[MD] Theism/epistemology

[Platt Holden]

Hey MP:

> Admittedly, I am pushing the definition
> of 
> theism to an edge, and then from there seeking to extend past the edge.
> But 
> even at the edge, the word takes on far greater quality meaning than mere
> "religion" has manage so far absent an MoQ approach to "theism."

Agree. It seems passing strange to me that those who are perfectly willing 
to accept Pirsig's extension of "morality" past the edge of common meaning 
so that it takes on a far greater quality meaning are statically dead set 
against any similar extension of "theism" as you have been proposing. All 
great leaps forward in mankind's drive towards betterness have been taken 
by individuals seeking Quality who freed something from its static box.    

> Reading ZAMM & Lila was to me a little like finally understanding the 
> electromagnetic wave equation. It was a sudden realization that in all
> that 
> complexity there is a simple sense to it all, and what's more, that such
> "sense" 
> more than likely extends beyond mere electromagnetism to the other forces,
> but, having not even a fraction of the intellect it would take to grasp
> it, needing 
> to settle with just "a hunch." I'm at that point with Quality; I have to
> go with "a 
> hunch" about how it relates them all because I don't believe I can manage
> to 
> express, to "mechanize" (credit to David Swift) it in to knowledge.
> 
> The road-block is trying to explain the inexplicable. It is in attempting
> to put into 
> words, here to you all, (and then in *MoQ* terms,) what I comprehend
> viscerally 
> with far greater clarity.

Precisely so. The road-block you describe is exactly the same as the road-
block encountered in trying to explain beauty. As James Hillman observed,"A 
major part of the repression of beauty has always been an inability to find 
for it a rational definition." Little wonder that academic philosphers have 
largely ignored the MOQ, and why, like beauty, one's understanding of the 
MOQ is fundamentally aesthetic.

Regards,
Platt