fortune
This was the fortune message I got today when I started Windows.
And it seems nicely relevant what with that whole ID-destruction-of-science-thingie going on next door. (The edge of Kansas is about 100 ft due West of my location.)
The quote also sums up the problem I have with dogma in all its forms. Dogma gets in the way of free thought. I think I cherish free thought above all else in life. What does "freedom" amount to if it does not include thinking freely? I think it would amount to nothing.
But thinking freely is much more difficult than it first appears. For there is so much dogma out there, and it comes in so many forms other than the overtly religious.
And it seems nicely relevant what with that whole ID-destruction-of-science-thingie going on next door. (The edge of Kansas is about 100 ft due West of my location.)
The quote also sums up the problem I have with dogma in all its forms. Dogma gets in the way of free thought. I think I cherish free thought above all else in life. What does "freedom" amount to if it does not include thinking freely? I think it would amount to nothing.
But thinking freely is much more difficult than it first appears. For there is so much dogma out there, and it comes in so many forms other than the overtly religious.