[MD] Rabid Weasels

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Dave B had said:

Pirsig's work does, however, attract people with a history of mental illness. I 
think the reasons for that are both obvious and understandable. I dare say this 
forum suffers for it too. At least three different people, including those who 
have been asked to leave, have explicitly confessed to such a personal history 
of mental illness and I was not terribly surprised at these confessions. It 
showed before they confessed. 


Ron:
I for one, have benefitted tremendously from this forum. The breaking and 
re-patterning of rigid
static values has been a boon to me, the work is on going and ever in play. PTSD 
had governed
my life for quite awhile and although the breaking of those patterns came at the 
cost of
some ugly debate on my part, I still regard those who stuck to the conversation 
despite my
desperate vicious clinging to old values as paramount to the living 
understanding that is
MoQ and this discuss.
Thanks to all who care enough to disagree and the have the courage to see the 
discussion through.

Because I have experienced success, I truly believe that people can choose to 
affect change in their lives.
They can willfully free themselves from rigid patterns of value and not just 
exchange one set of rigid
values for another but to activily seek dynamic solutions to each emergent 
situation.

Because,,, deep down, we all suffer from mental illness." Lila's struggle is 
everyones struggle, ya know?"

That is not an encouragement to weasels and weasel words, but an invitation and 
a cautionary note
to take a step back and entertain what other people are saying and that change 
is often painful.

To take a good hard look at our reasons for our beliefs and our explanations as 
to why we hold
those beliefs.

,,