[MD] The Dynamics of Value

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Hi Marsha,
Please do not derail this post as well.

Thanks,
Mark

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 3:21 AM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:
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> What is the reason, or purpose, for living a quality (spiritual) life?
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> On Jan 7, 2011, at 1:28 AM, 118 wrote:
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>> This post is intended to explore the birth of Value, it's
>> incarnations, and its death.
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>> There appear to be two contrary positions as to its birth.  Either we
>> are the source of value, or we are it's creation.  Both of these fit
>> within a metaphysics of Quality, where Quality depicts the perspective
>> of rhetoric.  That is, the song of existence.  A number of positions
>> can be taken which logically extend the birth of value into different
>> directions.  One of these could be the interplay of the subjective
>> with the objective.  Value can be seen as either the body or the mind
>> (to use an analogy).  It can be the material or the spiritual to use
>> another analogy.  It is my present interpretation that Value is the
>> source, not the result.  It creates from the very smallest to the very
>> largest.  It is inherent in our sense of time.  As such, the value
>> which we sense is part of a larger value impinged on us.  In this way,
>> man is not the measurement of all things that man measures, but
>> instead, man is a measurement.  He is a feature of value.  An analogy
>> for this would be the waves of an ocean.  Each wave is not creating
>> it's ascendence and descendence, but is a property of the ocean.
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>> A question could be: Why do I call this Value?  This can be analogized
>> using the symbol of the Tao, the Yin and Yang.  There is a constant
>> interplay of better and worse, darker and brighter, fairer and uglier,
>> pleasure and pain, which defines every moment of existence.  This
>> cannot be a creation of man, because it exists without man.  For
>> example, the notion of better or worse exists prior to man, and our
>> incarnation interprets it in a human way.  Man does not have the power
>> to make these things up, only reveal them in our own way.
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>> In the same way that a prism can distinguish light into various colors
>> (or frequencies), Value can be differentiated into various forms.
>> Using the light analogy, the color red has longer and shorter
>> wavelengths comprising it, which a the subtler grades of color.  It
>> can be said that Value creates a pull, which would mean that it is
>> directional.  While such directionality may seem in all directions,
>> historically it is possible to note the sum total of that direction
>> and map it.  Any such directionality would imply an outside source of
>> such value rather that one created by the individual.  However, the
>> inclusion of free will into the equation allows divergence within
>> individuals in how that follow such value.
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>> Specific values do die.  This would imply that the source of all
>> values tends to oscillate.  Another wave analogy can describe such
>> behavior, that is the rising and falling of value.  Some values which
>> can represent spiritual dogma can arise like rogue waves, and last for
>> thousands of years, only to disappear again.  This would imply that
>> the directional attribute of Value is temporary and ever changing.  It
>> could be considered cyclical like a sine wave.  If one is to be in
>> harmony, one must read the waves and ride them.  This is also called
>> becoming one with Tao.
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>> Perhaps someone should write The Tao of Motorcycle Maintenance.  Oh,
>> somebody already has.
>>
>> Mark
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