Platt: Can the reason for MOQ support of the free market be any plainer? Andre: Platt, if this is your answer to my questions, I must remove any benefit of doubt towards your insights and understanding of the MoQ I had.
[Krimel] Platt's view seems a bit like that of Caliph Omar; who, before ordering the Library of Alexandria torched, remarked; "If these books agree with the Koran they are unnecessary, if not they are false--Burn them!" Platt has the mind of a fundamentalist. The fundamentalist argues that scripture is inerrant. But in so doing the fundamentalist argues that not only is scripture inerrant but that it means a particular thing and that meaning is inerrant. Thus when the fundamentalist speaks he claims for himself the word of God. "That's not what I say, that's what God says," is their familiar refrain. I might add that this is the kind of reading dmb provides using the "perennial philosophy." A more nuanced reading of scripture is always excoriated by fundamentalists as is any effort to understand the culture and context in which scripture was written, for example looking at Northrop. [Andre] Just do not hide behind or take credit from the MoQ in support of your convictions. The MoQ says that you have a defect in your reasoning, a defect Mr Pirsig has been trying to expose and eradicate for the past thirty five years. [Krimel] Of course Platt needs to hide behind his own twisted reading of Pirsig, just a Pat Robertson hides behind his own twisted reading of his scripture and Bin Laden hides behind his. [Andre] I'm disappointed. [Krimel] The disappointment stage of dealing with Platt tends to be short lived. 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/
