> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith A. Gillette [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, February 27, 1999 9:09 PM
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> Subject: LS March 1999 Program
>
>
> Please rank your top choices among these ideas.
>
>
[David Buchanan] YES How does one explain the MOQ in 45
minutes or less to people who have never
> heard of it?
>
[David Buchanan] COOL Is [the dharmakaya light] really out
there or has RMP taken a good metaphor
> one step too far?
>
[David Buchanan] YUK [Does the MOQ support Socrates when he
says], "A man who has learned about
> right will be righteous."?
>
[David Buchanan] SAME YUK Who is the the better judge of a
moral question, a person well-versed in
> the MOQ or a person with no MOQ knowledge but slightly more experience
> with
> the issue?
>
[David Buchanan] YES! Once Dynamic Quality is identified with
religious mysticism it produces an
> avalanche of information as to what Dynamic Quality is. Describe this
> avalanche.
>
[David Buchanan] YAWN How are those of us still mired in a
subject-object view of the world to
> wrap our minds around Pirsig's Copernican revolution in the MOQ?
>
[David Buchanan] OK
> After we have wrapped our minds around this transformation, What
> about Zen,
> the Lost Ox, and such ?
>
[David Buchanan] SNORE What did Pirsig mean by the terms
dynamic and static quality, what is the
> relationship
> between them, and did he posit them as the actual nature of reality or
> just
> a more useful interpretation of reality than the subject-object split?
>
[David Buchanan] HUH? Is this static-dynamic split merely an
epistemic convenience that we make
> arbitrarily or is it an ontological reality, transcending our thoughts
> and
> intellectual description of it?
>
[David Buchanan] TOO REMOVED How would Pirsig answer the
debate between Chomsky, who advocated modernity
> in claiming that we need morality to legitimize our actions and
> Foucault,
> who advocated postmodernity, claiming that despite our need of it,
> morality
> doesn't exist?
>
[David Buchanan] WAY TOO REMOVED What would our world look like
today if the Sophists had won the debate
> over the primacy of Truth over Quality?
>
>
> Final comment: Troy Becker makes the interesting suggestion that we do
> a
> "slow reading" [David Buchanan] TOO SLOW of Pirsig instead of our
> current PROGRAM format. Also, David
> Buchanan's suggestion of starting with a quote from Pirsig in each
> question
> strikes me as very a good idea. I encourage anyone who has similar
> ideas on
> how the list should work, how we should go about choosing a topic,
> etc. to
> send their suggestions to the steering committee
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Let
> us know what you think!
>
> Thanks,
> Keith
>
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