[MD] a brief explanation of me

[John Carl]

So... I've been busy this week.  Which is good.  Got some money in my
pocket.  Which is good.  I told brother at payday that the only true way to
value money is to not have any.  I was down to a dollar and those hundreds
in his fist looked mighty good to me.   Whereas there are some people who
look at mere thousands as toilet paper.  What's a couple thou when you own
billions?  Money changes in value but people remain the same.  Our intrinsic
values are independent of mere circumstance.  They are organic in nature -
of a completely different level than that of society.


Why does it help to analyse these patterns thusly?  I think we all here
admit of an ultimate and absolute pragmatism that must be brought to the
table constantly.  The question of "what is good" is an endlessly
fascinating one.  Better answers build better patterns which in turn build
better answers.    This being a partial response to a question mark/will
smith/blake asks about the purposes, goals, hope and faith to be found in
the discussion of the MoQ.  Why bother? - another way of formulation.
Everyone has their own reasons and that fundamentally acknowledged fact is
mine.


It is from a diversity of opinion that good arises.  You can't have an
evolution without diversity.  Many ideas must manifest in order for the best
to arise.  In sharing aspects of individual interaction with DQ, a common
theme arises, a knowable harmony manifests, this is not a chaotic process
though it seems so from within the process.  There is a good reason.
Quality is defined experientially.


Now.  As to the one experience of DQ which I can attest or witness, that is
mine.   Mine is different than yours.  In fact, mine is even starting to
seem weirder and weirder to me.   I honestly don't know what to make of it
all.


It seems that in making the effort to share my experience of DQ, DQ is
manifesting in more and more powerful ways to me.  Realer, solider,
personified.  Like a great big SIGN by the side of the freeway saying to me
personally GO HERE.


Scary thought, that much intellect manifesting in reality.   Also, there is
something I have only told a very select group of people in my life.  A
powerful dream  from long ago - 27 years to be roughly exact - which right
now seems to be starting to come true.  A dream that went nowhere now
becoming a reality.  You don't get one of those every day.  It seems to me
that trying to tell my story - my experience of DQ - is actually creating a
story that gets bigger all the time.  Good is its own reward, in one way,
and even truer in another.


So... all this explanation... why?  Because I want to assure you that:


a)  I'm not blogging, I'm explaining.


b)  I have an idea where I'm going and how I'm getting there, but none at
all on where I end up.


c)  I'm 100% fully committed, not going to go away in a snit, not going to
quit and I'm not going to lie.  I promise.  All you read from me is true.  I
don't even change the names to protect the innocent.  There is no such
thing.  We're all equally innocent and all equally guilty.