Hello everyone On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 1:24 AM, Eddo Rats <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all > > Dan: > This seems right to me. Motorcycle maintenance is an excellent analogy for > this ever-evolving intellectual journey we all are (hopefully) on. There is > no real destination, no perfectly tuned bike. It takes time, care, and > constant attention to keep that baby running right. Faulty logic, > contradiction, and lack of intellectual coherence in this philosophy forum > is the same as trying to tune a motorcycle with a monkey wrench. It just > doesn't work. > Eddo: > The problem in this analogy is that you compare anorganic quality patterns > "motorcycle maintanance" with social quality patterns"this forum". > Anorganic quality patterns obey the laws of nature and logic much more > convincing than the social patterns comming out of this forum which are > much more dynamic. The social quality patterns who survive are the > intellectual quality patterns which make common sense in the forum > community. > Dan: Motorcycles do not work on themselves. A rational being performs motorcycle maintenance. I am not comparing inorganic patterns to social patterns. I am comparing intellectual patterns to intellectual patterns. > Eddo: > I think we have a tower of babel problem here, The closer we all want to > get to DQ, the more we misunderstand each other. > Dan: The whole gist of Arlo's post was that we are here participating in an intellectual discussion concerning the MOQ, not on top of a mountain meditating or in a zen retreat hiding away from the world. I have no problem understanding what is said here but that doesn't mean I agree with it. Thank you, Dan http://www.danglover.com 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
