@LiberalLibrarian @ceorl @Tacitus_Kilgore
I don't think we disagree!
That's my point: New Atheism illustrated perfectly how much the affectation of "rationalism" is nonsense - but it was *so* beloved by its operators, on all sides of the debate circuits at that time.
Everyone was *so* convinced that eloquent argument would somehow bring the truth so perfectly to bear on the world that everyone would have no choice but to believe it.
Pure bullpucky, but a great education in flawed thinking!
I hate Santa Monica. I hate it with the fire of a thousand suns going supernova. The one time a year I venture to it, I'm reminded WHY I don't visit. It's a fucking zoo. It wasn't helped by the fact that I was trying to get to the freeway, making right turn after right turn because I couldn't make a left turn, and then at one point stuck behind asshole bicyclists who just hogged the entire road. Fucking Santa Monica.
If you cheat, may you cheat death
If you steal, may you steal another's heart
If you fight, may you fight for your fellows
If you drink, drink with me!