Moffers,
Call it luck or magic. Just yesterday I posted on MD a message in which I
mentioned our "old" friend Denis (wondering whether he was still around the
lists), and in the same moment he was back to MF.
Of course I remember you, Denis, and let me say your return is really a
quality event. Welcome back.
I enter the month with a little delay, for many reasons. One is that the
topic needs a pondering....
I agree with many, Denis and Diana mainly. It's not easy to say "how much"
Lila, or the MOQ, affected my life. Or in which precise moment. I've read it
for the first time about 5 years ago, and it shocked me a lot for the
harmony in the interpretation of existence it offers. But for some years the
MOQ has been latent in my life. I've searched also for something else, as I
had searched before, and I'm still searching, in order to find new answers
and, that's more important, new questions.
Surely the participation to this forum affected my life more, as my quest,
that was solitary before, has found so many companions. I've a relatively
rich social life, but it's not easy to find someone everyday to talk at the
same time of Value, Intellect, Platypi, and Motorcycle Maintenance. Maybe
the most funny thing is that I joined the forum mainly to improve my English
(with this poor result, please don't laugh so much at me! :-), and in the
beginning I thought it was difficult it could last.
But then in few months I found that while the improvement of my English was
proceeding very slowly :-(, the improvement of my quest was dramatic. I love
to think that it's an impossible quest, as every answer discovers new
questions, like a chain reaction. I love to think it, because IMO it's
wonderful to be active on something that is in the common sense "useless". I
love useless things. I couldn't spend my time on a handbook like "How
to...." while I spend it reading (not very much, I must admit) about
history, etymology, philosophy (I like to investigate the past), or simply
talking with everyone about everything. That's why I'm here to improve my
English, which I had learnt more on the beach and listening to rock music
than at school. I can't bear an English Grammar....
Many use to tell me I'm lazy, as I don't employ myself in what they find
worth of application. I accepted this definition for many years, then I
discovered that I'm able of hard "tours de force" when I want, that is, when
I perceive value in what I'm doing. This is common, of course. So when I
found this sentence in Lila "a thing that has no value does not exist", I
understood that my laziness was simply a personal perception of values.
And I also understood that in order to preserve the freedom to develop my
interests, I must accept to be part of the giant, and preserve my biologic
life. IMO the social/intellectual struggle represents a psychological
problem for many who can't stand the modern life. They would like to be free
to live a different life, and feel their social existence like a prison.
They can't find the reason for that, and the result is anguish. Maybe the
MOQ could be for them also a psychological aid.
I think I learnt all this. However IMO Lila and the MOQ did not change my
deep convictions. The MOQ helped me to discover them better, like, as said,
to discover the value in everything.
The famous sculptor Michelangelo used to say that it's not difficult to
sculpt a statue: it's enough to carve off the marble just the matter you
don't need. Every stone has inside the masterpiece. That's why I chose
"marble" as user id for my mail address. After all, my interests on what's
past are oriented to the investigation of myself, as I am my past. The MOQ,
with its evolutionary vision of universe, seems to be a good tool to
discover the masterpiece hidden inside all of us.
tks
Marco
MOQ.org - http://www.moq.org
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