[MD] Able to change well.

[MarshaV]

On Sep 5, 2010, at 1:26 PM, X Acto wrote:

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> @ Lila has just been published. A metaphysics is delineated. A question may be 
> asked, how does SOM, which did all that good work in Zen and... fit in?
> It's a legitimate question.
> Bodvar feels there has been a cop out and the fruits of Zen and... are left 
> rotting on the vine.
> He feels SOM did great things and now it's been dissolved. This seems like an 
> injustice doesn't it?
> SODV attempts to indicate that SOM is alive and well.
> Bodvar thinks Robert Pirsig is playing slippery eel. He knows he's wrong but he 
> won't admit it and make himself look inferior to Bodvar.
> Now it's personal. It's about integrity. Here's one: It's Phaedrus who's been 
> betrayed. Robert Pirsig has done the dirty and is getting away with it.
> Bodvar IS Phaedrus now and he's not going to allow it. He'll show 'em.
> But no one is backing him up. No one understands. They are all cowards and 
> cheats. It's not persecution, they really aren't up to it.
> This town ain't big enough for two metaphysics. There's a gonna be a showdown.
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> Ron:
> It's a legitimate "showdown" thats been requested from Bodvar but all he's ever 
> been able to muster
> is an arguement based in the interpretive factor. Nothing presented from a 
> philosophical perspective
> on it's own merits.
> Lets call a spade a spade and not a shovel, lets place cowardice where it 
> belongs.



Marsha:  
Why must it be either/or?  Bo should be able to spend the rest of his life on the MD 
finding the best words to support his point-of-view.  A point-of-view that I too came 
to but from a different direction, and now a point-of-view I share with him.  Either/or?
Isn't it about getting beyond needing to declare this or that?  Showdown is a step 
backwards.