A great clip describing a fact that Great Ape Thoughts and I agreed upon on the Skeptical Teacher blog: that religious nuts, extremists and patriots ignoring facts are so loud and prevalent in all our forms of media. Mature, responsible, well adjusted thoughts from moderate folk (including the moderate religious ones) are almost never heard. We must spend time looking for the views of the moderate, which are not yelled at us as if we are all impressionable children, such recorded views and opinions are usually valid, helpful and wise. But they go almost unnoticed in this media-driven world. Such a shame.
True, though it's also up to moderates to make themselves heard -- something I try to do via this blog, for example. Moderate conservatives need to stop letting the crazies intimidate them.
Individualist, pro-technology, pro-democracy, anti-religion. I speak only for myself and not for any ideology, movement, or party. It has been my great good fortune to live my whole life free of "spirituality" of any kind. I believe that evidence and reason are the keys to understanding reality; that technology rather than ideology or politics has been the great liberator of humanity; and that in the long run, human intelligence is the most powerful force in the universe.
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A great clip describing a fact that Great Ape Thoughts and I agreed upon on the Skeptical Teacher blog: that religious nuts, extremists and patriots ignoring facts are so loud and prevalent in all our forms of media.
Mature, responsible, well adjusted thoughts from moderate folk (including the moderate religious ones) are almost never heard. We must spend time looking for the views of the moderate, which are not yelled at us as if we are all impressionable children, such recorded views and opinions are usually valid, helpful and wise. But they go almost unnoticed in this media-driven world.
Such a shame.
All the best,
Woody
True, though it's also up to moderates to make themselves heard -- something I try to do via this blog, for example. Moderate conservatives need to stop letting the crazies intimidate them.
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