From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Tue Jul 13 2004 - 16:58:15 BST
Mel,
Apologies for not responding sooner.
PH previously:
> > If you believe in Quality "as revealed though religious practices,"
then
> > fine. Go for it. History, including current history, tells me religious
> > practices lead to all sorts of low Quality results, like airplanes
> > smashing into buildings and killing thousands. I'll choose the Quality of
> > freedom, the highest good of DQ and the quintessence of intellect, over
> > the revelations of religion any day. But, that's just me.
Mel:
> Something twisted in my head as I read this.
> We in the US regard the fall of the towers as a low quality event
> and it certainly is a tragedy by any HUMAN sense, but if we were
> to look at the event from a Wahabi-madrasa trained imam's
> perspective, the intellectual planning that went into making this
> happen is amazing.
A lot less amazing than making airplanes and towers "happen."
> These folks would look at Americanism as a social strangulation
> that offends their social purity and dominates them pulling their
> young away from high-quality Wahibism.
Fine. But hardly an excuse for targeting innocent civilians for murder do
you think?
> Please tell me I am wrong, (show me please) but it looks like we
> may have an honest to goodness disagreement over whose view
> of Quality will truly stamp the future lives in many areas of the world.
Maybe terrorism will win the day in the long run. But in MOQ terms, it
would mean a backward step on the evolutionary journey, from the dominance
of intellect to dominance of social values, brought about by a resort to
biological level crimes.
Best,
Platt
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