From: storeyd (storeyd@bc.edu)
Date: Sat May 15 2004 - 20:29:06 BST
Evil is the result of an unnecessary suppression of DQ in order to preserve a
pattern of SQ that has failed to serve its evolutionary purpose. i think its
important to recognize that the MOQ is not a Manicheanism, the MOQ universe is
not a battleground between two diametrical forces...it is
assymetrical...though DQ may be informing and possibilizing all things, all
things are not good, and evil/violence is NOT a necessary, integral part of
the process. Now "Evil" understood as a religious category is when a SQ
pattern (say, a religious faith) ascribes ontological status to a negation of
DQ...that is, it takes shadows for the light that casts them...this fixated
concept of Evil is, in fact, a suppression of DQ itself, because it calls evil
a static, eternal, unchanging entity (say, the devil). thus, all evil is
contingent, because all concepts are limited and contingent...this doesn't
mean that evil's not "real", merely that it is phase-specific, an appropriate
criterion of judgment for a certain type of SQ.
patterns and contingency? i would briefly say that the more stable and
ingrained the pattern, in space-time, then the less contingent it is...for
example, the intellectual level is exteremly dependent on and contingent with
respect to the biological level, and even more so to the inorganic level.
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