Quoting ian glendinning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Platt, > > Pack it in you imbecile. Where did Arlo ever say > "Lower and higher forms of life are equal." ?
Ian: Give it up you jerk. I said the intellectual was better, more moral than the social level. Arlo said I was wrong. So I quoted Pirsig to the contrary. Where's your brain? > YOU ARE IGNORANT by definition, and in a very long-lived static kind of way > too. > What is the point of anyone responding to you ? > That was fun (not). > Ian > PS having already questioned Arlo and others for even bothering to > debate with you, normal service will be resumed, after half a day's > aberration. You keep promising. Your promises are as good as your intelligence. > On 2/21/08, Platt Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > [Platt] > > > The intellectual (individual) level is better than the social > > > (collective) level. > > > > > > [Arlo] > > > I'm not talking about Platt's neocon MOQ, nor do I have any desire > > > to, I'm talking about Pirsig's. > > > > Let's talk Pirsig's MOQ: > > > > "But what he saw at this point was a social pattern of -values, a film, > > devouring an intellectual pattern of values, his book. It would be a lower > > form of life feeding upon a higher form of life. As such it would be > > immoral. And that's exactly how it felt: immoral." (Lila, 20). > > > > For Arlo, lower and higher forms of life are equal. Comical. > > > > > [Platt] > > > If all was balanced, there would be no evolution. > > > > > > [Arlo] > > > Wrong. It is balance (not stasis) that allows evolution. Without it, > > > new directions would not latch on one hand, and on the other there > > > would be no new directions. > > > > Balance implies stasis -- physical equilibrium. ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ 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/
