Heat vs. Light, was Re: Reason +/-Faith

From: Michael M. Butler (butler@comp-lib.org)
Date: Sun Dec 10 2000 - 21:02:20 MST


And perish of heat exhaustion, if you stayed all day--and starve if you
stayed much longer: nutritionally, fungi aren't much to subsist on. :)
Greg Burch has more or less said much of what I would have, only better.
"The purpose of thinking is to abolish thinking"--thanks for
illuminating that point of view so starkly. It has many mostly unwitting
adherents, and a lot of bright people have gotten stuck in it. I hope
you find enough drama somewhere.

Warmly,

Mike

Nicq MacDonald wrote:
>
> > That's "sieg". And it sounds like much heat, little light.
> > Fighting/arguing/epithets wins out again over
> > thinking/exploring/reasoning. *Sigh*
>
> A freezing Minnesota winter day has plenty of light- but I'd take a hot,
> dark sauna over it any day of the week.
>
> -Nicq MacDonald



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