Love how you and Andre both point to nowhere...  
 


 
 
On Oct 4, 2011, at 10:25 AM, david buchanan wrote:

> 
> Marsha:
> If you ever ask a real question, I'll be quite surprised and amazed. But 
> you've given me no reason to suspect that. You've given me every reason to 
> think quite the opposite. I think you have no business even being here. If 
> you are genuinely interested in anything I have to say about James and the 
> MOQ, you can just read what's already in the archives. I mean, you can keep 
> asking if you like but I have absolutely no interest in talking to you. I 
> think you fully deserve to be ignored. I'm convinced that the average level 
> of hostility and stupidity would drop dramatically if you went away from this 
> place. Sigh. One can hope.
> 
> 
> 
>> From: [email protected]
>> Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 09:42:59 -0400
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [MD] W.J. Eastern influences
>> 
>> 
>> On Oct 4, 2011, at 9:17 AM, david buchanan wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Marsha said:
>>> Bob Doyle stated that W.J. was the first!  And he bemoaned that other 
>>> philosophers borrowed from W.J. without giving him proper credit.  But 
>>> that's just foolishness.  It has been documented that W.J. read and reread, 
>>> in the often cited crisis period of his life, Buddhist and Vedic texts. ...
>>> 
>>> Marsha later added:
>>> The post was about William James and the comment made by Bob Doyle, and a 
>>> legitimate question.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> dmb says:
>>> Bob Doyle's statement has nothing to do with Buddhism or Vedic texts. He 
>>> said James was the first to come up with a two-stage model of free will. 
>>> Your question is not only illegitimate, it's predicated on a fictional 
>>> claim that no sane person would make. 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Marsha:
>> Yes, I know.  Doyle was chastising many philosophers for borrowing from W.J. 
>> without giving him credit.  I was pointing out that W.J. was influenced by 
>> Buddhist and Vedic thinking and failed to give these ancient traditions 
>> their proper due.  The legitimate question:  How does William James improve 
>> the MoQ?  As far as I can see he does not.  It just points backwards and has 
>> nothing to say about Quality, static patterns, or the hierarchical, 
>> evolutionary structure that helps evaluate many conflicting patterns.  
>> 
>> I would like to have you address how the MoQ expands and improves Jamesian 
>> philosophical ideas.  


 
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