From: David MOREY (us@divadeus.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Sat Sep 13 2003 - 20:11:24 BST
Platt
I think I understand your point about morals.
However, I think it is plausible to characterise
quality as something watery and in motion.
Quality/experience despite Plato's and the SOM's
atttempt to dismiss it as mere appearance and to
seek something firmer and fixed as behind it.
Whilst I agree that we 'encounter' quality as necessarily
having value for us -if we are to 'encounter' it at all, it
is perhaps our 'first experience' that we find it overwhelming/
threatening to wipe our fragile existence away. It is this
'first experience' that I think accounts for patriarchal
religion and the seeking after allegiance with whatever power
has thrown us into this situation.
Regards
David Morey
----- Original Message -----
From: "Platt Holden" <pholden@sc.rr.com>
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Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 1:57 PM
Subject: Re: MD Illusions--Richard Bach's creatures
> Hi Andy,
>
> Your "swimming in the stream" metaphor and explanation says nothing
> about morals. So to claim it's a metaphor for the MOQ is a stretch to
> say the least. The MOQ is all about morals. Your conclusion seemed to
> be that it's better not to cling to one set of beliefs, a conclusion I
> presume we shouldn't cling to either. But I didn't see any rationale
> to support that conclusion.
>
> The MOQ states as an axiom that some things are better than others,
> then proceeds to answer what, where, when, how and why that axiom
> creates the world. A good metaphor of the MOQ would do the same, or at
> the least suggest that the MOQ is about morality, not about "letting go
> of society."
>
> Anyway, I liked Richard Bach's "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" metaphor
> better. I'd rather fly with the angels than bump along the bottom of a
> stream. :-)
>
> Platt
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