[MD] Essentials for target practice

[Ham Priday]

MOQers All --


As defining the MOQ fundamentals appears to be the hottest game on MD 
currently, this may be a good time to present some of my own for your 
consideration.  Following Platt's example (thought of the day, etc.), I've 
come up with a dozen maxims or tenets that are central to the Philosophy of 
Essence.  I'm interested in seeing which of them you folks find acceptable 
or unacceptable, and how unanimous your reactions are.  (This will also help 
me determine whether continued participation in this forum is worth your 
time or mine.)

In developing this "12-point manifesto", I've deliberately avoided the 
"special terms" indigenous to both philosophies.  Any tenet, however, may be 
regarded as "controversial" in some way.

Feel free to "fire away".  I'll keep score.


FUNDAMENTAL TENETS OF ESSENTIALISM:

 1)  Nothing comes from nothingness.

 2)  Nothing creates itself (i.e., brings itself into existence)..

 3)  Existence is the appearance of differentiated otherness.

 4)  All appearance--including divisions, relations, and movement--is the 
affect of an uncreated source.

 5)  The primary difference is the provisional separation of proprietary 
sensibility from the
     undivided source.

 6)  Life is an individual experience the essence of which is 
value-sensibility.

 7)  Cognizant awareness, feeling, knowledge, interpretation, intellection, 
and realization are proprietary to the individual.

 8)  Experience is the objective representation of value realized.

 9)  Unrealized value does not exist.

10)  Man is a "free agent" in that he has the innate capacity to act in 
accordance with his                 proprietary value orientation.

11)  All truth is relative.  Access to "absolute truth" is inimical to 
individual freedom.

12)  Wisdom is not factual knowledge but the ability to realize the value of 
experience.

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Thanks for responding.

--Ham