Hi Ian, 2009/1/3 Ian Glendinning <[email protected]>
> My new year's resolution (to walk away from MoQ.Discuss) didn't last > long, but since there is still a small handful of real people > involved, I'll venture an opinion .... > The post festival come down hits us all! Sincerely hope you dont abandon moq_discuss as i tended to agree with most you say. > Since Deists met Darwinists on the front pages, biological evolution is largely crap. Please say more about this - i missed that meeting! > Since the search for the Higgs Boson became a matter of public funding, guess what, even fundamental physics is mostly crap. Hope that some genious physicist is egoistic enough to search for that real diamond that will take the handbreak off. > Physical, biological, social, intellectual ... it's all crap if all we > aspire to is the kind > of social patterns that pass for free (sic) speech and reasoned (sic) > debate. This a big stumbling block As Ron's last comment says if we don't recognize (and discount / > rise-above) our cultural bias in the way we reason, then debate can > never proceed (human evolution becomes stymied) beyond the > socio-cultural level - the giant wins again and always will. We are > just back to the social / collective / individual / intellectual > confusion. As Mel put it ... with masterful understated wit ... it > feels a bit cognitively dissonant. > Having babies should be discouraged - a woman or man should live for a thousand years. -KO Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
