From: Paul Turner (paulj.turner@ntlworld.com)
Date: Sun Feb 15 2004 - 16:32:53 GMT
Hello Mark, Platt
Mark said:
> And now to the matter of spirit. Poets talk of the spirit, but there
is no
> spirit in the MoQ - no substantial spirit which adheres through
change.
Platt said:
No Spirit in the MOQ? If DQ isn't Spirit I don't know what is. Other
names
for DQ -- Atman, Brahman, God, Self, Soul, the Divine, etc. not to
mention
Light, Love, Beauty, Emptiness, No-thing-ness, Infinite, the
conceptually
unknown, etc.
Paul:
Unless by "Spirit" you mean "immediate everyday experience" and
"undefined betterness" I agree with Mark that there is no Spirit or Soul
in the MOQ, except as a static social or intellectual literary
expression for the part of an individual that some faiths presume
doesn't die along with the body. The central reality in the MOQ is
empirically verifiable by anyone who cares to do so and its existence
should not require faith, unlike that of Spirit and Soul.
Also, with regards to "God" being a name for Dynamic Quality, the MOQ is
an atheistic system and so God could not be used in the usual,
anthropomorphic way.
To be clear though, I'm not saying that this necessarily precludes the
viability of all religion from being compatible with the MOQ
perspective.
Regards
Paul
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