http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXfkCzcegiM&feature=related
On 9/26/12 10:19 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote:
The common theme, however, just to tie a bow on it, is societal
degeneracy.
On Sep 26, 2012 10:15 PM, "Douglas Roberts" <d...@parrot-farm.net
<mailto:d...@parrot-farm.net>> wrote:
I suspect that the more sensitive members of this list will think
that my last message was unnecessarily pejorative with respect to
gangs, and gang members. It would probably therefore be foolish
of me to suggest including child-abusing priests, scientologists,
and more than a few of the military industrial profiteers in the
"better off dead" list.
So I won't.
Best to quietly just resume the scholarly discussions about "faith".
Don't you think?
On Sep 26, 2012 10:03 PM, "Douglas Roberts" <d...@parrot-farm.net
<mailto:d...@parrot-farm.net>> wrote:
Still, irrespective of whomever coined that old "fittest"
rubric, dead gang members are far more productive members of
society than live ones, I suspect.
On Sep 26, 2012 9:48 PM, "Nicholas Thompson"
<nickthomp...@earthlink.net
<mailto:nickthomp...@earthlink.net>> wrote:
Darwinism only says that the least prolific will be
eliminated. It says nothing about degeneracy, unless, of
course profligacy is defined as "advanced." Spencer was
the social Darwinist, not Darwin. In fact, it was SPENCER,
who coined "the survival of the fittest", I believe.
N
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Well, speaking from my own (apparent) semi-unique
perspective: Darwin's proposition of "Survival of the
Fittest" would seem to scream out for the elimination of
degenerate components of society which threaten to bring
the entire species to total extinction.
And, being an engineer, I cannot but cheer and encourage
any activity that speeds the destruction of those
destructive elements of society. Like gang conflicts, for
example. And religion, for another. Not that there is
much difference, really.
--Doug
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Roger Critchlow
<r...@elf.org <mailto:r...@elf.org>> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Steve Smith
<sasm...@swcp.com <mailto:sasm...@swcp.com>> wrote:
Tory -
Why is the idea of two differing but synergistic
approaches so challenging to so many on this list? Or
are you arguing for the fun of the game?
I'm pretty sure both the Monkey and the Weasel are in it
for the endorphins released.
I don't think I'm talking about two differing approaches.
Some beliefs are so common that no one even thinks about
them. Many people deny that they're beliefs at all.
Other beliefs extend and explain and modify the common
ones in different ways. But I say we're all believers on
this bus, some are just more conscious of it.
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