tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592514.post7387648849227397371..comments2023-10-24T03:46:41.971-07:00Comments on Contingencies: Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592514.post-30539843584128341362010-06-08T19:43:05.642-07:002010-06-08T19:43:05.642-07:00J's post I connected with two fragments. One r...J's post I connected with two fragments. One relating to Russell, the other to Grice.<br /><br />-- In discussion with Witters, Russell would refer to "there not being an elephant in the room". This may connect with the celestial teapot. It amuses me that Russell's jocular point is taken SO seriously by Popperians as they meditate on how to falsify the existence of Satan.<br /><Luigi Speranzahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14910051355425799904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592514.post-59793441813967062662007-12-03T17:16:00.000-08:002007-12-03T17:16:00.000-08:00Note the NW comment on Heinlein. Anytime some trou...Note the NW comment on Heinlein. Anytime some troubling political or moral issue arises, a NWer reaches not for say the Founding Fathers, or even scientists ala Einstein or Bohr (or mathematician-logician such as Bertrand Russell), but a crackpot writer such as rightist-libertarian Heinlein, who supported Nam and Nixon, and Reagan's "star wars" defense program, and was L-Ron Hubbard's pal for Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592514.post-13655653533027097422007-12-03T12:06:00.000-08:002007-12-03T12:06:00.000-08:00Ah McMax. I'm still working on one, but inspiratio...Ah McMax. I'm still working on one, but inspiration-level a bit low. Perhaps a visit to New Patriotic Worlds might re-invigor my invective.....<BR/><BR/>Why yes, it's already rising, with some assistance from Sam Johnson:<BR/><BR/>“Patriotism, the last refuge of scoundrels.”<BR/><BR/>Dr. Johnson<BR/><BR/>Cont. update:<BR/><BR/>“Patriotism, the first refuge of scumbags.” <BR/><BR/>Have a holly Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592514.post-26057399660413137702007-12-03T11:49:00.000-08:002007-12-03T11:49:00.000-08:00Where's the rude and insulting comment to soil thi...Where's the rude and insulting comment to soil this otherwise fine post, or are you still drafting it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com