[MD] Faith/Skepticism

[Platt Holden]

MP
> Pirsig is quite clear that Quality cannot be defined. If you can't define
> something 
> you can't prove it. To prove something is to define it. If you affirm
> something you 
> cannot define, you are affirming something you cannot prove, it is an 
> "affirmation absent proof." 
> 
> Faith.
> 
> If you can't see this, then I really have to say I'm done. 

Hi MP, 

Excellent. That puts it in a nutshell. Some things some people just cannot 
see or refuse to see because it would destroy their belief system. Like the 
scientist who asserts confidently that the world consists solely of matter 
and energy, an assertion that consists of neither matter nor energy. The 
loftiest concept is built on the sand of an assumption based on faith. 
There is no escape. 

Platt