Hi Mary, When you said:
" As for the dilemma? Your view of the change thing? Reminds me of being a little bit pregnant." I caught your meaning immediately. But yet, there is an aspect of the true definition of "static" which carries always the unseen modifier, "sort of". Everything that we deem as static, is only *sort of *static. I guess I've always known that, but I've never thought about it much. And the really interesting fact about this situation, that I also had never previously considered, is the fact that in that little tiny slice of time known as "direct experience" has no way of knowing just how static any particular phenomenon is. It takes a judgment based on memory over time in order to comprehend how static something is and whether it's static enough to be deemed "static". It's a function of intellect, yes. But it's also a completely subjective judgment from a particular point of view. What bothers me the most is those who have argued against this point in that they seem to be quite arrogant in their assertions that what they call static, actually IS static beyond their subjective judgment. They absolutize their own egoistic point of view and call anyone who doesn't just swallow their judgment names like "stupid" and "anti-intellectual" and "anti-MoQ". It's a trite saying of an old friend of mine, "discussions produce light; arguments produce heat". When I come looking for enlightening discussion, and I end up with heated argument... well, I look at that as some kind of clue that I've stumbled upon a sore point of some kind. It makes me want to back off to keep from fueling the flames, but on the other hand, I hate to miss the throughtful responses of those like you and Mark that actually stop and think about things rather than attack and parrot their mutually-reinforced preconceptions. So thanks for that. John the non-pregnant 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
