KO,
Yes he is a scientist. I never totally dis'd or dismissed
science. I like science. I just believe science, even evolution,
can be challenged. There is nothing absolute about the current
scientific points-of-view, and I resent the lack of humility.
Marsha
At 11:02 AM 4/14/2009, you wrote:
And Mr Lovelock is a scientist.
-KO
2009/4/14 MarshaV <[email protected]>
>
> Platt,
>
> Betterness from the point-of-view of 'this world' as compared to the
> betterness of DQ's total freedom? Is this the betterness
missing? Well you
> may be correct. There doesn't seem to be any consideration for
stability in
> most of the scientific drive for economic progress. I like better James
> Lovelock's Gaia point-of-view, which says that in the end Earth
will survive
> as it is a self-correcting system. Mr. Lovelock is also optimistic in
> thinking that there will be humans that survive too. And the Gaia
> hypothesis seems more like the MOQ interrelationship between static and
> dynamic forces.
>
>
> Marsha
>
>
>
>
> At 10:21 AM 4/14/2009, you wrote:
>
>> Marsha,
>>
>> "But static patterns, nevertheless, provide a necessary stabilizing force
>> to protect Dynamic progress from degeneration. Although Dynamic Quality,
>> the Quality of freedom, creates this world in which we live, these
>> patterns
>> of static quality, the quality of order, preserve our world. Neither
>> static
>> nor Dynamic Quality can survive without the other." (Lila, 9)
>>
>> Does this passage answer your question?
>>
>> Platt
>>
>>
>> > Platt,
>> >
>> > Does RMP specifically use the word 'progress'? Is freedom always
>> > progress? From what point-of-view?
>> >
>> >
>> > Marsha
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > At 09:11 AM 4/14/2009, you wrote:
>> > >Hi Marsha, KO, DMB, et al:
>> > >
>> > >The big thing missing from current evolution theories and applications
>> > is
>> > >any notion of things getting better or, as we MOQer's believe, progress
>> > >towards greater freedom and versatility. It has always bothered me that
>> > >precious little attention is paid to ever expanding consciousness over
>> > time
>> > >from the first little wiggle of life to the worldly mind of a Mozart or
>> > an
>> > >Einstein. In other words, science, totally dependent on measurable
>> > surface
>> > >data, has largely been unable to deal with the steady evolutionary
>> > >expansion of interior awareness, the real indicator of Dynamic
>> > progress,
>> > >"Are you better off as a woman than a mouse?" The MOQ answer: "You
>> > betcha."
>> > >That's progress!
>> > >
>> > >Platt
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