From: David Morey (us@divadeus.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Sat May 15 2004 - 22:01:09 BST
Hi Dave
Sounds about right to me.
I see contingency as happening when patterns crash into each
other in space-time and damage each other's operation.
If the sun explodes that is its normal development of the pattern
'sun' It is contingent bad luck for the surrounding planets and their
patterns. Also the human body is a complex of patterns, and
it has to cope with all the patterns working within and around it to
continue its own existence as long as possible. Somtimes it
fails to cope, such as when it hits a car pattern heading off to work
in another complex pattern. We call this bad because we know we
should value people living patterns more than people driving quickly
to work patterns. Evil perhaps involves the conscious application
of lower values to supersede higher values, like dumbing down TV.
regards
David M
----- Original Message -----
From: "storeyd" <storeyd@bc.edu>
To: "David Morey" <us@divadeus.freeserve.co.uk>; <moq_discuss@moq.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 8:29 PM
Subject: RE: MD Quality evil destruction contingency
> 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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