In a message dated 10/16/2001 10:42:57 AM Central Daylight Time,
pholden@sc.rr.com writes:
> Seems to me there are three possible answers. The religious answer--
> it was God; the scientific answer--it was an accident; the MOQ answer--
>
I've often thought Pirsig considered "God" and "good" to be synonymous, from
a pragmatic viewpoint anyway. I know he has distanced himself from
traditional interpretations of God (Platt I'm sure can list all the quotes,
such as when Pirsig asks Rigel "What God?" and when he talks of being
initially wary of the works of James, thinking WJ could being trying to
"smuggle" religion into science, etc.). But the old tableside prayer which
every child knows begins as "God is good" may be profound.
Jon
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