MD Some sparse (trivial?) ideas

2001-01-29 Thread Andrea Sosio
vide. Also, I think that any means that help us leave language behind to see "what is Good", here and now, for Me, should be widely taught, because unhappiness is never caused by the world around you, only by your opinion about the world itself. Any comments whatsoever? :) AS --

Re: MD Some sparse (trivial?) ideas

2001-01-31 Thread Andrea Sosio
tto). I think that the way you make room for the truth is to destroy falsehoods. And in this case we are not thinking of a scientific truth, Peirce's long-run end of enquiry. A metaphysical statement cannot approximate to the truth in the way that a count of heads can be more or less ac

MD Language and reality

2001-02-01 Thread Andrea Sosio
ecific kind of unhappiness, although it seems that eastern religions/philosophies (as well as several western ones) think that this is the *only* kind of unhappiness that really exists. Being unhappy because you can't speak MOQ all the time is a delusion. There's no you separated from talking about

Re: MD Some sparse (trivial?) ideas

2001-02-02 Thread Andrea Sosio
ut I hope not to be expanding too much this thread's collection of topics), the DQ vision has a counterpart in the notion of a "global religion" as surfaces in some New Ageist (but with a central concept of quality: I would not say that it would have value for everyone to believe in Atlantis, the Belt of Orion and all that). All the best again Andrea -- Andrea Sosio mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/ MD Queries - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from moq_discuss follow the instructions at: http://www.moq.org/md/subscribe.html

Re: MD Language and reality

2001-02-05 Thread Andrea Sosio
ely perceived reality (with value as a pivot) vs categorized, conceptualized, post linguistic, reality. Thanks to anyone who wants to help :) Andrea Sosio mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/ MD Queries - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from moq_discuss follow the instructions at: http://www.moq.org/md/subscribe.html

Re: MD Heidegger

2001-02-06 Thread Andrea Sosio
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Re: MD Heidegger

2001-02-07 Thread Andrea Sosio
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Re: MD Heidegger

2001-02-08 Thread Andrea Sosio
terested in discussing them?) (I wonder if hermeneutics have to do with that, but I don't want to introduce MH here if you all hate him, I can't do without philosophers anyway and stick to ideas). Yours, Andrea Sosio mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://a

Re: MD Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 12:54:50 +0000

2001-02-12 Thread Andrea Sosio
Hi Marco (and all) ANDREA (previously): I use "Quality" meaning DQ, not static quality. "Perceiving Quality" means the immediate experience of value: but I would like to know if you believe this: SQ) "Perceiving" Quality really means perceiving static quality. One cannot directly experience

MD: Re: Heidegger

2001-02-14 Thread Andrea Sosio
from that point of view, of course), I may have misunderstood something here and there or possibly I may have misunderstood where is that point of view located at all. It seems that your msg talks to my parafovea much more than it does to my fovea :-) -- Andrea Sosio mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] M

Re: MD Glenn, Platt, Ant and the creation of patterns

2001-03-06 Thread Andrea Sosio
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Re: MD Glenn, Platt, Ant and the creation of patterns

2001-03-06 Thread Andrea Sosio
he analogy too far (again, unless we agree that the jabberwocky exists). At the very least, no one ever experienced an illegal apple breaking the law of gravitation. Andrea -- Andrea Sosio RIM/PSPM/PPITMN Tel. (8)9006 mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http:/

Re: MD Glenn, Platt, Ant and the creation of patterns

2001-03-09 Thread Andrea Sosio
rence between a number and a sequence of digits representing a number in decimal notation. My humble opinion. Andrea Sosio MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/ MD Queries - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from moq_discuss follow the instructions at: http://www.moq.org/md/subscribe.html

Re: MD Gravity and empiricism

2001-03-15 Thread Andrea Sosio
so I guess). Andrea -- Andrea Sosio mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/ MD Queries - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from moq_discuss follow the instructions at: http://www.moq.org/md/subscribe.html

Re: MD General criticism of MOQ [2nd attempt]

2001-03-15 Thread Andrea Sosio
Hi Jon Lynch, I join elephant in apologising and welcoming you, if a bit late... it seems you dropped in while everybody was very busy in one of the two main things going on - or both, in my case. Just like you, and more than a few others, when I read ZAMM it was much of a revelation for me. I

Re: MD Inside and Outside

2001-03-20 Thread Andrea Sosio
to see it. Which one? I hope this is not just adding noise to the ongoing discussion, but I can see something that is in resonance with my general interests (absolutes and progress to name just a couple), so I couldn't help. Thanks, Andrea Sosio P.S.: I never noticed the relation between platoni

Re: MD rogers metaphors

2001-03-26 Thread Andrea Sosio
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Re: MD rogers metaphors

2001-03-27 Thread Andrea Sosio
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Re: MD rogers metaphors

2001-03-28 Thread Andrea Sosio
aphor (completly overlooked by other postings). toodlepip Elephant MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/ MD Queries - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from moq_discuss follow the instructions at: http://www.moq.org/md/subscribe.html --

Re: MD rogers metaphors

2001-03-30 Thread Andrea Sosio
Hi elephant, all ANDREA WRITES: from merriam-webster (online): continuous: marked by uninterrupted extension in space, time, or sequence. discrete: noncontinuous I was not saying that the discrete/continuous distinction is metaphorical in se, just that applying continuous to

Re: MD rogers metaphors

2001-04-02 Thread Andrea Sosio
ble, in your own opinion, what the true answer would be if we could phrase them. Surely some contradictions have more value than others, don't you think so?) Andrea -- Andrea Sosio RIM/PSPM/PPITMN Tel. (8)9006 mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.c

Re: MD rogers metaphors

2001-04-03 Thread Andrea Sosio
dox. Be sure that the koan is a koan, a puzzle with a point, and not just a pile of gibberish wasting your time. If someone talks self-contradictory gibberish at you, and the up shot of this gibberish is that you are led (mysteriously) to believe the train is at six, while in fact it left the stat

Re: MD rogers metaphors

2001-04-04 Thread Andrea Sosio
- is that Humpty Dumpty? I also note (for his sake) that you mistakenly attributed some of my last paragraphs to Marco. Be well, Andrea -- Andrea Sosio RIM/PSPM/PPITMN Tel. (8)9006 mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/

[Fwd: Re: MD rogers metaphors -ERRATA CORR]

2001-04-06 Thread Andrea Sosio
- Original Message Oggetto: Re: MD rogers metaphors Data: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 13:51:17 +0200 Da: Andrea Sosio [EMAIL PROTECTED] Societ`: Italtel S.p.A. A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Referenze: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Elephant, if you're not too tired of this... Here's the points: ELEPHANT: A priorines

Re: Yes! MD rogers metaphors

2001-04-06 Thread Andrea Sosio
Elephant, Good. Your msg was like a koan to me. I stil do not follow your logics but as I was squeezing my brain I managed to convince myself that DQ is continuous by definition, thus not metaphorically, at least if you define continuous as "non-discrete", which is fine for me. I also remember

Re: Yes! MD rogers metaphors

2001-04-09 Thread Andrea Sosio
to be disappointed. Be well, Andrea -- Andrea Sosio RIM/PSPM/PPITMN Tel. (8)9006 mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/ MD Queries - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from moq_discuss follow the instructions at: http

Re: MD Pure Quality!

2001-04-23 Thread Andrea Sosio
my reply to Bard was meant to read like. Ciao a tutti :) Andrea -- Andrea Sosio RIM/PSPM/PPITMN Tel. (8)9006 mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/ MD Queries - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from moq_discuss

Re: MD Pure Quality!

2001-04-24 Thread Andrea Sosio
, intrinsically valueless activity of collecting resources in order to do something good in the future. A -- Andrea Sosio RIM/PSPM/PPITMN Tel. (8)9006 mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/ MD Queries - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: MD Pure Quality!

2001-04-26 Thread Andrea Sosio
for the mystics, I guess. Side notes have the bad attitude of growing to fill up threads, but I think now we return this thread to Thracian Bard; that is, give up or move elsewhere :) Andrea -- Andrea Sosio RIM/PSPM/PPITMN Tel. (8)9006 mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail

Re: MD Consciousness/Awareness/the property market in London

2001-05-03 Thread Andrea Sosio
in my body with my past is exactly me, isn't He). Just a thought. Andrea -- Andrea Sosio RIM/PSPM/PPITMN Tel. (8)9006 mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/ MD Queries - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from

Re: MD Hi

2001-05-18 Thread Andrea Sosio
Marty Jorgensen wrote: Is this a result of pursuing dynamic quality, a by-product of the excessive lifestyles allowed within the music/entertainment culture, a product of personal psychological issues or a combination of all these factors? It seems that many of the very creative among us

Re: MD Hi

2001-05-18 Thread Andrea Sosio
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Re: MD HELP - Consumerism, homogonisation and the degregation of quality

2001-05-22 Thread Andrea Sosio
David, Rasheed, Joel: thank you for your great posts. Very much in RMP's spirit, too. So refreshing for this forum, too. Andrea MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/ MD Queries - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from moq_discuss follow

Re: MD HELP - Consumerism, homogonisation and the degregation of quality

2001-05-22 Thread Andrea Sosio
There was a message going round the net some time ago, stating, amongst other things: a) If you condense all the world's population to 100 people, 6 people would own 59% of the world's resources and they would all be from USA; 70 would be analphabet; 50 would be starving. b) If you have enough

Re: MD Free Markets

2001-05-23 Thread Andrea Sosio
Hi Jon Jon says: When anarchists are directly questioned about what the substitue for Capitalism should be, they become evasive [...] because most of them think Socialism is the ultimate solution. [...] When presented with the fact of Socialism's worldwide failures, in particular the former

Re: MD md death penalty

2001-05-25 Thread Andrea Sosio
Mangiola Nunzio arivia.kom wrote: I don't think Pirsig mentioned anything on the death penalty or any form of incarceration. (Besides that of being declared insane) Yes, he did. In Lila: The strongest moral argument against capital punishment is that it weakens society's dynamic capacity for

Re: MD In Defense Of Socialism?

2001-05-28 Thread Andrea Sosio
Hi Rog, sorry if I took so long to reply, I've been away a couple of days. I realize the discussion has gone some way from this original message I'm replying to, and I probably won't add much to what's been said, but since Rog's message included an explicit request for a reply, I'll comply. Btw,

Re: MD In Defense Of Socialism?

2001-05-29 Thread Andrea Sosio
(no less). It is my temporary overall as I wait for the times to be mature to use overall including at *least* all animal kingdom. :) Thanks for the discussion, anyway... I'll be happy to read any reply, if we're not wasting Quality bandwidth. AS -- Andrea Sosio MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org

Re: MD Migration towards Dynamic Quality

2001-06-01 Thread Andrea Sosio
then :) I look forward to following the discussion further (even if I hardly ever get a chance to submit something considered) when I get back from my holiday in a week's time. Cheers!Sam -- Andrea Sosio RIM/PSPM/PPITMN Tel. (8)9006 mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail

Re: MD BEWARE ITALY - Privatisation is not the answer

2001-06-05 Thread Andrea Sosio
Hi David, thanks for the caveat. Personally, I am not nearly supportive of the privatisation programme of the new italian government (nor am I of the new government itself). Unfortunately, it seems that the trend towards privatisation in Italy was anyway beyond the point of no return, i.e., it

MD Evolution

2001-06-07 Thread Andrea Sosio
than to the better in any other sense? Thus, are all evolutions in the static levels *just* about survival? Any thoughts? -- Andrea Sosio MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/ MD Queries - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from moq_discuss

Re: MD True Libertarians Please Stand Up

2001-06-11 Thread Andrea Sosio
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Re: MD True Libertarians Please Stand Up

2001-06-11 Thread Andrea Sosio
Side note on the quiz, oddly enough, to score 100% Personal Self-Government one would have to answer yes to repeal drugs. That has to be a bug... Andrea MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/ MD Queries - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To

Re: MD True Libertarians Please Stand Up

2001-06-11 Thread Andrea Sosio
not necessarily in that camp, just arguing). -- Andrea Sosio MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/ MD Queries - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from moq_discuss follow the instructions at: http://www.moq.org/md/subscribe.html

Re: MD Evolution

2001-06-12 Thread Andrea Sosio
for us to fight the super-race and destroy it? Just guessing. Wish I had more time these days. -- Andrea Sosio RIM/PSPM/PPITMN Tel. (8)9006 mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/ MD Queries - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: MD Intellect over society?

2001-06-18 Thread Andrea Sosio
it advance. You can still have a genius freely speaking very intelligent things in a desolate region of Alaska while an idiot is selling low quality cosmetics on satellite TV. -- Andrea Sosio MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/ MD Queries - [EMAIL

Re: MD Our special glasses

2001-06-19 Thread Andrea Sosio
Hi Rog, Platt, Marco, and all; I agree with Rog (and Wilber): Wilber [...] remarks in several places on the internet that he has come to the conclusion that everybody is right. ... Our models are limited in scope or perspective [...] One potential path to knowledge is not to reject what we

Re: MD Evolution, Wilber and Whitehead

2001-06-21 Thread Andrea Sosio
dont mean anything by this, believe me, but is Andrea a boy or a girl? I always thought Andrea was a girl's name, yet everyone refers to them as 'him.' not that it makes a difference or anything, im just wondering. PPS 'rasheed' is a boy's name, in case anyone was wondering. -- Andrea Sosio

Re: MD Back on topic

2001-06-21 Thread Andrea Sosio
Hi Jonathan and all, I've spent some time wondering which was the most proper thread for what I have to say... anyway, Jonathan's reference to man is the measure of all things and to the concept of a living being seem to provide the best basis for my thoughts. IMO, there's at least one thing in

Re: MD Real Libertarians Please Stand Up

2001-06-27 Thread Andrea Sosio
N. Glen Dickey wrote: To my ear it sure sounds like you don't think the Nigerians don't bear much resonsibility for themselves and from my point of view that opinion is rascist. Why should I hold the Nigerians to less of a standard than I hold myself and my own countrymen? They don't seem

Re: MD Real Libertarians Please Stand Up

2001-06-28 Thread Andrea Sosio
killer blade wrote: Now I don't support the actions of the likes of Timonty McVeigh but it is clear that he should not have been executed, because he was a SOURCE OF THOUGHT. and David Scarlett wrote: What if it's not revenge, but rather the most effective method of preventing a person from

Re: MD Real Libertarians Please Stand Up

2001-06-29 Thread Andrea Sosio
Hi Platt, What I meant is that I regard nothing as more worthy than human life, and this for the many reasons explained elsewhere. I will never feel comfortable with the idea that some men are entitled to decide of another man's life. On the other hand, if human life is so important, in line of

Re: MD Real Libertarians Please Stand Up

2001-07-02 Thread Andrea Sosio
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Re: MD Pirsig's hypocrisy

2001-07-04 Thread Andrea Sosio
Platt wrote: By the way, humanitarians dedicated to eliminate suffering should note the following passage: If you eliminate suffering from this world you eliminate life. There's no evolution. Those species that don't suffer don't survive. Suffering is the negative face of Quality that

Re: MD Pirsig's hypocrisy

2001-07-04 Thread Andrea Sosio
the whole process. (Lila, Chap. 29) Platt MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/ MD Queries - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from moq_discuss follow the instructions at: http://www.moq.org/md/subscribe.html -- Andrea Sosio RIM/PSPM/PPITMN