tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post2873995623591597689..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: John Gray Takes Steven Pinker to TaskStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-88053626661181003462018-03-03T00:23:27.978-08:002018-03-03T00:23:27.978-08:00"therapeutic manual for rattled rationalists&..."therapeutic manual for rattled rationalists" - this would be an excellent blurb for Pinker's book. If they are still doing the hatchet job of the year award, John Gray would be a worthy candidate.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-40672996952073860992018-02-27T12:01:29.169-08:002018-02-27T12:01:29.169-08:00G.K. Chesterton: "When man loses faith in God...G.K. Chesterton: "When man loses faith in God, he won't believe in Nothing. He'll believe in Anything."<br /><br />I'm a hopeful agnostic. -- Rich LaraAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-75998930335888926992018-02-26T03:22:08.585-08:002018-02-26T03:22:08.585-08:00Indeed, a very comprehensive slam. I hope Pinker r...Indeed, a very comprehensive slam. I hope Pinker reads and reconsiders the limits of his "reason" and the "ideology of scientism" is a threat that can't be exaggerated. <br /><br />Gray: Exponents of scientism in the past have used it to promote Fabian socialism, Marxism-Leninism, Nazism and more interventionist varieties of liberalism. In doing so, they were invoking the authority of science to legitimise the values of their time and place. Deploying his cod-scientific formula to bolster market liberalism, Pinker does the same. Scientism is one of the Enlightenment’s bad ideas. But bad ideas do not evolve into better ones. They keep on recurring, often in cruder and sillier forms than in the past. Pinker’s formula for human progress is a contemporary example.<br /><br />I also just came across this essay this weekend, arguing that we all have a "religious mind" that doesn't go away when deny religion and if we're not aware of this we can be possessed by it, and that traditional religions have defenses that help keep us more grounded from our flights of fancy.<br />http://quillette.com/2018/02/21/search-meaning-dangers-possession<br />Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-65964598976802402632018-02-24T08:09:08.119-08:002018-02-24T08:09:08.119-08:00Small correction...
Newton's Laws are laws of...Small correction...<br /><br />Newton's Laws are laws of motion. Newton didn't formulate thermodynamical laws, although I'm sure he regrets not having done so. The Thermodynamics Laws are the offspring of what could be viewed today as a modern intersectional family of supernerds, including, but not limited to depending on whom you're speaking to, Carnot, Boltzmann, Thomson (Kelvin), Maxwell, and Gibbs.<br /><br />Oh, and I almost forgot... Ares Olympus, who knows how to fix the weather. ;-DRedactednoreply@blogger.com