Mark, "We make them"??? They make us!!! Unless, of course, one is mindful. But, maybe, just for you: things momentarily non-exist as static patterns of value.
Marsha Sent from my iPad On Jan 4, 2012, at 1:03 AM, 118 <[email protected]> wrote: > Things do not exist as static patterns of value, that is what we make them. > > Sent laboriously from an iPhone, > Mark > > On Jan 2, 2012, at 8:54 AM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Hello Ham, >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> On Jan 2, 2012, at 2:32 AM, "Ham Priday" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi Mark, and a Happy New Year to All >>> On Friday, 12/23/2011 at 1:17 AM, Mark "118" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Ham, >>>> I am attempting as best I can to not make Marsha feel put upon. >>>> You know my opinion, so I can understand why you are confused. >>>> >>>> Two things that inherently exist? How about a dog and a sunflower. >>>> I can provide more if you want, for example you exist inherently, >>>> believe it or not. There is nothing conventional about these things, >>>> they are all uniquely unconventional. Show me something >>>> conventional and I will show you a mistake. I have been where >>>> you are and back. Trust me. >>> >>> Marsha has misconstrued Buddhism as a philosophy founded on nihilism, and >>> this does an injustice to Pirsig's Quality thesis. I had hoped to see the >>> promised outline of your ontology over the holidays, which is why this >>> response is delayed. >>> >> >> Not true. To be a nihilist, would be to believe things do not exist at all. >> Things do conventionally exist; they exist as patterns of value; they exist >> as useful fiction (as in the tale of Nagasena and King Milinda). >> >> >> Marsha >> >> >> 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
