> Bo said > I have tried in vain to get what Michael "thesis" is. MP: That could be because I haven't really got one. ;-) But if I had to ...
> Bo said > [MoQ] is neither a-theist nor anti-theist, it just encompasses everything. > Religions are static social patterns. > The "semitic" type religions that is. The Eastern Tradition has > transcended social (faith) and intellectual (skepticism) and > reached some Quality like insight. MP: ... I'd say its in there somewhere. Where you make the distinction of "Western" and "Eastern" you and many here here also automatically appear to make a like and respectively associated distinction of "Theistic" and "Non-theistic." But I know from personal (Eastern theistic) experience this is not an inherent or inextricable connection of West/Theistic or Eastern/Non-theistic, but only a historically and culturally coincidental one. Theism is not incapable of the same transcendence of social and intellectual on the personal esoteric level you rightly attribute to Eastern faiths; I and those who taught me and practice my particular faith are living proof. I am the first to admit its the rare case in Western (or even Eastern) theistic manifestations, but it is *not* impossible. It is in my opinion *culture* which drives / has driven this particular aspect of most theistic beliefs, rather than it having been a direct attribute of their theistic nature. Relating this then to the MoQ, it is my opinion, that while the MoQ is not theistic in nature, this is not to say that anti-theism is a quality direction in MoQ terms. MoQ, as a view of reality, is anti-theistic primarily in the sense that it explains *all* of reality (essential and mystical) in one common systemic language. It alleviates theism of being the primary experience in explaining the mystical. But that said it simply *does not follow* that this means theism cannot remain (and I dare say be cultivated to be) a force for high quality, or more so that its elimination would be somehow be a high quality direction for society or culture to value. 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/
