Ohhh I don't know Fran. One liners have often produced some amazing threads here-abouts.
Right now though I am a little hung over, so like slip, I'll keep quiet. On 15 May, 10:16, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: > I would think the subject matter has been through the gamut, emerging > at the end frayed and pulverized. I agree as to the deterioration > aspect and possibly it is due to a tiring of redundant subject matter > that usually comes with new member contributions. The "God" themes > are played out but of course you are right in pointing out the > importance of intelligible input regardless. Thanks for reigning in > a beleaguered bunch. I don't know what else to say so I guess I'll > take your advice, or that of Wittgenstein, and say nothing. > > On May 15, 3:37 am, frantheman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > This thread is a good example of a general deterioration in the > > quality of discussion and debate on the 'Eye recently. One-line > > assertions, unsupported by any kind of logical argument, factual > > grounding or authoritative underpinning, do not invite to a > > development and deepening of themes, rather to mutual slogan-slinging. > > > This is not to say that every entry in a discussion has to be a > > discourse; the one-liner tope can be very effective in the context of > > a good discussion - gabby frequently (not always :-)) achieves a > > surgical precision here - but like any good rhetorical/discussive > > device works best when used sparingly and discerningly. Otherwise, we > > could all just as well abandon Minds Eye and move to Twitter. > > Alternatively, we could all become zen masters and talk to each other > > in koans. > > > paw's initial statement here begs so many questions as to become > > almost meaningless. What do you mean by God? What is this [upper case] > > "Glorifying" you are talking about? How does this benefit us? Does it > > benefit God? What is obvious about this? > > > Wittgenstein ended the "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus" with the > > sentence, "Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen / > > Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent." At the moment, > > reading many posts here, I incline towards the one-liner: > > > If you've got nothing to say, then say nothing. > > > Francis > > > On 14 Mai, 02:28, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > The purpose of Life is to Glorify God, obviously- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
