Thanks, Ant.
On Jul 31, 2013, at 3:20 PM, Ant McWatt wrote: > 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 ___ 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
