[gav to dave]
it is time your patience was acknowledged my fine friend!
your task may seem sisyphean at times, but i guess sisyphus was happy!
(according to camus anyway).

krimel....i guess it is painful to bear the brunt of dave's
explanations...but his somewhat sardonic humour is probably what keeps him
sane - explaining over and over and over again.

[Krimel]
Painful, only in an empathetic sense. This is the same argument we have had
many times before. I will answer Dave later because it is late and I have
plans for tomorrow but you can search the archive to find what I will say.
If you search, you will also find that Dave fades after my response. What he
presented below is his stock answer when he has no idea what I am talking
about: That's it's all just SOM and I don't get it. 

OK, that's easily dispensed with. I have no idea what comes next because as
I said he fades when I respond. Anyway, it will be late tomorrow at the
earliest before I can get to his latest but as I said the spoiler is in the
archives.

[gav]
krimel, dave is, in my opinion (and bob's), bob's most faithful adherent.
this is good to bear in mind when you remember where you are.
it may be that you are mistaken (rather than pirsig, ant, dave, me, etc etc
being so). have you considered this possibility seriously? 

[Krimel]
I am aware that this was the case when Ant's video were made. I have found
Dave's responses in our discussions to be often, well... lame... Yours, I
find merely amusing. Ant hasn't said much since I have been here and Pirsig
has said nothing at all. But I don't think you and Dave at least are doing
Pirsig any get service by forthrightly insisting that he belongs in the New
Age section of the bookstore. I think that just marginalizes what has the
potential to be a TOE.

[gav]
i guess it depends on why you are here: to proselytize blindly like
platt/ham, or to engage in a true dialectical exchange - in the interest of
mutual growth, evolution.

[Krimel]
I have never thought of what I do here as proselytizing.. That term implies
that I am after converts. I think that is true of Ham. Platt, I think just
parrots someone else's point up view which I guess is proselytizing for
someone else. But I just enjoy writing and this place opens my writer's
block.

[gav]
you are sharp krimel. but you are also arrogant. 

[Krimel]
I have heard that. I disagree at least with the second part but then that's
what I would do, if the second part was true. Even so I don't see how that
matters as far as the arguments I am making are concerned. I would be much
more impressed if you could just level a cogent argument instead of an
emotional tirade: Dave, good! Krimel, Bad:< 

In the three year you have not done that but I live in hope. In the meantime
your emotional rants are creative and entertaining and I mean and a very
positive way, but they are not very well thought out. They are well felt but
that is kind of like bringing a knife to a gun fight...



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