[MD] [Bulk] Re: Humanism

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Hi dmb,
Well, thank you dmb for indulging me in the forum.  I see that you have no
time for what I have to say, and I do understand that.  As such, I will
carry on with my own interpretation, and stay out of your way.  I believe
that I have something important to say, but it may not fit into your box.
 That's fine, there is plenty of room here.  Your analytical comments will
not be required for my posts either.  I'm sure you have plenty of thoughts
in reserve to further the progress of Quality, and I look forward to what
you have to say concerning MOQ  (no pressure of course).   If I ever see
anything of substance coming from you, I will bookmark it for later
reference

By the way, I did read all of your essays on MOQ, well done.  In my post in
Knots (Nov 2) which contained part of the poetry of T.S. Eliot I was
referring to you, with frustration.  As perhaps you saw, I alluded to you
with the part about Campbell  and blasphemy (and Dewey I think) and such.  I
guess you didn't notice this.  But it was in tribute to what you wrote, and
my attempt to get through to you.  But I can see that it wasn't what you
meant at all.

Cheers, and see you around somewhere in the papers.  Keep up the good work.
Mark


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> Thanks, Arlo. I'm going to share a quote from Pirsig that nobody here has
> ever seen. It was something he said over a year ago and I've been sitting on
> it ever since. Ant and I were getting into the car to go over to Oxford's
> campus for the MOQ study day when he handed me something he'd printed from
> the internet and said something like, "Hey Dave, take a look at this". He
> found it on the website of Pirsig's English publishers.
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> "I'm very pleased to know that Dr. Anthony McWatt and David Buchanan will
> be speaking at Oxford. They are the two foremost philosophers today on the
> Metaphysics of Quality and its implications for the guidance of humanity.
> General public understanding of this metaphysical system is still in its
> infancy and they deserve the careful, open-minded attention that early
> proponents of any idea need." (Robert Pirsig, October 2009)
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> That seems a little over the top even to me. David Granger, whose Ph.D.
> thesis has been published as the book titled "John Dewey, Robert Pirsig, and
> the Art of Living", is certainly one of the foremost philosophers of the MOQ
> and he's certainly foremoster than me. But still. If there is anyone that
> can be a judge of who gets it and who doesn't, it's Pirsig.
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> Okay. Let the shit storm begin. I can just see how well this will be
> received by people like Mark and Marsha. As usual, they will be gracious and
> charming and they'll take it in exactly the spirit it was given. (Yes, I'm
> dripping with sarcasm.)
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