[js1138]

I do wonder sometimes why the design folks like to post pictures of raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, but seldom take time to smell the leish-maniasis. I have no hostility towards creation, provided we are free actors on the stage, able to rearrange the props.

Healing is one of the approved calls, but it requires knowledge, and knowledge requires curiosity, and curiosity requires fearlessness about what will be found. One of the great tragedies of Western religion is the conflation of knowledge with sin, curiosity with heresy and atheism.

[VadeRetro]

One of the great tragedies of Western religion is the conflation of knowledge with sin, curiosity with heresy and atheism.

I think we have to convince people that it's too late to barf up the apple.

[jennyp]

Healing is one of the approved calls, but it requires knowledge, and knowledge requires curiosity, and curiosity requires fearlessness about what will be found. One of the great tragedies of Western religion is the conflation of knowledge with sin, curiosity with heresy and atheism.

Astute-observation placemarker.