[MD] When is an opinion another philosophy?
Heather Perella
spiritualadirondack at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 8 13:05:51 PST 2008
I believe this thread needs changed.
> [dmb]
> > Nothing except the MOB (the metaphysics of
> Bodvar).
> No part of it
> > makes any sense to me.
>
>
> dmb, I'm glad somebody else is saying this. It
> seems I'm getting a lot of flak for saying Bo was
> the
> Hitler of the moq. This comment by you dmb makes my
> point exactly. Doesn't anybody understand what a
> dictator is? A dictator takes over a country and
> makes it after his/her own image. That's all dandy
> and fine until the dictator says he or she is
> Germany,
> is Iraq, or is North Korea. Once the dictator takes
> something over and then tries to sell to the people
> that he or she is the way the country is supposed to
> be, well, usually dictators will try to rid the
> history of that country and the country only began
> when that dictator took over. Bo was trying to take
> over the moq it seemed. I will say Bo has lightened
> up, and maybe his English makes his views come
> across
> this way. Yet, the moq was started by Pirsig. Bo
> is
> now trying to change the moq, which is fine, but Bo
> first needs to admit that he is starting his own
> philosophy call it MOB. Yet, when Bo tries to say
> he's the authority on the moq and Pirsig doesn't
> know
> about the moq, well, either the moq needs a total
> change - which then one goes through the process of
> making their own new philosophy (like Ham) or one
> argues outer the finer points. The moq has no
> dominant authority due to dynamic quality, therefore
> it is democratic and freedom oriented, but once
> somebody tries to assimilate any philosophy for
> their
> own and change the basic tenets then that person has
> come up with a new philosophy. They can't say they
> know the moq better than anybody else, even better
> than the person who came up with the philosophy.
> Bo, what your opinion is matters, but I would
> seriously consider if your opinion is the moq or
> another philosophy.
>
>
> So, is Bo (1) making the moq his own (being
> imperialistic and a dictator), (2) does the moq have
> enough space to allow even its' seemingly basic
> tenets
> changed but still survive as the moq, or (3) did Bo
> come up with a new philosophy and he needs to
> recognize this?
>
>
> These are serious questions that theories and
> philosophers must encounter if the data and
> experiences seem to be pointing in other directions.
>
> Einstein didn't say he was following Newton's
> theories
> when Einstein proclaimed he had another theory.
> Einstein's theories were a paradigm shift and people
> realized Einstein moved onto something else. Plato
> is
> different from Aristotle and Kant. Apples from
> oranges.
>
> woods,
> SA
>
>
>
>
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