On 30 Dec 2009 at 22:41, Dan Glover wrote: > I've been thinking in terms of value for some years now. There are no > subjects and objects. They're only a convenient fiction, something > we're taught to believe our whole life. This teaching runs very > deep... just look at the energy Bo has expended over the years > perpetuating that belief through his every post. > > Thinking in terms of subjects and objects is like believing in Santa > Claus. It's true that Santa Claus exists. No one can deny it. And it's > the same with subjects and objects. They exist. Yet, like Santa Claus, > they exist as a convenient fiction. Believe in them if you will... it > does no harm. Arguing about subjects and objects is like arguing over > the number of points on Santa's reindeer's antlers. > > There are no objects, no things, in the world we call reality... there > are no subjects, no individuals; there is no community; there is > nothing of permanence. The world is composed of value... patterns of > value... all the way down. > > This is very profound. > > The world is an idea. And as such, we shape the world just by > thinking. Go ahead. Try it. Believe as most people do that the world > is composed of subjects and objects. Rail against the inequity. > Despise the corporations. The world is monolithic, imposing, > constructed of objects that are hard and unmoving. > > Try believing now that the world is composed of value. The world is an > idea. It is like plastic... as soft and as pliable as your thoughts... > take it and mold it any way you want. All you have to do is believe - > it will happen without effort, without even trying. As the doors of > subjects and objects disappear, opportunities will present themselves > unasked for. The world will bend to your will. > > What do you think?
"You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice. It will roll in ecstasy at your feet." -- Kafka 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/
