-----Original Message----- From: Arlo Bensinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 11:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [MD] The SOM/MOQ discrepancy.
[Platt to Ham] Here I see value (Quality) at the very root of your philosophy -- an Essence that created the world because it wanted to be appreciated... [Arlo] Exodus 20:5 "You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God..." I'd say any "Essence" that's so needy that it needed to create "the world" just so its creations will "appreciate it" (perceive its magnificence!?) is a poor "Essence" indeed. But hey, if you need something to worship, I suppose anything will do... So let me ask... in your views (the need-to-be appreciated Essigod, or the MOQ-based Qualigod), did the "intent to produce man" precede man's existence? That is, in both of your metaphysics, was their a "plan" to make man long before the cosmos appeared? [Krimel] There's that but I would add: what are we to make of this statement: "Thus, Essence actualizes difference as the appearance of otherness to an autonomous agent." What is an "autonomous agent"? 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/
