From: Wim Nusselder (wim.nusselder@antenna.nl)
Date: Sat Nov 30 2002 - 22:14:16 GMT
Dear Sam,
Ascribing Aquinas' possible DQ experience (if you really think that's what
he described) to the Eucharist ritual, would be the same as ascribing the DQ
experience of the man recovering from a hearth attack (described by Pirsig
in chapter 9 of 'Lila') to the hand at which he 'begins to gaze ... with a
sense of wonder and delight'. If it is the ritual that created the DQ
experience for Aquinas, why didn't it do so the countless times he
participated in it before?
With friendly greetings,
Wim
> It was December 6, 1273, and it happened when Aquinas was celebrating the
> Eucharist. His precise words: "I cannot do any more. Everything I have
> written seems to me as straw in comparison with what I have seen."
>
> I was thinking of Wim's comment:
> "Seriously, I simply don't understand how such a ritual can provide
anything
> dynamic. It can only latch past DQ experiences and communicate those (now
> static) patterns of values to followers. Are you sure those 'Quality
> moments' are DQ moments? Couldn't they just be sq moments? Also valuable,
of
> course, but not what I seek in religion."
>
> Sam
> www.elizaphanian.v-2-1.net/home.html
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