Gerhard, Wim Nusselder and all,
Gerhard wrote:
The subjectivity in MoQ is still one of my headaches, it should not be
there.
I surmise that you are not an engineer. How many ways are there to build a
bridge? Which one is the true bridge? Nonsense. They all do the same
thing but there are
N. Glen Dickey wrote:
To my ear it sure sounds like you don't think the Nigerians don't bear much
resonsibility for themselves and from my point of view that opinion is
rascist. Why should I hold the Nigerians to less of a standard than I hold
myself and my own countrymen? They don't seem
hello aretelaugh,I agree with you that violence sometimes is an option, a
civilised man knows when it is called for and when it is futile. A lot of
the martial arts around today have their origins in forms dating back 100's
of years to a 1000yrs, in many cases the origin of these martial arts was
Hi all,
Jonathan wrote:
The universe is complete (UNI) * BY DEFINITION *. i.e. it IS an axiom. As
soon as
the universe starts to look incomplete, then what we are looking at is
something less than the whole universe.
Sam's question: this is indeed what I was groping towards, but I think
Stephen wrote:
i don't know
of any martial art that doesn't take the only for defense, never attack
line seriously when you talk to its senior practitioners.
Aikido certainly does, and I would argue that ju-jitsu is sympathetic to
acting only in self-defense (or defense of another).
I
Dear
Rasheed,
You wrote 26/6 15:33
-0400:
Pirsig ... sees DQ as the
source of all new things, like an inventor, and sQ as its secretary which simply
takes note of what has happened so that he doesn't forget.
...
P.S. That was a pretty horrible
analogy
I don't agree with your P.S.. I
I agree with you on the subject of firearms but they do have a place (last
night I watched a documentary on how the Taliban have been massacring their
own Afghan countrymen, wiping out villages etc,there was film showing people
being executed for no reason, the villagers value their lives and are
Glen,
I rather fed up with the MD Real Libertarians Please Stand Up subject, so I changed
it for this particular dicussion.
Gerhard wrote:
The subjectivity in [the results of] MoQ is still one of my headaches, it should not
be there.
Glen wrote:
I surmise that you are not an engineer.
Andrea, Stephen, Sam, and all,
Andrea wrote,
so your point is: oppression does not exist; or in other words, blame on
the
oppressed. Why aren't they fighting and dying for their freedom? They must
really have no backbone.
My point is that to absolve the Nigerians for all responsibility for
Glen Dickey,
Gerhard wrote:
IMO, Libertarianism is like trying to swim with an outboard motor, you have great
possibilities for a high speed experience, but this is the only quality you can have
hopes for - and you will probably drown before you get things going. The thing will
not
work
Gerhard and all,
Glen wrote:
I surmise that you are not an engineer.
Gerhard wrote:
BTW - In fact I am a structural engineer and have been responsible for
disigning some
bridges and tall bildings, but my speciality is offshore structures.
I retract my surmise with surprise and apologise.
Sam wrote:
The point being that violence begets violence; even if there arise
situations that leave us no alternative but a violent response, those
situations have come about because of poor judgement, mistakes or plain
evil
intent earlier on in the process. The only way to make things
Sam,
Although I don't disagree with you on your main points in your last post
about the need to utilize some sort of low level restraint when it comes to
individuals who are behaving violently, I feel the need to disagree with
your statement, And the fact that it IS young men who cause the
Andi wrote:
It's really unfair to blame
the problem of violence in young males so largely on hormones.
My last post was somewhat hastily written, and there were some things I
didn't spell out. I actually don't think we disagree too much on this. My
view is really that there is a
Glen and others,
Glen, thank you for answering my mail.
Glen wrote:
I retract my surmise with surprise and apologise.
No apologises needed, but it was enjoyable that you should select such a statement and
including bridges to your example.
Glen wrote:
Could define a system that contains an
Greetings, Wim,
Static
patterns can control systems at all levels, big or small, individual or
collective. A subsystem may be the place where dynamic change is launched upon
the larger system to which it belongs, or dynamic change can be initiated at the
level of the system-as-a-whole, and
Gerhard, Sam, Elizaphanian and all,
Gerhard wrote:
I do not expect that the goverment is going to force people to experience
dynamic
qualities, but I have hopes for a goverment giving optimal possibility for
the people to
experience DQ.
I don't think the State can do that. I think the state
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