Hi dmb, Is that your final answer to my question? Which side are you on, Drivel or MoQ?
Sent laboriously from an iPhone, Mark On Mar 24, 2012, at 10:42 PM, david buchanan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Mark asked dmb: > Why do you think that Pirsig differentiates between DQ and sq? Please try to > answer this without any quotes, but with creative thoughts of your own. > > dmb says: > You want me to explain Pirsig's thinking without making any reference to > Pirsig? Why? Because it's the least effective and least authoritative and > least credible way to explain these things? Yea, I wouldn't want to use > Pirsig quotes, cause then I might risk saying something that's true or > accurate. God forbid. We wouldn't want any of that to break out around here. > Might be contagious. > Seriously, why in the world would you want to exclude the very text we are > here to discuss! AHHHHHH! > > These people are making crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > I posted a big thing just the other day, actually, explaining how that first > distinction was born. You wouldn't like it, though. It was full of words and > concepts and quotes from Pirsig's book. > > Free yourself from words by writing? Explain some thoughts without mentioning > them? And you're not kidding? > Can I get please get a witness? How is it unfair or inaccurate to call this > incoherent drivel? It's like a scientific fact, no? > > > Mark said: > Yes, my posts are meant for those who wish for a way out of the static world > of thought. The idea is to free oneself from words. >>> >>> dmb says: >>> This is another good example. First you have the delusional grandiosity >>> wherein the poster claims to transcend the normal limits of thoughts and >>> words and then you have the logical incoherence of the claim. Reading or >>> writing to free yourself from words is like driving your car around to free >>> yourself from fuel consumption. It is a humorously conspicuous performative >>> contradiction. In other words, it's so stupid that it's funny. > > > > 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
