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>***ERIN: Nargess I think you are interpreting my use
>of the word myth in saying that base of religion is
>false. Religions are passed on generation to
>generation through stories. I am not sure of your
>religion but I am having trouble imaginging a religion
>with no stories to explain it. The best stories seem
>to register because of the truth in them. (the stories
>don't have to be a part of religion for example Pirsig
>but they can be too) Myths allow people to communicate
>their beliefs but that doesn't mean their beliefs are
>delusions it just means religions are transmitted
>through them (partly at least).***
>
>RAYMOND: Okay, I would think it's important to remember that
>the religion in discussion is Western religion.
ERIN: I was not limiting it to Western religion. I really can not think of any
religion that doesn't use stories--if you know of any I would be interested in
hearing about them.
>RAYMOND:Iunderstand that myths are a way of passing on the
>moral (social) values of any religion through the
>generations, but in the case of Western religion,
>these are designed to preserve the religion itself.
>Within the Metaphysics of Quality, religious practice
>is a static social pattern, and has the tendency to
>prevent Dynamic intellectual Quality.
ERIN: The religious practice may be a static social pattern but I think the
creating of myths is a dynamic intellectual process.
RAYMOND:
This should be
>considered as one of the major reasons Western
>religion is fading away. I would think that the MoQ
>would recognize the "need for religion" but not as a
>prefered way of living. Keep in mind, the man who
>lives by myths alone, is arguably not living at all;
>the myths are living for him. Long live Dynamic
>Quality! (which is an interesting thought, in-and-of
>itself...)
>
ERIN:If I asked you to tell me who you are, you would give me a STORY. If I
asked you to tell me how humans came to exist you would give me an
evolutionary STORY. You think your intellectual status prevents you from
living by myths you are mistaken. Intellect helps you to live by choosing
better stories to live by. Your interest in dynamic quality means that you
are using Pirsig's STORY to help create your own STORY. The cry for myth is
NOT a cry to go to mass on Sunday it is need to make your life coherent and
your response makes me think that I should send a shipload of kleenex because
you are sobbing for it.
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