Finally, an explanation for why I'm always right and you guys are always so misguided.
http://www.salon.com/mwt/mind_reader/2008/02/29/certainty/
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7 comments:
Well, there goes my crusade against the IMHO Heresy...
I'm not going to touch the worldview implications of that article right now, but let me point out, in good fun, that Luther would have agreed with Fitzgerald's quote, "The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." But he would have substituted "theologian" for "intelligence," and he probably menat something completely different.
Of course, the guy also fails to address the actual principle of empirical certainty, which is not, as it turns out, a feeling at all but an expression of fact.
Then again, disregarding the existence of certainty probably also conveniently disregards the existence of facts as well.
So what we're left with is a world filled with factless uncertainty. In that case, I'm still right because your factless uncertainty is completely baseless from my factlessly uncertain point of view.
Wait, can points of view exist either?
Ah ha! The fatal Catch-22 of Darwinian-inspired moral relativism...
I hereby suspend all of you 3 days each for...um...wait...what are you talking about?
:)
I'll take my lack of certainty on vacation for three days then, and let you know how it goes when I get back from my suspension.
(I wonder what it costs to fly to Aruba?)
It doesn't matter what a ticket to Aruba actually costs, Scott. Didn't you read the article? It's what you believe a ticket to Aruba costs.
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