Marsha, What you have said is true but in this context of a philosophical discussion group if you just produce the occasional mystical quote then you won't be making the most of your knowledge about Pirsig's work or the Discussion group.
For all his faults, I have learnt much about the MOQ from DMB's Discuss posts over the years. I think he, Arlo, Paul Turner, Khoo Hock Aun and Gavin Gee-Clough (to name a few) must have accelerated my own understandiung of the MOQ by a decade if not more. Though you have provided some good links and references over the years, I can't remember reading one of your numerous posts and thinking "Hey, that's a good way of putting of that!". The irony here is the former have applied their knowledge of the MOQ artistically (you can tell that they've considered Pirsig's ideas and played them through their own heads) while the production of quotes is very static. In fact, it could be considered a form of trolling. Unfortunately, you can't be removed from this discussion group for being boring (at the moment anyway!) though - in future - I do hope to hear more original thoughts from the "real" Marsha (who ever that is!) than these mystical quotes (especially those from my own work!). I know you're relatively very well read so you could do a lot more to help people new to the MOQ (and Pirsig's work in general). Finally, the other issue that I personally have with this Discussion group is that there are relatively too many white Western male contributors as it is so, at the same time, I wouldn't be too happy to see you unsubscribe (being a female) especially after Khoo's untimely exit recently. The fewer cultural perspectives that we have at Discuss, the weaker we will be as a Discussion group. So please do keep that in mind too! Best wishes, Ant ---------------------------------------- Marsha V wrote July 30th: RMP wrote "I think the difference in value judgements has produced more unhappiness, more conflict, more wars and more evil than any other single source. The idea that something is rigidly good or rigidly true and cannot change or cannot be relative for different people leads to a kind of irretractable conflict that can't be resolved except by violence." I can accept that dmb has different value judgements than mine as a result of our different histories and current patterns of values. > > > Marsha > . 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
