Marsha asked dmb: On what basis does your "I think" of agreement with Arlo exist? By mistaken identity!
dmb says: If you think "I" cannot agree without basing it on SOM, then you are one seriously mixed up cat. Now anyone who uses a personal pronoun is committed to the notion that reality is made up of two ontologically separate categories? If that's not reaching, Lance Armstrong was the first man on the moon. > > Arlo said (repeatedly): > > > > > > .., if all intellectual patterns are SOM, what exactly was Pirsig lamenting > > in ZMM? If "intellect" can be nothing else but SOM, then what's the beef > > with Aristotle? And those Sophists, they were peddling SOM too. > > ... I think that calling "intellect" nothing but SOM achieves this. It puts > > intellect as a whole as a cancerous element atop society, it makes > > "intellect" at best something to be overcome in an otherwise harmonious > > evolution. Of course intellect should have moral dominance over society, > > but I think Pirsig's point of asking "was this the pattern intellect was > > going to run with?" shows that intellect-as-SOM is the problem. > > > > > > dmb says: > > > > I think that's exactly right. SOM is the flaw, the disease and is not to be > > confused with the patient. That's what happens when you equate SOM with the > > intellect level; instead of saying the patient HAS cancer you say the > > patient IS cancer. You don't have to be a doctor to see what a huge mistake > > that is. > > _________________________________________________________________ > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy think 9 to 5 is a cute idea. Combine multiple calendars with Hotmail. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multicalendar&ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_5 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/md/archives.html
