[MD] Dans Bitterness over Betterness

[craigerb at comcast.net]

[Arlo]
> Both static patterns and subjects and objects are 'real' in the sense
> that they represent how we make sense of what we experience.

Your first statement is correct but it goes downhill after this.

[Arlo]
> The example I gave of a rainbow a while back illustrates this well.
> If we stood next to each other somewhere and observed a rainbow we would 
> both be observing different rainbows but we would (probably) agree that 
> it was the same rainbow we were observing.

Once we "agree that it was the SAME rainbow we were observing",
why make the obviously false claim that
"we would both be observing DIFFERENT rainbows"!
If I look at someone then tilt my head (or they move a little) and look again, I don't see a different person
(though I have a different view of the same person).
 If I shine a light into your eyes, you really see light.  And if I shine the light through a glass prism so that 
it separates into a spectrum of color bands, you really see color bands of light.  A prism doesn't change what's real into something unreal.
A rainbow is a spectrum created by water droplets instead of glass.
As Pirsig suggests, in searching for profundity, we shouldn't deny what a child knows.
Craig