[MD] The Intellectual Gauntlet

[MarshaV]

Margaret,

I spent most of yesterday with my grandson who just turned four-years-old. 
He loves me and, on such a rainy day, I received the bruises to prove it.

Marsha





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Margaret Warren" <carma at carmapro.com>
To: <moq_discuss at moqtalk.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 11:02 AM
Subject: Re: [MD] The Intellectual Gauntlet


> don't get too excited - I just thought the expression itself struck me
> as funny - and one that I thought Marsha in particular, but also Ron, gav
> AND Ian...et.al.might see the humor in as well.
>
> though it really didn't have much to do with the manhood or any of those
> other
> expressions Ron mentioned OR bathroom humor -
>
> but 'grasping for concrete meaning'...
>
> [grasping in general - it's like the very word itself is at the
> root of all of the 7 deadly sins]
> just seems like such a waste of time
> when one can be painting or dancing or kissing a lover or
> tending a garden or working on a
> motorcycle and taking a drive or just breathing...
>
> this insistence on trying to 'rigourously' define...ugh - how exhausting.
>
> 'concrete meaning' - now isn't this an oxymoron?
>
> What might be fun would be to see what we all come up
> with from a zen koan - I'll dig out one of my zen books and post one up
> shortly. Anyone game?
>
>> >
>> >> Ian:
>> >> Whoa ... Marsha, Margaret ... Ron et al
>> >>
>> >> Ian is very "impressed" with Nagarjuna, Ian does indeed have
>> >> "middle-way" tattoo'ed on his buttocks, and "excluded-middle"
>> >> imprinted any-which-way you slice me .....
>> >>
>> >> I used that phrase - quoting Ron's words - AGAINST those who see all
>> >> this rational objective rigour as the goal of our critical analysis -
>> >> was using it to contrast DMB's claims for rigour againts my (sic)
>> >> "drivel" in this case. It's the meme I have been railing against since
>> >> long before I even read ZMM, or anything remotely philosophical.
>> >>
>> >> Ron:
>> >> Ian, Marsha,
>> >> I think Margaret was making a funny. Grasping for concrete meaning
>> >> and objective rigor, I think (because I have a penchant for bathroom
>> >> humor)
>> >> she was alluding to us males "wrestling with our manhood"
>> >> you know "roughing up the suspect" "flaying the fox" "punching the
>> >> clown"
>> >>
>> >> Lighten up people!
>> >>
>> >> -Ron
>> >>
>> >
>> > Ron,
>> >
>> > Sorry, but I've never been privy to such humor.  I am embarrassed, but
>> > there's no way I could have gotten the joke.
>> >
>
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