Michael, And this may be the naivety of the approach, "better-ness" is tendency toward static patterns, ones which promote existence. Better-ness is be-ing.
MoQ may help one to understand how social quality, intellectual quality biological quality inter-relate and how they depend on one another and how that dependancy dictates the concept of "better-ness" and what it means. I feel that to use MoQ as a method of making ultimate value distinctions is missing the most important message it holds for an individual that Quality is the experience of be-ing. The temptation to use it as a method of ascertaining types of "truths" tends to draw one away from the focus on individual expereince being prime. You may disagree, but this is how I feel about it. -Ron ________________________________ From: Michael Poloukhine <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2009 1:24:17 PM Subject: Re: [MD] Morality, Abortion and the MoQ > Ron wrote > You touch on a very important point, in MoQ, the term morality takes > on a different meaning, it's not a guide > to distinguish right from wrong or even the common understanding of > betterness, but the understanding > of tendancies toward certain types static patterns and their > relationships. MP: I take issue with that statement, Ron. I don't think it is accurate to MoQ. Quality implies what humans perceive as "better" over "worse." Without that distinction, Quality is meaningless. Pirsig goes into great detail to show this in ZMM. These "certain types" of patterns toward which things tend in Quality experience are "better" than the one from which they tend. MP ---- "Don't believe everything you think." 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/
