[MD] Essentials for target practice

[MarshaV]

Ham

I want you to always have a home on the MD.  Your contributions are 
very important to me.  I wish I could easily translated your 12-point
manifesto into MoQ language.  


Marsha 



On Jun 27, 2010, at 3:07 PM, Ham Priday wrote:

> 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:
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> 1)  Nothing comes from nothingness.
> 
> 2)  Nothing creates itself (i.e., brings itself into existence)..
> 
> 3)  Existence is the appearance of differentiated otherness.
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> 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.
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> 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
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