[MD] MD Suffering the Seeds of Change

[MarshaV]

Welcome Kat!

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Marsha


At 04:47 AM 7/7/2009, you wrote:

>Greetings Marsha, Dan, and any others that may be reading this,
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>I am new to MoQ discuss. I have only recently read ZMM and
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>LILA for the first time, and enjoyed both very much. I'm still
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>struggling with all the abbreviations in these emails, and was
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>planning just to read for a while, but this is a topic that
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>I felt I could contribute too.
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>Before I begin though, I must apologise for any glaring errors that
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>you see. I haven't had as many years on earth as I predict
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>many of you have had (my count is only 16). Although I am not
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>a failing student, I can relate to Pirsig's account of the education
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>system. It is too geared towards exams, rather than the
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>teaching of quality, and therefore I haven't learnt as much about
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>the English Language as I would like. This has greatly frustrated me.
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>I picked up ZMM on the advice of my music theory teacher, a
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>subject which I took up outside my school time because I
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>found it interesting. I enjoyed the story and found the philosophy
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>fasinating. I wanted to talk more about it, but I have already
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>learnt that trying to talk about philosophy to other teenagers
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>doesn't earn you many friends, and my parents haven't read
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>the books.
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>Dan, you said:
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> >Sometimes other people would walk up and hear me
> >reading and stop to listen. Later, they'd say,
> >what was that book you were reading? And I'd
> >show them. They'd say, cool. And walk away. I'd
> >think to myself, cool? I just read you part of
> >one of the most powerful books ever written and
> >all you say is, cool? Don't you want to read it
> >too? Don't you want to write down the title?
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>I think that, for a lot of people, ZMM is too hard a
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>read. It took me a little work to get into the book, but now that
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>I have finished it, I am very glad I put in the effort. I'm sure
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>many people have felt obliged to read it because of it's reputation,
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>read a few pages, then put it down.
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>And Marsha, I agree, I think the stories are magic too.
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>Tamara.
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