From: Scott R (jse885@spinn.net)
Date: Wed Jan 07 2004 - 03:01:53 GMT
David M,
> Scott [prev]:Instead it should be seen as the conscious arena of DQ/SQ
tension
> within
> the human being. After all, it is by means of the intellect that we
analyze,
> critique and *evaluate* all other static patterns, and thus create new
ones.
>
> DM: Hi Scott, I agree with your attack on idea of 'only abstract' but is
the
> above more than just a matter of the distinction between DQ active
> intelligence
> and the SQ products it creates?
I'm not sure what more or less it needs to be. The issue is whether one
considers oneself as only SQ or as DQ/SQ, and I am holding forth for the
latter. I am, in my creative intellectual moments, DQ, producing SQ. As is
everybody, of course. I don't need to stop thinking to experience DQ. I
experience it when I am thinking. But, since I, like most everybody, am
still an immature thinker, that DQ experience is awfully dim. Thinking needs
to be purified (through detachment), not transcended.
If one says that this DQ I am ascribing to myself is actually some other
"active intelligence", then I am an automaton that that active intelligence,
aka God, has cruelly given the illusion of being free. One can't prove that
isn't the case, but it doesn't feel like that, and thinking it is is as
impossible as solipsism.
- Scott
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