[MD] Fw: The Dynamics of Value

[Ham Priday]

Hi Marsha --

On Sunday, Jan 23, 2011, at 4:42 AM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:

 > Greetings Ham,
>
> "Primary" seems to indicate a temporal dependency:
> How is time defined within your philosophy?

Actually "primary" (i.e., prime, original ) connotes that which is 
NON-dependent.  For example, Webster's Collegiate Dictionary defines primacy 
as "the state of being first (as in importance, order, or rank)."  My 
reference to "first cause" is intended for temporally-bound people who are 
unable to conceive Creation in any other way than as a sequence of related 
events.

One of the first concepts a metaphysicist must grasp is that space/time is 
the dualistic mode of experiential awareness, rather than an attribute or 
condition of Absolute Oneness.  Human beings experience existence 
incrementally, one phenomenon at a time as localized in space, relative to 
the observer.  The source--ultimate reality--is not subject to such 
conditions, is non-relational, knows no other.

We live in an evolving world of appearances, an organized, self-sustained 
system characterized by diversity and process.  The primary "act" of 
creation produces the appearance of  Difference, dividing Sensibility 
(subjective awareness) from Otherness (objective beingness).  We experience 
it valuistically as the "many and many things" that come into existence, 
undergo change, and eventually disappear or are transformed into something 
else.  But from the absolute perspective, creation is a 'fait ccompli' 
transcending difference and change.

So, in short, I would define "time" as the illusionary continuum whereby 
finite events are experienced sequentially, thus giving rise to the 
intellectual precept of cause-and-effect.

Essentially speaking,
Ham