From: John Howard (john66@attbi.com)
Date: Tue Jan 28 2003 - 03:46:26 GMT
Scott,
Good point, I was trying not to capitalize Love because it it made it
obviously religious, like "God is Love" (God being another capitalized word
you allude to?) and I was trying to keep God out of it for the time being at
least.
Thanks for addressing my question of what drives things. Does Pirsig just
say Quality drives itself? If so, I think he is just avoiding the question,
or refusing to divide up Quality into a Trinity of Static Quality
(Son/Christ/Created Existence) Dynamic Quality (Holy Ghost) and the Quality
that drives things (Father/God/Love). He names the Quality Duo of Static
and Dynamic Quality, does he ever name the power that he just calls Quality
that is the force that drives things?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott R" <jse885@spinn.net>
To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 10:07 PM
Subject: Re: MD Pirsig an artist - MoQ & love
> 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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