[MD] pragmatic

[X Acto]

[Marsha chants her mantra]
  Once one accepts the MoQ's fundamental principal that the world is nothing but Value, then 'expanded rationality' occurs when an individual transforms the natural tendency to reify self and world into the natural tendency to hold all static patterns of value to be hypothetical (supposed but not neccesarily real or true.)  By using 'hypothetical' I think there is less of a tendency toward intellectual arrogance.  Understanding static (patterned) value as hypothetical acknowledges the incompleteness of what we know and makes room for additional inquiry with new possibilities; it promotes an attitude of fearless curiosity: gumption.  It moves one away from thinking of entities as existing inherently and independent of consciousness.

Ron:
Well, whatever floats your boat. But I still don't see why you gotta constantly shove it down all our throats
just because you can't come to terms with the word and insist on interpreting it as intellectually arrogant.
Rhetorically, saying that ALL static patterns are hypothetical (supposed but not neccesarily real or true.) 
is nothing short of provokation. It turns truth (pragmatic good) into a supposition when Pirsig clearly
states that it is the most empirically real as any truth can be, the immediate NOW of experience.
Exactly how can the immediate NOW experience be a supposition when it is the most real and true 
experience there is? 
You understand the immediate NOW, it is intelligible and not chaotic, it is infinitly definable therefore
it must be in many ways, static, no? Now, Hypothetical used as "conditional" has some wiggle room
for you, but you have to really consider how you understand the term Hypothetical and what it means
in the context you are trying to assert it. ESPECIALLY when you constantly and repeatedly post
it like planting a flag that signifies what you stand for and mean or else you end up with some egg 
on your face, not like an omlette on your forehead has ever slowed you down or anything.
 
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