[MD] Theocracy, Secularism, and Democracy

[MarshaV]

On Aug 15, 2010, at 12:25 PM, ARLO J BENSINGER JR wrote:

> [Marsha]
> I spoketh the truth. 
> 
> [Arlo]
> No. You did not. I likened your elevation of "the MOQ" to the reality it
> describes as ANALOGOUS to the elevation "the Word" into the God.
> 
> I went on to say, after your knee-jerk distortion, that you could drop the
> bible analogy and say its analogous to turning the map into the territory.
> 
> I've also objected repeatedly to the anthropomorphizing of "the MOQ" into a
> non-human entity that has some sort of "voice", as in "the MOQ says..." What
> began as a useful narrative genre adopted by Pirsig has become the cemented
> rhetoric who claim that Pirsig has misinterpreted "what the MOQ says".
> 
> Perhaps you don't understand words like "like" or analogies or things like this.
> 
> Or just stick to nonsensical meowing if all you're going to do otherwise is
> engage in dishonesty.
> 
> And if you have no shame in being dishonest, Marsha, if such a thing is too
> preachery for you, then I can meet you down on your level... if you prefer.

Here was the last straw:  


     [Arlo]
     When you stop deifying the Word, this will be a good rejection. 
     In any event, substitute whatever "book" you want. Books describing 
     "reality" do not "say" anything, the authors do the saying. To say 
     something like "War and Peace says..." is narrative genre and 
     nothing more, it was Dostoevsky that did the "saying"...

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I started to read:	

     Arlo:
     When you stop deifying the Word...  

And I went:

     Marsha:
     ZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzz

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Some other time Arlo, it was fun.   


Marsha  
 
 
p.s.  I see you're on Facebook.  Cute little devil, aren't you?     A gamer too.     
 
 
 

 
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