Re: MD Pirsig an artist - MoQ & love

From: Scott R (jse885@spinn.net)
Date: Tue Jan 28 2003 - 03:07:29 GMT

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    John, Matt,

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Matthew Stone"
    Jphn said:> > Yeah, anything doing what is expected is loving.
    > > Water turning to steam
    > > when it is boiled is loving, a very faithful and
    > > unwaveringly strong love.
    > > If we expect a rock to fall on our foot, it is love
    > > that carries out our
    > > expectaion and actually makes the rock fall on your
    > > foot. (It's not
    > > "gravity", or "electromagnetism" - it is love)
    >

    [Matt said:]> I disagree. If love is synonymous with value, why use
    > the term love at all?

    [I opine:] Yes, love and quality are not synonymous, but the question is
    what drives things. There the answer can be either Love or Quality or any of
    several capitalized words, with the capitalization there to remind us that
    the Love/etc. that powers the universe is something other than lower-case
    love/etc., but related enough that it makes some sense to use the word. It
    is our inability to know this ultimate driver of things that requires us to
    use different capitalized words at different times, since no one of them
    suffices by itself.

    - Scott

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