dmb, A MoQ is the sum of all the readings of the texts; there is no one, correct reading. There is no priest required to explain THE MoQ. Your complaints are hilarious.
Do you have an intelligent question to ask? Marsha On Sep 3, 2013, at 3:33 PM, david buchanan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Andre said: > > In response to this slither [Marsha's slither] I posed 9 (!) questions. > ...This is slither nr 10. ...I'm sure that she'll come up with others but > wonder whether this type of behaviour is accepted as a 'legitimate response' > (as she herself claims) on a discussion site such as this. Many posters put a > lot of time, effort and energy into formulating a post and the only response > Marsha usually gives is a one-line variation on the 10 ways of slithering out > of a decent and reasonable response. > It is obvious she doesn't have a response but I find this type of practice > one of the most blatant gumption traps I encounter here. She does not share, > does not engage in explorations and discussions, does not exchange views or > intellegent ideas but instead seems only to inflate her own ego by presenting > quotes she doesn't understand properly herself. > Simply ignoring her is difficult because then you'd have to ignore 75percent > of the space on this site. And I do not come here for 75 percent wasted > digital space. There must be some other means and I suggest a ban for at > least 3 months on contributing. Time for her to read ZMM and LILA and learn > some stimulating, constructive written discussion skills. Her present > behavious is enough to make one unsubscribe. > > > > dmb says: > Marsha's constant dismissals and evasions are illegitimate, irresponsible and > dishonest. Sometimes she even repeats her denials AFTER heaps of proof as to > their falsity has been posted. There's nothing subtle about this kind of > dishonesty. At that point, intellectual dishonesty is just a shameless lie. > What kind of person is not ashamed to behave the way she behaves? I just > don't get it. She simply refuses to engage in a discussion Pirsig's MOQ, so > what need is getting met for her? Her interests are not intellectual, that's > for sure, and yet she posts more than anyone. She'd post more if there > weren't a rule against it. It's weirdly narcissistic, as if the structure of > an idea were subject to her whims and wishes. Their actual shape and > relations, if you will, is of no importance to her whatsoever. Imagine a > mechanic who treated her machine or tools so capriciously. > > "Slithering" is a good word for it. It has the right connotation for her > brand of evasion. There's always something low and slimy about her escape, as > your list of 10 slithers amply showed. Instead of responding legitimately, > her tactic is to cite some bogus reason why she doesn't have to respond. > These bogus "reasons" are always vague and they're often insulting. One of my > favorites is often repeated. She never literally said "you're not the boss of > me" (like a child would) but that's what many of her "reasons" amount to. It > would make a good three-minute comedy skit but it's not funny when it goes on > for months and years. Then it's just sad. > > If good maintenance is an outer sign of inner peace, Marsha must be a nervous > wreck. > > > > 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
