david berlinski puts things on the line

Has anyone provided proof of God’s inexistence?
 Not even close.


 Has quantum cosmology
explained the emergence of the universe or why it is here?
 Not even close.


 Have our sciences explained
why our universe seems to be fine-tuned
 to allow for the existence of life?
Not even close.


Are physicists and biologists willing to believe in anything
so long as it is not religious thought?
Close enough.


 Has rationalism and moral thought provided us
with an understanding of what is good,
what is right, and what is moral?
 Not close enough.


Has secularism in the terrible 20th century
been a force for good?
Not even close, to being close.


 Is there a narrow
and oppressive orthodoxy in the sciences?
 Close enough.


Does anything in the sciences or their philosophy
 justify the claim that religious belief is irrational?
Not even in the ball park.


 Is scientific atheism
 a frivolous exercise in intellectual contempt?
     ...Dead on.










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written on a cast iron tailgate...in white stencilled letters

  






DO   NOT   PUSH








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found pome haiku

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horkheimer and adorno hash it out...they condemn jesus christ

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..from....ELEMENTS OF ANTI-SEMITISM




Christ, the spirit become flesh, is the deified sorcerer.
Man's self-reflection in the absolute,
the humanization of God by Christ,
is the proton pseudos [original falsehood].
Progress beyond Judaism is coupled with
the assumption that the man Jesus has become God.
The reflective aspect of Christianity,
 the intellectualization of magic, is the root of evil.




         ...here let us toast the anti-Christ










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found poem at Judaculla Rock

The soapstone boulder was named

 for the giant Tsul`kälû´,

which means "slant eyed giant"

who was reported to control the weather,

was the steward of all hunted animals,

and could leap from mountain to mountain.

It is said

that the strange 7-fingered globs on the boulder

were from the seven-fingered giant's hands

where he braced himself after a stumble from such a jump.

Despite being a grotesque,

hair-covered giant with demigod powers

 and seven-fingered hands for feet,

 he eventually took a Cherokee wife

and became one of the tribes earliest ancestors.

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freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose

Constitutional rights are useful up to a point, but they do not serve to guarantee much more than what could be called the bourgeois conception of freedom. According to the bourgeois conception, a "free" man is essentially an element of a social machine and has only a certain set of prescribed and delimited freedoms; freedoms that are designed to serve the needs of the social machine more than those of the individual.


                                                                               Theodore Kaczynski








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like mercury in a dish

The past is malleable
and flexible, changing
as our recollection
interprets and re-explains
what has happened.






                   Peter L Berger   (  + June 2017  )














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