Posted in Current Affairs, Love Affair, Love Life on Feb 17th, 2009 No Comments »
“The creationists’ fondness for “gaps” in the fossil record is a metaphor for their love of gaps in knowledge generally. Gaps, by default, are filled by God. You don’t know how the nerve impulse works? Good! You don’t understand how memories are laid down in the brain? Excellent! Is photosynthesis [...]
Posted in Weblogs on Feb 15th, 2009 No Comments »
The Prologue to Bertrand Russell’s Autobiography
What I Have Lived For
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean [...]
Posted in Love Affair, Love Life, Nature and Nurture on Feb 15th, 2009 No Comments »
Conservatives in the sense that holding on to the ideals, beliefs and emotions that are no longer useful to one’s day to day existence.
“I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a [...]
