From: Charles Roghair (ctr@pacificpartssales.com)
Date: Sun Jan 16 2005 - 21:24:14 GMT
Bon Soir Carbon-Based Life Forms Wherever You May Be,
If I may, regarding Platt, offer a short anecdote:
Early in the morning I greet my family first, drink coffee and
eventually find my way to my beloved Mac, just arm's distance for a
moment if I can, we power up and after the brief boot sequence, I click
the postage stamp; "Mail" opens. I snatch prose and thoughts, read and
ponder, and talk back at my Mac in intermittent spurts while I prepare
to leave the house. More often than not, there's plenty MoQ to get me
all bunged-up for the rest of the day. However, if there's something
from Platt, something not just from Platt, but you know one of those
posts that oozes Platt-ness all over everything else in your "In-Box"
and maybe stuff may have needed to refer back to in "Deleted Items" or
a really brilliant essay you had going in "Drafts," that gets all
saturated with the Platt-ness, man, you know, that's better than
caffeine as wake-up calls go, a true rush! It's like guzzling the
entire pot of coffee and then immediately pouring another fresh-brewed
pot on your own head.
Here's an example. I'm reading Platt's latest musings. He's decidedly
lucid and hops along in a generally concise manner, but via empty
platitudes of which I usually disagree and then, something simple and
beautiful happens, such as,
"When flipped into the air, the coin shimmers and dances in the light.
I'm sure I haven't made myself clear, but Dynamic Quality is such an
elusive phenomenon that using words to describe it is like trying to
thread a needle with boxing gloves. But whenever I want to get in
touch with it, I just sit back, close my eyes and listen to
Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2. A walk in the woods is good, too."
I sit back and think, "whoa, was that Platt or Kurt Vonnegut?"
After that brief moment in which it's possible just maybe I've gotten
this Platt fellow all wrong, I get back to reading the remainder of his
message and the next bit will go something like:
...and all fans of rock 'n' roll are degenerate, commie-Satanists...
and I think, "whoa, Platt or Archie Bunker?"
In reality, we're all a chaotic bundle of evolving conundrums.
Questions:
What would the alternative reality be like?
What would a Platt-less MoQ be like?
Answer to both questions:
I don't want to know
When I need to get back in touch with Dynamic Quality, I play John
Lennon songs on my guitar (poorly). This morning, I played "Instant
Karma." I substituted "Dynamic Quality" for "Instant Karma" in the
lyrics. I've reproduced it below in case anyone is interested.
John Lennon, for what it's worth, wrote like Pirsig in that he made
notes and quotes on bits of paper and stuffed then in his pockets and
then in dresser drawers at home. He said he was finished when he had
enough to make a book.
Best regards,
Chuck
Ps Long live Rock 'n' Roll!
Dynamic Qualitys gonna get you
Gonna knock you right on the head
You better get yourself together
Pretty soon youre gonna be dead
What in the world you thinking of
Laughing in the face of love
What on earth you tryin to do
Its up to you, yeah you
Dynamic Qualitys gonna get you
Gonna look you right in the face
Better get yourself together darlin
Join the human race
How in the world you gonna see
Laughin at fools like me
Who in the hell dyou think you are
A super star
Well, right you are
Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Well we all shine on
Evryone come on
Dynamic Qualitys gonna get you
Gonna knock you off your feet
Better recognize your brothers
Evryone you meet
Why in the world are we here
Surely not to live in pain and fear
Why on earth are you there
When youre evrywhere
Come and get your share
Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Yeah we all shine on
Come on and on and on on on
Yeah yeah, alright, uh huh, ah
Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Yeah we all shine on
On and on and on on and on
Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Yeah we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
On Jan 16, 2005, at 10:26 AM, Ian Glendinning wrote:
> Poot,
>
> I know exactly what you mean ...
> You said "I feel that if I can not somehow shed light into the mind of
> Platt, then I will forever be barred from making progress ... I can
> never
> build an argument concise enough to infaliibly prove my point"
> Problem is "infallible" arguments depend on logic and absolutes,
> anything
> which doesn't is fair game for that skeptic Ant was referring to.
>
> ie Nothing personal Platt, but you personify a challenge to the
> intellect
> that seems to frustrate.
> Despite the fact few seem to share any value in your opinion, it seems
> necessary to argue against it.
> That damn catch-22.
>
> Ian
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matt poot" <mattpoot@hotmail.com>
> To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
> Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 9:34 AM
> Subject: RE: MD Understanding Quality And Power
>
>
>> Hello anthony,
>>
>> I just write briefly now, as it is quite late.
>>
>> For quite some time, I have disagreed with Platt on many different
>> occasions, and have for some time sat out of discussions here at
>> MoQ.org .
>> This issue concerns me greatly, because I feel that if I can not
>> somehow
>> shed light into the mind of Platt, than I will forever be barred from
> making
>> progress in the world around me, as there are many of like mind.
>>
>> I can never build an argument concise enough to infaliibly prove my
> "point".
>> By this, I mean making Platt "understand" the serious
>> miscalculations
>> involved in his judgements.
>>
>> Although I can not say that I have any right to say what is "right"
>> and
>> "wrong" , there is just an unshakable disbelief that someone of such
>> intelligence can be so blind in some respects.
>>
>> I would continue further, but I suppose you get the gist of what I
>> mean to
>> say. I wish to somehow change platt without forcing him out of
> discussion.
>>
>>
>> Poot
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