John, Whatever conventionally works for you is fine for you. I am not here to change you. But time is a static pattern of value. For me, the past is story, the future is projection. That doesn't make anything less wondrous, only less true.
Marsha On Apr 21, 2011, at 1:50 PM, John Carl wrote: > Past is a static pattern. As static as they come! What is more unchanging > than the past? > > But the future? We use the word to point to something that brings into > being, but our imagining is never fully the reality we actually experience. > The future as an idea is one thing, but the future as a thing is too > mysterious for words, and just like I've always thought of DQ, in every > way. What is evolution but the drive toward the future? Try it. Go back > and substitute the concept of the future, for all references to DQ in Lila, > and show me one that doesn't fit. > > It even works better with Jamesian pragmatism - what is the test of the > good? Future experience. > > John past > > > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:15 PM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Hi John, >> >> Time, past and future, are static patterns. >> >> http://www.quantonics.com/Anthony_McWatts_MoQ_Paper.html >> >> Or try Nagarjuna's MMK. >> >> >> Marsha >> >> >> >> >> >> On Apr 19, 2011, at 4:35 PM, John Carl wrote: >> >>> So, is DQ just another word for the future? And sq a term for the past? >> Is >>> that all there is to it after all this time? >> >> ___ 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
