Hey Mark, Just gonna give this a quick response, I'm typing between downs, watching the Jets and the Patriots wind down in the final 2 mins...
Ooops! Spoke too soon. Patriots flubbed the onside kick attempt and Sean Green just scored so this game is over. Guess that means I'll pay closer attention? Mark: > According to the Big Bang theory, codependent arising happened during > the first instance of creation, that is the formation of matter and > anti-matter. John: Now, it's not so much that I disbelieve this, it's just that I feel like it's all theory and ideas and creation stories which have varying appeal to various people. I wasn't around then, so I dunno from "anti-matter" or turtles all the way down. Some stories garner more enthusiasm than others, and you scientific types are good at getting the most well-thought-out cosmological stories so I'll take your word for it, but with a small caveat (albeit over-used) well, that's ONE analogy for sure. Mark: As the theory goes, there was just a little bit more > matter than anti-matter, so that by the time one second came around, > all the anti-matter was annihilated, and we were left with matter. > John: One second, eh? Of course, from a certain perspective, one second can be a lifetime. And given the relativistic effects of gravity and expanding velocity of matter and all, perhaps that "one second" could be seen to still be happening. From the perspective of a photon or a hooloovoo. Mark: > So, while this somewhat conforms to your codependent arising, it does > need a slight imbalance.. This would correlate well with your premise > of reality, since there is a constant dance which implies imbalance. > The same can be seen with the predator-prey analogy, they are never > quite in sync or static, but constantly going through a over/under > trend. > > So, codependent arising with inherent imbalance. Could that imbalance > be called Quality? I think it can. What do you think? > > John: It seems to me, that when we bring in Quality, we bring in intention of some kind - a desire, or a yearning. In that case, the universe IS because it yearns to BE. I mean, I know I sure do, so perhaps its just my projection. But since we obviously are, then somehow or somewhen, something somewhere must have yearned for us to be. And yes, I do call that yearning, "Quality". yearningly yours, John 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
