From: David MOREY (us@divadeus.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Sun Apr 04 2004 - 13:34:39 BST
Hi Glen -moved this out of discuss area.
Given what you say, did you have any
views on the genesis of DQ & SQ out of nothing?
Can an initial unity between them be explained?
Clearly they interact in some way in everything that
we describe as an event.
regards
David M
----- Original Message -----
From: "Glenn Bradford" <gmbradford19@yahoo.com>
To: <moq_focus@moq.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 8:15 PM
Subject: Re: MF Re: March 2004 - Metaphysics and the mystical reality.
> The difference between 'Quality' and 'Dynamic Quality'
> has been a perennial confusion within the MOQ. It is
> hard for me to understand how the term Quality can be
> sensibly understood as anything that exists apart from
> its use as a shorthand for the two types of quality -
> DQ and SQ - taken together. In other words, the idea
> that Quality is sliced up into DQ and SQ explains the
> kinds of Quality we have, not that DQ and SQ emanated
> from some well-spring of Quality; not that Quality is
> more primary than DQ and SQ; not that we have a
> trinity. DQ is the leading edge of experience and SQ
> is the creation left in its wake. That is all Pirsig's
> MOQ says there is.
>
> Pirsig is not always so careful about this in his
> writing, however, even if it be after chapter 9 or in
> his post-Lila letters, and often I find him using the
> term 'Quality' or 'quality' when he is clearly talking
> about Dynamic Quality and not static quality.
>
> Just as for other things that evade scientific
> understanding, mysticism is most assuredly lumped with
> DQ by the MOQ.
> Glenn
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