Hi Steve and All, I have no idea what it means to "abandon SOM"! I eat, I drink to continue my reality. Are eating and drinking a part of SOM? I am not a hot dog! I don't eat myself!
Metaphysics are a real discipline. How can I be assured I am thinking correctly if I abandon as useless, a sense of reality that has been discussed for over two thousand years? SOM must have been a little bit logical! I think I understand a clean plate since my Mom always told me to get a clean plate before sitting down to eat, but to throw away my plate because it is dirty is wasteful. I can clean it! Evolution can be incorporated into a metaphysical discussion. Does SOM deny evolution by proclaiming a deity? How is evolution seen as reasonable in this mathematical age? Did SOM accept levels in reality? So it wasn't complete, that is what education is for. But don't throw out the baby with the bathwater, just clean yourself of 'existential funk'! Joe On 9/28/11 8:52 AM, "Steven Peterson" <[email protected]> wrote: > After we have abandoned SOM, what "passional grounds" even remain for > choosing one over the other? What is left to get all passionate about > once we view free will and determinism as intellectual patterns that > can be used for whatever purposes they may be good for rather than as > competing claims about the ultimate nature of reality? It seems to me > that if someone claiming to have abandoned SOM can still be driven > into an existential funk while contemplating free will versus > determinism, then that person has not completely abandoned SOM. 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
