MD Intellectual patterns? huh?

From: Pi (pi@mideel.ath.cx)
Date: Sun Jul 13 2003 - 02:37:39 BST

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    I would like to apologize if this post sounds like 'preaching' and you don't like to be preached to. This post certianly does not apply to everyone in the forum. But if it does, treat it like a friendly advice. :)

    I have been reading the posts for a short while now but have noticed
    that a large number of people have trouble understanding what Pirsig
    meant by 'static intellectual patterns of quality'. And honestly, it
    is hard. Pirsig did not spend too much time explaining what he meant
    by it. I personally took about 2 years to completely draw a boundary
    around this thing called the intellectual pattern. Part of the whole
    problem of intellectualizing intellectual patterns is that when you
    try to draw a line around it, you have to draw a line around the line
    drawing process!

    A general word of advice. If you find yourself troubled with the
    various ideas presented by Pirsig and you know that you don't
    completely understand his divisions of static quality, persue
    them. Pirsig's purpose was not to mess up your understanding of the
    world. It was to clean it up and bring peace. I don't even know if
    Pirsig even had a purpose, but I certainly felt very peaceful after I
    understood what intellectual patterns are. That was the last piece of
    the puzzle for me. And it was a very important piece. After I got some idae
    of what it was, I re-read LILA just to absorb anything I
    previously missed.

    I hope sharing my experience helps you relate in some way. For those
    of you who are troubled by this philosophy, hang in there. That
    unsettling feeling is what one feels when those static patterns are
    broken. And that is a *good* thing. =)

    - Pi 

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"Science is like sex: Sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not 
the reason we are doing it." -- Richard Feynman
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