(June 18, 2015 at 7:21 pm)Rhythm Wrote: That's quite the hurdle, since we haven't established that -we- are "free-thinking" .....or even a sensible understanding of what that term is supposed to mean....don't you think?
Free-thinking in the aspect of being able to arrive at conclusions that were not specifically programmed into the machine, i.e., learn, abstract thought, problem solving.
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy