[MD] Metaphysics

[ARLO J BENSINGER JR]

[Mark]
No, we do not have to trudge through it once you understand it to be true. 

[Arlo]
Don't hold your breath for me to understand nonsense to be "true".

[Mark]
What I hear from you is unquestioning faith.

[Arlo]
That's your problem, not mine.

[Mark]
As if what you believe could not be wrong.  This is religion to its extreme. 

[Arlo]
This is the worst "logic" I have seen in a while. In your zeal to portray
everything as "faith" and "religion" you are only making yourself look foolish.

[Mark]
I can see I will not convince you otherwise.

[Arlo]
No, you will never convince me "its all just flavors of faith". I left that
sort of insipid nonsense behind back when I started actually thinking.

[Mark]
Some day it will hit you like a diamond bullet.

[Arlo]
If it hits me it will be more like a lobotomy.

[Mark]
There is nothing derogatory about religion except your attitude.

[Arlo]
I share Pirsig's attitude. 

[Mark]
Everything is a system of belief.  No better no worse.

[Arlo]
Well. There you have it. Understanding the earthquake that hit Haiti as the
result of plate tectonics and geological forces is a "system of belief", no
better and no worse that understanding it as retribution of a angry god against
a people who practice voodoo and made a pact with the devil. 

Pathetic.

[Mark]
Go ahead, consider yours to be better, just don't go marching into war, and
shoot all those religious people.

[Arlo]
I don't think your getting enough oxygen to your brain.