clark (clark@netsites.net)
Tue, 16 Dec 1997 07:11:58 +0100
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> From: Dave Thomas <dlt44@ipa.net>
> To: Multiple recipients of <lilasqd@mail.hkg.com>
> Subject: LS Re: Bodvar and God
> Date: Thursday, December 11, 1997 4:51 PM
>
> Ken,TLS
>
> > from time to time that serve to augment or alter our conception of the
> > human condition as we, individually, understand it at that moment by
way of
> > our Static Quality construct. We can even get input to our static
quality
> > construct from other people or from observation, or from other sources,
a
> > Juke Box in a bar for instance.
>
> This leads me to a point that always been a confusing for me and I have
> not
> been able to find anything that clearly points the way in Pirsig's
> writing.
>
> I have a static pattern which is me and you a likewise are static
> pattern. Now
> our static patterns interact though discourse such as this. Let's say
> that
> because of this both our static patterns change slightly. Is this a
> Quality
> Event? Is it a conversion of Dynamic to Static? Or is it just a transfer
> of
> static patterns? And if so where do we draw the line between a static
> quality
> event and a dynamic qualtiy event?
>
> Dave
>
>
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Dave,
It finally dawned on me that you were directing your question to me. I am
so accustomed to sitting back and riding the coattails of the other members
that I missed that.
Your question has brought me up short. Hipshooting can seem so clear
until one stops to think. I can only tell you what I think and invite
clarification or correction from the other members. Your question caused me
to re-evaluate.
If I understand Pirsig right, he doesn't make any provisions for anything
to gain admittance to our consciousness except by way of Dynamic Quality.
(not what I was saying above). It seems that our whole perception, our
whole understanding of whatever reality means to us at the moment, from the
bar jukebox to observation of the opposite sex going away, to the most
profound truth only has a path to our consciousness through the Dynamic
Quality. If Dynamic Quality is the shaper of our ongoing conception of
reality, the provider of the fodder that our levels of static quality has
to work with then this would seem to be the only view that would work.
Allowing input from alternative sources would shortcircuit the system and
contaminate our view of reality. This may change tomorrow but at the moment
it is the revealed truth. What do you and the other members think. As Doug
says, Many Truths to You. I like that, it gets me off the hook. Ken Clark
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