[MD] Flying Spaghetti Monsters

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Quoting Ham Priday <hampday1 at verizon.net>:

> 
> Greetings, Craig [Platt mentioned] --
> 
> > I don't see the connection between the "explanatory power"
> > of a metaphysics & the answer to the question, "Why survive?"
> 
> I don't, especially, either.  But it was Platt's question, not mine.
> 
> Platt said:
> 
> > But, despite reservations about idealism, I consider myself a
> > Pirsigian because what counts in his metaphysics is that the
> > world is a moral order. The underlying premise that some things
> > are better than others fits nicely with my honoring the individual.
> > And, the MOQ's explanatory power is second to none,
> > answering, for example, such imponderables as, "Why survive?"
> 
> It's a leading question in the context of individual values for which any
> meaningful philosophy should offer a reasonable explanation.  But I knew
> that Platt's answer was going to come directly out of the mouth of Pirsig:
> "It's better than the alternative."
> 
> And that's a moral Plattitude, not a metaphysical explanation.

What is your "metaphysical" answer, Ham? That your holy "Essence" sent
down the word that it be so? If you can't express your answer in a sentence,
it's little wonder that few understand much less agree with your metaphysics.

Regards,
Platt

    


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