Posted on 01/05/2005 9:14:33 AM PST by snarks_when_bored
I'll try later, if I remember. Can't get through right now.
John Brockman, "Third culture", Prof Dawkins.
beware of the enemy within, folks.
If you cannot recognize the enemy, you and your posterity are condemned to the tyranny of the anti-Christians.
Don't let these fakes and phonies bamboozle you with their lies and distortions. Don't let them divide you.
You've been warned.
Really? To me it sounds like he's describing an insane obsession.
LOL, I guess you could look at it that way. I took it a bit more poetically, myself. :)
John Brockman, "Third culture", Prof Dawkins.
beware of the enemy within, folks.
If you cannot recognize the enemy, you and your posterity are condemned to the tyranny of the anti-Christians.
Don't let these fakes and phonies bamboozle you with their lies and distortions. Don't let them divide you.
You've been warned.
I make up my own mind about everything. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and say that you probably do, too. Don't forget that your namesake, Aquinas, spent the better part of his life thinking about the works of the pagan philosopher, Aristotle. And no less a Catholic than Dante called the pagan Aristotle, "the master of those who know."
Wisdom and knowledge are where one finds them.
BTTT
It's nice to think that about oneself, but I seriously doubt it's true for anybody.
I'm willing to bet that you (like I) respond emotionally more often then you'd like; and you do things for no apparent reason other than that people have always done it that way -- and that includes some rather significant philosophical, moral, and/or political issues.
That has to be one of the most brilliant things I've read in quite a long time. Congratulations and thanks. It's always good to meet other sentient beings along the way.
I make up my own mind about everything.It's nice to think that about oneself, but I seriously doubt it's true for anybody.
I'm willing to bet that you (like I) respond emotionally more often then you'd like; and you do things for no apparent reason other than that people have always done it that way -- and that includes some rather significant philosophical, moral, and/or political issues.
If there's something significant about which I express opinions, I've thought about it. That's my way. And that's especially true about philosophical, moral and/or political issues. It's a long-standing habit.
I exclude, of course, many of the matters of 'animal faith' which underpin our daily existence. I don't make up my own mind about how chlorophyll converts sunlight into energy, or anything of that sort.
Like you, I like to think that I've thought through such things. Even so, I've found that all too often I've based a lot of my thinking on preconceived notions that I simply accepted as true.
In fact, no matter how hard you try to think things through, you're going to find that at some level you must simply accept on faith the idea that certain basic assumptions are true.
I suspect this is more of a religion thread than it is science. I'll issue a ping if you guys want me to.
In fact, no matter how hard you try to think things through, you're going to find that at some level you must simply accept on faith the idea that certain basic assumptions are true.
That's not quite the same point I understood you to be making earlier.
Of course it's true that not everything can be proved. My only point is that I try to think carefully about the things I care about, the things I express opinions on, and I try to understand what are the things I'm taking for granted (the things I'm not going to, or am not able to, prove).
As I said originally, I make up my own mind about things. I didn't say I can prove everything.
If I had more time, I'd really like to discuss this further. But alas, I don't right now. Perhaps I'll hit you up on it later.
Will look forward to it. Best regards...
I believe, but I cannot prove, that most "Scientists" are really "Sciencists" in sheep's clothing.
Does that also explain their 'woolly' thinking?
Yes, many seem to have an affinity for that type of thinking. And, though they can't see it, it's as obvious as the back of their neck.
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