'Don't stand there chattering to yourself like that,' Humpty Dumpty said, looking at her for the first time, 'but tell me your name and your business.' 'My NAME is Alice, but--' 'It's a stupid enough name!' Humpty Dumpty interrupted impatiently. 'What does it mean?' 'MUST a name mean something?' Alice asked doubtfully. 'Of course it must,' Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh: 'MY name means the shape I am--and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost.' 'Why do you sit out here all alone?' said Alice, not wishing to begin an argument. 'Why, because there's nobody with me!' cried Humpty Dumpty.
-through the looking glass Lewis Carrol ________________________________ From: Andre Broersen <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 1:27:45 PM Subject: Re: [MD] The Quality/MOQ dichotomy Willblake2 Yes Andre, I agree with you, I think. ?It is one system of thought trying to interpret another, like applying science to religion, when maybe the languages are not the same. ?I have a hard time interpreting a Russian, so he must be mistaken. ?I suppose that an agreed upon interpretation in required when we want to share experiences. ?Do you feel like I do about this? Andre: Hi Willblake2, well 'science' and 'religion' try to describe 'reality' from the same (given) data, with religion seeing a little more (or less) than science and vice versa. From a SOM point of view never the twain shall meet because their methods/ procedures of making sense of this reality is fundamentally different (logic/rationality/reason vs faith). IMO the MoQ goes a long way to integrating these seemingly, diametrically opposed schools of thought/ belief. What was required was a reinterpretation of the fundamental stuff of reality. No subjects, no objects, no God. Quality! So common, so simple, every child knows it. (see Lila pp158-161) And IMHO an 'agreed upon interpretation' is still a long way off. SOM being the biggest obstacle. In another sense your questions reminded me of something that happened last summer in a far off place in China. I was walking along a road with a T-split. On one side of the road there were some rocks and stones lying (about 1/4 on the road) and I kicked them off the road, thinking they had fallen off a truck and they could be dangerous for cars and cyclists. I was watched by three men. Anyway, having cleared the road I continued my walk and turned to look back after 100 yards or so. The three men were carefully putting the rocks and stones back on the road! Upon returning the men told me the rocks were there because the turn in the road was a dangerous one. The rocks were a warning sign! Since then, I have seen many of these 'signs' on the various roads travelled. Cheers. Andre 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/
