Hell everyone On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Ant McWatt <[email protected]> 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. > Dan: Marsha is too nice to say so, but this is one of the most chauvistically racist posts I've ever read here. You should be ashamed of yourself, Ant. It's too bad Marsha cannot be booted off the list because she is boring and adds nothing of value to the discussion. But hey! She's a woman so let's cut her a little slack. Yeah, all us white males know how scatter-brained these silly women are. And on that note, why should I be ashamed of being a white male? What's with that bit of wisdom? As far as I know, Horse doesn't exclude anyone on account of gender or race. Yes, it is a shame Khoo believed he had to unsubscribe. But from what I gather, he did so on account of some of the flack being directed at the very person you're calling out here: Marsha. > > So please do keep that in mind too! > Dan: I think we should all keep in mind that this is an intellectual discussion group and the fact that a person is white, oriental, hispanic, Native American, black, gay or lesbian, a man or a woman, should have absolutely nothing to do with the contributions they make. Thank you, Dan 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
