[MD] The Quality/MOQ dichotomy.

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Joe
In my effort to make my interpretation of the MOQ understood I 
may sound a bit megalomaniac, but I feel we are in the same 
phase as Christendom in the first decades after Jesus' death (by 
all means P. is not dead). Paul won and it continued in the Semitic 
vein, now with the divine family increased with a "son", while Jesus 
TRUE message was a break with the said Semitic tradition (in a 
nutshell: The Law is for the benefit of people, not people's purpose 
to obey the Law)  ). In a MOQ context: Jesus was an "intellectual 
value" pioneer in the overwhelming social setting of his day. This 
only came to the surface again after 1500 years.

It will be a catastrophe if the MOQ is to continue in a SOM vein - 
which it does in the "just another (conceptual) theory " about a  - 
now suddenly - Quality Reality. It's revolutionary character is as 
enormous as intellect was regarding "society" and is highlighted in 
the Newton Gravity "parable" in ZAMM  ... that the alleged moqists 
avoid like the plague. 

Joe
> Bo, in many of your statements you propose a triad: MOQ DQ/SQ.  

Maybe, but I was fooled by the said "diagram" and the 
language/reality variety of SOM that Pirsig falls victim to. The MOQ 
is the "DQ/SQ "dualism. Full stop!

> As a basis for metaphysics why not keep the triad, 

There are several - endless actually - systems of calculations, we 
use the decimal system while computers use the binary, but 
regarding metaphysics there is only the "binary" dualisms. The 
said Christian divine family is often called a trinity, but it's really a 
dualism "The Divine realm/This realm".  

> DQ/SQ and the umbrella MOQ?  This is manifestation. As for the order I
> prefer 7 steps with the eighth being a repeat of 1 at doubled
> intensity. 

Be my guest

Bo