And dmb,
Though you may not like it, I put together a definition of static patterns of value. You can hardly accuse me of neglecting static patterns of value. Marsha On Mar 25, 2012, at 1:53 PM, david buchanan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Robert Pirsig wrote: > "In the past Pheadrus' own radical bias caused him to think of Dynamic > Quality alone and neglect static patterns of quality. Until now he had always > felt that these static patterns were dead. They have no love. They offer no > promise of anything. To succumb to them is to succumb to death, since that > which does not change cannot live. But now he was beginning to see that this > radical bias weakened his own case. Life cannot exist on Dynamic Quality > alone. It has no staying power. To cling to Dynamic Quality is to cling to > chaos. He saw that much can be learned about Dynamic Quality by studying what > it is not rather that futilely trying to define what it is... Slowly at > first, and then with increasing awareness that he was going in a right > direction, Phaedrus' central attention turned away from any further > explanation of Dynamic Quality and turned to the static patterns themselves" > (Robert Pirsig in Lila). > > > >> On Mar 25, 2012, at 12:48 PM, david buchanan wrote: >> >>> dmb: >>> "In the past Pheadrus' own radical bias caused him to think of Dynamic >>> Quality alone (as you seem to be doing Marsha) and neglect static patterns >>> of quality (as you seem to be doing Marsha). >> >> >> Marsha: >> Why, because you think so? I do not value your opinion, and your >> point-of-view is not interesting to me. You seem to think progress is >> agreeing with you. There are multiple ways to experience the MoQ. I am >> interested in the MoQ as a bridge between the East and West. From RMP's >> initial interest in Northrop's 'Meeting of East and West: An Inquiry >> Concerning World Understanding' and his recommendation of Steve Hagan's book >> ‘Buddhism: Plain and Simple’, I think he is quite interested in >> accommodating both East and West philosophies. > > > > dmb says: > Did anyone say Pirsig is NOT interested in accommodating East and West? No, > of course not. That much can be seen by reading nothing more than the title > of his first book. And that uncontested point is completely irrelevant > anyway. The point is to show that your position is contradicted by the > evidence. You've dismissed Pirsig's explicit statement (the evidence of what > Pirsig thinks) as if it were just my opinion or the opinion of whoever quotes > Pirsig. I take this to mean that you do not understand what counts as > evidence or what counts as a reasonable interpretation. As usual, you seem to > be incapable of understanding this criticism as such. You take the use of > textual evidence as an argument from authority or a form of persecution > against you personally. That's totally twisted, upside down and backwards. > > This is just more proof of your incompetence, Marsha. You can't even stay on > the topic, let alone say anything relevant about it. > > 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
