Hi dmb, Sent from my iPad
On Dec 14, 2011, at 1:20 PM, david buchanan <[email protected]> wrote: > Matt said to Dan: > I wish to stop you (if I could) to ask that you not go bit by bit through the > post, responding as you think at the moment of reading, but read the whole > thing and respond holistically. .. I apologize for making demands, but it > appears from the beginning of your response again that we would just keep > spinning in the mud. ... > > > dmb says: > Holistically rather than bit by bit. Yep, I'm definitely sympathetic to that > complaint. (Although I'd direct this complaint at every participant.) > Sometimes, especially when talking about things like philosophy, it's really > much better to think and speak in paragraphs. Sometimes it takes a big block > of text to express an idea but I'll find people responding to a sentence > fragment instead. Sometimes a second or third paragraph is needed in order to > further qualify what was said in the first. But I often see responses (from > Steve, for example) that simply delete those qualifications and then condemn > the idea for lacking those qualifications. From this I can only conclude that > these post are going off half-cocked. It seems pretty obvious that such > responses are being hastily and absent-mindedly slapped together even before > the post has been read all the way through. This tends to produce half-baked, > knee-jerk responses that really aren't worth much even when they don't complet el > y miss the point. > > I would beg every MOQer to think in paragraphs - or at least recognize it > when the other guy is talking like that. How far can we go by simply trading > slogans and quips, after all? Marsha: I often find that the more words I use, the more static they become, and so, I will stick to sometimes presenting a paragraph, sometimes a sentence, and sometimes a single word. If a question makes sense to me and seems well-intentioned, I do try to respond. Marsha 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
