Dave B had said: Pirsig's work does, however, attract people with a history of mental illness. I think the reasons for that are both obvious and understandable. I dare say this forum suffers for it too. At least three different people, including those who have been asked to leave, have explicitly confessed to such a personal history of mental illness and I was not terribly surprised at these confessions. It showed before they confessed.
Ron: I for one, have benefitted tremendously from this forum. The breaking and re-patterning of rigid static values has been a boon to me, the work is on going and ever in play. PTSD had governed my life for quite awhile and although the breaking of those patterns came at the cost of some ugly debate on my part, I still regard those who stuck to the conversation despite my desperate vicious clinging to old values as paramount to the living understanding that is MoQ and this discuss. Thanks to all who care enough to disagree and the have the courage to see the discussion through. Because I have experienced success, I truly believe that people can choose to affect change in their lives. They can willfully free themselves from rigid patterns of value and not just exchange one set of rigid values for another but to activily seek dynamic solutions to each emergent situation. Because,,, deep down, we all suffer from mental illness." Lila's struggle is everyones struggle, ya know?" That is not an encouragement to weasels and weasel words, but an invitation and a cautionary note to take a step back and entertain what other people are saying and that change is often painful. To take a good hard look at our reasons for our beliefs and our explanations as to why we hold those beliefs. ,, 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
