To add, for me, the dynamic now, being contantly in flux and forever passing away, is much more comforting than the static horrors of the past which confine it and manifest itself in each moment.
----- Original Message ---- From: X Acto <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, July 14, 2010 10:47:29 PM Subject: Re: [MD] A larger system of understanding 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 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
