From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Mon Jul 04 2005 - 21:56:28 BST
> Platt: 7-3-05
> Are you in favor of making ownership illegal? You said
> before that "All property is theft."
>
> Mark 3-7-05:
> I think ownership can be intellectualy justified as
> your excellence. What you are good at is what you may
> be said to own.
> Perhaps the best freedom anyone may enjoy is to be
> allowed to cultivate their own excellence.
Hi Mark M,
Does this mean I can own land, food, shelter, clothing, car, computer,
furniture, TV, telephone, etc.,etc? Or are all these things I claim as
belonging to me "theft?" Of course like everybody else I believe that I'm
"good at" using all the things I have.
> Platt:
> Not yet. Please explain the intellectual basis for
> rejecting the concept of "self."
>
> Mark 3-7-05:
> Everything is changing all the time except DQ.
> If this is taken to be the basis for describing who
> you are, then it must be said that you are never the
> same person from one moment to the next.
> So, what is the 'thing' that you can point to and say,
> 'That is me' if you are never the same person from one
> moment to the next?
> By the time you have pointed you have changed.
> You are a moving target ever out of sight.
> The MOQ answers this problem by saying you are unique
> patterns of value responding to and migrating towards
> DQ.
Now we're getting somewhere. Now you say, like Pirsig, that I am unique
patters of value, not just a happening. Would you agree that some of those
"patterns" never change, like my fingerprints and DNA?
Platt
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