Posted on 04/08/2016 7:34:38 AM PDT by Salvation
Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them.
This is, of course, a mistake.
If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes.
But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense.
If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time.
—Bertrand Russell
Poor old genius, Bertrand, wanted tea from the tea pot but never got a drop.
I wonder if he got a tempest instead? 😂
LOL
Now we’ve got another ‘genius’, pontificating with the help of a motorized wheelchair and a computerized voice; who informs us less ‘learned’ about how the world supposedly works.
May he have the enlightenment that Saul did that turned him into Paul...
Hot, hot, hot!
Welcome home.
Welcome home.
Hot, hot hot, is exactly how I would describe it too. Sweltering heat, but I will survive. 😀😆😃
Is it like Dallas, TX, where you live your life going from your air-conditioned home, to your air-conditioned car, to your air-conditioned office or air-conditioned store...
Only to go outside to mow your lawn or play golf at 6am?
I would say it is similar for sure.
That hot, but you’re trying to entice me to move? Do you get a commission or what ;-)
Freep mail.
I once had to go to Houston in Auguist for two days of ‘training’. I lost eleven pounds in those two days and the only time I was not dripping wet was after toweling off from the shower in an ari conditioned hotel room. I was so uncomfortable I didn’t even have an appetite, just an unquenchable thirst.
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