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Means & Ends: August 2010
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A Monument to Folly. 8226;••. Yesterday, an ignorant and therefore dangerous editorial about the proposed “Ground-Zero Mosque” was published in The New York Times. Below, I’ve reproduced the first part of the editorial. August 4, 2010. A Monument to Tolerance. What a horrible paragraph! What astoundingly biased writing! Instead of writing “Instead of caving in to the angry voices”, how about writing: “Instead of being responsive to the majority of New Yorkers”? The attacks of Sept. 11 were not a reli...
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Means & Ends: More Muslim Censors
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Well, I wasn’t going to post here until I finished the next task that I’m working on, but as the incomparable Robbie Burns wrote:. The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men gang aft agley…. Anyway, this time the disruption arose from the website loonwatch. It’s quite a website. I first visited it a couple of months ago, after hearing about an atrocious comment that was posted there by an Egyptian, basically saying that Robert Spencer (of JihadWatch. To form opinions about loonwatch. Zelenik: “15% Of Is...
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Means & Ends: August 2012
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Well, I wasn’t going to post here until I finished the next task that I’m working on, but as the incomparable Robbie Burns wrote:. The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men gang aft agley…. Anyway, this time the disruption arose from the website loonwatch. It’s quite a website. I first visited it a couple of months ago, after hearing about an atrocious comment that was posted there by an Egyptian, basically saying that Robert Spencer (of JihadWatch. To form opinions about loonwatch. Zelenik: “15% Of Is...
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Means & Ends: December 2010
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All Clerics are Terrorists. 8226;•••. I’ve been aware for a long time that all clerics are terrorists; this month, I saw it again. A decade-or-so ago, I saw that my then daughter-in-law had been terrorized – by her parents, under the direction of their clerics. Ever since she was a baby, she had been thoroughly indoctrinated in Mormonism (as have my grandchildren), but otherwise, she was (and probably still is) a wonderful woman and mother. And therefore, so is the Book of Mormon). 8221; In particular, w...
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Means & Ends: March 2011
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8226;•••. Well, for reasons mentioned at the end of the last post at my other blog. I wasn’t planning on posting at this blog anytime soon, but another case of Muslim mendacity has moved me. I mentioned two other cases in earlier posts in this blog, here. The background for the present case is the following. Earlier this week, I read a long article. In the 20 March 2011 magazine section of The New York Times. About the American Muslim Yasir Qadhi. March 22, 2011 • 9:39 AM. Yasir: Of course I’m not ...
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Means & Ends: December 2009
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Almost 2400 years ago, Aristotle saw a root problem with democracies:. In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. An additional root problem with democracy is, as Churchill said:. The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. Henry Mencken added what seems to be an especially poignant description of the American form of democracy:. Equally obvious is that the solution to t...
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Means & Ends: April 2010
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On Bailing Out Believers Banned from Paradise. 19) Fortunately for them, however, a way has been found to bail them out of their predicament of being banned from paradise. Below, I’ll outline first the problem and then the solution. God] said: “The man has become like one of us. Gods] , knowing good and evil; what if he now reaches out his hand and takes fruit from the Tree of Life also, eats it, and lives for ever? 8221; So the Lord God drove him. 22–24, their god already recognized that humans ha...
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Means & Ends: February 2010
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God is Total Nothingness! A couple of days ago, I posted the following "rant" at the Richard Dawkins Forum in a thread. Entitled Kalam and The Nature of "Nothing". Perhaps it would be useful if I repost it here, with a couple of editorial changes. Karl Popper said it well:. Maybe the points listed below will help eliminate some of the useless scholasticism. Elsewhere. I provide more details. 3 That seems to be how our universe came into existence: "the original nothingness" split into equal and opposite ...
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Means & Ends: May 2010
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Jesus said…“if you pray, you will be condemned.”. Twenty-two years ago today, on 9 May 1988, President Reagan signed Public Law 100-307. It states:. The President shall issue each year a proclamation designating the first Thursday in May as a National Day of Prayer on which the people of the United States may turn to God in prayer and mediation at churches, in groups, and as individuals. Prayer is like a pump in an empty well, it makes lots of noise, but brings no water. Praying is like a rocking chair &...
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Means & Ends: October 2010
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8226;•••. A wise man once said, a long time ago,. 8220;All people by nature desire to know”. Yet, more should be said, for progress to grow:. All claims to be knowledge – what tests say it’s so? What truth in the claims of creationists. At odds with ideas from top scientists? What rule proves the “truth” that God even exists? Did unstable “nothing” yield all that persists? And what of the claims about heaven and hell? They seem to be stories that children would tell. Emotions are certainly helpful to use,.
