Hi Platt I knew you'd love this. Try this for something similar you'd love:
http://www.amazon.com/Eros-Good-Wisdom-According-Nature/dp/1591021480/ref=sr_1_1/103-6694776-2835044?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190661859&sr=1-1 DM ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2007 12:44 PM Subject: Re: [MD] subject/object: no quality? > Quoting Ham Priday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Well said, Ham. One for my keeper file. > > Best, > Platt > > >> > I think that which is prior to our experience is best left >> > undefined. To me, using the word 'primary' is saying too much. >> > The word 'purpose' seems very presumptuous. While unknowable, >> > within my frame of reference (constellation of overlapping, >> > interconnected, ever-changing static patterns of value) I find >> > events and relationships very interesting and exciting. Therefore, >> > I try to make the 'best' of these events and relationships. I live my >> > life. And I'm happy corresponding with you is a part of that life. >> >> Far be it for me to try to push a metaphysical hypothesis on you when you >> are obviously not ready for it. I'm glad that you find the ever-changing >> patterns of events and relationships exciting, and can understand why >> you're >> presently content to leave the "unknowable" undefined. Yet, there are >> many >> out there who are hungry for understanding beyond factual knowledge. >> These >> are the folks I'm trying to reach. A great many subsist on faith in >> religious doctrine, others seek the wisdom of the venerable philosophers >> or >> the spirituality of New Age mysticism, while some are convinced that >> scientific objectivism will eventually resolve all their questions. >> >> What troubles me is that our society, with the help of Hollywood and the >> media, has succumbed to emotional fads based on issues which have no >> logic >> or wisdom behind them. One of these fads is the belief that the desire >> for >> higher understanding is a relic of the past that "intellectual >> enlightenment" has overcome. Elitists like Richard Dawkins and >> Christopher >> Hitchens play on this ruse by trying to convince the vulnerable that >> religion is the root of all evil and that it's time we put spirituality >> behind us. They profit from the sale of books pitting Science against >> Religion, as if this were not a battle already played out in centuries >> past. >> Yet, they say nothing about the values that have been trashed by a >> culture >> which has made "having fun" the first priority, with little if any >> concern >> for fiscal, moral, or civil responsibility. >> >> In a small book titled "Roots of Freedom", John Danford wrote: "The >> hedonism >> of individual pleasure-seeking, the sense that there is no limit to what >> is >> permitted in the name of individual fulfillment or 'actualization', the >> disappearance of any sense of obligations-these are early warnings of a >> free >> society's decay." Unfortunately, he's right. I would venture to say >> that >> most citizens today are so accustomed to enjoying the latest >> technological >> gadgets and an affluent life style, they've come to believe that America >> is >> invulnerable. The sad truth is that they're in a state of denial about >> many >> "realities" confronting them, not the least of which is the threat of a >> barbarian culture fully committed to the destruction of their way of >> life. >> >> A retired chemistry professor, and friend of many years, told me recently >> he >> thought value is really only "what's important". I would turn his >> definition around and say that what's really important is value. In >> seven >> decades on this planet I have watched the values that made this nation >> great >> fall by the wayside to be replaced by the hubris of power, the deferment >> of >> individual responsibility, the mediocrity of multicultural >> egalitarianism, >> and the senseless rejection of metaphysical reality. >> >> By the time you reach my age, Marsha, I suspect you will be expressing >> some >> of the same observations. Hopefully by that time you will have sensed a >> need to revisit the concept of "primary source" and discover what is >> fundamental to your life-experience. > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------- > This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ > 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/ > 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/
