This has been a day of good quotes to share

[MeDeFe]

It's not often you get this many good things to share that you heard in one day, for example, in "Philosophy of Biology" where we did our second of two sessions on Creationism, or rather, on three texts regarding the reasoning behind the verdict against teaching Creationism in biology classes.

I think Creationists just can't deal with the thought of being nothing more than an insignificant assembly of particles in a far greater universe. They are metaphysically homeless.

"metaphysically homeless", now that's something you don't hear every day. One of the others was more understanding.

I'll equate creationists with christians here, we should really not be too hard on them, they've been through a lot in history. First Galileo comes around and shows that the earth isn't a disk under a cheese cover on gods table or something, then Darwin shows that life doesn't have had to be created as we see it today, then Freud and psychoanalytics claim that we aren't even in charge of our own mind. I think they're just trying to keep a last bastion.

And then: "Confessions of a lecturer"

There are two people in intellectual history that I think were arseholes of the first degree, one's Jean Jaque Rousseau and the other is the holy Antonius.

This in a seminar about JJ's Contrat Social.

Oh, and

the Bachelor study courses are a mockery of Humboldt's idea of a university, instead of offering interesting topics that the students can choose freely from you have to do classes on predetermined topics that the students must do whether they like it or not, it's no different from school.

All in all an eventful day, and am I glad that I started studying before the BA and MA degrees were introduced, I'm still free to choose what I want to study from the offered courses and not what others think I should study.

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I've been reading the Catcher in the Rye because I just love it, anyways I read through some quotes I thought were pretty funny, but it could just be me

"I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do like her, then you're supposed to like her face, and if you like her face, you ought to be careful about doing crumby stuff to it, like squirting water all over it."


"His name was Commander Blop, or something. He was one of those guys that think they're being a pansy if they don't break around forty of your fingers when they shake hands with you. God, I hate that stuff."

[Neoteny]

But you see, you do understand, you do understand that this issue right here of intellectual arrogance is the reason why people like you have a difficult problem with people of faith. I don't communicate an air of superiority over the people because I know so much more, and if you only read the books I know and if you only know the scientists I knew, then you would be great like me.

Well.

Sir.

There could be many things that you know well, there are other things that you don't know well. As you age you'll find yourself wrong on some things right on some other things, but please in the process of it, don't be arrogant.

I know it's old hat, but the man is a goldmine.

Nobody has gotten a hand job in cargo shorts since 'nam!