enoonan <enoonan@kent.edu> wrote:
>GLENN: What's more, this aspect of the MOQ leaves the door open to all kinds
>of nonsense, such as the belief that Sasquatch is an objective phenomena if
>only the culture weren't so set on denying it. And guess what? The next
>inevitable step is the belief in institutionalized denial, whereby people
>become convinced the culture tries to enforce the mythos for its own sake. We
>already have the cult notion that the government is covering up
>extraterrestial visitations. We'd have more of this under the MOQ. The belief
>encouraged by the MOQ that parts of the real world are blocked from actual
>view by cultural filters and enforced by cultural immune systems paves the way
>for this kind of conspiratorial, cultish mindset.
>
>ERIN: I think it is true that the MoQ leaves the door open but I think that is
>why it is NOT paving the way for a cultish mindset, quite the opposite. For
>example withe aliens, we don't know if they exist or not so if we want to try
>and pretend we do then we are basically full of it in my opinion. In my
>opinion MoQ does open the way for you to be uncertain about something but I
>want you to explain to me how is the cult that aliens exist different from the
>cult that aliens don't exist?
I didn't say that aliens didn't exist. I just think it's nonsense that people think the government is hiding evidence of alien visits.
>
>WILLIAM JAMES "Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science
>there ever floats a sort of dust-cloud of exceptional observations, of
>occurrences minute and irregular and seldom met with, which it always proves
>more easy to ignore than to attend to... Anyone will renovate his science who
>will steadily look after the irregular phenomena, and when science is renewed,
>its new formulas often have more of the voice of the exceptions in them than
>of what were supposed to be the rules."
Is James suggesting the laws of science should look like a 900 page tax code?
>R. WILSON:
Erin, I don't think the content of the writing (or the writing itself) you posted below R. WILSON's name was very good. Schoolboy stuff, really.
Where's your sense of quality (the old-fashioned lowercase kind)?
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