[MD] The Brujo

[MarshaV]

At 02:51 PM 3/21/2009, you wrote:
>[Marsha]
>My, my Krimel, it is you I see as Don Quixote, not the poor brujo,
>with your worship of scientific windmills.  I would never consider a
>poor soul who needs to peep into windows a shaman, yes an oddball,
>yes a misfit, but I had never considered the brujo the "most static
>of the tribe" either.
>
>[Krimel]
>Just a point of clarification: if I am a madman tilting, then the windmills
>would be wooly headed idealism and delusional mysticism. But I like the idea
>of having Hawking as a Sancho Panza. Now that is truly delusional.


Krimel,

And what 'idealism' and 'delusional mysticism' might that be?   Even 
your precious perceptions are mere conceptual constructs.  The eye, 
light, optic nerve and brain are all conventional, conceptual 
constructs.   Is there even one thing that is not dependent on being 
conceptually constructed and established by conventional agreement?



>I am not sure what Ron has in mind but I got mainly a sense of general
>frustration at the miscasting in Pirsig's account and in how that miscasting
>has been misused.

I guess Ron will speak when he's ready.


Marsha





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