[MD] Another parallel

[david buchanan]

Marsha said to Ron:
You are asking questions about your own assumptions?  To attempt to answer them would be to give them legitimacy, which they do not deserve.

dmb says:
On what grounds are you declaring Ron's questions illegitimate and undeserving of an answer? I don't see them that way at all. As you might recall, I basically asked you the same thing and you refused to answer then too. As I see it, he and I are both asking you to explain what looks like an extremely incoherent position. It looks like relativism or even nihilism to me, both of which are a far cry from the MOQ. 
As I see it, anti-intellectualism is not only incorrect and immoral, it's dangerous. I mean, if someone were to assert one of the intellectual values described in Lila, let's say human rights and freedom of speech for example, do you think it would be appropriate to respond with "not this, not that"? If a new Hitler were to come along would you respond to the opposition with "not this, not that"? The implications and consequences of such a position would a moral nightmare.
Despite my disagreements with you, Marsha, I'd be happy to bite you. ;-) Coming from you, that was hilarious. Almost as funny as John's concern with the "overreactionaries". 
Anyway, I'd ask you to THINK carefully about what you're saying but apparently you don't believe in that sort of thing. It's just outrageous.
  
Ron had said to Marsha:
> I would like to know, since you folks think MoQ is reality
> and SOM is intellect , MoQ being indefinable, how may it have
> more explanitory power if one's focus is on killing those explainations?
> 
> Are his books worthless since there are works of SOM?
> 
> writing here is then a waste of time and goes against the
> indefinability of reality. any thing that is written is SOM
> and all concepts being SOM.
> 
> why do you contribute if this is how you view the situation
> arent you violating your own values? is'nt anything you 
> write "not it". why waste words? why bother?
> 
> to clarify the point, I do not mean that you should not be contributing here,
> I mean, since those are your values, why do you feel the need to express something
> that in your own opinion, may not be expressed?
> 
> From my own point of view, if I held those convictions, I wouldn't see much value in it
> I would think that it only muddies the waters. But perhaps I'm missing something.




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