[MD] The MOQ and religions.

[Ham Priday]

Greetings, John --



> Mornin' Ham,
>
>> The ambiguity in these statements is easily resolved by regarding
>> experience as "patterned awareness" and sensibility as the
>> emotive state induced by pure (unpatterned) Value.
>
> Unpatterned Value makes as little sense to my thinking as unpatterned
> experience.  I guess I have a problem with all "un" patterns.  I can't
> conceptualize such a thing and any attempt to analogize it just ends up
> obviating the UN, is my problem.

That's because you are trying to "objectify" Pure Value as analytical 
experience, which cannot be done.  As I just told Marsha, ALL experience is 
differentiated, objectivized, patterned.  The so-called "pre-intellectual 
experience" is not an experience at all.  It is the primary 
value-sensibility which is your essential nature.  Creatures are not 
equipped to experience undifferentiated or absolute Value, but 
value-sensiblity is intrinsic to the human being.

Our sense of Value is "pre-experiential" in that it provides the ground of 
our existence.  It also affords us the autonomy to choose those values with 
which we are "in tune" esthetically, morally, and emotionally.  This is what 
I refer to elsewhere as our "value complement," and it makes each individual 
unique in his/her relation to Essence.

We can discuss this some more at your convenience, if you are so inclined.

Meantime, best wishes for the New Year,
Ham