clark (clark@netsites.net)
Fri, 19 Dec 1997 04:35:13 +0100
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> From: Murdock, Mark <Mark.Murdock@Unisys.Com>
> To: Multiple recipients of <lilasqd@mail.hkg.com>
> Subject: LS Re: MOQ and Biotics.
> Date: Thursday, December 18, 1997 2:01 PM
>
> Excellent Ken!
>
> Appropriate for the season too, I think.
>
> > 50% of the entire world's wealth would be in the hands of only 6
> > people
> > and all 6 would be citizens of the United States.
> >
> > 80 would live in substandard housing.
> >
> > 70 would be unable to read.
> >
> > 50 would suffer from malnutrition.
> >
> > When one considers our world from such an incredibly compressed
> > perspective, the need for both tolerance and understanding becomes
> > glaringly apparent.
> >
> > If the Metaphysics of Quality can do anything to redress these
> > inequalities then that should be one of its prominent concerns.
> >
> Absolutely.
>
> These numbers are immoral. Now I would ask to take the exercise one
> step further. Instead of 100 people, consider 1.
>
> Now, would you tolerate yourself being illiterate or living in a dump 6
> days a week or half hungry? Of course not. Why then do we tolerate
> these conditions?
>
> Because it's someone else. It's outside of us. Subject-Object, Me-Not
> Me thinking creates the isolation that disconnects us from each other.
> But the disconnection is purely cultural and not reflective of reality.
> We can intellectualize about it until the cows come home, but until you
> feel it, MoQ is worthless. Without the Good - Truth inversion, MoQ will
> wind up on the intellectual scrap heap. It's just another truth,
> temporal, fleeting, distracting us from the affairs of mankind.
>
> If you accept the "only value is" premise and Pirsig's hierarchical
> structure, then people are the most precious, most value-able. Combine
> this value system with the belief that we are all one "person," and you
> have a recipe for changing the world.
>
> This can only be accomplished by placing priority on feelings of
> Goodness, of right, above our misplaced quest for more knowledge.
> Spending dollars on a bigger Hubble Telescope or a new superconducting
> super collider is immoral while one child goes hungry on this planet.
> One child. That's what will change our condition and nothing short.
>
> Technology and science will never, never, never improve the human
> condition without Religion (or the more secular MoQ/Eastern percept
> based on Oneness) to guide it. Spiritual leaders (perhaps MoQ
> Metaphysicians?) will direct science in the next millenium. I know this
> in my heart. I'm passionate about it. If I fail, it won't be because I
> quit. Even Einstein recognized the need when he said "Religion without
> science is lame, but science without religion is blind." Now, I may
> sound like a broken record, but how can you argue with Einstein, hmmmm?
>
>
> > I consider
> > this to be the proper concern of all of us. Concern for the viability
> > of
> > the Earth would be one of the important places to start.
> >
> I only differ in priorty here, Ken. People first, the Earth will
> follow.
> >
> > This seems to me to be a good thread for the Squad.
> >
> Yes, good indeed.
>
> M.
>
> >
> >
> >
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Mark,
Good ideas. You and I are not too far apart. I still think a firm and
healthy inorganic base is the first requirement before all else can follow.
In my mind I place the Earth in the biological level. To stretch a point we
could even include the social level.
I place the Bible and Christianity as major steps in our ethical growth
but levels from which we need to select those elements which are still
conducive to further ethical growth and relegate the remainder to human
history.
In spite of the way I sometimes sound, I am optimistic although I think
we will only advance ethically through (bitter?) experience.
I see humanity on the verge of another ethical leap forward. Looks to me
like the process of self destruction has already started in the current
world view. We slid backward a little in the middle of the twentieth
century but this has provided us with another rung on the ladder. The LIla
Squad is a case in point. Happy Christmas to you, Happy winter solstice to
me. Ken.
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