David M said: 'God' as a word for the source of all possibilities is well covered in Sneddon's thesis on Whitehead & Pirsig, it's simple stuff really, I'm sure you can grasp it.
dmb says: It may be simple to read a master's thesis (although that's debatable) but it would consume many hours of my time. One would think, if it is so simple and easy to grasp, that you would have simply answered my question. David M said: I think Whitehead's analysis of the distinction possible/actual is key to expanding what Pirsig says about static/dynamic. The physicist Shimon Malin thinks Whitehead's approach is the ideal one for making sense of quantum theory, the connections to Pirsig are obvious if you look at the chapters in this: ... dmb says: Process philosophy and quantum theory expands Pirsig dq/sq split. Just a few chapters and I'll see all this and its relation to Whitehead's possible/actual distinction? Oh yea, that sounds real simple. And again, this would take hours at least. If you have an answer to my question, that's fine. But I have way more than enough to read already. I'll ask you (again) to refrain from giving me homework instead of straight talk. If the concept has meaning, then it can be explained. I suspect no explanations have been offered for that reason. I mean, it looks like your (second) non-answer is just another evasion. If there are so many interesting connections, wouldn't all the readers gain something from it and isn't that the point of a forum like this one? Why is it getting any kind of coherent thought from you is like pulling teeth? Why would you tell somebody that the answer is simple and then not simply give it? Maybe I should try to be compassionate about it because you're not capable for some reason, but I'm not. This philosophical impotence only makes me angry. Its just more of the vagueness and abstraction I was complaining about in the first place. And the condescending attitude doesn't help either. Thanks for nothing, dmb _________________________________________________________________ Mortgage rates as low as 4.625% - Refinance $150,000 loan for $579 a month. Intro*Terms https://www2.nextag.com/goto.jsp?product=100000035&url=%2fst.jsp&tm=y&search=mortgage_text_links_88_h27f6&disc=y&vers=743&s=4056&p=5117 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.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
