On Jan 24, 2010, at 5:25:56 PM, Mary <[email protected]> wrote: [Mary replies] By the time you read this, you'll probably have already seen my post tonight to Khoo. Can you guess where this is going? :)
It is a profoundly Western idea to say that Orientals (or Indians or Eskimos) are evolutionarily inferior if they lack our Greek intellectual inheritance. Where did Pirsig ever say that? He didn't. We, with our Western blinders assumed it! Pretty typical for an Ego-based Society. You could just as easily turn that around and say (which I think is the correct way) that the West, with its Greek intellectual heritage is the inferior one. If there's no Buddhist Static level above the Intellectual, that's because it would be an oxymoron. I can't speak for Bo, but when he and others point out that Pirsig says the Intellectual Level is the highest static level there is, that is not the same as saying it is the best or only way to think about the world. Oh, geez, now I've got Mark Smit on my ass! Guess I'll have to take that trip to the Creation Museum after all. :) Kidding aside, the Intellectual Level is a STATIC Level. It is not the be-all end-all of reality. Pirsig says this. I think Bo's only problem may be in getting a little loose with his words sometimes. Mary Hi Mary, Thanks for the reference. Just for the record, I am not a believer in creationism. I do not even believe in the big bang. All cosmological evidence I have seen supports a static universe better than one created by a big bang. But then again, I ain't no physicist. What I do believe is that there are many ways to believe, and all of them are right for the individual at that specific time. If they change their minds, it doesn't mean that they were wrong, it just means they changed their minds. As I read your posts, it would seem you have a similar attitude. Cheers, Mark 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/
