Hi Marsha, > Okay, but just for the record: > > "Any person of any philosophic persuasion who sits on a hot stove > will verify without any intellectual argument whatsoever that he is > in an undeniably low-quality situation: that the value of his > predicament is negative. This low quality is not just a vague, > woolly-headed, crypto-religious, metaphysical abstraction. It is an > experience. It is not a judgment about an experience. It is not a > description of experience. The value itself is an experience. As such > it is completely predictable. It is verifiable by anyone who cares to > do so. It is reproducible. Of all experience it is the least > ambiguous, least mistakable there is. Later the person may generate > some oaths to describe this low value, but the value will always come > first, the oaths second. Without the primary low valuation, the > secondary oaths will not follow." > > __"not just a vague, woolly-headed, crypto-religious, metaphysical > abstraction. It is an experience. It is not a judgment about an > experience. It is not a description of experience. The value itself > is an experience. "__ > > No words or faith required. Marsha,
True, except the words required for Pirsig to communicate his belief, and the leap of faith to accept his view that sitting on a hot stove has something to do with morals. Platt 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/
