[bookshare-discuss] Re: Miranda Borka To Lead Christian Literature Discus...
- From: Guido Corona <guidoc@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 11:54:33 -0600
People, please move this discussion off the list. I'll be delighted of
arguing the fine merits and problems of Western rationalism vs Faith
under a different roof.
G.
Guido Dante Corona
IBM Research,
Human Ability & Accessibility Center, (HA&AC)
Austin Tx.
Phone: (512) 286-5794
Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx
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'there is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept'
Ansel Adams
Bob
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Even science depends to some extent on faith: faith that the universe is
orderly, and acts under a set of rules.
Just because it is orderly today doesn't mean it will be orderly tomorrow.
Bob
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There's nothing "scientific" about Marxism.
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Now that really is ridiculous. Religion relies on faith. Those who are
religious fully admit that. Faith is the act of believing a given
proposition or set of propositions without any regard to evidence or
reason. That is, if you have faith that you can walk on air and you step
off a cliff you will insist as you are falling to your death that you are
walking on air. Everything about religion demands an acceptance of its
precepts without question or investigation. On the other hand, I stand for
a scientific view of the world, one in which truth is determined by
looking at the universe around us and experimenting, that is,
investigating. Now, somehow I am accused of being threatened by ideas that
I will never investigate? The absurdity of that position is incredible. It
is the unquestioning proud-to-be-ignorant attitude of religionists that I
am in opposition to. I am the one who calls for religionists to stop being
threatened by new ideas and start investigating.
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It's because he's threatened by ideas he probably will never investigate.
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I agree with Sharon. Clearly the announcement wasn't
made for people like you and me, not interested, so
why read it and take notice of it? Do you comment on
the other literature discussion groups. If I had read
it, as you did, and noticed Miranda's comment, I would
have understood it to mean "others like ourselves."
She probably saw no need to add those last two words
because she assumed that only those interested in
discussion Christian literature would read the notice.
I'm quite certain that I understand what she means by
content that might be embarrassing to them, too,
without her having to state it.
Sharon's correct, though, that it really isn't
necessary to comment on everything that's posted here,
especially if it doesn't interest you.
Cindy
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> You just have to make a comment each time don't you?
> Sharon
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> When describing the purpose of the new Christian
> literature discussion
> group
> being sponsored by the Accessible World, Miranda
> Borka, the group's
> facilitator, commented, "It is designed to provide
> information about books
> you can share with others without being
> embarrassed by the content, and
> books you yourself just can't put down!
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>
> I am pretty sure that if I shared that kind of
> content with anyone I would
> be embarrassed.
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