M&D Deep Duck Soulless?

[Dave Monroe]

Paul Feyerabend makes a similar point, albeit in a roundabout way,
about science:

"...  that a good theory explains more than its rivals is not very
realistic either. True: new theories often predict new things - but
almost always at the expense of things already known."

https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/feyerabe.htm

http://www.versobooks.com/books/442-against-method

http://www.mcps.umn.edu/assets/pdf/4.2.1_Feyerabend.pdf

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 6:24 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> SALON: You point out, though, that the concept of "religion" didn't
> even exist before the early modern period. What exactly are we talking
> about, then, when we talk about religion and violence before modern
> times?
>
> KAREN ARMSTRONG: First of all, there is the whole business about
> religion before the modern period never having been considered a
> separate activity but infusing and cohering with all other activities,
> including state-building, politics and warfare.
>
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 6:50 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>> p. 22....Mason, from the ongoing grief of the loss of his wife, after
>> suggesting to Dixon that they
>> should investigate the Learned Dog for Metempsychosis reasons, at
>> least p.19....after asking why are there still not
>> Oracles...Gate--Ways to Futurity.....
>>
>> must ask tLD if he has a soul...
>>
>> I would say, off the top, Mason is sorta-obsessed with whether Death
>> is The End or there is an After, wouldn't you? [tangential: we might
>> remember the von Braun quote in GR. More heretically tangential: we
>> might remember TRP's lifelong remembering of his great pal, Richard
>> F.?]
>>
>> The doubts of a religious man. There was a time in the West when no
>> (religious) person would even have such doubts. Dante's time did not,
>> right Monte? and TRP fave Henry Adams said about the same of the time
>> of building Mont-Saint Michel and Chartes.
>>  Becker suggests that Acquinas's massive Summa came about as his and
>> his time's edifice against doubt...
>>
>> But, doubtlessly, religious doubt at least was ushered in with the
>> Enlightenment.
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