Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Bloomberg parrots Pepe

While Taranto channels AA & AI. Is this life imitating art, or vice-versa?
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Pepe le Pew said...

Only 26% endorse the view that "humans and other living things have evolved due to natural processes such as natural selection."

It's hard to see how one gets elected president by insulting the religious beliefs of at least 3 in 5 Americans

so in other words, if 3/4 of american believe 1+1=98 treat them like the morons that they are and tell them they're right?

6/20/2007 9:17 PM
Tecumseh said...

Yeah, yeah, yeah, Pepe. Tell us stoopid Ricains about your towering intellect. So you know how to add 1 and 1. What else?

I'll stay with Sir Isaac Newton. As the old proverb has it, the dogs bark, but the caravan rolls on.

6/20/2007 9:36 PM
Pepe le Pew said...

This is not about me, ai. it's about the politicos pandering to the public's beliefs. Everyone has a right to believe in anything they want, but the minute Edwards talks on the political circuit about his belief in "his lord and savior", I smell a rat. So should you. This is deeply personal, it shouldn't be a something to parade with the purpose of grabbing a few votes. The exploitation of people's superstitions (not the superstitions themselves) is cheap and absolutely revolting.

6/20/2007 10:21 PM
Tecumseh said...

Why do you demean religion as a mere "superstition"? I think that's cheap -- not "revolting" (I'm too accustomed to the Lefty Party Line to get revolted by that), just illustrative of shallow (if not shabby) thinking. Do you ever try to get past the pidgin-marxist mantra you must have been inculcated back in Versailles/Rive Gauche, and reflect more deeply on the meaning of religion through the ages? Of course not -- that would require neurons firing up for a change, instead of regurgitating by rote the confy, lazy verities absorbed by osmosis from pinkoland, way back when.

6/20/2007 11:17 PM
Pepe le Pew said...

Do you ever ... Of course not
ai - if you make both the questions and the answers, what else is there to say?

instead of regurgitating by rote the confy, lazy verities absorbed by osmosis from pinkoland
As opposed to osmosis from lazy verities regurgitated from sunday school?

get past the pidgin-marxist mantra
get your labels right: I am about as much of a marxist as you are a buddhist monk.

6/20/2007 11:54 PM
Pepe le Pew said...

by the wayi:

su·per·sti·tion [soo-per-stish-uhn] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun
1. a belief or notion, not based on reason or knowledge, in or of the ominous significance of a particular thing, circumstance, occurrence, proceeding, or the like.

how does religion not fall under this definition?

6/21/2007 12:01 AM
Tecumseh said...

Actually, I never, ever went to "sunday school" (fyi, in correct English, Sunday is written Sunday, mais passons). So get your labels right, Pepe. One can appreciate and defend religion, even after attending a 100% secular school. There are books one can read, ya know? Or cathedrals and paintings one can admire, and religious music one can listen to. But surely those are unkown concepts to you.

As for pidgin-marxism, I stand by my characterization. Your puerile, primitive attack on religion (Christian, I assume - I never, ever heard you touch ever so slightly the tenets of Islam, say) is very much in sync with the standard anti-religious Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist doctrine. No difference whatsoever. None, zip, nada, tovaritch.

6/22/2007 1:14 AM
Pepe le Pew said...

AI, i hold all religions with equal contempt. But my point had more to do with the exploitation of religious belief in american politics rather than with my personal beliefs.

I am actually a great admirer of Tallis & Byrd...

6/22/2007 1:42 AM
My Frontier Thesis said...

Pepe, you ever check out R.G. Collingwood, "The Idea of History" (one of the counters to late nineteenth-century Positivism)? Just curious. I think it might be a history of ideas that you'd enjoy (unless you've already read it). Then again, with all our own business, who has time for recommends!

6/24/2007 2:38 PM
Pepe le Pew said...

I haven't read it. I am very interested and at the same time, I know I won't get to it for ages. I am piling up books I never even open...

6/24/2007 10:02 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...

I am piling up books I never even open...

I hear that.

6/26/2007 9:19 AM

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