Re: [MD] MOQ and CTMU

2011-07-26 Thread MarshaV
MRB, Ah yes, I can imagine the egotism of a nineteen-year-old girl could be an excitement. Anything more? Marsha On Jul 26, 2011, at 12:15 AM, Michael R. Brown wrote: Marsha - How did you become interested in Ms. MacLane? Why the detached interview? I read the

Re: [MD] The Quality of Free Will

2011-07-26 Thread 118
Hi Dan On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Dan Glover daneglo...@gmail.com wrote: Well, again, I think RMP has moved past James in ways that agree with James' work. James (for one thing) never postulated that reality is composed of value. He seemed to feel that experience HAD value but he

Re: [MD] MOQ and CTMU

2011-07-26 Thread Michael R. Brown
Marsha - I can imagine the egotism of a nineteen-year-old girl could be an excitement. That wasn't it. Anything more? A great deal. You cherry-pick what you answer. MRB http://www.fuguewriter.com Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc.

[MD] Intensity for Life

2011-07-26 Thread MarshaV
On Jul 26, 2011, at 2:52 AM, Michael R. Brown wrote: Marsha - I can imagine the egotism of a nineteen-year-old girl could be an excitement. That wasn't it. Anything more? A great deal. You cherry-pick what you answer. MRB http://www.fuguewriter.com H Michael, Yes,

Re: [MD] The Quality of Free Will

2011-07-26 Thread MarshaV
Hello again Ham, If you will forgive me for quoting from Miri Albahari's book, here's the crux of the issue: ... Awareness purports to exist as a witnessing presence that is unified, unbroken and yet elusive to direct observation. As something whose phenomenology purports to be unborrowed

Re: [MD] Who are the MOQ's best friends?

2011-07-26 Thread Ian Glendinning
Hi Dan, Apart from a few minor corrections (!) like ... I'd say the science of influence IS another name for rhetoric, And I'd say peace, love and understanding is all about (genuine) respect for the person(s) you are dealing with, criticising, disagreeing with or otherwise ... and a million

Re: [MD] The Quality of Free Will

2011-07-26 Thread david buchanan
dmb said to Dan: You're reading James as if he subscribed to subject-object metaphysics but quite the opposite is true. The central point of his pure experience theory is to oppose that. ...As Pirsig describes it, James's radical empiricism says ...subjects and objects are not the starting

Re: [MD] Free Will

2011-07-26 Thread david buchanan
Steve said: ...Sure, but the free will question is about HOW choices are made. John replied: Is it? I thought it was *whether* choice was made or even possible. Whether it's possible to choose, to freely decide. ...I believe individuality is itself a choice, and thus we don't make choices,

Re: [MD] Free Will

2011-07-26 Thread MarshaV
Dmb, I asked you these question previously, but I'll try again. Marsha: Three questions: Have you dropped the words 'free-will' and 'determinism'? If you are using new words please define them clearly? Please clearly explain the reformulation as you understand? If you are not

Re: [MD] Free Will

2011-07-26 Thread MarshaV
Come on, dmb, how about answering the questions instead of conflating Steve and Sam Harris... Marsha On Jul 26, 2011, at 11:49 AM, MarshaV wrote: Dmb, I asked you these question previously, but I'll try again. Marsha: Three questions: Have you dropped the words

Re: [MD] Free Will

2011-07-26 Thread MarshaV
Dmb, Let me add one more question: If you think within the MoQ that free-will and determinism have new definitions, please offer them... Many thanks, Marsha On Jul 26, 2011, at 11:49 AM, MarshaV wrote: Dmb, I asked you these question previously, but I'll try again.

Re: [MD] Who are the MOQ's best friends?

2011-07-26 Thread Dan Glover
Hello everyone On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 3:43 AM, Ian Glendinning ian.glendinn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Dan, Apart from a few minor corrections (!) like ... I'd say the science of influence IS another name for rhetoric, Hi Ian Oh no. There is real verifiable science behind the influencing of

Re: [MD] Intensity for Life

2011-07-26 Thread Michael R. Brown
Marsha - I asked why the detached-sounding interview. It sounded/felt stark. ; ) MRB http://www.fuguewriter.com Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives:

Re: [MD] Intensity for Life

2011-07-26 Thread MarshaV
Hi Michael, It was not meant to be detached, or stark. I am looking forward to reading your book and was curious to what made you interested in her work. Marsha On Jul 26, 2011, at 3:43 AM, Michael R. Brown wrote: Marsha - I asked why the detached-sounding interview. It

Re: [MD] The Quality of Free Will

2011-07-26 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi MarshaV My attention is limited. I find it fortunate that I have two names Joseph Maurer. I connect those names with Pirsig's DQ/SQ. Joe is DQ. Maurer is SQ. Joe On 7/26/11 12:49 AM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: Marsha: There is no way to know what goes on before birth or after

Re: [MD] Intensity for Life

2011-07-26 Thread Michael R. Brown
Marsha - It was not meant to be detached, or stark. I believe you. : ) The tone sometimes comes in in long-term list discussions. I'm an advocate for unusual lots of emotion - http://typelogic.com/enfp.html and http://www.personalitypage.com/ENFP.html . I am looking forward to reading

Re: [MD] The Quality of Free Will

2011-07-26 Thread MarshaV
Greetings Joe, What happen to: do re me fa so la ti? Marsha On Jul 26, 2011, at 2:16 PM, Joseph Maurer wrote: Hi MarshaV My attention is limited. I find it fortunate that I have two names Joseph Maurer. I connect those names with Pirsig's DQ/SQ. Joe is DQ. Maurer is SQ. Joe

Re: [MD] Intensity for Life

2011-07-26 Thread MarshaV
Hi Michael, For me it's http://typelogic.com/intp.html and http://www.personalitypage.com/INTP.html . I may read in reverse order. Nineteen and twenty-one is sooo young. Such youthful exuberance is wonderful, but the insights are somewhat limited. I imagine; though, I am often visited

Re: [MD] Intensity for Life

2011-07-26 Thread Michael R. Brown
Hi Marsha - As a teen I was a stern and earnest INTJ. I moved to the West Coast at 24 and within two years out came my ENFP'ness. Interesting approach to Mary. I endorse. : ) On the anniversary of my husbands death I read every word in the many volumes and burned them all. I have lived

Re: [MD] Intensity for Life

2011-07-26 Thread MarshaV
On Jul 26, 2011, at 3:29 PM, Michael R. Brown wrote: Hi Marsha - As a teen I was a stern and earnest INTJ. I moved to the West Coast at 24 and within two years out came my ENFP'ness. I took an online version a couple of years ago and I was still an INTP. - I once owned a condo on the

Re: [MD] The Quality of Free Will

2011-07-26 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi MarshaV, There are a couple of ways to talk about reality: Manifestation and Order. A rule for Order is Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Ti. The difference in quality of Mi-Fa, and Ti-Do adds excitement to reality, nothing boring about metaphysics. A single manifestation has three aspects: Active,

Re: [MD] Free Will

2011-07-26 Thread Steven Peterson
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 10:53 AM, david buchanan dmbucha...@hotmail.com wrote: Steve said: ...Sure, but the free will question is about HOW choices are made. John replied: Is it?  I thought it was *whether* choice was made or even possible. Whether it's possible to choose, to freely

Re: [MD] Who are the MOQ's best friends?

2011-07-26 Thread 118
Hi Dan, On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Dan Glover daneglo...@gmail.com wrote: Oh no. There is real verifiable science behind the influencing of others. Ad agencies know this. So does any good salesperson. Here are just a few key findings backed up by empirical studies in Psychology,

Re: [MD] The Quality of Free Will

2011-07-26 Thread 118
Hi Marsha, This witnessing capacity would fly straight in the face of Buddhism, since it would require an inherent arrising of the witness. Your thoughts? Mark On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 12:49 AM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: Hello again Ham, If you will forgive me for quoting from Miri

Re: [MD] The Quality of Free Will

2011-07-26 Thread 118
Hi Joe, I like that! Personality lies in the first name, responsibility lies in the last. Mark On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Joseph Maurer jh...@comcast.net wrote: Hi MarshaV My attention is limited.  I find it fortunate that I have two names Joseph Maurer.  I connect those names with

Re: [MD] The Quality of Free Will

2011-07-26 Thread 118
Hi Marsha, It sounds like you are requesting sexual favors. You can write to Anthony Weiner for those. Ha, Ha, Mark On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 11:57 AM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: Greetings Joe, What happen to: do re me fa so la ti? Marsha On Jul 26, 2011, at 2:16 PM, Joseph Maurer

Re: [MD] MOQ and CTMU

2011-07-26 Thread 118
Michael, You are also sounding like you are requesting sexual favors. I wonder what Freud would make of me? Mark On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:52 PM, Michael R. Brown m...@fuguewriter.com wrote: Marsha - I can imagine the egotism of a nineteen-year-old girl could be an excitement. That wasn't

Re: [MD] MOQ and CTMU

2011-07-26 Thread Michael R. Brown
Mark - I never ask for sexual favors. I sometimes grant them, upon an appealing enough request. [ Kidding. ] MRB http://www.fuguewriter.com Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives:

Re: [MD] The Quality of Free Will

2011-07-26 Thread MarshaV
Hi Mark, It is still speculation and under investigation, but I cannot find anything INHERENTLY existing. Nada. And I'm not sure what face of Buddha you think I am aiming for. What do you think of the witnessing experience? Marsha On Jul 26, 2011, at 5:50 PM, 118 wrote: Hi

Re: [MD] A Confusion of Weasels

2011-07-26 Thread Horse
I have no idea what you're talking about. On 26/07/2011 22:43, 118 wrote: So, Horse, my suggestion to you is to stop worshipping the peons of this forum and direct your enthusiasm to others who are more deserving. -- Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production

Re: [MD] MOQ and CTMU

2011-07-26 Thread Michael R. Brown
118 - Yeah, I suppose if bus schedules need some fixin'. Ers Sidis did a lot more than that. He was a significant if unheralded libertarian theorist by the end of his life - got rid of the anarcho-socialism and was pretty much over to minarchical libertarianism. He also figured out some

Re: [MD] A Confusion of Weasels

2011-07-26 Thread Steven Peterson
Hi Horse, Horse: Steve and Dave go hammer and tongs at, for the most part I think, philosophical issues. They have different interpretations of Pirsig (and others) work and neither of them appear to be particularly aggrieved at the treatment they both mete out to each other. Steve: The thing

Re: [MD] Free Will

2011-07-26 Thread david buchanan
dmb said: ... One of the biggest problems in this months-long thread is that Steve keeps trying to make Sam Harris's determinism compatible with the MOQ's reformulation and the result is not pretty. Steve: That's just another of your attempts to misrepresent my position rather than engaging

Re: [MD] A Confusion of Weasels

2011-07-26 Thread david buchanan
Steve:said: ...I AM pissed about how dmb routinely treats people on this forum. That's why I called him a dick. I'm fed up with it. There's just no way he could get away taking the dickish pose he takes in this forum when talking to people in person. That lousy social pattern of his would get

Re: [MD] question: MOQ, Pirsigism, passionate emotion

2011-07-26 Thread Michael R. Brown
Hi Joseph - Sorry for the long delay in answering - am email swamped and had to let this thread languish. Emotions are DQ only. But they can leave SQ traces, I think, as in art-structures. And memory too. Isn't ZAMM a genuine *memoir*? Makes me think of Walter Pater: To burn always with

Re: [MD] question: MOQ, Pirsigism, passionate emotion

2011-07-26 Thread Michael R. Brown
Hi, Steven Peterson - I see it it emotions play the role on the biological level that carbon plays on the inorganic level and language plays on the social level in being that pattern that offers the versatility and stability needed for the next level to evolve. There's a very interesting

Re: [MD] question: MOQ, Pirsigism, passionate emotion

2011-07-26 Thread Michael R. Brown
Hi, Dan Glover - Welcome back! Thanks so. I've been thinking about you guys - is this related to the list LC is drawn from? (My books are in many boxes.) no one here knows the totality of Robert Pirsig's thoughts. All we know is what he's written in his two books and his subsequent

Re: [MD] question: MOQ, Pirsigism, passionate emotion

2011-07-26 Thread Michael R. Brown
Hi, Ian Glendinning - Michael (whoever you are) I kinda wonder that a lot, and not at all, myself. It's interesting to wander around. Almost every discussion of Pirsig, the totality of his thought, and the MOQ (all three of which are separate) that I've seen eventually resemble the

Re: [MD] The Quality of Free Will

2011-07-26 Thread Dan Glover
Hello everyone On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 6:59 AM, david buchanan dmbucha...@hotmail.com wrote: dmb said to Dan: You're reading James as if he subscribed to subject-object metaphysics but quite the opposite is true. The central point of his pure experience theory is to oppose that.  ...As

Re: [MD] question: MOQ, Pirsigism, passionate emotion

2011-07-26 Thread Michael R. Brown
Hi, Ian Glendinning - the closer we look (analyze) the less actual freedom (DQ) we have Because we have to narrow consciousness? the more we have academic arguments about MOQ the further away we are taken from MOQ. Closer to that old church of reason. Reminds me of the huge length of the

Re: [MD] The Quality of Free Will

2011-07-26 Thread 118
Hi Marsha, Your finding Nada may be a function of how you are looking for it. If you use standard Subject/Object metaphysics, then of course you will find nothing. In the same way that Atman cannot be found in that way. This is one reason why Pirsig does not like that metaphysics. However, if

Re: [MD] MOQ and CTMU

2011-07-26 Thread 118
Hi Michael, Yes, I have tried to read much of that, I was inspired by Goodwill Hunting many years ago. Like I said in my previous post, I do not understand it (and I am pretty good at physics and bus schedules). Perhaps I am not looking at it in the right way. But, I have got way too much to

Re: [MD] question: MOQ, Pirsigism, passionate emotion

2011-07-26 Thread 118
Hi Michael, Thank you for the question. In both ZMM and Lila, Pirsig states that by trying to wrap MoQ with words, Quality only becomes more hidden (my specific words there by the way, not his). Therefore, the standard Subject/Object Metaphysics does not work very well, and he has to resort to

Re: [MD] Who are the MOQ's best friends?

2011-07-26 Thread Dan Glover
Hello everyone On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 3:48 PM, 118 ununocti...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Dan, On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Dan Glover daneglo...@gmail.com wrote: Oh no. There is real verifiable science behind the influencing of others. Ad agencies know this. So does any good salesperson.