[MD] Theocracy, Secularism, and Democracy

[MarshaV]

On Aug 15, 2010, at 11:39 AM, ARLO J BENSINGER JR wrote:

> [Marsha]
> Oh, you are going use the Arlo ploy.  When you cannot get agreement start
> accusing your opponent of turning Quality into God or the MoQ into a religion. 
> Baloney!  
> 
> [Arlo]
> Such dishonesty from someone who claims to be all Zenny.
> 
> You should be ashamed.


Marsha:
I spoketh the truth.  When I insisted that for me MoQ denotes 
Reality is Quality, and wouldn't budge, out came your

     [Arlo]
     Right. This was the intellectual "denoting" that Pirsig 
     authored. "The Metaphysics of Quality" does not "denote" 
     anything, such anthropomorphic objectivising turns the 
     Word into the God, like saying "The Bible says..." 
     (the Bible "says" nothing, the people who wrote the 
     chapters did the "saying").
 

I'm not a Zen Buddhist or any type of Buddhist.  I  admire their
philosophy, books of wisdom and practices.  

Your shaming me is ridiculous.  Your value judgements 
have nothing to do with me.  They just make me laugh 
preacher-man.  

But I did have some good fun there for a while.  For that 
I am grateful.  I love to laugh.   


Marsha




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