(August 30, 2010 at 6:16 pm)Existentialist Wrote: I beg your pardon?
Really? This is how we're doing this now? Perhaps I should have asked you to explain your last statement, but I would have guessed that saying "What?" would have been the same as "Stop, please explain the thing that seems to have nothing to do with the other inane Q&A that's been going on so that I might more definatively answer the question you have asked upon me." I suppose I was wrong in that regard.
Let's try this again:
The human body is made of matter and energy. Matter being the stuff that makes the body massive and energy makes things go. People are people. Two arms. Two legs. A torso. A head. All the little dangly and floppy bits connected to those parts. All the gooey and crunchy bits inside those bits. That is a person... (or since I was so very general, that description could also describe any number of animals with similar bits, but that's irrelevant.)
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
