Hi Mary, not sure why this is in this thread ?
I posted on International Women's Day recently.
http://www.psybertron.org/?p=3784

Thanks for the TED links.
Ian

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 4:16 AM, Mary <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> http://www.ted.com/talks/sheryl_wudunn_our_century_s_greatest_injustice.html
>
> http://www.halftheskymovement.org/
>
> Best,
> Mary
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 6:53 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [MD] The first division of the MOQ.
>
> Hmmm Ian,
> Do you really know what you are talking about?  Skirting around reality huh?
> How do you do that?  Is there an outside to reality?
> Show me.
>
> Gee, words are not what they represent, now that is a concept!  Thanks for
> the insight!
>
> Now VDGG would be fun, I was a big fan of theirs in the early seventies.  H
> to He and all that stuff.  I bought a single by the lead singer (whatever
> his name was) recently.  Interesting, but not VDGG.
> I loved the saxophone parts.
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
>
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 12:48 AM, Ian Glendinning
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi David (H)
>>
>> You summarised your impression of Mark's take thus:
>>
>> "If everything is static quality", you seem to say.. "then that
>> appears to be a very sad existence indeed."
>>
>> (You go on to point out lots of non-static things in real life ...)
>>
>> Mark's take hinges on the "everything" in the first clause being -
>> "everything that we can objectivise and discuss in language in a
>> metaphysics discussion forum (or anywhere else)". That would indeed be
>> a very sad existence, but of course life, the universe and everything
>> is a lot more than that, as you point out.
>>
>> As you perceive it's a source of frustration or sometimes confusion
>> for many on MD .... that we can only ever skirt around reality ... but
>> that is the reality of any discourse .... a reason why we need to meet
>> in the flesh at Hawkwind or Van derGraaf Generator gigs ;-)
>>
>> Metaphysics discusses meta-life and meta-reality, it's not real-life
> itself.
>>
>> Ian
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