Post by Ben on Apr 23, 2006 17:34:50 GMT -5
This subject has held a lot of interest for me as of late. Mainly because in setting up a new branch of my catering company that I knew little about I had to sift out the bare bones (mostly because of lack of capital) from the jewelry in order to get it afloat.
In a nut shell its the idea that there is a certain rank of importance for things i.e. a car is great but it will not run without gas or your music philosophy is nice but you don't know how to play. As usual I applied this idea into spiritual dealings. Reason being, I feel that spiritual undertakings are what facilitate all else. So why not apply the attention and the striving at the foundation? If the foundation is sound, many of the other things just seem to take care of themselves.
That is one of the main ideas about universals and particulars. Through maintaining focus on the roots, making sure they are planted well, and get the right amount of water, the branches and flowers will naturally grow on their own.
It is a process of examination at first. You look to see what is absolutely necessary for something to work. In food service, you have to have a kitchen to cook the food. Without it, no matter how great your skills are, or how awsome your ingredients are, you simply cannot offer food service unless you have the means to prepare the food. In athletics, say soccer, no matter how in shape you are, no matter how fast you can run, you simply cannot be an effective player if you can't dribble the ball.
In Mono-theistic religion it is imparitive to have a base of peace, love, and mercy. It simply winds up going astray every time this foundation is not established. It is likely the most essential universal that needs to be applied if any of its tenets are to bare tasty fruits.
You can look and see examples everywhere these days where mono-theistic groups do not have this established in their practices. You wind up getting negative results to the degree of which the basis of peace, love, and mercy are not drawn from.
I can speak about Islam here because I know more about the religion than any other. It is also a good example because Islam is for one, under a lot of scruity worldwide these days, and two, Islam has a lot of rules to follow on one level.
If you were to look at Islam as a mathmatical formula, peace, love, and mercy would be the postulates that make operations possible. If these aspects are not in place you are going to have an incomputable formula not matter how hard you try to make it work.
Some might argue that results can be rendered without these. To that I have to say, what are the quality of those results? I think you see that when someone tries to put Islam into practice without this foundation, sure you have results, but the results themselves will be contrary to the central ideas of the religion again and again and again.
People debate on particulars, sometimes to an exhausting degree. I think this is fine if the context draws from the universals. Back to general terms, I think debating on particulars is useless to a degree unless they are shown in the light of the universals.
The particulars, if overemphesized, can actually lead one astray from the essential properties that make something work. So they wind up with a car with an awsome stereo, a great set of rims, fat tires, but no engine to make the car go.
In a nut shell its the idea that there is a certain rank of importance for things i.e. a car is great but it will not run without gas or your music philosophy is nice but you don't know how to play. As usual I applied this idea into spiritual dealings. Reason being, I feel that spiritual undertakings are what facilitate all else. So why not apply the attention and the striving at the foundation? If the foundation is sound, many of the other things just seem to take care of themselves.
That is one of the main ideas about universals and particulars. Through maintaining focus on the roots, making sure they are planted well, and get the right amount of water, the branches and flowers will naturally grow on their own.
It is a process of examination at first. You look to see what is absolutely necessary for something to work. In food service, you have to have a kitchen to cook the food. Without it, no matter how great your skills are, or how awsome your ingredients are, you simply cannot offer food service unless you have the means to prepare the food. In athletics, say soccer, no matter how in shape you are, no matter how fast you can run, you simply cannot be an effective player if you can't dribble the ball.
In Mono-theistic religion it is imparitive to have a base of peace, love, and mercy. It simply winds up going astray every time this foundation is not established. It is likely the most essential universal that needs to be applied if any of its tenets are to bare tasty fruits.
You can look and see examples everywhere these days where mono-theistic groups do not have this established in their practices. You wind up getting negative results to the degree of which the basis of peace, love, and mercy are not drawn from.
I can speak about Islam here because I know more about the religion than any other. It is also a good example because Islam is for one, under a lot of scruity worldwide these days, and two, Islam has a lot of rules to follow on one level.
If you were to look at Islam as a mathmatical formula, peace, love, and mercy would be the postulates that make operations possible. If these aspects are not in place you are going to have an incomputable formula not matter how hard you try to make it work.
Some might argue that results can be rendered without these. To that I have to say, what are the quality of those results? I think you see that when someone tries to put Islam into practice without this foundation, sure you have results, but the results themselves will be contrary to the central ideas of the religion again and again and again.
People debate on particulars, sometimes to an exhausting degree. I think this is fine if the context draws from the universals. Back to general terms, I think debating on particulars is useless to a degree unless they are shown in the light of the universals.
The particulars, if overemphesized, can actually lead one astray from the essential properties that make something work. So they wind up with a car with an awsome stereo, a great set of rims, fat tires, but no engine to make the car go.