Hi John, I am in agreement with you concerning the practical use of words. We can certainly change the meaning of Quality, in this small group, and keep it to ourselves, such is academia. I believe we definitely need to change the meaning of evolution. It really does not fit with Quality. Evolution is the result of a selection process. What is doing the selection of Quality? That is, what pressures does Quality feel from the outside? I am not quite sure why this term is used except for rhetorical purposes. Even then it is misleading.
The other thing that caught my eye was the following from you: > John: > > Perhaps we will simply have to beg to differ. I see this differently. I > think "negative quality" is a pragmatically useful description of certain > anti-patterns I observe in the world. Let's call a spade a spade here, I'm > talking about sin. And I do think you make a key point that I do agree with > you on, that it seems to be primarily a function of human socio-intellectual > patterns. But I don't see this as such a strange idea that I'm addressing > in the MoQ, neither. After all, isn't it immoral for a lower pattern to > dominate or devour a lower? What is "immoral" but a synonym for > "anti-quality"? [Mark] I was just browsing through Milton's Paradise Lost, Book Two. As Satan is going down to Hell, he comes across a strange looking woman and some kind of creature at the gate. It turns out, that this disfigured woman was Satan's lover, Sin, and the other creature is their son, Death. The interesting thing is that Sin painfully separated from Satan's head and then he fell in love with her, while up in Heaven. There are many ways to interpret Milton, and I am no expert (although when it comes to poetry we are all experts). However, I will try a Psycholo-Buddhist interpretation (I must have made this term up because Google couldn't find it, and as we know, Google is reality (heh, heh)). So using a Buddhist slant on psychology, the analogy of Sin coming from the Devil' head is interesting. What it could mean is that the Devil created the world of objects, and then fell in love with it. Such a world is that of Sin (or clinging as Buddha would say), and the offspring of such enchantment is Death (and rebirth of course). Worshiping objects is similar to worshiping words. Words are merely a static simplistic form describing Quality, and objects are exactly the same thing. With both words and objects, we mistake them for what they represent. It would appear we are bewitched by objects, when it is the Quality underlying them that is. Objects are only symbols. This is what MoQ is all about. Don't be fooled by the world of objects or words, they are just illusions. Look straight at Quality. Yeah, I keep trying with you guys. Maybe someday... All in good fun, Mark the troublemaker. > > > >>> 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
