Bantam Hardback

Hey, but there no doubt that "The Soul" is a static social/intellectual
pattern, luminiferous ether and all.

Dave

MOQ.org - http://www.moq.org



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