M&D Deep Duck Soulless?

[David Ewers]

So rendering those things "meaningless"....?

On Jan 15, 2015, at 6:59 AM, Dave Monroe wrote:

> 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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