Faith Isn't Based On Logic and Experience

(House. "Damned If You Do".)

There are several schools of thought. Ontology, epistemology and metaphysics.

There is a wide point in the road.

We need wide points in order to allow passing. Not that everyone needs to pass. There are some who remain safely ensconced within their lane, confident that no passing lorry would ever come careening into their path, ending their life.

Bucolic. Innit?

Thinking about things is a seductive enterprise. Religion, truth, beauty. All the things that freshmen lit teachers warn you about. "Beauty is truth, truth beauty." And all that dither about Keats and Yeats. Blake and Chaucer. (And then some prof throws in Blake. What to think?)

I've written before about my affection for the works of John Barth. End of the Road. Why try to rewrite another's questions?

When I read and re-read Noah Chomsky, what I find is riddled with incomplete sentences. When I think about the hundreds, if not thousands, of students that have spent their time under this incoherent sway--at one of America's most prestigious universities--I find myself choking through the mere thought that such a fascile thinker as Chomsky could have gained as great an allegiance as he has, simply for talking poop.

This post is based upon a series on television that I regularly watch. "House."

But, when I hear these words, "faith isn't based upon logic and experience" I could not but write.

Faith needn't be based upon logic and experience. Faith needn't be based upon anything.

But faith, based upon logic and experience tends towards the unassailable, neh?

It's 7:30

(click on the pic for a pictoral presentation.)

It's 7:30.

I left the course awhile ago...about forty-five minutes.

The temperature was 64 degrees. Light wind blowing out of the east. Right now the temp is 50.

Clear skies. It's been wet, so the fairways are a little soggier than I like. The greens are starting to firm up, though, so putting is getting a little better.

My question is, what if the Global Warming Alarmists are just being crazy? One or two degree increases in temperatures in 60 years? So, on a hot day in the Amazon the temp is 105 instead of 103? Are plants and animals going to die? And how do you know it?

If this is global warming, I'm all for it. If I were a strawberry farmer, I'd be doubling down. And can you imagine the pinots coming out of the valley?

Isn't it time we just stop being hysterical and enjoy the world? What if I support global warming?

Sorry, got to go. I'm going to open six bottles of Pepsi simply to release the carbon dioxide.

COBRA Changes

The service that provided for COBRA's links is dead. Or, something like dead. That is according to Gully, upon whom I rely for all things intertube.

I've pared down the COBRA list to include only those blogs which seem to be currently engaged in blogging. (An idea I believe that could be addressed by our state's legislature; get rid of those government employees currently engaged in the provision of non-rational government.)

If you would like to have your website listed as a member of COBRA, just let me know. Get me a link, let me take a look, and we'll see, okay?

Someday I'll get around to cleaning up my other links. Now I've got to get back to work.

An Amazing Democrat

I had heard good things about this guy.

Tell me what you think.


h/t Troutdale Canfield.

Sea-Anchor

Somewhere in the past, I blogged about my expectations for an Obama Administration.

Being an old guy, I felt I could predict--I knew--that any radical changes advanced by any administration would find itself pushed into the wall (a NASCAR reference) by the media, the bureaucracy and the political heft of the doyens of both the House and the Senate.

There is a movement to "change" America.

Okay.

But there is still a certain American recidivism that reacts to suicidal impulses.

You can take the old boy out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the old boy.

That the New York Times (NYT) decided to wait awhile before releasing information about the successful killing of one of Al-Queida's top leaders is instructive. That the editors at the NYT decided to embargo the story for any period of time reflects both the best and worst of the sea-anchor phenomenon.

How did the sea-anchor work?

The Obama Administration learned about the NYT effort to publish a story early.

In the last few weeks, the Obama Adminstration has been under a lot of political pressure, following the Christmas Underwear Bomber, the election of Scott Brown, and criticism by former Vice-President Richard Cheney for the current adminstrations abdication of national security measures.

I want to apologize for not giving you links to the current debate. The search engines can't seem to find the videos of the last week's arguments, either by Biden or by Cheney. And, really, I don't care.

You know that the guys who control the intertubes do put weighting on inquiries on search engines. The videos will show up, after the guys who post them put in their links on other sites.

What is telling is, that Senator Bayh called it quits.

Sea-anchors don't stop a vessel.