Ron: It is not at all clear to me what the topic is. It's hard to think of a word that's more vague than "Being". Sometimes being just means existence, anything and everything that is, as opposed to non-being, which is nothing at all. Sometimes it refers to the essence of a person, whatever that is. Sometimes a being is any sentient organism, sometimes any organism or life form and sometimes any thing is a being in the sense that it exists. When you start talking about "being as one" I think we might be entering the realm of theology or at least some all encompassing vision or reality.
I mean, maybe it would be helpful to back up a bit and explain what it is you're talking about, exactly. Full disclosure: the term has always bugged me. Either there is something deep that I'm missing or the whole notion is as empty as I think it is. > Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 07:14:10 -0700 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MD] An inquirey into "be-ing" > > It has been understood for quite some time that experience > or "be-ing" is varied,many, dynamic and in flux. > > And in hindsight we must ask ourselves if the idea > of "being" as equivalent to "one" has bore fruitful > consequences. > > The school of thought in the west from the Pythagoreans > to the Platonist to the Aristotelian empiricists take > "be-ing" as "one" whole unit. > The Platonists and Pythagoreans conceived of it as > a primary being of the universe, while the Aristotelian > understood it as predication of meaning. What it meant > when we say that something "is" in terms of definition. > > The discussions revolving around this issue are many > and varied. > > But the question that is avoided is not whether or not > the idea of "being as one" is technologically superior > but rather is "being as one" better evolutionarily > than "being as in flux" and dynamic. > > Is this technological superiority better evolutionarily? > > This would be a great place to begin the discussion. > > -Ron > > > > 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
