Dmb said:
See, every stage of reality's unfolding is about God and religion, even the most primitive phase wherein "man cannot form an idea of anything". The whole thing is nothing but a divine unfolding. So when Pirsig adds a forth stage where the term "God" is dropped, you're supposed to laugh at how neatly and quickly he disposes of the whole trajectory of the thing. He's saying, politely, this is not philosophy at all. It's just religion, a relic of the social suppression of thought. He's mocking this overtly theistic form of Idealism by suggesting they drop their central term; God. I think it's pretty damn hilarious, actually. Ron replies: I think he's asking them to keep the spirit of the trajectory but be more sensitive to definitions and meaning. Because we are talking about feeling at this point. What drives drives both philosophy and religion, our values. I never read Pirsig as mocking, interesting. But yea, I took it as a call to explore the root of both where one is expected to drop God and materialism both ideas of absolute truths. And explore our reasons for holding certain values 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 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
