[MD] MOQ basics - Lila Squad old-timers

[Ron Kulp]

Chris,
A rather well put post and quite justified, I get confused myself about
This topic. What is confusing is the "old timers" agree with all the
Afore mentioned statements yet they're current posts and statements
Seem to reflect a contradictory stance. Goes to show how people can
agree
To the same thing yet have differing concepts about it.

-Ron


Hey Happy People. I Found this this morning, going through old  MOQ
stuff, 
from an early Lila Squad period. I'd like to ask all of you, but 
particularly those of you who have been at this from the beginning if
there 
is anything in this that you no longer agree with?

   1. Quality.  Quality is reality. Quality is the ethical principle of
the 
good. Thus reality is a moral order. Quality, like reality, is known to
us 
as awareness. As such, it is impossible to define.

   2. Morality. Morality is a synonym for Quality. Thus reality is a
moral 
order. A phenomenon is considered moral, or high Quality, to the extent
that 
it advances freedom.

   3. Value. Value is a synonym for Quality. Value encompasses what are 
usually known as causation and substance. Value is understood through
the 
sense of value.

   4. Dynamic Quality and static quality. There are many ways to divide 
Quality but the best way is into patterns of Dynamic and static value or

experience. Dynamic Quality is pure experience; static quality is
filtered 
experience. Dynamic Quality creates the world; static quality preserves
it. 
Dynamic Quality is more aesthetic than static quality. Neither Dynamic
nor 
static quality can survive without the other.

   5. Static levels. Quality became manifest in our world by an
evolutionary 
sequence of Dynamic Quality Events. Left in the wake of these events
were 
four static levels of evolution -- inorganic, biological, social and 
intellectual. Each level is a static pattern of Quality, organized and 
governed by its own moral laws -- the laws of physics, biology, culture
and 
reason respectively.

   6. Static awareness. Each higher level evolved from the lower level
but 
has become a discrete level. From the point of view of any level it is
only 
possible to evaluate phenomena at that level.

   7. Static dominance. Because each lower level is unable to evaluate
the 
other levels, it considers itself to be the most moral and strives to 
dominate the others.

   8. Static morality. The levels at a higher stage of evolution are
more 
moral than levels below. Intellectual patterns take moral precedence
over 
social patterns, social patterns over biological and biological patterns

over inorganic.

   9. Dependency. Higher qualities depend on lower qualities for
survival. 
Thus a higher quality can only dominate a lower one in so far as it does
not 
endanger its stability.

  10. Evolution. The universe is evolving away from low quality and
towards 
high quality.

  11. Truth.Truth is an intellectual value pattern. There is no single 
truth, only high quality and low quality truths.

  12. Self. The self is undivided Quality, encompassing both Dynamic and

static patterns. As with Quality, the self is both one and many.

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Regards

Chris