Hello fellow Mof'fers,
I'm glad to be back in 'MoQ-World' finally, to read all these uncommon, for many
people of the 'outer world' presumably even weird articles, yet for me bearing a
feeling of familiarity if not even a feeling of coming home. It may sound
exaggerated, but for me, it expresses, what I have come to realize at last. I
had many ideas, by the time I decided to withdraw, and now after I spend a
weekend to read your articles in MF as well as the ones from MD, I have even
more.
That brings me directly to the topic of the month:
> In order to bring a pragmatic element into the discussion, state how Lila has affected our
> lives from a personal perspective.
It has indeed affected my life in a rather literal sense!
The reason to withdraw - concerning active participation - was in fact, that MoQ
and my personal considerations about it, as well as many of your articles, was
about to take hold of me. There were many signs that showed me, that I was going
to recede more and more from friends, college-mate and my family. Useless to
remark, that I slowed down my studies.
I have never been and will never be a very communicative, let alone talkative
person, although I can have long and intensive discussions, in case there is an
interesting topic or meet an interesting person, but I have hard times to stand
the usual 'smalltalk' not to mention talks about prominent persons of public
life. But since I joined this discussion group, I spend sometimes whole days to
think about Pisigs work and other books to which it has been 'driving' me.
Yes I really mean 'driving', because the more time I spend on it, the more it
gained priority over almost any other activity; a sort of positive feedback.
Since ever, I had problems to control the amoumt of time, I spend on one
activity, which in effect leads me to a permanent 'up and down' concerning the
pursuit of my personal goals, but with MoQ, it is rather serious. Normally I
spend all my time and energy to pursue only ONE topic at a time, until I have
either reached it, or lost my interest on it - in most cases it is the latter -
but my thinking about MoQ (unfortunately) for the first time, does not lead me
to the second and - as you may imagine very well - not to the first either.
When I decided lately to spend again some time on MoQ, I expected my 'problem'
to have diminished to a 'reasonable' size. But not so! Between Thursday 9th and
today I've been writing down - or 'it' has been writing me (choose the one you
like :-) ) - roughly 50-60 pages (handwriting) and there is much more in my
mind. I have never before written down as much, let alone something, that is of
no special use. I wrote and wrote, and it was somehow like driving with a car
through a crowded city and all traffic lights showed GREEN; Go!Go! It was a sort
of quality event.
Some of it is weird stuff, but some of it, I think, is making a lot sense. I'm
going to post some of it soon, to let you - specialists for weird stuff - give
me your commment on it.
What I intended to outline is my observation (as far as this is possible ;-) ),
that all this is becoming, or has already become an integrative part of me. The
thinking about MoQ and related topics has changed my personal intellectual
structure of patterns, i.e. MoQ is not a subject, a Johannes Volmert is
operating upon, something he manipulates and spits out again, saying: "Oh,this
is rather interesting stuff, but now I have to return to 'serious things'
again", no I have changed those patterns(a sort of 'my personal MoQ') and they
have changed me. It looks, as if I'm sorry about that; no, it is just a
realization of my changing.
Many people, to whom I talk, react often impressed and amazed on my
considerations, when talking about politics, society or even natural sciences.
It is only because of those reflections - people are always more or less like
mirrors - that made me see those changes.
MoQ is also showing me the effect of 'intervaluation'. That is for me simply and
first of all the unspecified assumption, that 'everything' what happens has an
effect on the condition of the
'structure-of-your-personal-intellectual-patterns'. Many of them can be
neglected of course, but they all do in fact change you. We are allowed to
idealize the 'high-grade-intervaluations'- we call them 'functions'- which is
necessary for practical reasons, but if we consider 'everthing' as describable
in functions, we 'linearize' reality.
It is a reasonable thing to do with natural sciences, but to apply those
function on human beings, just like ourselves, is plainly wrong.
I think it's obvious, that a person, who looks at the world that way, is much
more aware of this changing effect on himself as well as on others, whatever he
does; he becomes modest.
Another thing, that I kicked out of my head (almost), is 'absoulte categories'!
That is 'absolute good' as well as 'absolute truth'. Not that I ever have been a
follower of it - I always saw this being not the 'right way' - but MoQ made it
clear to me, that these are practical 'static-intellectual-pattern' in
situations where fast decisions could have been necessary to survive or to solve
social conflicts in archaic time, but which are useless to pursue it as an end
in itself.
Lately I compared the 'absolute good' in a contribution to the discussion forum
of the german conservatives, CDU, with the speed of light. If I remember
correctly I stated,that to achieve 'absolute good' is very similar to the
attempt of reaching the speed of light. You are able to come near to it, but to
even 'almost' reach it, will cost you an 'almost' infinite amount of 'energy'.
There is some more, but I close for now, hopefully to return to later!
I hope this has not been too boring; thank you for reading,
with best wishes to all,
JoVo
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