On Thu, 15 Oct 1998 21:15:28 +0000 Diana McPartlin
<diana@hongkong.com> wrote:
> Jonathan B. Marder wrote:
>
> > PLATT
> > >> I suggest we challenge objectivists to prove to
> > >> the world why this is so. ["beautifully intuitive" is
> > the way to reality and truth]
>
>
> > DIANA
> > >Their answer is that it is a subjective thing and consequently cannot
> > be
> > >proven. It's the wrong answer, but that's their answer nonetheless.
>
>
> > Intuition is *not* subjective! Neither is it infallible. It is a Quality
> > tool and objectivists use it all the time. After verifying the result,
> > they replace the "intuition" with a reasoned justification (though the
> > "beauty" often remains).
>
> <sigh> Read what I wrote Jonathan.
>
> I give up.
>
> Diana
16th October 1998
Diana,
Don't give up!!!
Instead, why don't you try to reply to the last three LS
e-mails from Jonathan, Platt and Bo from your "romantic"
side (which we all know you have now from the Lantern
Festival)?
Best Regards,
Ant... I'm playing a CD I bought last week very loudly and
singing along, also loudly - it's great. Last night we went
to the lantern festival in the park, some people had big
old lanterns with real candles, others had new plasticy
ones - the old ones were better...
Earlier in the evening I bought a new suit...
These are Dynamic events, explained in SOM terms...
And then there's the dynamic quality of the brujo. That's a more long
term kind of thing. Like the MoQ Discussion group. I don't find it
wonderful all the time but I feel it's good because I get frustrated by
the SOM...
Oh god I'm being all romantic aren't I. Well DQ is only a stone's throw
from romantic quality...
In LILA most of what was romantic gets shifted into Dynamic but with
more power behind it. And there are a few news things in there - the
quality of the American Indian going on a vision quest; the quality of
the brujo campaigning for social change even though he himself doesn't
even know why he's doing it. Motorcycle maintenance becomes a process of
moving towards DQ (gumption) and away from static. The difference
becomes the difference between good maintenance and bad maintenance
rather than the difference between maintaining the bike and riding on
it.
The challenge for us is to show how these events which have previously
been discarded as subjective are actually the basis of reality - neither
subjective nor objective. If we continue to ignore them as subjective
(in spite of the examples given in LILA!) then we're just chasing our
tails in the SOM like everyone else. You have to forget about what
science is supposed to be about and look at your own
experience directly, yourself, honestly.
(Diana McPartlin, 6th October 1998)
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