From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Sat Jan 11 2003 - 17:37:19 GMT
Hi GJ:
Thanks much for reviewing the situation in the Netherlands in MoQ
terms. I'll reserve comment other than to say your analysis appears to
be right on target. It will be interesting to see what your fellow citizens
who contribute to this site have to say, if anything.
About absolutism, you wrote:
> But since this thread is about absolutism i'd like to add that absolutism
> is a pattern-thing. And Like with science you must use boundaries to make
> statements. With to many exceptions you have no science. Without absolutism
> you have no structure where you can work in. This thread is showing
> perfectly that we use absolutes to communicate. Therefore, absolutes are
> merely tools. Patterns or steps that you use to climb up. With enough time
> one can prove that our most absolute thing isn't that absolute annymore.
> But it served its purpose and new absolutes came in its place. If we should
> all agree with this, we have reached an absolute. It takes one to disagree
> to take us all a step further. :-)
Yes, absolutes are a pattern-thing and thus absolutely necessary for
the world to hold together, whether materially or rhetorically. With time
many absolute things remain absolute, like time itself and nothingness.
(Nothing is something.) The MoQ is all about patterns-- stable patterns,
changing patterns and patternless pure experience. IMO you've hit on
the key concept in the discussion of absolutes. Thanks for a most
illuminating insight!
Platt
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