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BlueEyedSon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 10:20 AM Original message |
NYT OpEd: The Day the Enlightenment Went Out |
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 10:23 AM Response to Original message |
1. Can people believe in both? |
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BlueEyedSon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 10:24 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Pick a side, Faith or Reason. |
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 10:38 AM Response to Reply #2 |
10. Fuck you! |
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BlueEyedSon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 10:41 AM Response to Reply #10 |
13. Now THAT'S how to apply reason to an argument. |
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 10:42 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. You know you're a REALLY intelligent person |
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shrike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 11:16 AM Response to Reply #13 |
22. Plenty of Catholic clergy double as biologists, astronomers, |
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 11:19 AM Response to Reply #22 |
23. Careful - they can't coexist |
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OnceAndFutureTruth (173 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 11:07 AM Response to Reply #2 |
20. Could it be we go wrong precisely by framing it in either-or terms |
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BlueEyedSon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 11:55 AM Response to Reply #20 |
30. An appropriate response to zero tolerance for reason |
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Beware the Beast Man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 12:10 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. That in itself is quite reasonable. |
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OnceAndFutureTruth (173 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 01:37 PM Response to Reply #30 |
34. Should we follow? ...or lead? |
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BlueEyedSon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 01:55 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. OK, "framing" is not the only problem |
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OnceAndFutureTruth (173 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-05-04 09:24 AM Response to Reply #35 |
40. What I mean is, the right has successfully framed the debate for years |
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bloom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 03:12 PM Response to Reply #20 |
36. If the Democrats want to exclude people from the party |
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cornermouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-05-04 07:27 AM Response to Reply #2 |
39. Driving off people who vote for your candidate is |
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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 10:25 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. The optimal words are "more fervently" |
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BlueEyedSon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 10:34 AM Response to Reply #3 |
7. Quote on faith from Ron Suskind's "Without a Doubt" |
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 10:40 AM Response to Reply #7 |
12. Eat shit - I am a devout Catholic and I and everyone in my fam went Kerry |
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BlueEyedSon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 10:47 AM Response to Reply #12 |
16. Hey, what happened to civility? Too bad lack of it is not a "sin". |
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 11:20 AM Response to Reply #16 |
24. Civility? It voted red |
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 10:39 AM Response to Reply #3 |
11. whatever |
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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 11:04 AM Response to Reply #11 |
19. Okay, I may be letting my anger over the election close my mind. |
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 11:12 AM Response to Reply #19 |
21. Ah yes - very good - people cannot believe in science AND tenets of their |
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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 11:26 AM Response to Reply #21 |
25. Not consistently. Can they? |
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 11:38 AM Response to Reply #25 |
26. ok - have a nice day |
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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 11:44 AM Response to Reply #26 |
27. Thanks for answering the question. |
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 11:47 AM Response to Reply #27 |
28. yes - I'm going to go back to my magic |
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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 11:48 AM Response to Reply #28 |
29. Abracadabra! |
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Cocoa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 10:25 AM Response to Original message |
4. bye bye to reality-based governing |
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caber09 (161 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 10:31 AM Response to Original message |
5. GOD GAYS GUNS |
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VassarGrad (8 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 10:34 AM Response to Reply #5 |
6. War is Peace. |
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bloom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 03:18 PM Response to Reply #5 |
37. In the 1600s Puritans executed Quakers in Massachusetts |
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Village Idiot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 10:34 AM Response to Original message |
8. No one has called the USA |
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OnceAndFutureTruth (173 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 10:35 AM Response to Original message |
9. How about we repackage the Enlightenment so it becomes palatable |
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BlueEyedSon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 10:44 AM Response to Reply #9 |
15. Well, half the nation will always be "below average" |
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OnceAndFutureTruth (173 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 10:51 AM Response to Reply #15 |
17. But have we really tried to find a way to communicate? |
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Donkeyboy75 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 12:42 PM Response to Reply #15 |
32. Not true. |
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BlueEyedSon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 12:52 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. On a pure Gaussian ("bell") curve, half are below the average. |
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tngledwebb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 10:56 AM Response to Original message |
18. The evidence mounts. |
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BlueEyedSon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-05-04 07:12 AM Response to Original message |
38. Kick for the early birds |
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Briar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-05-04 10:04 AM Response to Original message |
41. Oh dear |
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