John, Oh, I agree, but neglecting the now for the comfort of past comes with it's own set of perils.
the now aint fer sissies, thats for sure -Ron ----- Original Message ---- From: John Carl <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, July 14, 2010 9:18:53 PM Subject: Re: [MD] A larger system of understanding Hey Ron, On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 5:00 PM, X Acto <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey John, > > one persons hell is anothers paradise eh? > > Thought is experience, but an experience that leads from the now. > > Bo would argue that MOQ is experience, but that assumes this idea > is all of experience. But thought is not all of experience is it? > > -Ron I can't imagine any way of thinking about experience outside of thought. If its not a percept, not a concept, then it's not any experience I can imagine. And how can the MoQ be experience at the same time a tool for dealing with experience? Where's the fun in that? Bo must be unsane. In my humble opinion, the now is way over-rated. I like living in the past. It's so much more knowable, manipuable and non-threatening. The former John > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: John Carl <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tue, July 13, 2010 10:57:54 PM > Subject: Re: [MD] A larger system of understanding > > Hey Ron, I had a thought: > > Thought is not a path to reality, it takes you farther from reality. >> >> > > My thought was, which part of reality? I mean, there is a small part of > reality that is my thought, and thinking it takes me closer to that aspect > of reality at least. > > But the rest fades away... > > Is that a good thing? Or a bad thing? > > If the rest of reality is better than my thought, then it's a bad thing. > > But if my thought is better than the whole rest of reality, it'd be a good > thing to focus on it instead of the rest. > > We're always warned of solipsistic hells. Well what about solipsistic > paradise? > 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 > 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
