Hi folks
I received the following a couple of weeks or so ago but for various
reasons I've only just gotten around to sending it on.
Message follows.
Cheers
Horse
Message from John:
Greetings MD Pirsigians,
I've missed you all. The reasoning behind my resignation from MD was
valid, but has changed and I'd like a chance to explain in detail, if
you don't mind.
The main reason at the time I left, was escaping the conflict that came
from my pushing of the Roycean idea of an absolute. I really like Royce,
and didn't want to lose him, so I clung to the idea that the "Q" in
"moQ" was a sign of absolutism.
I believe the MoQ orthodoxy is opposed to that idea, to such an extent
that it's too destructive to hammer away at an unsolvable problem. So it
seemed that resignation, was called for.
In that time, I've gotten more educated on the subject, and even
attended a conference just lately, in my home town, on Royce, where the
president of the Royce society made the argument that he found the idea
of an absolute "block universe" logically unsupportable and yet
considers himself a Roycean. There was sharp conflict, on this subject,
but much applause too. I realized then and there, the quality of the
mistake I had made. And realized I'd been wrong, and it was right that I
was rebuked and criticized so harshly by Andre, Adrie and DMB.
Some day I hope to rejoin a dialogue with you again, and ask to rejoin,
but first there is a book I've been dying to read, that I hope will fill
in all the missing pieces, Sprigge's James and Bradley. i'm also greatly
enjoying the Varieties of Religious Experience and find it funny that
I've finally gotten to James .... through Royce!
Contrarian as always,
John
--
"Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines
or dates by which bills must be paid."
— Frank Zappa
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