Your meta-talk sounds like scientific empiricism. So is this how you define your music when pressed i.e. it's just some neurons firing? Or rather for you is it a bunch of primate rhythms reified into "art" by cave-dwelling anthro-s?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <curtisdeltabl...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" jstein@ wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > <snip> > > > > Remember what this is about: your interest in > > > > portraying me as just as extreme in my positive view > > > > of MMY as you are in your negative view. And you're > > > > having to do some very elaborate stretches in the > > > > attempt. > > > > > > We will have to agree to disagree here. If you see > > > Maharishi's role as an instrument of nature reviving > > > the knowledge like Jesus or Buddha then you are at > > > least as positive about him as I am "negative" > > > > You come to this conclusion, IMHO, via a big bag of > > debating tricks designed to distort and distract > > attention from a very straightforward comparison. > > Anyone can see the comparison is valid simply by > > reading what you and I say we think of Maharishi. > > > > I played along with your tactics for probably longer > > than I should have, but at this point I'll just trust > > the good sense of anybody who happens to be reading > > the exchange to see through the obfuscation. (Or not, > > as the case may be.) > > Well then well have to also agree to disagree with your excessively negative assessment of this discussion. But after getting you to clarify what you were actually saying about your beliefs I feel more confident that people have more information to judge our differing points if they chose to follow them. > > Asking a person to clarify what they mean is not a debating trick, it is a means to come to a better understanding, which it accomplished for me. > > > > > > > > >
