[MD] Bo

[skutvik at online.no]

Hi Nom de Plume

1 July:

> Howdy,
> I feel as if I've entered a home when the couple is quarreling.
> I've been reading, really scanning, Bo's posts as far back as the
> archives go.  It seems that he formed his synthesis even before this
> site began.  And from the near beginnings of this site he has acted as
> a catalyst for a fuller understanding of the metaphysics of quality.

Thank you. To say that I agree is the least. As told I saw in a flash how 
the mind/matter monster that all Western thinkers have tried to 
appease was "arrested" by Robert Pirsig. Then the monster was let 
loose again in LILA  and soon after this discussion started I began my 
effort to bring it back to its "house of detention".  

> His ideas, while based in Pirsig's thought, are a synthesis of his
> understanding of Pirsig's two books.  A synthesis, a unique idea, is
> composed of two or more items and is not the same or the sum of those
> items.

More agreement. It was the disharmony between ZAMM and LILA - 
and Pirsig's unwillingness to look to  this discrepancy - that brought the 
SOL out. It' more than plain that the emergence of SOM is the ditto of 
the intellectual level, and no one really have any arguments against it 
the only straw left is that "Pirsig hasn't vouched for it".       

> Since he cannot let go of his creation, I see two choices for him as
> dictated by the source of this site, Robert M. Pirsig.  He can either
> write his own metaphysics or pursue enlightenment.  By enlightenment I
> mean a form of insanity.  My hope is that he will write his
> metaphysics.  Frankly, as I understand it, enlightenment is small.  It
> is the spark that lights the fire.  If he needs to crib or borrow from
> Pirsig, I don't see how anyone here can object given that the
> metaphysics of quality is dynamic.

My creation? No way. The MOQ as presented in LILA alternates 
between the true SOL interpretation and the one that no-one knows 
what is or can be used for. "Borrow from Pirsig"? Yes, the parts that 
makes it the greatest cultural upheaval since the Greeks - in Q-context 
- since the intellectual level, and weed out what makes it just another 
philosophological yawn.         

> Allow him to post here and give him a hyperlink to his own site.  Even
> Pirsig admits that when reading the philosophy of old he wished that
> he were there and that the arguments had gone another way.

> So much for lurking,

Yes, it ain't easy ;-).



Bodvar