Re: Boy Genius or Craft Idiot?

From: Olga Bourlin (fauxever@sprynet.com)
Date: Sun Jun 01 2003 - 22:02:38 MDT

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    From: "Mike Lorrey" <mlorrey@yahoo.com>
    >
    > What I find so amusing is that we have Olga here, trashing a 13 year
    > old kid for being allegedly as naive as, well, a 13 year old, for
    > thinking there is a God while being allegedly so high an IQ as to be
    > untestable.

    Mike, did I not write (to Rafal)?:

    ***"... we can cut him some slack. The kid is only 13 and is dependent > on
    his grownups (or, sounds like, they may be dependent on him?)."

    ***I also agreed (I don't remember with whom) that the kid is definitely
    worth watching.

    ***I also agreed with Newstrom: [Olga Bourlin wrote]
    > > > Certainly, I can understand why a 13-year-old would think that (most
    > > > teenagers are prone to narcissism, anyway - it's probably even an
    > > > important developmental step).

    ***Mike, why are you ignoring the whole of what I've written? Please
    respond to this point.

    ***I used the Greg Smith article to open up a discussion on something I've
    had difficulty understanding (a predisposition to science with a
    supernatural viewpoint at the same time). The term I used ("craft idiot")
    is Paul Goodman's. Maybe a lot of people aren't familiar with Paul
    Goodman's use of that term, but it describes what I've observed with some
    scientists who are dualists. As I've not had any trouble shedding
    religiosity at a very early age (and I'm no genius), I was wondering what
    people thought. I've learned some things here (I usually do), and
    appreciate the input from all the posters.

    Olga



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