Re: [MD] Questions for Marsha.

2013-09-07 Thread MarshaV
On Sep 7, 2013, at 1:52 AM, David Harding da...@goodmetaphysics.com wrote: Do you have a specific question to ask? I have two general questions for you Marsha, with specific components: 1 - Is the only thing to learn in life the fact that all things arise from Dynamic Quality? *Only*

Re: [MD] Questions for Marsha.

2013-09-07 Thread David Harding
[Marsha] Discussion? Sometimes it is; sometimes it isn't. This isn't a debate club. Sometimes it depends on the style of the questioner/questions? For instance, I don't consider one should have to defend oneself against being called a bad mystic or an anti-intellectual. And a

Re: [MD] Questions for Marsha.

2013-09-07 Thread MarshaV
djh, On Sep 7, 2013, at 6:26 AM, David Harding da...@goodmetaphysics.com wrote: [Marsha] Discussion? Sometimes it is; sometimes it isn't. This isn't a debate club. Sometimes it depends on the style of the questioner/questions? For instance, I don't consider one should have to defend

Re: [MD] Questions for Marsha.

2013-09-07 Thread David Harding
[Marsha] Discussion? Sometimes it is; sometimes it isn't. This isn't a debate club. Sometimes it depends on the style of the questioner/questions? For instance, I don't consider one should have to defend oneself against being called a bad mystic or an anti-intellectual. And a

Re: [MD] Psychopathic Philosophers?

2013-09-07 Thread david buchanan
dmb asked:Can a psychopath be a good philosopher? David Thomas replied: Excellent question! How open of you! ...OK let's take a quick look. If we divorce the philosophical ramblings from the actions and behavior of character Phaedrus in the two books and check them against your

Re: [MD] Questions for Marsha.

2013-09-07 Thread MarshaV
David, On Sep 7, 2013, at 9:54 AM, David Harding da...@goodmetaphysics.com wrote: [Marsha] Discussion? Sometimes it is; sometimes it isn't. This isn't a debate club. Sometimes it depends on the style of the questioner/questions? For instance, I don't consider one should have to defend

Re: [MD] Psychopathic Philosophers? Offlist.

2013-09-07 Thread MarshaV
Dave, My comment was from a sudden realization that dmb had probably been subjected to such treatment himself. Poorly stated, though it might have been, it represented a sudden sadness. Unskillful? Quite possibly, but it was not meant to be cruel.I am writing offlist because I've

Re: [MD] Psychopathic Philosophers?

2013-09-07 Thread david buchanan
David Thomas said: ...Some time ago, when I first read this book [Jonathan Haidt¹s, ³The Righteous Mind, Why Good People and Divided by Politics and Religion], in an exchange with DMB I recommended he read it because I thought it posed serious scientific challenge to Pirsig¹s MoQ theory. I

Re: [MD] Psychopathic Philosophers?

2013-09-07 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi DMB and All, How can I describe a feeling for logic? What I learned at my mother's knee. Metaphysics do not have a base in logic since metaphysics create logical reality. Defective metaphysics accept an illogical base in describing reality e.g., SOM. Metaphysics accept a perception of

Re: [MD] Psychopathic Philosophers?

2013-09-07 Thread david buchanan
Joe said to DMB and All: How can I describe a feeling for logic? What I learned at my mother's knee. Metaphysics do not have a base in logic since metaphysics create logical reality. Defective metaphysics accept an illogical base in describing reality e.g., SOM. Metaphysics accept a

Re: [MD] Questions for Marsha.

2013-09-07 Thread David Harding
[djh] How else can our values 'interconnect' if we do not work through our differences by trying to understand one another and how our values are different? [Marsha] You seem to be steeped in presuppositions. I am again working through my value with Nagarjuna's MMK (through J.

Re: [MD] Psychopathic Philosophers?

2013-09-07 Thread X Acto
dmb said: I think it's an uncanny description of Marsha's attitude, don't you? DT replied: Honestly? I think trying to evaluate a serious biological condition on the basis of email list posts by even by someone trained and certified to practice psychology or psychiatry would be irresponsible.

Re: [MD] Questions for Marsha.

2013-09-07 Thread MarshaV
David, On Sep 7, 2013, at 10:14 PM, David Harding da...@goodmetaphysics.com wrote: This has resulted in arguments and disagreements and name calling and all the rest of it because if we presume that we're all here for the same thing and we actually are here for very different reasons, with

Re: [MD] Psychopathic Philosophers?

2013-09-07 Thread MarshaV
dmb, So now rather than evaluate post modern ideas, you're going to personalize them by reifying me [Marsha] into a post-modernist. For me the “self” is a flow of ever-changing, conditionally co-dependent and impermanent static patterns: inorganic patterns, biological patterns, social

Re: [MD] Questions for Marsha.

2013-09-07 Thread David Harding
Marsha, This has resulted in arguments and disagreements and name calling and all the rest of it because if we presume that we're all here for the same thing and we actually are here for very different reasons, with very different values and intentions, then disharmony results. And this

Re: [MD] Questions for Marsha.

2013-09-07 Thread MarshaV
David, On Sep 8, 2013, at 12:49 AM, David Harding da...@goodmetaphysics.com wrote: Marsha, This has resulted in arguments and disagreements and name calling and all the rest of it because if we presume that we're all here for the same thing and we actually are here for very different