Hi John,
For me, 'choice' is a well established (at least in the West) static pattern of value like 'time' 'change' and 'freedom.' Within conventional reality, these patterns are an intricate part of the explanation of how things work. 'Choice' seems to have an interdependence with 'time' and 'change' but I haven't given much thought to the nature of the dependencies. Somewhere there's a paper Anthony wrote with comments by RMP that address time and evolution, I bet that would be a good place to start. Tom Robbins is sooooo cool. I cannot see his name without smiling. But I am still quite sure that 'choice' is a static pattern of value. Marsha On Apr 19, 2011, at 2:32 PM, John Carl wrote: > Hi Marsha, > > Well that's one way of looking at it. A valid choice. But whatever choice > is made in viewing the self, the fundamental thing is choice. It's not a > choice by a "someone" so much as the perspective of being a someone is a > particular choice. > > What I mean by choice is, over here there is one alternative, over there > there is another. Quality exists, so one is better than the other and we > get to guess, influenced by all our choices of the past. > > I could rhapsodize all day long about it, but Tom Robbins is more eloquent: > > *CHOICE* > > The word that allows yes, the word that makes no possible. > > The word that puts free in freedom and takes the obligation out of love. > > The word that throws open a window after the final door is closed. > > The word upon which all adventure, all exhilaration, all meaning, all honor > depends. > > The word that fires evolution’s motor of mud. > > The word that the cocoon whispers to the caterpillar. > > The word that molecules recite before bonding. > > The word that separates that which is dead from that which is living. > > The word no mirror can turn around. > > In the beginning was the word and the word was CHOICE. ___ 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
