Hi dmb, Thank you for your support below. Sent laboriously from an iPhone, Mark
On Mar 22, 2012, at 6:18 AM, david buchanan <dmbucha...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > From: dmbucha...@hotmail.com > To: moq_disc...@moqtalk.org > Subject: RE: [MD] The value of static patterns. > Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 07:16:12 -0600 > > > > > > > > > Tuukka said to dmb: > ... But I think it's better to recruit new members, somehow, than to complain > to the current ones. > > dmb says: > There's no way to know for sure but I strongly suspect that a number of > Pirsig fans have become excited about joining this forum but investigated the > level of conversation going on here and were discouraged from joining because > of what they found. In other words, I'll bet that lots of people have looked > into it, found way too much drivel and decided that joining this forum would > be a waste of time. > > Tuukka said: > I sure would like to improve the level of this forum. I haven't been active > here for such a long time. You know, maybe if Mark or Matt were still > interested of the things they once were, and met me now, maybe we could > cooperate a lot. Maybe a new Mark or Matt will come. Despite criticizing the > level of discussion here, I'd like to thank Mark for some excellent and > recent discussions. > > dmb says: > See, now that particular piece of praise makes me very skeptical about your > ability to discern intellectual quality. They both disagree with Pirsig in > profound ways but only one of them ever made any sense. One of them is > bright, well-read and reasonable and the other isn't even close. One is > polite to a fault and the other is a socially oblivious egomaniac. This is > exactly the sort of thing I was complaining about; the inability to > distinguish philosophical ideas from psychotic drivel. > > 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 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
