[Marsha] Why don't you form a committee to isolate all the offending RMP quotes that you think should not be presented or discussed? If that becomes a MD rule I will most certainly comply. Do you think you should ban these quote?
[Arlo] I don't recall saying any quotes should be banned, or anything else for that matter. So not going to play your game. But, I think if you genuinely believed that all intellectual patterns should be 'killed', then what are doing wasting your time in a forum dedicated to intellectual quality, as Pirsig's ideas are intellectual patterns. Should they be killed? So, kill them and be gone. Must be millions of better places for you to be than a philosophy forum. [Pirsig] "The purpose of mystic meditation is not to remove oneself from experience but to bring one's self closer to it by eliminating stale, confusing, static, intellectual attachments of the past." [Arlo] Absolutely. But once Pirsig was dome meditating, he built an intellectual structure. You seem intent on tearing it down, or using Pirsig's own words to attack Pirsig's own thesis. But again, the fact that you're here only demonstrates that even to this you pay only insincere lip-service. [Marsha] Instead of being a general and free-ranging forum for the discussion of Robert M. Pirsig's Metaphysics of Quality, it can be a controlled forum for the philosophical discussion of approved RMP quotes. Maybe you'd like that only academic philosophers should be permitted to participate? [Arlo] This is a telling insertion of "academic". Why did you add this? How about "maybe you'd like that only philosophers should be permitted to participate?" Well, we are here to discuss a philosophy, so what's bad about expecting those who discuss a philosophy from being philosophers? To expect that in forum talking about an intellectual pattern that people pursue high intellectual quality? This is strangely tautological, isn't it? And I think I just wrote that I find some of your comments relating to eastern philosophies interesting, and that this is an important part of what Pirsig's ideas are about. Where in any of that did you see "controlled discussion of approved quotes"? That last question is rhetorical, as I said, not going to play your games. 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
