Links With Your Coffee - Monday
- Wired 14.11: The Church of the Non-Believers
It's a question you may prefer not to be asked. But I'm afraid I have no choice. We find ourselves, this very autumn, three and a half centuries after the intellectual martyrdom of Galileo, caught up in a struggle of ultimate importance, when each one of us must make a commitment. It is time to declare our position.
- MilkandCookies - Doug Stanhope: Would You Believe (video tip to Erick)
- Tony Snow Humor, Yet Another Snow Job, Limerick, » Mad Kane's Political Madness
- Language Log: I mean, you know
- YouTube - What do you think? If you tolerate this then your children will be next
- Physics and Physicists: Comments to "Richard Dawkins Going After Faith Healers" Blog Entry
- "Kant on the Primacy of Human Rights" (Harper's Magazine)
- HOW BETTER-FED COWS COULD COOL THE PLANET
- Atheism à la mode | New Humanist
- George Saunders: Miracles every day - signandsight
Author George Saunders describes the strange state of the climate in post-Gore America.
- Audio: Listen and Learn: Online Only: The New Yorker
George Saunders reads Isaac Babel’s short story “You Must Know Everything” and discusses it with The New Yorker’s fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. “You Must Know Everything,” translated from the Russian by Max Hayward, was published in The New Yorker on April 9, 1966
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Comments
re: the "wired" article: definitely the best article i've yet seen by an "outsider" making an honest attempt to understand what the hell is going on here. either norm didn't read the last paragraph, or mucho kudos to him for posting this. or both. i have in the past here castigated atheists for their apparent persecution complexes and suggested they have a little perspective. a quote from the article, by dawkins:
hey richard. those are some serious numbers. maybe we could work together. oh, sorry, we already are...
read "cats cradle" again. the more we pretend to be at odds, the more money we make.
sick,isn't it?
"you're all a bunch of fucking slaves!"- j. morrison
re: the "wired" article: definitely the best article i've yet seen by an "outsider" making an honest attempt to understand what the hell is going on here. either norm didn't read the last paragraph, or mucho kudos to him for posting this. or both. i have in the past here castigated atheists for their apparent persecution complexes and suggested they have a little perspective. a quote from the article, by dawkins:
hey richard. those are some serious numbers. maybe we could work together. oh, sorry, we already are...
read "cats cradle" again. the more we pretend to be at odds, the more money we make.
sick,isn't it?
"you're all a bunch of fucking slaves!"- j. morrison
note to self: don't hit post-let alone twice- when having a bad day.
Thank you Jonathan.
Thank you Jonathan.
If you are interested in th philosophy of Agnostic Uncertainty - try this:
http://homepage.mac.com/rogerlovell/Pedantsareus/iMovieTheater33.html
thanks, pedantsareus. always feel better after a good laugh. "death to nobody whatsoever!"
This article is soooo last year.
"the more we pretend to be at odds"
I'm unspooling/schooling.
"there's always a chance we could turn out to be wrong (continue to seem absurd)" Bronowskiism. But...
We have to have some reason... there ain't enough room in the world for the 6+ billion of us.
Seriously. This ain't no OK corral. Cornucopian Freeman Dysons notwithstanding.
Do the finite arithmetic. Or be a fossil in a redundantly "La Brea" tarpit of beastly (of whatever color) wishful thinking. The neo-cortex is neo-reptilian, if not necessarily neo-liberal/conservative. You would have to inhale mega-doses of Carl Sagan's weed-gas not to feel it, or at least be ass-siduously driving weed-gas wedges between your unconsciouses ("i" am unconscious relative to "I").
If there is a way, I can't see it. Sorry/scary, there's always a chance we could turn out to be wrong, but not about everything. There has to be a ground. Every relativity is to ....something.
Finally, the repairperson is here.
It's all going to be alright.
("tikkun" cognate with the oldest word? I know NOTHING...klunk) Sorry/scary...
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