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----- Original Message -----
From: Struan Hellier <struan@clara.co.uk>
To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2000 1:00 PM
Subject: RE: MD Strawman and Harmony
> Greetings,
>
> Roger,
> I am an empiricist. I reject the fundamental duality of subject and
object,
> mind and matter. I suggests that the most empirical way to evaluate
reality
> is as a stream of dynamic and flowing pure experience and the wake of
static
> abstractions derived from this experience.
> Mind/matter/subject/object/today/yesterday/internal/external are all just
> divisions and patterned combinations derived from such experiences. But
you
> know this.
>
> To your list of dualist commonly shared characteristics you could add
> static/dynamic and hence the MOQ, but that, of course, would simply add
one
> more strawman. For the last time, (honestly), I am not 'continuing to deny
> these commonly shared characteristics of Western
> philosophy'. I am continuing to deny that they constitute either a
> metaphysics or a family of metaphysics. Have I really not been crystal
clear
> on this?? Am I not saying for the umpteenth time that I affirm the subject
> object dichotomy? And, incidentally, your mother was a hamster and your
> father smelt of elderberries.
>
> Glenn, methinks you have misunderstood the rules of the forum. You are
> supposed to tell me that I am an ignorant, stupid git with no
understanding
> and a deeply flawed metaphysic which I neither understand, nor realise I
> have. Yet here you are agreeing with me. Stop it at once! But seriously. I
> think your observation that Pirsig is a recovering SOM'ist is entirely
> accurate. It is also true of most on this forum and accounts for the
vacuity
> of their objections against me. In my post to Bo I called it
> subjectobjectivitis and one of its main side effects seems to be believing
> that everybody else has the same affliction, even when the evidence is
clear
> that they do not. A remarkable and fascinating phenomena which I take
great
> pleasure in probing.
>
> Damn . . . . I should be at a party so am off. . . .
>
> Struan
>
>
>
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