Ham I want you to always have a home on the MD. Your contributions are very important to me. I wish I could easily translated your 12-point manifesto into MoQ language.
Marsha On Jun 27, 2010, at 3:07 PM, Ham Priday wrote: > MOQers All -- > > > As defining the MOQ fundamentals appears to be the hottest game on MD > currently, this may be a good time to present some of my own for your > consideration. Following Platt's example (thought of the day, etc.), I've > come up with a dozen maxims or tenets that are central to the Philosophy of > Essence. I'm interested in seeing which of them you folks find acceptable or > unacceptable, and how unanimous your reactions are. (This will also help me > determine whether continued participation in this forum is worth your time or > mine.) > > In developing this "12-point manifesto", I've deliberately avoided the > "special terms" indigenous to both philosophies. Any tenet, however, may be > regarded as "controversial" in some way. > > Feel free to "fire away". I'll keep score. > > > FUNDAMENTAL TENETS OF ESSENTIALISM: > > 1) Nothing comes from nothingness. > > 2) Nothing creates itself (i.e., brings itself into existence).. > > 3) Existence is the appearance of differentiated otherness. > > 4) All appearance--including divisions, relations, and movement--is the > affect of an uncreated source. > > 5) The primary difference is the provisional separation of proprietary > sensibility from the > undivided source. > > 6) Life is an individual experience the essence of which is > value-sensibility. > > 7) Cognizant awareness, feeling, knowledge, interpretation, intellection, > and realization are proprietary to the individual. > > 8) Experience is the objective representation of value realized. > > 9) Unrealized value does not exist. > > 10) Man is a "free agent" in that he has the innate capacity to act in > accordance with his proprietary value orientation. > > 11) All truth is relative. Access to "absolute truth" is inimical to > individual freedom. > > 12) Wisdom is not factual knowledge but the ability to realize the value of > experience. > > _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ > > Thanks for responding. > > --Ham > > 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
