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Originally Posted by Deckard
I think what I would say is: fuck dogma. Religious, political, scientific, whatever. And fuck irrationalism.
If I'm permitted one dogma of my own without contradicting myself, it is that there have to be minds open and flexible enough to reason. Without those minds, there's simply no way to begin resolving our differences.
Dogmatic thinking says no, I'm not shifting, it's wrong, it is what it is, it's written in stone, questioning it is wrong/blasphemous/unscientific/disrespectful/un-American/etc.
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In other words: There is only one absolute: That there are no absolutes in the universe.
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Originally Posted by Deckard
(or at least until we're supplanted by our silicon successors  ) |
I'm counting on peaceful transcendental Space Odyssee beings...