(April 14, 2014 at 10:16 am)Esquilax Wrote: He loves it, but he absolutely will not tell us a single detail of it. Either he hasn't actually seen it and is recommending it based on the trailer and the mean atheist professor in it, or "I like it because it bolsters my faith and confirms my pre-existing belief that everyone who disagrees with my position secretly agrees with me, but says otherwise due to a need to persecute me personally because of beliefs that we both share, but they won't admit ti," won't be such a ringing endorsement here.
I think it's more like , "I love it but won't share the details of what I liked for fear that they will be torn asunder, threatening my worldview and understanding of reality, and I won't dare entertain the notion that I acually live in a bubble because it is way too comfortable in here."
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
