Hello Ham, Sent from my iPad
On Jan 2, 2012, at 2:32 AM, "Ham Priday" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Mark, and a Happy New Year to All -- > > On Friday, 12/23/2011 at 1:17 AM, Mark "118" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Ham, >> I am attempting as best I can to not make Marsha feel put upon. >> You know my opinion, so I can understand why you are confused. >> >> Two things that inherently exist? How about a dog and a sunflower. >> I can provide more if you want, for example you exist inherently, >> believe it or not. There is nothing conventional about these things, >> they are all uniquely unconventional. Show me something >> conventional and I will show you a mistake. I have been where >> you are and back. Trust me. > > Marsha has misconstrued Buddhism as a philosophy founded on nihilism, and > this does an injustice to Pirsig's Quality thesis. I had hoped to see the > promised outline of your ontology over the holidays, which is why this > response is delayed. > Not true. To be a nihilist, would be to believe things do not exist at all. Thingso conventionally exist; they exist as patterns of value; they exist as useful fiction (as in the tale of Nagasena and King Milinda). Marsha 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
