Re: [MD] Free Will

2011-07-10 Thread X Acto
Dan: To the extent one follows the undefined, they are free. This is very powerful stuff. How does a person go about following that which is not this, not that? Ron: Well thats why I favor better-ness for we follow dynamic quality when we choose to wing-it, when we put the nava-computer away on

Re: [MD] Free Will

2011-07-10 Thread Steven Peterson
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 12:24 AM, X Acto xa...@rocketmail.com wrote: Steve replied to Dave: I don't disagree with Pirsig or the dictionary as far as the classic dilemma. I disagree with how YOU think this dilemma could possibly still come up in the MOQ while Pirsig specifically says this

Re: [MD] Free Will

2011-07-10 Thread Steven Peterson
Hi Dan, Dan: I think Steve is taking the quote out of context here by stating the dilemma doesn't come up. From LILA: ... In the Metaphysics of Quality this dilemma doesn't come up. To the extent that one's behavior is controlled by static patterns of quality it is without choice. But to

Re: [MD] Free Will

2011-07-10 Thread david buchanan
Ron said to Steve: Bob specifically states that when we follow Dynamic Quality we are free. He states that natural selection aka evolution is dynamic quality at work,.. What you, Steve, seem to insist on, is that free-will or dynamic quality as re-named by Pirsig's MoQ, can not be or should

Re: [MD] Free Will

2011-07-10 Thread MarshaV
To the extent that one's behavior is controlled by static patterns of quality it is without choice. But to the extent that one follows Dynamic Quality, which is undefinable, one's behavior is free. (LILA, Chapter 12) Here's a way to look at it: 'To the extent that one's behavior

Re: [MD] Free Will

2011-07-10 Thread Dan Glover
Hello everyone On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 12:50 PM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: To the extent that one's behavior is controlled by static patterns of quality it is without choice. But to the extent that one follows Dynamic Quality, which is undefinable, one's behavior is free.     (LILA,

Re: [MD] Free Will

2011-07-10 Thread Dan Glover
Hello everyone On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 6:15 AM, X Acto xa...@rocketmail.com wrote: Dan: To the extent one follows the undefined, they are free. This is very powerful stuff. How does a person go about following that which is not this, not that? Ron: Well thats why I favor better-ness for

Re: [MD] Free Will

2011-07-10 Thread MarshaV
Greetings Good Dan Glover, On Jul 10, 2011, at 3:12 PM, Dan Glover wrote: Hello everyone On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 12:50 PM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: To the extent that one's behavior is controlled by static patterns of quality it is without choice. But to the extent that

Re: [MD] Free Will

2011-07-10 Thread Dan Glover
Hello everyone On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Steven Peterson peterson.st...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Dan, Dan: I think Steve is taking the quote out of context here by stating the dilemma doesn't come up. From LILA: ... In the Metaphysics of Quality this dilemma doesn't come up. To the

Re: [MD] question: MOQ, Pirsigism, passionate emotion

2011-07-10 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Steve and all, Metaphysics is about the indefinable DQ and SQ. The intellectual level covers SQ very well. Physics describes the definable SQ. Physics depends on definitions for the logical explanation of reality. If you experience logic you have to experience definitions. Pirsig proposed

Re: [MD] Free Will

2011-07-10 Thread Dan Glover
Hello everyone On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 1:30 PM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: Greetings Good Dan Glover, On Jul 10, 2011, at 3:12 PM, Dan Glover wrote: Hello everyone On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 12:50 PM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: To the extent that one's behavior is controlled by

Re: [MD] Free Will

2011-07-10 Thread MarshaV
Hi Dan, On Jul 10, 2011, at 3:49 PM, Dan Glover wrote: Hello everyone On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 1:30 PM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: Greetings Good Dan Glover, On Jul 10, 2011, at 3:12 PM, Dan Glover wrote: Hello everyone On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 12:50 PM, MarshaV

Re: [MD] Free Will

2011-07-10 Thread MarshaV
On Jul 10, 2011, at 4:40 PM, Dan Glover wrote: Hello everyone On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 2:20 PM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: Hi Dan, On Jul 10, 2011, at 3:49 PM, Dan Glover wrote: Hello everyone On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 1:30 PM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: Greetings Good

Re: [MD] Free Will

2011-07-10 Thread Dan Glover
Hello everyone On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 2:53 PM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: On Jul 10, 2011, at 4:40 PM, Dan Glover wrote: Hello everyone On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 2:20 PM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: Hi Dan, On Jul 10, 2011, at 3:49 PM, Dan Glover wrote: Hello everyone On

Re: [MD] Free Will

2011-07-10 Thread MarshaV
Dan, Dan: That's it? That's your reply? I had the audacity of hope that you might push back a bit if you didn't agree... that you might actually indulge me in a dialogue. Well, no matter. Marsha: Oh, if you had wanted a dialogue maybe you wouldn't have started with the push back

Re: [MD] Free Will

2011-07-10 Thread Anthony Black
From: david buchanan dmbucha...@hotmail.com To: moq_disc...@moqtalk.org Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 5:57 PM Subject: Re: [MD] Free Will http://www.myspace.com/570937368 squonk :-) Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc.

[MD] Squonk: DSWR

2011-07-10 Thread Anthony Black
Here's a bit of the old Dynamic for ya... http://www.myspace.com/570937368 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/

[MD] Buchanan's thesis

2011-07-10 Thread Anthony Black
Buchanan has nothing he hasn't borrowed, and then labelled 'mine'. What a daft, egocentric, delusional anus of a man. Tatty bye. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives:

Re: [MD] Free Will

2011-07-10 Thread Dan Glover
Hello everyone On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 3:20 PM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: Dan, Dan: That's it? That's your reply? I had the audacity of hope that you might push back a bit if you didn't agree... that you might actually indulge me in a dialogue. Well, no matter. Marsha: Oh, if

Re: [MD] Free Will

2011-07-10 Thread MarshaV
On Jul 10, 2011, at 6:12 PM, Dan Glover wrote: Hello everyone On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 3:20 PM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: Dan, Dan: That's it? That's your reply? I had the audacity of hope that you might push back a bit if you didn't agree... that you might actually indulge

Re: [MD] Free Will

2011-07-10 Thread Dan Glover
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 4:17 PM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: On Jul 10, 2011, at 6:12 PM, Dan Glover wrote: Hello everyone On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 3:20 PM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: Dan, Dan: That's it? That's your reply? I had the audacity of hope that you might push back a

[MD] What to leave in...

2011-07-10 Thread Anthony Black
Anthony McTwat, on his tawdry little website, repeated this apparent quote from Robert M Pirsig re. one of McTwat's shitty little static DVD's: 'Only you [McTwat] know what to leave in and what to leave out' (Pirsig) Reading this, i felt that Pirsig was either taking the piss out of McTwat, or

Re: [MD] Free Will

2011-07-10 Thread Steven Peterson
Hi Dan, Dan: What Steve seems to be saying is: dilemma solved... no more need to talk about it. Steve: That's not what I mean to say. Dan: Oh. I did get that impression from reading your posts. I am sorry if I was in error. Steve: In fact I've been talking about it quite a lot.

Re: [MD] Free Will

2011-07-10 Thread Dan Glover
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 8:12 PM, Steven Peterson peterson.st...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Dan, Dan: What Steve seems to be saying is: dilemma solved... no more need to talk about it. Steve: That's not what I mean to say. Dan: Oh. I did get that impression from reading your posts. I am