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by MikeGeneAre you increasingly worried about the Coming Theocracy? Angered by the way hordes of closet theocrats are dressing up their imbecilic religion as science? Well, you too can fight against these Forces of Darkness. All it takes is a few moments of your time (and who doesn't have the time to Save Civilization?) and one magic word.
Thanks to the people at ACME LabelMaker, any member of the reality-based community can wear the steel-toed boots and brass knuckles in the quest to hammer the lunatics. Here's how it works.
What's this? A book by a mathematician published by Cambridge University Press? Why bother with the tedious mathematical formulas disguised to hide the burning bush. Instead, just get out your LabelMaker and use the magic word!
Case closed!
And why bother seeing and debunking a documentary when the LabelMaker does your work for you:
Oh, but those Closet Theocrats are more sneaky that you might think, Good Soldier. Some say [wink, wink] that they accept evolution. No matter. The LabelMaker can be modified (just be sure to keep the magic word) and it will stick to anything, including computer screens:
What's this?! A Follower of Jeezuz arguing for inevitable humans in a lonely universe? Okay, he's a mainstream scientist, but with just a few extra clicks of the LabelMaker, you can take care of him too
It's time to take a stand! Before it is too late.
June 19th, 2006 at 4:46 pm
You think Morris might not like being categorized with the rest of us?
Comment by Bilbo — June 19, 2006 @ 4:46 pm
June 19th, 2006 at 7:08 pm
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June 19th, 2006 at 9:26 pm
Morris might not like being categorized with the rest of us, but he's wrong. He makes a good case for ID. I really think he's a closet IDer who is scared to admit it in public. Look up "reaction formation".
Comment by bFast — June 19, 2006 @ 9:26 pm
June 20th, 2006 at 12:18 pm
Quite funny. The real irony is of course that it is ID advocates and their "classical" Creationist allies who are into stickers on books, not evilutionists.
Comment by Andrea — June 20, 2006 @ 12:18 pm
June 20th, 2006 at 1:01 pm
But it's the evilutionists who are into blindly labeling anything and everything "creationist" when they don't like it.
Comment by Guts — June 20, 2006 @ 1:01 pm
June 20th, 2006 at 4:07 pm
bFast:
Are you getting this from his book? Or where?
Comment by Bilbo — June 20, 2006 @ 4:07 pm
June 20th, 2006 at 4:21 pm
Bilbo, I am getting "He makes a good case for ID" from the fact that he presents a compelling case for convergence being far beyond what one would realistically expect from NDE and he presents a "non-contingent" model of evolution, he suggests that if the tape were rewound and replayed, the results would be more similar than different. This strongly suggests telicity — ID. Add to this that he clearly presents as a Christian, who ultimately believes that God is responsible for all that is.
I get "I really think …" from my own interpretation of his overvenomous position on ID." Look up "reaction formation", you will find that there is a common psychological phenomenon of overvenomosity when one has a closet belief, and they don't want to admit it."
Comment by bFast — June 20, 2006 @ 4:21 pm
June 20th, 2006 at 4:27 pm
While we're on about 'ironies' in this thread, here's one that has me fascinated: when Dubya took the oath of office in January of 2001 there were 3 and only 3 no-doubt-about-it theocracies worldwide:
1) the Taliban in Afghanistan.
2) the mullahocracy of Iran.
3) Saudi Arabia.
This last had been, and still is, TECHNICALLY an ally of the US.
You would think that people who see a Coming Theocracy in the US behind every conservative Supreme Court nominee, every 'faith-based initiative' would be the most eager to fight no-doubt-about-it theocracies abroad.
But you would be WRONG: take a look at what people of the Left were saying from Sept 11th to Dec 7th (when Kandahar fell, the last urban stronghold of the Taliban). You will find ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY the 'secular left' was appalled by the lack of 'consultation', the lack of temporizing, the lack of 'reflection' on the part of the Administration. Michael Moore in particular was aghast (it took him a year and a half——-ie until the US invasion of Iraq———-to acknowledge in a backhanded way that Dubya had been right: Iraq was now a 'distraction' from Afghanistan, the Afghanistan that MOST OF THE LEFT didn't want invaded…..in 2001).
Look for a continuance: if Dubya ends up concluding that military action is the only way to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons and decides to act, it will be the Western 'antitheocrats' who will say 'Hold your horses!…..Let's get Hans Blix out of retirement!'
Comment by len — June 20, 2006 @ 4:27 pm
June 20th, 2006 at 4:38 pm
Not trying to be too nit-picky, Len, but are you sure you're in the right thread?
And bFast, is "telicity" a word?
Comment by Bilbo — June 20, 2006 @ 4:38 pm
June 20th, 2006 at 4:39 pm
On never mind, Len, I see Mike starts out talking about the coming Theocracy.
Comment by Bilbo — June 20, 2006 @ 4:39 pm
June 20th, 2006 at 10:11 pm
Bilbo, can you reasonably guess at a definition for telicity? If you can, it has communicated, it is a word. The oxford English dictionary considers its responsibility to chronicle the English language, not to define it. The person who is recognized for inventing the most words, if I understand correctly, is Shakespear.
Comment by bFast — June 20, 2006 @ 10:11 pm
June 20th, 2006 at 11:53 pm
Ah, so the invention of new words is a mark of literary genius? I must pernict; I submur that such behaviour is, in fact, purely a sign of cognitimbonic albomustulation.
Comment by Mesk — June 20, 2006 @ 11:53 pm
June 21st, 2006 at 1:13 am
I stand awed in the presence of a true literary genius. Cool.
Comment by bFast — June 21, 2006 @ 1:13 am
June 21st, 2006 at 2:28 am
Krauze: "I've never heard any of those words before coming to Telic Thoughts."
Mesk: "I don't know why; they're perfectly cromulent words."
Comment by Krauze — June 21, 2006 @ 2:28 am
June 21st, 2006 at 10:28 pm
Andrea,
Touche. I was just goofin' on the way people rely on the labels. But you are right when it comes to real stickers. In fact, I seem to recall someone goofin' on that with a funny list of other stickers warning about other areas of science.
For balance, someone should provide the link.
Comment by MikeGene — June 21, 2006 @ 10:28 pm
June 30th, 2006 at 3:41 pm
Creationist!
Comment by Farshad — June 30, 2006 @ 3:41 pm
June 30th, 2006 at 3:45 pm
Now thats what I call balance.
Comment by Guts — June 30, 2006 @ 3:45 pm