Ant, Is being a professor all about knowing your subject and criticizing others? Or do you ever have a creative insight of your own? I'm sure we'd all appreciate some quality insights from you instead of this hostility.
But maybe, after all, you can't help it .... "The Church of Reason, like all institutions of the System, is based not on individual strength but upon individual weakness. What's really demanded in the Church of Reason is not ability, but inability. Then you are considered teachable. A truly able person is always a threat. Phædrus sees that he has thrown away a chance to integrate himself into the organization by submitting to whatever Aristotelian thing he is supposed to submit to. But that kind of opportunity seems hardly worth the bowing and scraping and intellectual prostration necessary to maintain it. It is a low-quality form of life." Have at it, Mate. John On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 12:20 AM, Ant McWatt <[email protected]>wrote: > John, > > Well, you brought-up the descriptive word "snide" which helpfully informs > me that's what you personally think you are. > > However, if you want MY personal opinion about your behaviour on this > discussion board recently, I think you're an ABSOLUTE DISGRACE. For > instance, you made the following statement to Ron Kulp yesterday: > > > "All the stuff I'd thought I'd do different, when I was a dad, I > remembered when I got old, and I listened to. I was lucky, I had a pretty > good > dad. Emotionally distant, like all dads were, back then. But he spoke > truth to me, when we talked. He was pretty much an Indian dad, raised by > an indian dad himself. These patterns pass on." > > > If this statement is indeed accurate rather than just more of the same old > usual bullshit from yourself, you should be ashamed of yourself. What an > embarassment you are for someone with that background. > > It's tragic actually. Robert Pirsig is one of the few North American > philosophers with a white background who has made a substantial and sincere > effort in understanding and promoting Native American ideas and culture in > the last fifty years. (FSC Northrop would be another). > > However, whether it's down to you being too Westernised now or someone on > this Board has really pissed you off (probably David Buchanan and, > undoubtedly myself now), your attitude here stinks. It's disrepectful and > (as I've noticed over then last few months) you've made very little if any > substantive comments about the MOQ; which, of course, is the reason that we > are meant to be here. > > IMHO, I think you need to start with writing an apology letter to Robert > Pirsig today about your behaviour on the Discuussion group set-up and > endorsed by him to discuss his Metaphysics of Quality. You can write to > Pirsig directly via his publisher, Harper Collins. Their address follows: > > > Author Mail > c/o HarperCollins Publishers > 10 East 53rd Street > New York, NY 10022-5299 > > > Pirsig is not a particularly well man these days so please have the > decency (at least for once) to keep your apology short. > > In the meantime, I'm going to ask Horse to get you removed from this Board > at the earliest possible instance. I hope that's absolutely clear to you. > > Dr McWatt > > > > ---------------------------------------- > > On May 17th 2014, John Carl wrote to Dr McWatt stating the following: > > > "Thanks for the thoughtful reply... It's intellectuals like you that > make the academic world swing, for sure." > > "I think it'd be too much to expect every contribution to be good, but when > we can't be good, be snide, right?" > > > > On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Ant McWatt <[email protected]> > wrote: > > As usual [John] is not interested in what [I've] been saying or what > Pirsig said but just [in his own] own ego and producing more nonsense here > than a > very large shed with a very large herd of cows in it with severe > diarrhea... > > I suppose it's just unrealistic to expect that everyone here can make a > positive contribution which would be good [for a change]. > > > . > > > > 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 > -- "finite players play within boundaries. Infinite players play *with* boundaries." 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
