On Dec 26, 2009, at 5:37 PM, John Carl wrote: > Seasoned Greetings Marsha. > > > Unpatterned experience is Marsha's pet only that it is available to >> experience, >> and makes clearer the nature of patterned experience. > > > This is akin to Royce's early use of the Absolute as a postulate - because > it makes the rest clearer. And that's ok. Postulates are fine, for a > while. But since metaphysics wants to investigate what is real, > metaphysicians like real food for thought, not postulated food for thought. > Postulated food gives us gas.
Marsha: Experience, not postulate. >> Patterned experience >> is Marsha's pet. That should at least be obvious after so many years on >> this >> list. Hallelujah! But I still can get confused between John, the real >> and John, >> the story. >> >> > Oh lord, you said a mouthful there! I'm finding myself more and more in > much the same quandry. If I could just stick with two socialized entities, > the MoQ and my life, I'd be fine. But interfacing with the rest of the > people in the world can be so difficult. How to explain to them about DQ > and how it seems to be eating my life? Marsha: Is this a problem? >> I confess I do not know when any of you would need to make a calculated >> decision based on the levels, other than hypothetically. Bruce's example, >> with breast cancer, seemed so much nonsense. What is far more important >> from my point-of-view is knowing the nature of ALL patterns. That's where >> the freedom lies, imho, a freedom that leads easily to doing good. >> > > > Doing good starts with knowing good. How can you know what is good when > it's all relative? Marsha: Relative does not mean equal. Oh what was it that Socrates said about recognizing goodness... Oh yes, "And what is good, Phædrus, And what is not good... Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?" Marsha _______________________________________________________________________ Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars... 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/
