From: Rebecca Temmer (ratemmer.lists@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Sep 28 2005 - 02:46:57 BST
Hey now boys..
Mark, you answered some of the questions I had about Ham's post. I swear to
god though, if you make me laugh like that again they're going to ban me
from the computer lab at school...
In all seriousness, Ham, I got lost somewhere around the "15th century". I
just have absolutely no idea what you're talking about, maybe it's too
complex for me (I'm a student after all and there's a lot of crap floating
around in my head) but you're cramming too many concepts into this that I
don't understand; I'm an Occam girl all the way. So if we could start at the
beginning of my list of questions, for tonight I'll give you this:
Ham said:
"Assuming that you can accept the concept of an absolute, timeless and
undifferentiated Source, you find yourself asking how such a source can
bring into being a finite, dynamic and differentiated world"
Rebecca asks:
Why would we have to assume or accept an 'absolute, timeless and
undifferentiated Source'? Is that a part of the MOQ (if not what does it
have to do with it?)? Dynamic Quality, as I see it, isn't a Source for
anything. What do you think?
Further to that, are we talking about a 'source' being the beginning of
Everything (like the beginning of cosmological evolution) or the 'source' as
where things come from before they appear as static patterns (or realized
concepts or 'existence' or whatever)?
The way I see it (and the standard MOQ definition, I believe), DQ is what
goes on before we turn things into patterns. I like to conceptualize this
abstractly as a fractal that is constantly in bloom. Dynamic quality is the
outside edge of that fractal - always becomming, always growing, always
similar to what came before it but never exactly the same in space or time.
Could it be that those static patterns are the 'Source' of our Dynamic
Quality? Who knows? Not me, surely.
Now if you'll excuse me, I just finished sitting a three hour lecture on the
collective unconscious and Joseph Campbell... If I don't have a beer soon my
poor brain is absolutely going to explode. You're all welcome to join me of
course :)
Cheers,
Rebecca
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