Hi Doug:
A warm welcome to the discussion. From your background it sounds
like you have much to offer the group. For starters, I agree that the best
textbooks for the MOQ are ZAMM and Lila, and that a value-centered
universe is a tough sell in in a world where morality is considered
limited to the human social level by both philosophers and public alike.
There's also the paradox to be overcome of the need to use SOM
assumptions and language to explain the MOQ. Finally there's the
issue of how it's possible to have the experience of enlightenment by a
deliberate suspension of value when according to the MOQ experience
itself is value. None of these questions has been answered to
everyone's satisfaction yet on this site, and there are many other
issues still to be resolved. We need all the help we can get and look
forward to your contributions.
Platt
>
> Well, I suppose the quick and unsatisfying answer is that
> any given subject has to be "set and dried and received"
> before colleges start teaching it.
>
> E.G., freshman don't learn what the greatest thinker on
> Earth discovered in his office just last week....
>
> Sometimes not even the greatest thinker's results of
> 30 years ago are not set and dried enough!
>
> MOQ is still quite a fringe field, I would bet, so therefore
> only books like Lila itself and ZAMM might appear in the near
> future.... No textbooks...
>
> Having said that, I think the current **world intellectual
> climate** is 180 degrees apart from moq, and with THAT, it
> may be that acceptance as a legitimate field is just not
> conceivable at this point in time, at all.
>
> A kind of intellectual revolution would have to occur, first...
>
> Douglas L. Hemmick, Ph.D.
>
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