[MD] The Hero's journey

[MarshaV]

Hi dmb,

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On Dec 14, 2011, at 1:20 PM, david buchanan <dmbuchanan at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Matt said to Dan:
> I wish to stop you (if I could) to ask that you not go bit by bit through the post, responding as you think at the moment of reading, but read the whole thing and respond holistically.  .. I apologize for making demands, but it appears from the beginning of your response again that we would just keep spinning in the mud.  ...
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> dmb says:
> Holistically rather than bit by bit. Yep, I'm definitely sympathetic to that complaint. (Although I'd direct this complaint at every participant.) Sometimes, especially when talking about things like philosophy, it's really much better to think and speak in paragraphs. Sometimes it takes a big block of text to express an idea but I'll find people responding to a sentence fragment instead. Sometimes a second or third paragraph is needed in order to further qualify what was said in the first. But I often see responses (from Steve, for example) that simply delete those qualifications and then condemn the idea for lacking those qualifications. From this I can only conclude that these post are going off half-cocked. It seems pretty obvious that such responses are being hastily and absent-mindedly slapped together even before the post has been read all the way through. This tends to produce half-baked, knee-jerk responses that really aren't worth much even when they don't completel
> y miss the point. 
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> I would beg every MOQer to think in paragraphs - or at least recognize it when the other guy is talking like that. How far can we go by simply trading slogans and quips, after all?

Marsha:
I often find that the more words I use, the more static they become, and so, I will stick to sometimes presenting a paragraph, sometimes a sentence, and sometimes a single word.  If a question makes sense to me and seems well-intentioned, I do try to respond.  


Marsha