From: Ron Winchester (phaedruswolff@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat Feb 19 2005 - 01:58:43 GMT
RON: I appreciate your not taking insult to the use of the word silly.
ERIN: It is hard to tell with internet communication but this sounds kind
of sarcastic. If it is sarcastic and then let me say I appreciate your not
missing the point of my posts to you. If I had written "I will choose what
is helpful to advancing my understanding and if you find it is
counter-productive then ignore the thread." would it help you see it has
NOTHING to do with the word silly? and maybe this is just some knee-jerk-
blah blah blah assumption YOU have made
On another note....
There are quite a few characters that have joined up since I last left the
group---it has inspired to make a Saturday Night Live Type Skit to parody
the different styles everyone has when philosophizing with each other. Can
I have your permission to create "the-know-nothing" philosopher
character--- my first shot is with a man going around bragging about how
humble he is. I probably won't share it with the group for fear of somebody
having knee-jerk responses (which tends to lead to insults and irrelevent
comments about my domain) but I know you are above being insulted so I
won't fear that with you :-)
Ron;
No problem. If you could give me John Belushi's bod, and maybe dress me up
in the pleated skirt, and tight blouse, and no bloomers, we might even get
dmb to join in.
'Know-nothing' really has nothing about being humble, other than to admit we
are all quite humble. I would feel those who think they know are the ones
that know the least, or at least are less capable of learning. If knowledge
is temporary, then all we have is the ability to learn.
To borrow a line from a friend; "It is not what we don't know that hurts,
but what we think we know, but don't."
>From: Erin <macavity11@yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: moq_discuss@moq.org
>To: moq_discuss@moq.org
>Subject: MD Pure experience and the Kantian problematic
>Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 10:44:15 -0800 (PST)
>
>
>RON: I must come clean and tell you that I see all this attention to the
>word as silly; as a knee jerk, emotional reaction. Otherwise, it is as
>Scott
>offered
>earlier -- reducing philosophy to a game. Either way, I see it as counter
>productive to advancing your understanding.
>
>ERIN: I will choose what is silly to spend time on and what is helpful to
>advancing my understanding. If you find it is not helping your
>understanding then ignore the
>thread.
>
>
> RON: It appears that my usage of the word ‘Silly’ caused a knee-jerk
>reaction.
>Would this be because ‘Silly’ has some philosophical baggage I am unaware?
>
>
>ERIN: Read (pronounce reed) the word silly in your context. It has nothing
>to do with knee-jerk reactions to the word silly. Silly doesn't necessarily
>have to be an attempt to belittle the value of a something. e.g. When I say
>"Pee-Wee Big Adventure" and "Zoolander" are fun silly movies, it is clear I
>mean silly as something of value. When I read (pronounce reed) the word in
>your context I don't see anything but that.
>
>RON: I appreciate your not taking insult to the use of the word silly.
>
>ERIN: It is hard to tell with internet communication but this sounds kind
>of sarcastic. If it is sarcastic and then let me say I appreciate your not
>missing the point of my posts to you. If I had written "I will choose what
>is helpful to advancing my understanding and if you find it is
>counter-productive then ignore the thread." would it help you see it has
>NOTHING to do with the word silly? and maybe this is just some knee-jerk-
>blah blah blah assumption YOU have made
>On another note....
>There are quite a few characters that have joined up since I last left the
>group---it has inspired to make a Saturday Night Live Type Skit to parody
>the different styles everyone has when philosophizing with each other. Can
>I have your permission to create "the-know-nothing" philosopher
>character--- my first shot is with a man going around bragging about how
>humble he is. I probably won't share it with the group for fear of
>somebody having knee-jerk responses (which tends to lead to insults and
>irrelevent comments about my domain) but I know you are above being
>insulted so I won't fear that with you :-)
>
>Erin
>
>.
>
>
>
>
>
>
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