[MD] Un-Pure Experience

[MarshaV]

> On Oct 27, 2013, at 4:45 PM, Andre <andrebroersen at gmail.com> wrote:
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> dmb to DT:
> Sorry, but I am sick to death of watching hacks blame Pirsig for their own confusion. The MOQ is definable and knowable and the whole thing is built of words and concepts. Obviously, discussing his work (or anyone else's) requires us to bring some linguistic tools and skills to task. It also demands intellectual honesty so that people respond to the actual claims of others without reversing, ignoring or distorting them.
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> Andre:
> I share your frustration dmb and it seems to me that despite Pirsig's MoQ some posters/lurkers are so trapped in SOM that they really, absolutely cannot find their way through the words/concepts used. They are still seen as a prison... as 'Marsha' does.

Marsha:
Proof?   Or, or like dmb, is one expected to accept what you say because it reflects a pattern flittering through your mind: incomplete, conditioned, thinking; biases, emotional, prejudices, preferences, habit; your own particular reactions to words and concepts.  I don't think so...