Wow! Dude! I've never witnessed an analogistic attack upon an ontogeny as pedophilic before.... The Sophists would salute you with the full triple Rimmer on this one I think. I don't know what to say... I'm anxious to read Ham's reply.
yum-m-m On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 1:08 PM, David Thomas <[email protected]>wrote: > Ham, > > > I'm glad something clicked. But you're still hung up on a physical > > universe. > > Think of the universe as a "world of appearances" which you yourself > > intellectualize from sensory experience. It is your world, your reality, > > the object of your subjectivity. > > What you see as beautiful is what you value as beauty. What you admire as > > intelligent reflects your intellectual values. The morality you aspire to > > is what your sensibility values as good and virtuous. > > > If you can't think of yourself as "special", try thinking of someone you > > regard as special. Or think of the achievements of mankind throughout > > history. Surely there is something very special about human interaction > > with the world, as compared with any other species or entity. In a > > valuistic (qualitative) sense, the universe is an anthropocentric system > > whose form, qualities, and attributes are defined by man's experience and > > measured in terms of his value-sensibility. Being itself is a construct > > that you "create" valuistically. Things ("in themselves") don't have to > > "perceive" values inasmuch as their existence is the result of YOUR value > > sensibility. > > I saw a PBS documentary last night on a Mennonite Church in California that > has established a support group for convicted pedophiles released from > prison. In their group discussions and interviews it was apparent they were > all struggling to overcome personal philosophies very much like the one you > describe above. All their stories were versions of, If "what I see as > beautiful" is little girls or boys and I think of myself as "special" then > these "things" "don't have...values" other than what I "construct or > create" > of what is "good" for me. I just found these uncared for, poor, beautiful, > waifs without love and I was just giving them some. > > Yuck, > > Dave > > > 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/
