Arlo,
I know all this, but my heart still aches for all the suffering. Marsha On Mar 17, 2011, at 3:54 PM, Arlo Bensinger wrote: > [Marsha] > My heart is aching for the people in Japan. ... The question 'Why?' sticks in > my throat and I choke. > > [Arlo] > The inorganic level operates with indifference (or more precisely, with > unknowning) towards the biological (and social, intellectual) level. On the > inorganic level, all that occurred were inorganic patterns pursing > "betterness" from their vantage. > > When most people ask "why?", there is some assumption that inorganic patterns > MUST be operating with some recognition for, or consideration of, biological, > social and intellectual patterns. They do not. > > The inorganic level is blind to levels above it. And so conflicts occur when > inorganic patterns, pursuing Quality just like every other pattern, come into > conflict with higher levels patterns pursuing their own Quality. > > The only MOQ answer here, I think, would be "The tsunami and earthquakes > occurred because within the inorganic level it was better that they occurred > than not." > > We may like to think that inorganic patterns would act with respect for > biological/social/intellectual patterns of value, but they are blind to these. > > To ask, "why did a tsunami occur that killed so many people?", for example, > is to confuse two or more levels. Consider it asked this way, "why did the > inorganic pattern destroy the biological pattern?". This question is > nonsensical from within a MOQ, because the inorganic pattern does not have > any awareness/conception/recognition/whatever for the biological pattern, and > "why" assumes an awareness of sorts that does not exist. > > Why did the tsunami occur? Inorganic patterns of value responding to Quality. > Why did the people die? These biological patterns of value could not exist > within the changed inorganic context wherein they existed, and where unable > to move to a better context before being destroyed. > > 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
