Refugee thread!

[Dr H]

Bible literalist AND into homeopathy?

You know Biblical verses become astonishingly powerful, once you take a few words from one, and randomly scatter them over 400,000 blank sheets of paper.


Well, and properly shake them, of course.

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My problem with Thoreau on this score is that, according to his transcendental metaphysics, he considered himself a law unto himself.  Yes, there were indeed plenty of obvious injustices in his time, but he went to the contrarian extreme in denouncing them.  Perhaps this was just the rhetorical tradition to which he was trained in Harvard, but he apparently found it very difficult to see the many gray areas in life, where pluses and minuses are mixed together in different proportions.  That made him dismissive and superior as well as insightful about the shortcomings of those around him.

That is the way with some flavors of anarchist.

Whatever will we do with all these unruly individuals?

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Halp! This thread has been hijacked by philosophers!

Shhh.

If a philosopher discourses in the woods and there is no one there to understand him, does he make sense?