Re: MD Has Quality been divided? / Pantheism

From: Steve Peterson (speterson@fast.net)
Date: Mon Nov 11 2002 - 16:46:53 GMT

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    Peter, erin, Bo?, all,

    I've deleted the starter for this thread, but I believe the question was
    whether or not static quality can be considered to reside in dynamic quality
    or are static and dynamic quality parts of Quality.

    >> If I am remembering correctly Bo had given a metaphor of
    >> it being the ocean and sq being the waves.
    >> This makes sense to me.

    Erin said:
    Is the ģit" that is "being the oceanē Quality or Dynamic Quality?

    I think I remember a train metaphor used to describe DQ as the leading edge
    of experience. In the ocean metaphor, the waves are the edge of the ocean.

    These metaphors are probably tricky.

    Either way you slice it, it seems to me that dynamic and static quality are
    mutually exclusive, but I'd be interested to hear what others may have to
    say. I've been wrong before...

    Peter, Sorry I haven't gotten back to you on this until now. I was busy
    with a different thread.
    Whether you want think of static quality as living inside dynamic quality or
    as mutually exclusive aspects of Quality, I think that the tradition of
    pantheism is about worshipping the static patterns rather than the source of
    all patterns which also contains all patterns.

    I think panentheism better describes your conception of God, though which
    label you choose to use will probably matter little. So, go ahead and call
    yourself a pantheist if you want, but I think that your definition of
    pantheism as "Dynamic Quality is God" is inconsistent with the traditional
    conception of "every'thing' is God" which limits God to the sum total of
    'things.'

    Steve

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