Ron,
You "improve the human situation" not with WHY's and HOW's but with maintaining a good and open heart. (Remember: head, hand & *heart*) Imho. - Betterness is relative. Some types of conventional betterness might be based on how well an experience agrees with ones most cherished assumptions (patterns). Or it might be based on a deeper insight that transcends all assumptions (patterns). For most of us, we volley between the two to different degrees. The Western mythos is structured on a subject/object foundation. It takes more than reading explanations to uproot these culturally dominated perceptions. That is why I suggest meditation/mindfulness; not as a mountaintop activity, but as a daily practices. There's insights to be gained, actual first-hand *experience*, that transcends explanation, and that's important for an empirically based metaphysics. (Please note that I didn't suggest replacing reading and explanation with meditation.). I do not think this point-o f-view negates preference and evolution. Marsha On Sep 13, 2013, at 8:23 AM, X Acto <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Marsha: > Sorry there seems to be too many hidden assumptions left out of your post for > me to make sense of it. The only thing I might offer to negate the charge of > nihilism is that static quality is not annihilated. Static quality is > conventionally real. > > > [Ron] > But it neglects the explanation of WHY and HOW static quality exists, > conventionally or otherwise. > RMP is definitly trying to account for and explain the hanging together of > experience and DQ as "betterness" > explains movement and why experience changes. "not this-not that" seems to > fail in this regard. > > I therefore suspect that "not this-not that" is contextual towards > dialectical opposition in arguementation and to > swap it out for betterness in "Lila" nullifies half the book, everything he > says about preference and evolution > is just thrown out. > > Perhaps you can explain how "not this-not that" fits together to explain > beauty and attraction and why some > things are better than others. Because I can't seem to see how that works. > > thnx > 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
