Bugger off! Do you understand the word paradox?
On Mar 17, 2011, at 4:07 PM, Andre Broersen wrote: > Marsha; > > My heart is aching for the people in Japan. I don't get the hype from > television, but I have been paying attention to events posted on the > Internet, and it is all awful beyond words. It is so awful it is hard to > believe it is really happening, yet I know it is. The question 'Why?' sticks > in my throat and I choke. It is unbearably awful. > > Andre: > I'm going to be a real bastard here Marsha but your sentiments are just > hypocritical and unbelievably false! And I'll ram the reason right down your > throat, since for you 'all static patterns of value, even those in the MoQ, > are ever-changing and interdependent'. > > How can you be so concerned and feel so 'unbearably awful' when the situation > in Japan meets all your convictions of what sq 'really' is. As dmb and Dan > and others have continuously pointed out to you, this 'view' of > 'ever-changing' things isn't helping anything or anybody. Confusing DQ with > sq makes an awful mess of things. > > Why has it such an impact on you? Because your static patterns have been > upset? This should be a normal state of affairs for you! Sorry but I thought > you would not know what that means... stability...stable patterns of value... > NO!they are ever changing for you. > > This is what Pirsig's MOQ is about. It is what LILA is about. He'd said > enough about DQ (as he explains at the end of Chapter 9) and turned his > attention to sq and developed the 5 moral codes out of this ... as a guide > for, among other things, right action and yea, also right grieving. Stable > patterns give us things to hold on to. Things we cherish and love and care > for and can care about. Without stability this would not be possible. > > I apologize immediately Marsha because I do think you are genuinely upset > but, for goodness sake let your experience inform your theory with > consistency. Static patterns as ever-changing makes them frivolous and > illusory. This may have been the conviction of the Indian professor at > Benares University answering Phaedrus' query about the reality of Hiroshima > and Nagasaki but Pirsig's MOQ is of a different quality. > > 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 ___ 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
