Quoting Arlo Bensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> [Platt]
> You certainly have shown you don't understand the MOQ.
> 
> [Arlo]
> Maybe. What does everyone else think? Is "Quality" a "Quali-god" with 
> volition and intent?
> 
> [Platt]
> Quote from Pirsig: " Neither is there a quarrel between the 
> Metaphysics of Quality and the "teleological" theories which insist 
> that life has some
> purpose."
> 
> Now what is there about these words you don't understand?
> 
> [Arlo had said about these telelogical theories]
> So, are all these correct? That would mean "purpose" is completely 
> relative doesn't it?
> 
> [Arlo now]
> Which of these words don't you understand? Are all these teleological 
> theories correct? Is purpose relative?
> 
> And here is something else to think about. If, as you say, 
> Quali-god's recent destruction of Burma was planned and carried out 
> as part of some larger plan, what does that say about free will? Were 
> those people "expendable" in the eyes of Quali-god? And, if Quali-god 
> orders and plans the cosmos as you suggest, was the meeting of your 
> wife part of that plan? Were you just a unwilling piece of 
> Quali-god's plan? Is everything that happened to you part of 
> Quali-god's plan, that it enacts with volition and intent?  Or does 
> Quali-god only order and willfully manipulate the cosmos apart from "man"?

Again, your imagination working overtime. The idea of a Quali-god is yours
and yours alone. If you believe in fairies, so be it. It takes all kinds.




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