[MD] Metaphysics

[ARLO J BENSINGER JR]

[Mark]
Your lack of understanding is your problem not mine, don't ask me to hold my
breath.  Just through use of term "nonsense" shows you have succumbed to that
bewitching dream.

[Arlo]
Riiiight. And if I accept your dogma that all belief systems are faith-based,
I'll be saved! I don't know, Mark, you are so far gone into the abyss that
there is nothing here but your own empty voice. 

[Mark]
No Arlo, that is your problem not mine

[Arlo]
No. Mark. It is YOUR problem if all you hear from me "unquestioning faith".
Your zealotry to reduce all belief to "faith" is on YOU. You want to portray me
in a religious fashion to make yourself feel better about yours, knock yourself
out, its only making you appear more idiotic with each post.

[Mark]
Perhaps you should start thinking for a change, rather than accepting.  Break
on through to the other side.

[Arlo]
If you ever choose to advance a position that requires thinking, I'll be sure
to give it a try. In the meantime, the nonsense of reducing everything to
faith-based theism is antithetical to thinking, requiring perhaps a lobotomy
for your audience.

[Mark again]
Does he speak to you in tongues?  Do you consider yourself to be one of his
disciples?  Do you break bread together?  Why don't you go to the airport
and collect money for him, I'm sure he needs it.

[Arlo]
Such attrocious rhetoric. Pirsig's attitude is that the MOQ is anti-theistic. I
agree with him. Sorry if that pisses on your faith.

[Mark again]
Oh, have you seen these plate tectonics, or are you just accepting this
statement on faith.

[Arlo]
Not quite sure how to deal with such a delusional perspective. But if you
really want to say that "plate tectonics" is a faith-based belief system no
better and no worse than an angry god punishing voodoo worshippers, hey...
knock yourself out. We need some comedy here.

[Mark again]
Oh, Arlo, how is it that you know that the brain needs oxygen?  

[Arlo]
Hold your breath, prove my faith-based belief wrong. 

[Mark]
Question everything, accept nothing.  Don't be a religious drone.

[Arlo]
Now your venturing in the waters of irony. Or are you making fun of yourself
here?