Quotes and Quizzes
Sep. 15th, 2004 08:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsQuote #1: "It's interesting, however appalling, to see what's next on the agenda of The Sodomy Lobby: Marriage licenses for sadomasochists."
Paging Dr. Cluebat, paging Dr. Cluebat, Les Kinsolving needs a clue stat. Mr. Kinsolving is foaming at the mouth over the "advocacy of legal marriage of sadists with masochists." Color me stunned.
Quote #2: "The D.A.R. [Daughters of the American Revolution]. . . is composed of females who spend one half their waking hours boasting of being descended from the seditious American colonists of 1776, and the other more ardent half in attacking all contemporaries who believe in precisely the principles for which such ancestors struggled.
Quote #3: "What amazes me is that so-called 'people of faith' like to set themselves up as having a slightly finer sensibility than you or me but in fact they are completely intellectually irresponsible. They used to come up with very bad arguments for their faiths but at least they felt that there was something they should provide. Now mere wilfulness has triumphed."
The Guardian Unlimited asks: How Good a Speller are You?
I scored 19 out of 23.
Paging Dr. Cluebat, paging Dr. Cluebat, Les Kinsolving needs a clue stat. Mr. Kinsolving is foaming at the mouth over the "advocacy of legal marriage of sadists with masochists." Color me stunned.
Quote #2: "The D.A.R. [Daughters of the American Revolution]. . . is composed of females who spend one half their waking hours boasting of being descended from the seditious American colonists of 1776, and the other more ardent half in attacking all contemporaries who believe in precisely the principles for which such ancestors struggled.
Quote #3: "What amazes me is that so-called 'people of faith' like to set themselves up as having a slightly finer sensibility than you or me but in fact they are completely intellectually irresponsible. They used to come up with very bad arguments for their faiths but at least they felt that there was something they should provide. Now mere wilfulness has triumphed."
The Guardian Unlimited asks: How Good a Speller are You?
I scored 19 out of 23.
Spelling and Article #3
Date: 2004-09-16 09:20 pm (UTC)In regards to the 3rd article, I agree with his sentiments about the wilfulness of modern faith (at least when it comes to the more outspoken religiots), but I disagree with some of his other comments. In particular, I think he goes too far in his discussion of the motive fallacy; I feel that in the modern political and scientific climate it is very important that we know who funds a particular scientist's work. While Science is an ideal, all too many scientists have proven to be all too human.
Yes, dismissing a particular scientist's views out-of-hand because "it pays [for] them to say that" may not be the best method of making judgments on scientific validity, it is often the only method available to the populace at large.
-Malthus