Hello everyone On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 2:18 PM, david buchanan <[email protected]> wrote: > > >[snip] > Sure, we tend to like the people who agree with us but that's just the ego's > satisfaction, not the intellect's. Given that this is supposed to be a place > to discuss metaphysics, to debate philosophical issues, all this other stuff > seems like a distraction. To be honest, I don't really care if that makes me > seem unfriendly. The only that matters to me here, is WHAT you say, not how > you say it or what a nice guy you are. For all I know, you could be posting > from a psych hospital, a prison or a circus.
Dan: I thought this discussion group was centered around Robert Pirsig's books, LILA and ZMM. Sure, there's philosophy there. But there's a lot more besides. There's a story. To neglect the story is to miss half the point. In fact, over the years as I gone along my merry way I've come to see the story as the important part of the equation. A writer can build metaphysical and philosophical underpinnings into a story on many levels. Whether a reader is capable of understanding the depths of those levels is problematical though. Consider for a moment that "all this other stuff" might just be inconsequential Dynamic Quality. It is like that. It flutters around the edges, a moth distracting from the beguiling light of knowledge being thrown into the world by real discussions centering on philosophy. Just a thought, Dan 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/md/archives.html
