On Apr 30, 2010, at 1:32 PM, Andre Broersen wrote:

> Marsha to Andre:
> 
> Andre:
>> Direct experience formalizes nothing Marsha.
> 
> I haven't the slightest idea what you're getting at with this sentence.
> 
> Andre:
> This shows your learning and your non-commitment to anything...
> which is fine...but do not use it to evade and dodge. When you
> commit yourself to a dialogue...commit your self. In dialogue all is
> static Marsha, do not hide behind, and fade within the 'unpatterned'
> (your favourite expression to escape or evade the issues in question).

This show nothing of the kind about my commitment.  It show I 
did not understand what you were replying.  In the original statement 
I did  not mention DQ, so your response didn't make sense. T



> Marsha:
> The MoQ is both 1.) a intellectual pattern explained by ZMM
> and LILA, and 2. a designation for Reality = Quality.
> 
> Andre:
> So long as you are aware that it is a 'designation' and not
> reality itself as Bodvar  would have it.

I have no reason to rely on your interpretation of Bo.


> Marsha:
> Yes, the subject/object thinking is dualistic, and SOM is a
> formalized representation of subject/object thinking.
> 
> Andre:
> So what does this have to do with the MOQ?.S/O thinking is
> one way of abstracting (intellectually) what we translate into
> epistemology and ontology. Pirsig has argued that the premises
> upon which the SOM epistemology and ontology are built is false.
> SOM does not accept direct , pure experience. It only accepts
> postulated theoretical hypotheses...proven or disproven in the
> process. It rejects Quality.





> 
> Marsha:
> I don't think you understand Bo's point-of-view enough to say that it is a 
> detriment to the MoQ.
> 
> Andre:
> I think I do understand Bodvar's point of view and I am not the only one on 
> this discuss who suggests that his pov is a detriment to the MOQ. Even Mr. 
> Pirsig has said so!!!( Annotn. 132/133)
> 
> Marsha:
> What you think I've learned is not very important to me.
> 
> Andre:
> Sounds like it isn't very important to you either.
> 
> Marsha:
> 'The farther you go away from DQ the more divisions you'll encounter'.
> Here, I agree with you.
> 
> Andre:
> (I'll keep on being an arsehole): do you understand and experience it as such 
> though??!!and doesn't that tell you anything?
> 
> Marsha:
> Yes, I agree that the MoQ is fine.  But it is our confusion that makes
> it messy.
> 
> Andre:
> Don't generalise...it is your confusion. Bodvar has a way of doing this and 
> it is not constructive. Rather it is destructive which is not good teaching. 
> Every time a newby comes on this discuss he pounces with the SOM intellectual 
> level which he has fucked up. This is confusing. The MOQ intellectual level 
> is fine.
> 
> Marsha:
> The only thing you have going in this post is swearing and sarcasm.
> 
> Andre:
> This response reminds me of what Phaedrus went through in ZMM when confronted 
> with the University's Great Books Program and the relevance of the classics 
> to twentieth century society. Phaedrus played no games, he didn't just accept 
> the idea...he 'passionately and fanatically knew it'.
> 
> Platt and Bodvar are playing games...they are playing their own agenda's. 
> Platt's is political, Bodvar's is social...reputation...(commitment of one 
> point of view upon which he has staked his entire life's work and 
> reputation). And it is my conviction that the MOQ is very relevant to the 
> twenty-first century. I am not playing any games here, I do not simply accept 
> this idea on belief... I passionately know it... and (to quote Phaedrus in 
> ZMM):'..he assailed them with every kind of invective he could think of' and 
> I do this because they are presenting a distorted view of the MOQ and Mr. 
> Pirsig's accomplishments...and I care about the MOQ and about Mr. Pirsig's 
> accomplishments.
> 
> Marsha:
> I think you've lost heart, which is nobody's fault but your own little
> ego.  Keep up with the swearing, it reflects you little self very well.
> 
> Andre:
> This has nothing to do with 'ego' Marsha. Again, I'd hoped you'd have learned 
> something. Alas dmb was right! I am concerned about my little self. This is a 
> very different concept from 'ego' as you should be well aware...small 
> self-big self...? But I have my doubts....you seem to be confused.
> 
> These two personalities (Platt and Bodvar) are distorting the 
> relationship...they have no idea about DQ/SQ. (talking about ego's!)
> 
> I have not lost heart...I care vehemently....... but alas! You are stuck in 
> SOM and do not understand the basics of the MOQ. You may do so theoretically, 
> i.e pay lip service to it,  but you do not recognize it as such within your 
> own experience.
> 
> But I cannot tell you what you experience (you don't either) and I will not 
> tell you how to conceptualize it...you have your own analogues. The MOQ is 
> only a guide. But by all means Marsha, go your own way...but 
> then................................................................. all the 
> way.
> 
> 
> 
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