Matt said to Ian: I'm sorry to disappoint, but DMB made it quite clear that he thinks I'm being disingenuous when I converse with him and that I'm being a little hypocritical with my whole "quality conversation" thing. Because our conversations almost always devolve into cat-and-mouse, attack and defend polemics that use far more ethos and pathos then logos, rather than continue a pattern that neither one of us enjoys, I'm ceding the ground to him that I'm a hypocrite and backing out of the low quality conversation.
dmb says: Ha! You dismiss my point as pointless even when my point is that you dismiss my point as pointless. That's funny. You know, in a slap-stick, cringe-humor kind of way. Matt also said: I don't have a taste for dog-fights anymore. I may have once, but not anymore. Now I just want to talk about philosophy. Talk, not fight. Arguments aren't fights, but somehow I always feel like I'm fighting when I talk to DMB. I haven't wanted to fight with him in a long time. dmb says: How is it that defending the MOQ (or myself) against charges of Platonism doesn't count as philosophy? Clearly, you don't like to be pressed too far and at a certain point you tend to bail out but do you really have to inflate my annoyance out of all proportion to justify that? You make charges and I answer them. I make charges and you walk away complaining about the tone. And you know why it always feels like "fighting" when you talk to me? Simply because we disagree about stuff. I really don't see what's wrong with that. That's what people, especially philosophers, have always done. Unless you have plans to move to another planet, you might want to adjust yourself to that fact. By the way, I think there's nothing more fun than a real fight. You can suit yourself, of course. dmb _________________________________________________________________ Enjoy 5 GB of free, password-protected online storage. http://www.windowslive.com/skydrive/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_skydrive_062008 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/
