[MD] The Intellectual Gauntlet II !

[Ian Glendinning]

Agreed DMB ... I did say exactly that ... let's get onto the meat, etc ...

(Which is why I was shocked at your statement suggesting the Pirsig
had said everything that needed saying on the social / intellectual
levels matter. Obviously my "silly" question back at you was
rhetorical - intended to to get you to explain what you DID mean by it
....)

Onward and upward.
Ian

On 7/19/08, david buchanan <dmbuchanan at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Ian said:
> DMB, is that you suggesting Pirsig's words are final and not open to discussion and improvement?
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> dmb says:
> No, of course not. We've done nothing else but discuss them here for many years. Its a silly question. I'd eagerly welcome any improvements too. Of course, as you've already noticed, I often think your words need improvement. You don't seem particularly open to that discussion. You express a fine principle here. I just wish you'd apply it to yourself.
>
> And again, where's the beef? Where's the content? Mati isn't taking an opinion poll here, he's trying to get people to think together. You're not really contributing anything by simply expressing your likes and dislikes, there also needs to be some kind of case made. Your question - with its insulting implication - seems to be in response to something I wrote but I sincerely have no idea what it could be because you didn't say. Again, you're being vague and unhelpful. Didn't you say you wanted to stop with this sort of nonsense and get to the meat of the issue just yesterday?
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> Seriously, why don't you say something of substance for a change. I'd be happy to defend the things I actually write if you'd care to actually make a case. At least then we'd be fighting about something that matters. But this sort of junk is just boring and irrelevant.
>
> Thanks.
> dmb
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