It's possible I'm one of those that you're worried about - but nevertheless
I agree 100%!
Elephant
> From: "Simon K" <sdk24@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
> Reply-To: moq_discuss@moq.org
> Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 12:10:57 -0000
> To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
> Subject: MD Church of Reason
>
> I found this rather Pirsigian passage in J M Coetzee's 'The Lives of
> Animals':
>
> "If the being of man is really at one with the being of God, should it not
> be cause for suspicion that human beingss take eighteen years, a neat and
> manageable portion of a human lifetime, to qualify to become decoders of
> God's master script, rather than five minutes, say, or five hundred years?
> Might it not be that the phenomenon we are examining here is, rather than
> the flowering of a faculty that allows access to the secrets of the
> universe, the specialism of a rather narrow self-regenerating intelectual
> tradition whose forte is reasoning, in the same way that the forte of
> chess-players is playing chess, which for its own motives it tries to
> install at the centre of the universe."
>
> The idea is accredited to Paul Davies' 1992 book 'The Mind of God'
>
>
> And I also found this extract which summarises my current problem with the
> MOQ:
>
> "it runs the risk of becoming ... yet another Western crusade ...claiming
> universality for what are simply its own standards" - if it is used in the
> hands of the wrong people.
>
>
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