Things do not exist as static patterns of value, that is what we make them.
Sent laboriously from an iPhone, Mark On Jan 2, 2012, at 8:54 AM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 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
