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A thought provoking piece.
"If we can contribute, even in some tiny way, to the good purposes of the whole of reality, this is about as big a difference as we can imagine making."
Philip Goff
To which I respond:
"Good is a noun."
Robert M Pirsig
https://aeon.co/essays/why-our-universe-can-have-cosmic-purpose-without-god
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A thought provoking piece.
"If we can contribute, even in some tiny way, to the good purposes of the whole of reality, this is about as big a difference as we can imagine making."
Philip Goff
To which I respond:
"Good is a noun."
Robert M Pirsig
https://aeon.co/essays/why-our-universe-can-have-cosmic-purpose-without-god
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CW: The International Journal of Motorcycle Studies
Why have I never happened on this website before?
https://motorcyclestudies.org/
In particular:
CHROME AND BLACK AND DUSTY: ROBERT PIRSIG’S MOTORCYCLE HERITAGE
PAUL F. JOHNSTONA long biographical piece with many photos.
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CW: The International Journal of Motorcycle Studies
Why have I never happened on this website before?
https://motorcyclestudies.org/
In particular:
CHROME AND BLACK AND DUSTY: ROBERT PIRSIG’S MOTORCYCLE HERITAGE
PAUL F. JOHNSTONA long biographical piece with many photos.
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CW: "Values are what command our allegiance"
50 years since the publication of ZATAMM next year.
"In this post, I want to contextualize the importance of the discussion, by indicating why a richer understanding of Value and values matters for civil society and democracy. I also take the opportunity to note some curious parallels between Iain’s work and Robert Pirsig’s more generally, which is particularly apparent on the matter of perceiving value."
https://jonathanrowson.substack.com/p/values-are-what-command-our-allegiance?
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CW: "Values are what command our allegiance"
50 years since the publication of ZATAMM next year.
"In this post, I want to contextualize the importance of the discussion, by indicating why a richer understanding of Value and values matters for civil society and democracy. I also take the opportunity to note some curious parallels between Iain’s work and Robert Pirsig’s more generally, which is particularly apparent on the matter of perceiving value."
https://jonathanrowson.substack.com/p/values-are-what-command-our-allegiance?
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CW: Quality – Pirsig in Person
Quality – Pirsig in Person
"Wendy, wife of the late Robert Pirsig, shared an archive gem this weekend on his son Ted’s YouTube channel. An hour-long video of Bob’s talk to a Minneapolis College of Art audience about his book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance on 20th May 1974, then just a month or so after its publication and becoming a best seller."
http://www.psybertron.org/archives/16727
Thanks to Ian Glendinning
@psybertron for publishing the Youtube link -
CW: Quality – Pirsig in Person
Quality – Pirsig in Person
"Wendy, wife of the late Robert Pirsig, shared an archive gem this weekend on his son Ted’s YouTube channel. An hour-long video of Bob’s talk to a Minneapolis College of Art audience about his book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance on 20th May 1974, then just a month or so after its publication and becoming a best seller."
http://www.psybertron.org/archives/16727
Thanks to Ian Glendinning
@psybertron for publishing the Youtube link -
CW: Robert Pirsig on Human Rights
"According to the Metaphysics of Quality these “human rights” have not just a sentimental basis, but a rational, metaphysical basis. They are essential to the evolution of a higher level of life from a lower level of life.
They are for real."Robert M Pirsig Lila 1992
"Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone?"What has the ECHR ever done for us?
https://eachother.org.uk/11-times-the-european-court-of-human-rights-changed-our-lives-in-the-uk/
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CW: Robert Pirsig on Human Rights
"According to the Metaphysics of Quality these “human rights” have not just a sentimental basis, but a rational, metaphysical basis. They are essential to the evolution of a higher level of life from a lower level of life.
They are for real."Robert M Pirsig Lila 1992
"Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone?"What has the ECHR ever done for us?
https://eachother.org.uk/11-times-the-european-court-of-human-rights-changed-our-lives-in-the-uk/
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CW: Robert Pirsig on Human Rights
"According to the Metaphysics of Quality these “human rights” have not just a sentimental basis, but a rational, metaphysical basis. They are essential to the evolution of a higher level of life from a lower level of life.
They are for real."Robert M Pirsig Lila 1992
"Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone?"What has the ECHR ever done for us?
https://eachother.org.uk/11-times-the-european-court-of-human-rights-changed-our-lives-in-the-uk/
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CW: Robert Pirsig on Human Rights
"According to the Metaphysics of Quality these “human rights” have not just a sentimental basis, but a rational, metaphysical basis. They are essential to the evolution of a higher level of life from a lower level of life.
They are for real."Robert M Pirsig Lila 1992
"Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone?"What has the ECHR ever done for us?
https://eachother.org.uk/11-times-the-european-court-of-human-rights-changed-our-lives-in-the-uk/
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CW: Robert M Pirsig ChatGPT
Playing with ChatGPT
Q. Describe Robert Pirsig's Metaphysics of Quality.
A. Robert Pirsig's Metaphysics of Quality, as presented in his book "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", is a philosophical concept that posits that quality is the fundamental reality of the universe. According to Pirsig, quality is not a property of objects, but rather a process of creation or "bringing-into-being".
Not a bad effort.
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CW: Robert M Pirsig ChatGPT
Playing with ChatGPT
Q. Describe Robert Pirsig's Metaphysics of Quality.
A. Robert Pirsig's Metaphysics of Quality, as presented in his book "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", is a philosophical concept that posits that quality is the fundamental reality of the universe. According to Pirsig, quality is not a property of objects, but rather a process of creation or "bringing-into-being".
Not a bad effort.
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CW: Robert M Pirsig ChatGPT
Playing with ChatGPT
Q. Describe Robert Pirsig's Metaphysics of Quality.
A. Robert Pirsig's Metaphysics of Quality, as presented in his book "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", is a philosophical concept that posits that quality is the fundamental reality of the universe. According to Pirsig, quality is not a property of objects, but rather a process of creation or "bringing-into-being".
Not a bad effort.
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CW: Robert M Pirsig ChatGPT
Playing with ChatGPT
Q. Describe Robert Pirsig's Metaphysics of Quality.
A. Robert Pirsig's Metaphysics of Quality, as presented in his book "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", is a philosophical concept that posits that quality is the fundamental reality of the universe. According to Pirsig, quality is not a property of objects, but rather a process of creation or "bringing-into-being".
Not a bad effort.
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CW: Robert M Pirsig ChatGPT
Playing with ChatGPT
Q. Describe Robert Pirsig's Metaphysics of Quality.
A. Robert Pirsig's Metaphysics of Quality, as presented in his book "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", is a philosophical concept that posits that quality is the fundamental reality of the universe. According to Pirsig, quality is not a property of objects, but rather a process of creation or "bringing-into-being".
Not a bad effort.
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CW: Robert M Pirsig Quote for New Years Day
“We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
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CW: Robert M Pirsig Quote for New Years Day
“We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
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CW: Robert M Pirsig Quote for New Years Day
“We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
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CW: Robert M Pirsig Quote for New Years Day
“We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
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CW: Robert M Pirsig Quote for New Years Day
“We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
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The section on 'Gumptionology' in
#ZenAndTheArtOfMotorcycleMaintenance
should be required reading for any aspiring motorcycle mechanic.
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The section on 'Gumptionology' in
#ZenAndTheArtOfMotorcycleMaintenance
should be required reading for any aspiring motorcycle mechanic.
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The section on 'Gumptionology' in
#ZenAndTheArtOfMotorcycleMaintenance
should be required reading for any aspiring motorcycle mechanic.
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The section on 'Gumptionology' in
#ZenAndTheArtOfMotorcycleMaintenance
should be required reading for any aspiring motorcycle mechanic.
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CW: Robert M Pirsig quotes for today
“The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.”
"Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not."
Robert M Pirsig
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CW: Robert M Pirsig quotes for today
“The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.”
"Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not."
Robert M Pirsig
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CW: Robert M Pirsig quote for my 75th Birthday
"Reality isn't in the mind or in the external world, It's in the values that create both."
Robert M Pirsig
Letter, October 1998
From my wife's birthday present to me:
On Quality: An Inquiry into Excellence: Selected and Unpublished Writings
Robert M. Pirsig
Wendy K. Pirsig -
CW: Robert M Pirsig quote for my 75th Birthday
"Reality isn't in the mind or in the external world, It's in the values that create both."
Robert M Pirsig
Letter, October 1998
From my wife's birthday present to me:
On Quality: An Inquiry into Excellence: Selected and Unpublished Writings
Robert M. Pirsig
Wendy K. Pirsig