[MD] Dawkins a Materialist (is watching?)
Arlo Bensinger
ajb102 at psu.edu
Mon Jan 22 08:41:24 PST 2007
[Platt]
All questions that you basically answer "Oops. We got lucky." But
that aside, perhaps you will describe for us Buddhist ethics, Zen
ethics, Hindu ethics and Native American ethics, the latter which,
according to Pirsig, permitted dashing"children's brains out on rocks."
[Arlo]
That is the same as saying Christian ethics permitted burning women
at the stake. But why do you think Pirsig mentions the Buddha and the
Tao repeatedly in ZMM? Could it be that these "ethics" more closely
mirror Quality than Occidental ethics?
[Platt]
No. I answer as possibilities the existence of Consciousness and
Quality as creative forces. I gather you disagree with Pirsig on that
score while you pander to scientism.
[Arlo]
Can you refer me to where Pirsig proposes the existence of a
"transcendent consciousness"? I gather you disagree with Pirsig on
his statement that the MOQ is "anti-theistic" while you continue to
pander to Christianity.
[Platt]
No. I consider Consciousness and Quality to be "natural processes."
[Arlo]
Not if they are "transcendent".
[Platt]
And the rest is just a fabrication of my views to meet your own
desperate need to demean others to build up your own ego.
[Arlo]
Got a mirror handy, Platt?
[Platt]
Amusingly, you call for "dropping it" only to follow a few minutes
later with more commentary. Oh well, I understand why it's hard for
you to let go.
[Arlo]
Yes, your excrutiatingly distortive remarks are hard to leave go unanswered.
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