[MD] Flying Spagetti Monsters

[Case]

[Micah]
So, do you trust your senses? You say you know reality through your network
of sensory nerves, which implies that you trust your senses. Then you say
you cannot trust your senses to know reality, which of course requires the
use of your senses to decide that you cannot trust your senses. Which is it.

[Case]
I do have senses. My level of trust in them is a function of my familiarity
with them. I have learned to measure twice and cut once, to look before I
leap and that if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck it might
actually be a duck. But they have fooled me in the past and I expect they
will do so again. The women always look better at closing time.

You work with what you have. As far as I am concerned they get a qualified:
so far so good. But I do not expect them to provide me with absolute
certainty. 

You seem to be saying that I either must trust them absolutely or throw them
out. "Which is it?" So which is it for you? Do you find your self jumping
into shallow water and having lots of coyote ugly mornings or do you drive
with your eyes closed?

[Micah]
Kant does the same - uses his senses to deny his senses can perceive
reality.

[Case]
I am on a serious fishing expedition for thoughts on Kant. Could you cite
passage where he says this? Or something in Pirsig or anything beyond your
bald assertion. If I am leery of my own perceptions I don't trust yours at
all.