[MD] The MoQ.org STRANGLES Creativity

[Ham Priday]

Platt --

> Nothing convinces me more of natural progress than the expansion of
> consciousness from that of worm whose world consists of dirt and
> tunnels to that of man whose world consists of quantum particles,
> galaxies and unlimited possibilities, not to mention appreciation of
> art and beauty. As for duPont -- better things for better living
> through chemistry -- I'm glad for Teflon every time I fry eggs for
> breakfast. :-)

If this is your answer to how the natural world creates new things and
better ideas, it doesn't surprise me.  And I suppose it doesn't surpise you
that I don't consider the subjective individual -- the conscious 'I' -- as
part of the natural world.  The subjective 'I' does not evolve as physical
entities do.  Its self-awareness is not a more complex biological
transformation of the earthworm; it is a special creation with a special
purpose.  Proprietary sensibility isn't in itself a physical organism, it's
a psychic identity that is separate and apart from material existence.
Sentient subjects -- you and I -- operate through the "beingness" of the
insentient world, which is their "vehicle" or instrument of sensibility, but
are not indigenous to it.

What we call intellect is a hybrid (i.e., dichotomy) of being and sensing
that produces a dimensional image of reality fragmented into finite pieces
arranged in time and space.  This is how we form ideas, including the
concept that the universe comes into being, evolves through a series of
changes, and ultimately collapses or dies out.  This is also how we
manipulate beingness to create new material things like Teflon.  But the
universe and all the things in it are constructs of the intellect.  They
constitute the finite appearance of an objective otherness which is
not-other to finite awareness.  Other and not-other, object and subject, are
inextricably linked together by the value of the Source which is the ground
of experiential existence.

Evolution is the intellectual precept that follows from experiencing
objective reality as a series of related events occurring in time and space.
(This is why I avoid discussing it as an ontological principle in my
thesis.)  Proprietary awareness, on the other hand, is non-dimensional and
constant.  While the content of awareness changes, its existential identity
never does.

Hopefully, this will provide a somewhat clearer picture of my philosophical
position.  As for the "happy campers", it appears that they're more
interested in parsing the evolutionary levels of conservatism and
liberalism.

Anyway, thanks and good luck,
Ham