[MD] MOQ and the Future: An Inquiry into Usefulness

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Mark]
I'm not sure what you mean by this last comment.  Taoism is not 
theist in any way.  There is no supreme intelligent being.  Taoism is 
a metaphysical philosophy on being, just in the same way MoQ is.

[Arlo]
I understand this. My concern had only do to with misinterpretation 
and/or misrepresentation.

[Mark]
The difference lies in that Taoism does not suppose a significant 
quality to the intelligence of man.

[Arlo]
I'm not an expert on Taoism (although I did stay at a Holiday Inn 
Exprss last night), but this sounds wrong to me. Maybe Taoism does 
not place significant quality on "intellect", as it is a more 
experiential understanding.

[Mark]
MoQ does just this, which is fine if we are to discuss our place in 
the universe.

[Arlo]
Well, the MOQ says that intellectual patterns are the most moral of 
the stable patterns of value, but that serving DQ (which I presume 
you associate with The Tao) entails "killing all intellectual 
patterns" (which I read as detaching oneself from one's conceptualizations).