Hi Platt, Yes, we can call it anything we want. The point is to call it something that provides meaning and human understanding. For me Quality provides a human aspect to the metaphysics. It also provides purpose and justification. It is here where we must be careful.
I like your concept of enveloping nature. Existence fills in the void provided, in the same way species evolve into niches. That void could be called Quality. If this idea is carried further, then we could say that what exists is confined by Quality, in the same way water is confined to a glass, thus its shape. By further conjecture we could say that this boundary created by Quality is the mirror image of what there is, in the same way a mold creates a statue. If we are indeed meeting the bounds of Quality and its direction, then Quality is easy to imagine. It is simply the boundary of what is. However, this would require a duality between Quality and existence, similar to Ham ontology (I believe, please correct me here Ham). This boundary would be at every level, from the cosmic strings to the boundary of the universe. In this way Quality acts upon at the smallest levels. One could almost describe it as a parallel universe which is the exact mirror of what we are. Cheers, Mark On Nov 28, 2009, at 2:12:33 PM, [email protected] wrote: From: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MD] Freedom and the Good Date: November 28, 2009 2:12:33 PM PST To: [email protected] Hey Andre, Call it gravity, magnetism, force, expression, aura, love, luck, Yin/Yang, will, intention, urge, DQ -- whatever -- something else is going on that moved the universe from chaos to order to life and is still actively influencing events. About the only thing everyone agrees on is that it cannot be explained but is felt on the pulses, most profoundly in the presence of great art when one loses the separate self sense in a moment of sublime harmony with the infinite. I keep coming back to "beauty" as the most descriptive single word. But others have their favorites. Dynamic Quality is a good pointer but only if the context is familiar. Love bypasses some. But everyone knows beauty. Regards, Platt On 28 Nov 2009 at 19:13, Andre Broersen wrote: > Platt to Mark: > Quality can be described a number of ways depending on one's > perspective. "Force" is an historical perspective. "Expression" is a softer > version of "force" and implies an aesthetic aspect. My current favorite is > "aura" to suggests Quality's enveloping nature and creative possibilities. > Whatever. It's existence cannot be doubted, for every thought, every > statement, every move is an "expression" of value. > > Andre: > Hi PLatt, Mark. > We talked about this before Platt. I have sent John, Reanney's idea > about 'gravity' equated with love and I tried to explain to you the > Yin/ Yang thing. > > Would you call 'Love' a force? I'd put Yin/Yang in the same 'category'. > > As Pat Benatar (?) would say 'Love is a battlefield'.or Annie Lennox: > 'The miracle of Love'. Or Lennon: 'Love is all you need'. > > 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/
