From: Valuemetaphysics@aol.com
Date: Sat Sep 27 2003 - 14:56:36 BST
In a message dated 9/27/03 2:31:32 PM GMT Daylight Time, abahn@comcast.net
writes:
> Ahhhh Mark,
>
> You poor lost soul. Hope you someday grow out of it. Good luck!
>
> Andy
>
Hello Andy,
It does appear to be the case that the MoQ.org is not exactly swimming with
people who wish to make use of the Metaphysics of Quality.
If one thinks about being lost from an MoQ perspective, some interesting
thoughts emerge.
You know what interesting thoughts are don't you? They are the kinds of
thoughts you never introduce to the forum.
Anyway, The MoQ says value is primary experience. Therefore, what does being
lost mean here? The MoQ further says that patterns of value have four broad
value systems, so one may be lost in any one of them?
Now here is an interesting thought: 'I' AM four value systems! Therefore, to
be lost may actually be to be in a state of disharmony! Interesting stuff
this. The opposite of being in a state of disharmony would be to be in harmony?
Getting better...
What does it mean to be inorganically lost? From a human perspective, i don't
think this has much to do with being lost, unless you are falling out of an
aeroplane with no parachute!
What does it mean to be biologically lost? I imagine this would mean being
unable to value biological patterns in a harmonious relationship with other
biological patterns. Sounds like hell doesn't it?
What does it mean to be socially lost? I imagine this would mean being unable
to value social patterns in a harmonious relationship with other social
patterns. One may, for example, be an egocentric celebrity dominated megalomaniac
who is so out of touch with how others really see them, as to be a bit on the
psychotic side? Ring any bells?
Yeah, this is interesting wouldn't you say? See how it becomes increasingly
clear that i am not in fact lost? Do you see how the MoQ has something to say
about everyday experiences?
What does it mean to be intellectually lost? Well, a disharmonious state is
implied. This would mean an inability to preselect on the basis of harmony a
simple and elegant static intellectual pattern of value, which harmonises with
other intellectual values. Art, in other words. Beauty - experienced but almost
beyond description. However, i say almost beyond description, because the MoQ
provides a language of the aesthetic that places DQ it the centre. To be
found is to be beautiful? To be lost is to be ugly?
I do not feel the MoQ is ugly, i feel it is a beautiful work of intellectual
art.
Mark
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