(October 23, 2015 at 12:22 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: Neither humble or vain. They know not that it is their own voice they worship. They are simply mistaken.
That's a good way to put it.
I remember being really pissed off in the mid 90s at former Los Angeles Lakers great, Magic Johnson at his reaction to the the development of protase inhibitors to treat HIV infection. He was a high-profile person who had tested positive for the virus. When the then-experimental protase inhibitors reduced the virus in his system to undetectable levels, he said, "I give all the glory to God." It really pissed me off that he didn't save some "glory" for the real-life men and women who did the research and development on the drugs that saved his sorry ass.
He was personally humble in that he credited a power outside himself but vain in thinking that that power had anything to do with his stupid religion.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
