dmb says: I think its not just that we disagree about James or Pirsig. I think your position is a classic case of a worldview they saw as a problem and found most worthy of destruction. Its sort of ironic the way you offer this view as an alternative or counter to the MOQ. Its an option wherein we throw away the solution and replace it with the problem. Naturally, in a forum like this, that would be the least attractive option. You DO realize that, don't you? I figure you have your own little game of "outcast" going. That's cool. Enjoy it.
[Krimel] Honestly Dave I have seen no evidence that you have the slightest clue what my worldview is. I notice that you like to label me as this or that, so you can argue with someone else and I am chameleon enough to accept whatever label anyone cares to attach to me, from religious fanatic to besserwisser. I do take a bit of offense at the outcast thing. While I have on many occasions said fairly nasty things about Pirsig this is usually in the context of someone else's interpretation of what he has said or where I think he has sacrificed precision for clarity, or where he leads us right to the edge of insight then backs away. The truth is Pirsig's two book have influenced my thinking as much as any writer I can think of. This does not mean that I regard him as some kind of oracle or that I am not free to disagree or that I need to pepper my posts with rehashed quotes. While you and others here emphasize the mystical Buddhist side of his writing I think Pirsig was pretty careful to keep it on the down low. I think he have done and excellent job of bringing Lao Tsu and Darwin together. And although I find his views on Darwin seriously misguided and his identification of DQ with Good misleading this is mainly because it has served to point some like yourself away from the real significance of what he has to say. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
