[MD] Chance

[Arlo Bensinger]

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

[Arlo]
Maybe. What does everyone else think? Is "Quality" a "Quali-god" with 
volition and intent?

[Platt]
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?

[Arlo had said about these telelogical theories]
So, are all these correct? That would mean "purpose" is completely 
relative doesn't it?

[Arlo now]
Which of these words don't you understand? Are all these teleological 
theories correct? Is purpose relative?

And here is something else to think about. If, as you say, 
Quali-god's recent destruction of Burma was planned and carried out 
as part of some larger plan, what does that say about free will? Were 
those people "expendable" in the eyes of Quali-god? And, if Quali-god 
orders and plans the cosmos as you suggest, was the meeting of your 
wife part of that plan? Were you just a unwilling piece of 
Quali-god's plan? Is everything that happened to you part of 
Quali-god's plan, that it enacts with volition and intent?  Or does 
Quali-god only order and willfully manipulate the cosmos apart from "man"?