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[Ham]: > You are arguing from a temporal perspective in which Creation is viewed as > an event that occurred 14 billion years ago. I do not regard Creation as > an > "event" in time, but a constant principle of the absolute source. Think > in > terms of Pirsig's DQ. Was Quality also expended at the moment of the Big > Bang? It doesn't make sense. [Case]: > If you choose to ignore physics I supposed you can make up whatever you > like. I do know from past reading that you have at best a tenuous grasp of > the meaning of space/time. But in my tireless effort to bring you up to > speed here is a little presentation the meaning of dimensionality that > might > help. You may think you're bringing me up to speed with this rock guitarist's self-promotion, but I fail to see the point of a 10th dimension. So far as I know, Einstein's universe consisted of four dimensions: three spatial and one temporal. What exactly are the other six? Dimensionality is an intellectual scrabble game to explain phenomena we can't otherwise understand. The mode of human perception is spatio-temporal. It relates to the four-dimensional world of finite experience. The world as finitely experienced is an intellectual construct, as Micah and I have been arguing for some time. To conclude that ultimate reality is limited to such a finite scheme is to reject the value of metaphysical theory and bind yourself to an SOM construct. This is what I thought Mr. Pirsig was trying to escape. Creation is not an act in time, like winding up a watch mechanism and then letting it run out. It is constant and applies to every moment of cognizant experience. The universal template is the appearance that is sustained throughout the life of every cognizant being by the awareness/otherness dichotomy. The only way to transcend the appearance of finitude is to end your being-aware and eliminate the dichotomy. Or, of course, you can make up songs about the 10th dimension and pretend you know something that I don't. Ham 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.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
