Quoting Arlo Bensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [Platt] > With all the information on the web about postmodernism it's hard to > be willfully ignorant of the subject. > > [Arlo] > And yet you achieve this with resounding success. > > [Platt] > Since as usual you make the assertion without evidence, I'll chalk it > up to ignorance. > [Arlo] > You give the "evidence" every time you post. Why should I repeat it? > It's there for anyone to read.
Just as I thought -- no evidence. > [Platt] > No difference between a planned performance and an accident? Surely you jest. > > [Arlo] > Makes no difference. Whether the firewalker "plans" his activity or > stumbles onto the hot coals "by accident", the end result is that the > same immediate experience, standing on hot coals, is experienced > differently by some than others, some as "low quality" and some as > "high quality". Big difference in psychological preparation. > [Platt] > Is anything certain to you, or is "Nothing is certain" another > self-contradictory postmodern tenant? > > [Arlo] > There, you asked for evidence of willful ignorance, and now you have it. Again, no evidence. Avoiding the answer. > [Platt] > Proof he wasn't? > > [Arlo] > If you posit he was "drugged out of his mind", then the burden of > proof is on you. You make the claim, you back it up. Until then, the > video demonstrates clearly that the monk shows no evidence of > experiencing a "low quality". No, you made the claim about what he experienced. > But.. even if he was. That just proves my point further, because now > you are making qualification upon qualification to try to show your > "absolute". So someone drugged out of his mind who sits on a hot > stove may have a completely different experience. Just shows how the > quallity of all experience is relative. Not my absolute. Pirsig's. "ANY PERSON . . ." Oh, I forgot. You ignore what Pirsig writes when it doesn't fit your postmodernist views. ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
