Greetings, Definition, connotation and history are intricately involved with patterning, and since the definition, connotation and history of the God-pattern is associated with "an evil social suppression of intellectual and Dynamic freedom" it should be dropped. Quality as presented in the Moq is a much better (untainted) label.
Marsha On Mar 8, 2010, at 5:05 PM, gav wrote: > hiya, > > "In the third stage, that of 'absolute religion', the selfconscious subject > and its object, Nature, are seen as distinct yet essentially related, and at > the same time as grounded in an ultimate unity. And God is conceived 'as the > Being who is at once the source, the sustaining power, and the end of our > spiritual lives'. This does not mean, however, that the idea of God is > completely indeterminate, so that we are forced to embrace the agnosticism of > Herbert Spencer For God manifests Himself in both subject and object, and the > more we understand the spiritual life of humanity on the one hand and the > world of Nature on the other, so much the more do we learn about God who is > 'the ultimate unity of our life and of the life of the world' <<<<<The > MOQ would add a fourth stage where the term “God” is completely dropped as a > relic of an evil social suppression of intellectual and Dynamic freedom. > The MOQ is not just atheistic in this regard. It is > anti-theistic. >>>>>"" > > > gav: so the term 'god' is dropped but the concept remains? ie there is an > ultimate unity of our life and the world but we don't call it god we call it > quality or dynamic quality or tao or becoming or nagual or some other word? > > i am confused - seems like a cop out to me...what difference what we call it? > maybe that's why the indians have hundreds of names for it.... > > > > > > 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/md/archives.html ___ 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/md/archives.html
