Arlo said: The "conclusion" he is speaking about is clearly "that the SOM and the intellectual level are one and the same". Nowhere in his reply do I see anything about "necessary use of S/O language to convey the MOQ" or anything about the MOQ's "essence" being compromised. I agree with Pirsig on this, following the path of Bo and Platt lowers the quality of the MOQ. Pirsig got that one right.
dmb says: I agree. The idea doesn't even work in general, regardless of its impact on the MOQ. SOM is just one particular set of ideas. How does it make sense to equate that with all ideas. The Ford Pinto is a car but it would be ridiculous to assert that Pintos are one and the same as all cars. The dog is not one and the same as all life forms and gold is not equal to all the elements. It's just a silly idea. Period. Can we please move on? This whole debate is a total waste of time and energy. It's keyboard abuse. _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail is redefining busy with tools for the New Busy. Get more from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_2 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
