Hi Marsha, Marsha said: I do not feel the need to defend mediation. In my experience it has much insightful knowledge to offer, but obviously it will not appeal to everyone.
Marsha added: Well, I hope you know I meant meditation, not mediation. Matt: That's at least the second time you used "mediation" where I've expected "meditation," and I always took it to be a typo, but it's an interesting mistake because I do think, on the philosophical scale, one needs to defend the use of mediation as a metaphor in describing the function of language. Or at least, explain why one should use it to those who don't want to. (Though, on a personal scale, we don't really need to defend anything.) Perhaps that's where we get crossed: I make you feel like you need to defend meditation (which I don't intend, and don't think anyone needs to defend) and you make me feel like I need to defend reading (which you don't intend, and don't think anyone needs to defend). Matt > From: [email protected] > Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 02:57:12 -0500 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MD] Ah-ha Qua Ah-ha > > > Hi Matt, > > I love it when you participate, and believe your literary point- > of-view has valuable insight. Imho, your prose have gotten > more beautiful, but some of your words and phrases are still not > worth the effort. I like my intellectuals to provide plains-spoken > explanations, and many do. While I may get frustrated, I don't > get angry. These are words, ideas, patterns; they may be > important one minute and vanish the next. Also, I have a good > internal eraser. > > I do not feel the need to defend mediation. In my experience > it has much insightful knowledge to offer, but obviously it will > not appeal to everyone. My enthusiasm is no more than an > expression of the positive effect its had on my life experiences. > I also like to read, no, love to read. And I, too, have learned new > and interesting perspectives from books. The Lear book, for > instance, offered a perspective I might have never considered except > through reading. The ideas were very interesting. I will soon start > 'The Surrounded'. Thanks for the great recommendations. > > > Marsha 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
