He guys,
This is a message for the people that I’ve been engaging with regularly over this blog.
May 7, 2008
May 5, 2008
An Offensive Blog Post
Have you ever noticed how the meanings of words can get twisted beyond all recognition?
Consider the word ‘offensive’ for a moment. It gets bandied about a lot these days. How often have you heard someone get up and decry, “That comment is offensive to me and my beleifs!” and get the sympathy of the politically correct audience on sensitivity grounds, because we shouldn’t be offensive.
Notice how they’re using the word ‘offensive’ as if it meant the same thing as ‘abusive’?
Orwell on Faith
From 1984, by George Orwell:
The first and simplest stage in the discipline, which can be taught even to young children, is called, in Newspeak, CRIMESTOP. CRIMESTOP means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction. CRIMESTOP, in short, means protective stupidity… Orthodoxy in the full sense demands a control over one’s own mental processes as complete as that of a contortionist over his body.
On Faith:
The first and simplest stage in the discipline, which can be taught even to young children, is called, in theology, FAITH. FAITH means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Religion, and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction. FAITH, in short, means protective stupidity… Orthodoxy in the full sense demands a control over one’s own mental processes as complete as that of a contortionist over his body.
May 2, 2008
Refutation: The Argument from Inferred Design
The Argument:
- Many things that look designed do so because they are designed.
- From 1, it can reasonably be inferred that everything that looks designed does so because it is designed.
- The universe looks designed.
- From 2 and 3, the universe has a desinger.
