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The Fundamentalist Xtians should not be allowed to hijack the language of Christianity. They are at least as much heretics to Christianity as the Arians and Gnostics of early Christian days.
Biblical inerrancy is not possible.
The books both above and below show the limitations of language and the impossibility of Biblical Inerrancy.
How can language be misused? Using General Semantics, this book was Written to explain Nazi propaganda and still used as a textbook
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This book explains why the above books on Christian Fundamentalism are politically important in America today.
Modern Society measures risk & predicts possible futures. The book below is a higly readable history of insurance, statistics and modern financial instruments.
Compare this to religion, in which it is presumed that the perfect society was known in the past and all that is necessary to do is to return to that perfect society.
Fascinating, highly readable and fun book on modern mathematics and its limitations. If you are interested in ideas, this is your book!
This is a collection of Hofstader's Scientific American articles. Again, a very fascinationg and highly readable book, requiring no mathematical background. (Buy it used - it is one of the books that will keep disappearing.)
Older, very fascinating book on mathematical ideas. Did you know there are three kinds of infinity?
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| Monday, March 21, 2005 |
| Why Republicans are all over Terri Schiavo Tragedy |
The question is why the Republicans are so keen to get involved in the Terri Schiavo tragedy. She is in a persistant vegetative state, meaning that she is not brain dead, but she is completely unable to care for herself and does not react consciously to the world or the people around her.
I suddenly realized that this describes the Republican extremists themselve. Unable to think and living in a special little world that is not related to the real one the rest of us live in.
They see her as one of themselves and feel threatened. |
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Boy, I wanted to side with you on this mess regarding Ms. Sciavo. I'm wrestlling with too many complicated issues and too little truly reliable public information. I thought your comment on RFTR was fairly insightful, so I came here expecting to read more. Instead I see a garbage post like this. God forbid you acknowledge that someone's motives might be laudable, even if you disagree with the policies they choose. Maybe instead of insulting your opponents like this, you could exchange ideas with them. Or even better, find some common ground and work from there.
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Yeah, I'll agree with you.
I was trying to be snide and cute, and it came off really ignorant and uninformed.
I guess I don't do snide, cute and snarky well enough to get away with it.
I'll leave this here for a while, and hope you see my apology.
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One thing, though. I think that Tom DeLay and Ron Paul are really sincere about their beliefs. I just don't think that either are sane. Those are two people I will never find any form of common ground with, if for no other reason than the fact that I wouldn't trust either of them under any imaginable circumstances.
Ron Paul is a Libertarian fool, and Tom DeLay would fit very well as a happy apparatchnik in any authoritarian regime he could find, and doesn't see anything wrong with his misuse of power.
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One thing, though. I think that Tom DeLay and Ron Paul are really sincere about their beliefs. I just don't think that either are sane. Those are two people I will never find any form of common ground with, if for no other reason than the fact that I wouldn't trust either of them under any imaginable circumstances.
Ron Paul is a Libertarian fool, and Tom DeLay would fit very well as a happy apparatchnik in any authoritarian regime he could find, and doesn't see anything wrong with his misuse of power.
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Boy, I wanted to side with you on this mess regarding Ms. Sciavo. I'm wrestlling with too many complicated issues and too little truly reliable public information. I thought your comment on RFTR was fairly insightful, so I came here expecting to read more. Instead I see a garbage post like this. God forbid you acknowledge that someone's motives might be laudable, even if you disagree with the policies they choose. Maybe instead of insulting your opponents like this, you could exchange ideas with them. Or even better, find some common ground and work from there.