[Ian] 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 Hi Ian, Mark asked you: Skirting around reality huh? > How do you do that? Just helping you out. ;->) Best, Mary On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 4:16 AM, Mary <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://www.ted.com/talks/sheryl_wudunn_our_century_s_greatest_injustic > e.html > > http://www.halftheskymovement.org/ > > Best, > Mary > On Behalf Of 118 > Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 6:53 PM > 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 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
