Ham:
I'm still waiting for you to explain the term "prescriptive meaning" which you have used in critiquing my "phenomenalistic" philosophy and some proposed constructions of Pirsig's levels. Specifically, how does prescriptive meaning differ from "conceptual" or "descriptive" meaning? Ron: "prescriptive" is instructional. When a source is trying to convey meaning, by conceptualizing analogies in a specific way they are asking a target or receiver to follow a rational chain of analogies to arrive at a specific conclusion. Consistency in that chain influences the confidence in credibility. Ham: By the way, I agree with your statement to Krimel that virtual reality games are "for morons who assume that one has enhanced the illusion of reality by clinging to some sense of self and personal identity in a format where neither are the least bit meaningful." Ron: That is not exactly what I meant, Virtual reality games are fun and an interesting inter-social tool, I think they have their merit, what I said was how avatars can be used as a loophole for accountability, What it stems from, for me, is I went to school with people who were renaissance fair actors who would flip/flop being who they are, one moment you were talking to Danny the next your talking to a character, depending on what was going on Danny would not come out of character. I dunno, people escape in various ways, I really can't judge, I get pissy with people who chalk it up to alcoholism or drug abuse or Jesus and the bible. The devil made me do it. You all want to know the real story? I have a hypersensitivity to it because I was abused by someone who used a fictitional character to do what they did without a shred of accountability, THEY hadn't done those things, didn't know what I was even talking about it was the character. So, people that mix themselves with characters freak me out. O.K.? it's not Krimel, it's my association, It's MY shit. I never know if they're in their right mind, I've been around people that I didn't know were bi-polar and had stopped taking their medication, I spent a frightful evening with someone who I thought was sane slowly turn insane and by the end of the evening I had to call the police. now you know. Thanks Ham 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/
