dmb, On Apr 24, 2013, at 6:34 PM, david buchanan <[email protected]> wrote:
> I know that Marsha would like to dismiss this criticism as just someone's > opinion or "interpretation", one she doesn't care about. And others would > like to dismiss it because they think it's just personal or too mean. But > actual content of this criticism has hardly been addressed and, as far as I > can see, stands undefeated. I really don't see how any reasonable person > could deny that it's simply contradictory to say that static patterns are > ever-changing. It is not a contradiction to understand that patterns may maintain a static, stable identity at the same time as they and their context are undergoing constant change. Think of the Ship of Theseus, or a parade (Hume) where everyone drops out but is replaced so that the parade is maintained, or the body with its cells constantly being replaced. Things can change - flow - and yet have stabilty; think of a river. Your complaint is a joke. I don't need your approval, and I do not care that you think it a contradiction. I hardly consider what you think significant or a standard of high value rationality. And look at the tactics you call "discussing". When your logic fails dismally, you claim it was only parody. Basically, your rhetoric is a tangle of mostly snarkiness, jargon, philosophology and textual evidence bingo. There are just a few samples of your intellectual prowess below. --- On 11/29/12 10:47 AM, "david buchanan" <[email protected]> wrote: Some people can learn faster than others and that's fine. But the level of incorrigibility demonstrated by these trolls can't be explained by the standard variations in intelligence. These cases are so extreme that there must be a fairly serious psychological problem at work here. Whatever the cause might be, the effect is a constant stream of interruptions and diversions from folks who just cannot or will not play this game we call philosophy. I think we can have compassion and still fully recognize that they are turds in the punchbowl. --- On Feb 23, 2013, at 5:39 PM, david buchanan wrote: Ultimately, Marsha's attitude is hateful and irresponsible and amoral. And the actual conceptual content is just incoherent drivel. It's an embarrassment. What did Robert Pirsig ever do to Marsha such that she would abuse his work like this? What did the English language ever do to deserve this torture? --- On Mar 6, 2013, at 1:42 PM, david buchanan wrote: Why does Marsha constantly condemn intellectuals, academic philosopher and William James and then act like this is Pirsig's attitude too. It's obviously not. That's just a reflection of Marsha's anti-intellectualism, resentment, jealous and the like. It's pure bullshit. And it's merely personal too. She just can't stand the idea that I could correct her misunderstanding. It's empty, irrational, ego-driven nonsense. She turned it into a trivial contest of wills wherein she thinks she can win the argument through sheer repetition, as if posting her contradictory drivel over and over again will somehow make it coherent. It won't. --- On Mar 22, 2013, at 11:33 PM, david buchanan <[email protected]> wrote: You have no business here, you confused troll. Go away. --- On Apr 7, 2013, at 7:54 PM, david buchanan wrote: Troll. Creep. Liar. --- 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
