Hi Marsha, Please do not derail this post as well. Thanks, Mark
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 3:21 AM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: > > Greetings, > > What is the reason, or purpose, for living a quality (spiritual) life? > > > Marsha > > > > > > On Jan 7, 2011, at 1:28 AM, 118 wrote: > >> This post is intended to explore the birth of Value, it's >> incarnations, and its death. >> >> There appear to be two contrary positions as to its birth. Either we >> are the source of value, or we are it's creation. Both of these fit >> within a metaphysics of Quality, where Quality depicts the perspective >> of rhetoric. That is, the song of existence. A number of positions >> can be taken which logically extend the birth of value into different >> directions. One of these could be the interplay of the subjective >> with the objective. Value can be seen as either the body or the mind >> (to use an analogy). It can be the material or the spiritual to use >> another analogy. It is my present interpretation that Value is the >> source, not the result. It creates from the very smallest to the very >> largest. It is inherent in our sense of time. As such, the value >> which we sense is part of a larger value impinged on us. In this way, >> man is not the measurement of all things that man measures, but >> instead, man is a measurement. He is a feature of value. An analogy >> for this would be the waves of an ocean. Each wave is not creating >> it's ascendence and descendence, but is a property of the ocean. >> >> A question could be: Why do I call this Value? This can be analogized >> using the symbol of the Tao, the Yin and Yang. There is a constant >> interplay of better and worse, darker and brighter, fairer and uglier, >> pleasure and pain, which defines every moment of existence. This >> cannot be a creation of man, because it exists without man. For >> example, the notion of better or worse exists prior to man, and our >> incarnation interprets it in a human way. Man does not have the power >> to make these things up, only reveal them in our own way. >> >> In the same way that a prism can distinguish light into various colors >> (or frequencies), Value can be differentiated into various forms. >> Using the light analogy, the color red has longer and shorter >> wavelengths comprising it, which a the subtler grades of color. It >> can be said that Value creates a pull, which would mean that it is >> directional. While such directionality may seem in all directions, >> historically it is possible to note the sum total of that direction >> and map it. Any such directionality would imply an outside source of >> such value rather that one created by the individual. However, the >> inclusion of free will into the equation allows divergence within >> individuals in how that follow such value. >> >> Specific values do die. This would imply that the source of all >> values tends to oscillate. Another wave analogy can describe such >> behavior, that is the rising and falling of value. Some values which >> can represent spiritual dogma can arise like rogue waves, and last for >> thousands of years, only to disappear again. This would imply that >> the directional attribute of Value is temporary and ever changing. It >> could be considered cyclical like a sine wave. If one is to be in >> harmony, one must read the waves and ride them. This is also called >> becoming one with Tao. >> >> Perhaps someone should write The Tao of Motorcycle Maintenance. Oh, >> somebody already has. >> >> Mark >> > > > > > ___ > > > 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
