From: Elizaphanian (elizaphanian@tiscali.co.uk)
Date: Tue Feb 18 2003 - 12:31:46 GMT
Hi Wim,
> I don't think discussing the 'truth' of 'Pirsig's MoQ is incompatible with
> Christianity' is very useful. We can use our different understandings
> however to clarify our different interpretations. Clarifying our own
> versions of MoQ and Christianity seems more interesting to me however,
than
> clarifying our interpretation of Pirsig's MoQ and of 'traditional
> Christianity'.
Certainly *our* conversations are better suited to the latter, but if - as I
believe Horse once said - the MoQ requires robust criticism if it is to grow
and develop as a [metaphysics/final vocabulary/weltanschaaung/new
religion/delete or replace as appropriate] then a sustained engagement with
another school of thought is surely of some use. If I ever get around to it,
I'll write something substantial about the MoQ and Christianity, giving a
proper, 'formal', articulation of my perspective, deriving from the
Sophocles not Socrates thread. But it'll be a while away yet.
Sam
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there will soon be no Muslims left in the former Yugoslavia. The Europeans
will debate until we are all dead."
(Alija Izetbegovich, then the president of Bosnia-Herzegovina, in 1993)
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