Dear Darwinist Riff Raff:
What do you mean by calling MOQ "evolutionary" metaphysics?
Because if you simply mean that it is a development of a lot of ideas that
were around for thousands of years, all well and good. On the other hand,
if you think that the reason it is right (which I think it is) is just that
happens to have survived, then I question the point of discussing it with
you.
David
From: RISKYBIZ9@aol.com
Reply-To: moq_discuss@moq.org
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 22:33:23 EST
To: moq_discuss@moq.org
Subject: Re: MD !!!!MEMES!!!
ROG TO DAVID ON BEHALF OF THE NUTTY DARWINIST RIFF RAFF
DAVID:
Why is eveyone so anxious to compare memes with patterns of value?
ROG:
I just took a break from counting dimpled chads, and needed to entertain
myself.
DAVID:
The
nutty Darwinists and their ilk are reductive anti-quality rationalists of
the highest order.
ROG:
Funny comment in a forum based on an evolutionary metaphysics.
DAVID:
Memes can go hang.
ROG:
I see your point.
DAVID:
They are just a way of pretending
that evolutionary theory has something useful to say about the history of
ideas, like they pretend that it has something useful to say on every topic
under the sun. These days they pretend that evolution is the only subject
there is: evolutionary psychology, evolutionary sociology, evolutionary
theology, evolutionary cosmology: if it ain't evolutionary it ain't real.
ROG:
Yea, and evolutionary metaphysics! The MOQ can go hang too! (This is
fun!!!)
DAVID:
Can't a man have a rest from this rubbish?
ROG:
[Insert favorite witty comeback here.]
DAVID:
Talk of 'memes' is just
collaborating with no-brain monomainiacs who think that saying "beleifs that
aren't beleived die out" is an interesting scientific observation with
profound epistemological ramifications. Get real. And please find a less
annoying word.
ROG:
How about "monomaniacal ramifications"?
DAVID:
This making a
religion out of evolution makes a lot less sense to me than a religion of
motorcycles.
ROG:
Oh, so that's what the book was about! They must have left that out of my
Cliff Notes version.
TTFN
Rog
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