[MD] The SOM/MOQ discrepancy.

[ml]

Arlo,

I guess one of the questions I have with the 
Exodus quote, is through the lens of MOQ.

If, as we see happening in this thousands of 
year old quote, there is a jew who put intellectual 
function at the service of the social and rallies 
support in the form of a commandment to be socially 
enforced.  What was it that was being reacted against?

The alternative was a 'lesser god'.  Putting the 
biological at the service of the physical would be a
less moral action.  Worshiping golden calf and sacrificing
babies to the statue, hmmmmlow quality.

Unfortunately many tend to get stuck in static practices 
that were one time dynamic, but ossify over time to 
the point of irrelevance or malignancy...

Even for us, the most dynamic insight today is tomorrow's 
hidebound inflexible static anchor.

thanks--mel


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Krimel" <Krimel at Krimel.com>
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Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 11:14 AM
Subject: Re: [MD] The SOM/MOQ discrepancy.


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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arlo Bensinger [mailto:ajb102 at psu.edu] 
> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 11:46 AM
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> Subject: Re: [MD] The SOM/MOQ discrepancy.
> 
> [Platt to Ham]
> Here I see value (Quality) at the very root of your philosophy -- an 
> Essence that created the world because it wanted to be appreciated...
> 
> [Arlo]
> Exodus 20:5 "You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, 
> the LORD your God, am a jealous God..."
> 
> I'd say any "Essence" that's so needy that it needed to create "the 
> world" just so its creations will "appreciate it" (perceive its 
> magnificence!?)  is a poor "Essence" indeed. But hey, if you need 
> something to worship, I suppose anything will do...
> 
> So let me ask... in your views (the need-to-be appreciated Essigod, 
> or the MOQ-based Qualigod), did the "intent to produce man" precede 
> man's existence? That is, in both of your metaphysics, was their a 
> "plan" to make man long before the cosmos appeared?
> 
> [Krimel]
> There's that but I would add: what are we to make of this statement:
> 
> "Thus, Essence actualizes difference as the appearance of otherness to an
> autonomous agent."
> 
> What is an "autonomous agent"?
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