[MD] Dawkins a Materialist (is watching?)

[Arlo Bensinger]

[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.