So any belief other than one's own is a delusion? How convenient. I do not believe that our technology is sophisticated / adept / precise / subtle enough to answer any of these open ended philosophical queries. I believe that believing our technology- and our ability to be responsible and appropriate with its use- Oops! Does that make me a terrorist? Or criminally dysfunctional? Perhaps in Russia I would now be banned from having a drivers' license. Gosh. Good luck in your Tory
> On Jan 8, 2015, at 8:03 PM, "Vladimyr Burachynsky" <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is becoming a shark feeding frenzy of Media demanding that I believe > different versions of the demented beliefs. > Which ever outlet I side with demands I become a believer. I am not Normal to > begin with, otherwise I MIGHT actually take up arms and shoot at a target > they suggest. Should I take a Gravol to control the vertigo as they spin me > around, aiming at phantoms. > > Hollande is strutting about like a shrunken , down sized de Gaulle after he > nearly lost France to a Troop of Disgruntled Foreign Legionnaires > from Algeria. > > al Jazeera wants me to believe that there is a war against all Muslims. CBC > wants me to believe that the Muslims are about to attack the country. > Wait we are in a deep freeze and any Arab set upon conquering Canada must > contend with unimaginable Arctic Cold and if they want to rob a gas station > on the way they will probably freeze to death in the dark. Hollande wants us > to believe he is the reincarnation of de Gaulle or Vercingetorix. Kerry wants > me to believe he speaks French. Putin probably wants me to believe he is > Vladimir Monomahk the slayer of Turks. > > These tough-guys are not so crazy as the Media. They have remained silent > for now. One Canadian media outlet is attacking our National Outlet , CBC, as > cowards , yes they used the word correctly, > who refused to show the Charlie Hebdo images on air( they were Blacked -Out). > Maybe Oprah Winfry can get them to confess on prime time T.V. > A Montreal journalist , has bared his chest ( but no soul was to be seen) > and declared that CBC ordered him to self-censor out of fear. > What a show. > Actually the Russian media is being rather discreet, what a shock. No one has > the wherewithal to post the price of oil or the disposition of ISIL > and the Saudi invasions. > vib > > I will snicker from my warm hovel in this cold blast. > I am waiting for the much feared promised global warming to arrive. > Just where is Al Gore now that I want to believe in his delusions? If I pick > one belief will the others stop pestering me? > No I guess it is more like an attack of Blackflies or mosquitoes. > Perhaps Glen is correct "Beliefs don't kill people. People kill people" > I might add "Believers have the right to kill non-believers". > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Friam [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of glen > Sent: January-08-15 7:24 PM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Slasdhot linked article RE; god > >> On 01/08/2015 03:49 PM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote: >> Or that they are mentally ill and need `retraining'. But that takes >> us down the road of recognizing the danger latent in faith, which I >> don't think the US is close to doing. > > Exactly ... though it goes beyond just faith to any sort of psychological > problem, I think. E.g. It's fine if you're deluded into believing, say, the > "law of attraction" > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_attraction_%28New_Thought%29> as long as > you don't do things like rely on it to heal your children or somesuch. > > Beliefs don't kill people. People kill people. ;-) > > -- > ⇔ glen > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
