Mary, you've confused characters in my domestic comedy: my girlfriend's best friend is the evangelical who lost her brother. I'm not close enough to her to know how this fairly recent event affected her faith. But we went to church with her last time I was there. First time in a long time for me. My girlfriend, on the other hand, the "militant atheist": I know her well enough to have a pretty good idea that she has no particular reason to be as resentful as she seems. Which I've told her. And she smiles and shrugs. (Man, you must have thought I was an idiot if I didn't know why someone who'd lost a sibling would resent God/religion.)
Matt p.s. And true about "thought-out," though I like to use "articulate" as a watchword that includes all those kinds of things. On my view, because reasoning has so much to do with linguistic felicity, I like switching from "reason" to "articulation" because it gives a greater sense of a concrete, external activity. > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:40:53 -0500 > Subject: Re: [MD] Transhumanism > > Matt, > > Your girlfriend is resentful because God didn't save her brother. No wonder > she hates the religious. They have nothing to offer. If fact they > betrayed. > > Really liked your observation about the articulate vs. the inarticulate. > You know, though, the battle has nothing to do with articularity. It is > really a battle between the thought-out and the not-thought-out. I hope you > win. > > Mary > _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy think 9 to 5 is a cute idea. Combine multiple calendars with Hotmail. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multicalendar&ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_5 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/md/archives.html
