Hi Jos [SA mentioned] --
> That said, I'm increasingly convinced that "source" or "essence" > are better terms than DQ, as they attribute no particular > assumptions to "it" whatever it is. Hooray! I commend you for your understanding. I think what Mr. Perella fails to comprehend is the concept of transcendency. He regards the "source" of a river as the estuaries that feed it, or the "essence" of a pine tree as the seed from which it sprouts. This is an ontology based on the Aristotelian notion that everything has its own "essence". Yet, one would think his mystical leanings should have led him to an understanding of Oneness. He needs to contemplate on the "prime mover", the uncreated First Cause, instead of created "patterns". (So does everybody else, in my humble opinion.) The mystery of metaphysics is getting from unity to difference, and back again. Frankly, it puts chills in my spine. All knowledge, and all awareness of knowledge, is relational. Yet, except for the nihilists, most of us know (intuitively) that the primary source must be the end of relations. It must be "that which transcends all otherness." My thesis is the Value is what connects all finitude to the infinite source. Plain old experience is nothing more than being aware of Value as "things". Man is a valuistic creature who makes Value aware as Being. But Being (in the finite world) is devoid of cognizant awareness. Only value links them together. Therefore, being-aware is a dichotomy. By absorbing (realizing) Value, we incrementally "dissolve" the dichotomy and approach that mystical Oneness from which we are all separated at birth. Sure, that's "poetry", SA. But it's a poem founded on metaphysical reality. We're not going to confirm it through the methods of Science or the consensus of society. But as a personal credo, I'll stack it up against the the "patterns of Quality" any day. Submitted with "conviction". --Ham Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
