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Ant: > However, I always enjoyed Pirsig's retort to Copleston's statement that > "The Absolute is spirit" with the comment "There is > [a] brand of vodka called "Absolut"! John: Yeah, Mr. Pirsig didn't care much for the term "spirit". It's not a well-defined term. Whenever I hear the term spirit, I think DQ. When I hear Absolut I think, "yes please, I'll have a drink". Thanks for weighing in Ant, Ron comments on an aside: It's always fun to re-examine Why DQ (the mystic) in experience, Was considered "absolute". Technically vodka is a solution, But the solution of the mystic Being fixed eternal and unknowable (In the gnosis of fixed knowledge) Just created a lot of problems for The rationalists temperament of The Platonists/Neo-Platonists which Influenced thinking in early western Civilization (in theology and scientific Thought). The lesson of re-examination of per rennial wisdom is discovering that The road has been tread before us And we should be able to point to The pitfalls and the mistakes made In how we treat the idea of the mystic Unknown and it's utility in meaning Not only to us as subscribers but To our community. I think we have the tools to do it And all it takes is an expansion in The ideas we already know and are Comfortable with. An analogy would be singing the Wrong lyrics to a well known song All your life then you look up the real Lyrics, now the song takes on new Meaning and usually makes more Sense. Creedance ( there's a bad moon on the rise) comes to mind. Usually misinterpreted as there's a bathroom on the right. But you get the gist. The Socratic dialogs and Aristotle Are very similar to bad moon on the rise. If you ask me, that is. , 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
