[MD] Fw: The Dynamics of Value

[MarshaV]

On Jan 23, 2011, at 1:52 PM, Ham Priday wrote:

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> Hi Marsha --
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> On Sunday, Jan 23, 2011, at 4:42 AM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:
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> > Greetings Ham,
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>> "Primary" seems to indicate a temporal dependency:
>> How is time defined within your philosophy?
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Essentially speaking,
> Ham 


Hi Ham,

I was looking for the word: illusionary.  I've been tussling with time and your term 'primary' caught eye. -  No interdependencies like all-interdependencies?  Strange world...  Anyway, thanks for responding.  


Marsha  
 
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