Hi David, dmb says: The intellect can produce any number of metaphysical systems. SOM and the MOQ are two such systems and they can hang next to countless other painting, as in the art gallery analogy. In that analogy, equating intellect with SOM is like equating one of the paintings with the whole gallery in which it hangs. It would be like equating Catholicism with the whole social level, like saying lions are the biological level or equating gold with the whole inorganic level. The scope and meaning of SOM is inflated wildly out of proportion when it is equated with the intellect. It eliminates all of the other elements, all of the other life forms, all of the other religions and all of the other intellectual visions. It would eliminate all non-SOM philosophies and that means eliminating the MOQ. When Pirsig said Bo's theory undermines the MOQ, I think he was being a bit too euphemistic and polite about.
Khoo: This is about as strong a refutation of the SOL as the QI argument as I have ever seen stated boldy and without reservation. There are 84,000 ways to meditate. Take your pick. 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
