From: ian glendinning (psybertron@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Aug 09 2005 - 01:06:35 BST
Platt, let's not re-run the biological terrorists debate - you know I
know the difference between the levels.
And let's not run your (our) rhetoric over squeezing interpretations
out of a few lines of ancients texts - the intent and spirit need to
be there before that has any value - rhetoric cuts in the direction of
the intent, not the contained semantics.
Perhaps rather than "bare-faced inconsistency" its the "bare-faced
over-simplification" that causes the inconsistent swings between the
extremes of each argument, rather than constructive debate.
I just don't get you.
Actually I have a theory that I do, but ... I'm weighing up how
constructive it would be to declare it :-) Hence the remark at the end
of the previous post.
Ian
On 8/8/05, Platt Holden <pholden@sc.rr.com> wrote:
> Ian:
>
> > Platt, those two things may "sound" familiar to your rhetorical ears
> > and whatever you've got between them, but they say the opposite.
> >
> > The Lao Tsu quote says "work with it rather that against it"
> > ie whilst it says "simply be" it does not say "do nothing".
> > (I should also point out that Lao Tsu is not Robert Pirsig
> > And the Tao Te Ching is not the MoQ.)
> >
> > The biblical quote says "the morrow shall take thought for the things of
> > itself" ie something very like - don't even bother to think, it's all taken
> > care of.
>
> "Simply be" doesn't say "think." And the biblical quote says "let go"
> because worrying won't feed the baby.
>
> > And - aimed at you ad-hominem Platt - you are so bare-faced
> > inconsistent it beggars belief. How you dare propound passive Tao
> > acceptance in one post and line the ba***rds up against the wall and
> > shoot em in another. You cannot be for real. In fact look out for my
> > next post.
>
> How dare you ignore the distinction between the biological and
> intellectual levels? You cannot grasp even the basic premise of MOQ.
>
> Platt
>
>
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