dmb said: Craig, Steve and Marsha: Sorry but I can't really respond to you simply because I don't understand what your responses mean. Feel free to try again.
Steve replied: I was never a part of this conversation, and I have yet to respond to your post in the other thread (Social Level- Catholic Social Teaching). dmb says: Oh. Sorry. I had you mixed up with Peter, whose point was addressed well by Ron. (Thanks, Ron.) As far as the other thread goes, you should probably know that I'm one of the resident anti-theists. I'm a big fan of philosophical mysticism, but this represents a non-theistic, completely natural sort of spirituality. (This position draws a lot of fire from persons of faith and from scientifically-minded types as well.) I think this is Pirsig's position too. The perennial philosophy (philosophical mysticism) is perennial, he says, because it happens to be true. In Lila he says that religions are mostly just social level clap trap, low grade yelping about God and lots of stuff like that. And yet there have been a few believers who find Pirsig comforting, I suppose, for his attack on scientific objectivity. I guess this comfort is based on the idea that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. You know, because science is seen as religion's chief rival. My point? Please don't take my irreligious position personally. Go Blue! _________________________________________________________________ Use video conversation to talk face-to-face with Windows Live Messenger. http://www.windowslive.com/messenger/connect_your_way.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_messenger_video_072008 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/
