From: David MOREY (us@divadeus.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Thu Nov 06 2003 - 17:16:48 GMT
Hi
Seems to me you could link expectation to Tao and DQ.
It seems important to me to realise how are current experience
is very much effected and altered by what our expectations are about the
future.
Human being is entirely about being faced with choices and a host of
possibilities
that exist in the future. And clearly when we make a move, when we go
forward,
we step towards one future and condemn all the others to non-existence.
This seems to be central to what it is to be a finite human being. Also
it is this finitude that condemns us to a mortal existence in this world.
regards
David M
----- Original Message -----
From: "johnny moral" < >
To: < >
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 10:22 PM
Subject: Re: MD quality is ...?
> Hi Nathan,
>
> >David,
> >
> >Well, I just finished ZMM. I read the last paragraph this afternoon. So,
> >what is there to say. I'm not sure I liked it. There were parts that were
> >excellent and parts that were too turgid for my taste, but who am I to
say
> >what turgid is?
> >
> >I want to ask you whether you would say that 'soul' is another word for
> >what
> >ZMM calls Quality? And I am having trouble with 'expectation' as the
> >synonym. Could you perhaps elaborate?
> >
> >Nathan
>
> I'd love to hear David's take on Expectation, to see if this meme is
taking
> hold, but for now I'll defend the synonym myself:
>
> Think of what we want from quality products - we have certain expectations
> about them, if they are met, we call it a quality product. But we also
can
> expect bad things, like a broken down bicycle with rust and dirt all over
it
> we would expect not to work very well, so we actually feel sublime
> satisfaction, quality, when our expectation of it being a bad bicycle is
> met. If it worked very well, it would throw our universe out of order, it
> wouldn't be reasonable (though of course we'd investigate and find a
reason
> and then change our expectations.)
>
> I've also just posted a huge reply that covers lots of other stuff about
> expectation in a more general sense.
>
> Not sure about soul. How do you see it as being a synonym for Quality?
>
> Johnny
>
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