[MD] Chance

[Platt Holden]

> [Platt]
> I quote Lila regularly. 
> 
> [Arlo]
> I could copy and paste the same three sentences from the Rig Veda every day,
> doesn't mean I understand it. 

You certainly have shown you don't understand the MOQ.

> [Platt]
> What theories are you talking about?
> 
> [Arlo]
> Which teleological theories of purpose are not contradicted by the MOQ? The
> purpose of life is to serve God? The purpose of life is to procreate? The
> purpose of life is to "move towards freedom"? To live a life of virtue? To
> fight maturity? To live it? Here are some other ideas.
> 
> http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080514120702AAWBcl8
> 
> So, are all these correct? That would mean "purpose" is completely relative,
> doesn't it? Or are these "teleological" accounts "wrong", and only your is
> "right"?

Quote from Pirsig: " Neither is there a quarrel between the Metaphysics of 
Quality and the "teleological" theories which insist that life has some 
purpose." 

Now what is there about these words you don't understand? 

> 
> [Platt]
> As for relative, we know you're a postmodernist where even truth is relative.
> So why believe anything you say? 
> 
> [Arlo]
> Oooo...you forgot collectivist, nihilist, fascist and totalitarian.

Nice way to avoid the issue of relative truth.

> [Platt]
> Who knows? Like I've said, chance means "We don't know." The overall movement
> of evolution is obviously toward greater levels of versatility and freedom.
> 
> [Arlo]
> Chance means not pre-planned. What you see as "obvious" is merely Gestaltian
> illusions of your vision. There was no "plan" to create you, because there is
> no "intelligent designer". Oh, wait, forgot, you worship a Quali-god who is an
> "intelligent Quality with volition and intent". 

See quote above.

> [Platt]
> Or would you rather be a mule? 
> 
> [Arlo]
> I don't know, but some days "dolphin" or "snow leopard" seems kinda desirable.

Whatever turns you on.