On Nov 4, 2010, at 1:55 PM, david buchanan wrote: > > dmb replied to Mark and Platt: > > If you need to believe certain things in order to maintain your sanity, those > beliefs will be impervious to criticism. They are too important, too central, > too crucial in their supporting role. But this supporting role is > psychological, not intellectual. The intellectual value and validity of such > beliefs isn't even relevant because that's just not what it's about. This > explains the frustration I've been complaining about, that's for sure. We've > been playing two completely different games the whole time and your game > simply isn't about what's true. It's about mental hygiene. > > > Marsha, is there something you'd like to tell us? > > > > Marsha replied: > Sure. My self is a flow of ever-changing, interdependent, impermanent, > inorganic, biological, social and intellectual static patterns of value > within a field of Dynamic Quality. What is there for your insults to land on? > > > > > dmb says: > > Isn't that a clever answer? Define your self as so slippery that there's > nobody to be criticized. Well, it WOULD be a clever answer if it had anything > to do with question. > > Since you share this anti-intellectual perspective and this imperviousness to > facts and reason, I was asking if you also share a history of mental illness. > (Bo, Platt and Mark have all reported this history.) I'm frustrated with you > in the same way about the same things and so I'm wondering if it's also for > the same reasons.
Marsha: I do not have an anti-intellectual perspective. In saying so, you are mis-representing my point-of-view. - Your frustration is not important or interesting, though it is probably a symptom of shallow understanding of the MoQ. That is why your retort is so often to toss insults rather than to offer an explanation. While I am not anti-intellectual, I do think introspection/meditation is important for experienced insight. ___ 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
