From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Mon Aug 08 2005 - 15:47:17 BST
Ian:
> Platt, those two things may "sound" familiar to your rhetorical ears
> and whatever you've got between them, but they say the opposite.
>
> The Lao Tsu quote says "work with it rather that against it"
> ie whilst it says "simply be" it does not say "do nothing".
> (I should also point out that Lao Tsu is not Robert Pirsig
> And the Tao Te Ching is not the MoQ.)
>
> The biblical quote says "the morrow shall take thought for the things of
> itself" ie something very like - don't even bother to think, it's all taken
> care of.
"Simply be" doesn't say "think." And the biblical quote says "let go"
because worrying won't feed the baby.
> And - aimed at you ad-hominem Platt - you are so bare-faced
> inconsistent it beggars belief. How you dare propound passive Tao
> acceptance in one post and line the ba***rds up against the wall and
> shoot em in another. You cannot be for real. In fact look out for my
> next post.
How dare you ignore the distinction between the biological and
intellectual levels? You cannot grasp even the basic premise of MOQ.
Platt
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