Marsha said: There is not a special category of knowledge that should remain untouched by inquiry, challenge and debate.
dmb says: Exactly. It's totally unfair to say, in effect, that you can't challenge my beliefs or you can only do so in such a way as to not hurt my feelings. I've seen this sort of thing many times and it always strikes me as a kind of emotional blackmail. People will say that their beliefs are personal and deeply felt (as if the other guy's aren't) and then on that basis they'll cry foul when they're subjected to challenges. I'm always baffled that the unfairness and illegitimacy of this isn't completely obvious to everyone, that anyone could talk like that without embarrassment. And yet I see it over and over again. Marsha said: Conventionally speaking, myth for myth is all that can happen, with a movement towards stasis in some areas and movement towards freedom in other areas. dmb says: Exactly. And I think it's important to remember that "static" doesn't necessarily mean "stale" dead or excessively rigid and fixed. It also means stable and without some measure of stability we'd only have chaos. Things can be too dynamic and things can be too static but both are necessary. How does Pirsig put it? Without static patterns nothing can last and with Dynamic Quality nothing can grow or change. _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™: E-mail. Chat. Share. Get more ways to connect. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t2_allup_explore_012009 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/
