On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, Lawrence de Bivort wrote: > The need to assert individual or group superiority, I would guess, is based > on an actual sense of inferiority, and if an individual or a group doesn't > have objective reasons to feel good about themselves the only alternative is > to assert the inferiority of others....
If this is true, then skeptic organizations based on feelings of inferiority would attract large numbers of insecure "wanna-be scientists," while a genuinely skeptical group would attract large numbers of actual scientists. Secure happy scientists would note the hate-politics of the first group and have zero desire to participate. I steal from Feynman: they would've built a fake scientific organization, a fake runway hoping to attract aircraft, but then discover that the planes wouldn't land. Not a skeptic group at all, but a hate-group. "CARGO-CULT SKEPTICISM." Oh no, this applies to us too! Am I a wanna-be scientist, no PhD, mainly driven by a need to find "inferiors" to dehumanize? Let's see. Supposedly the greatest terror of a racist is to have his daughter courted by one of "THEM." So, suppose I imagine that Morrison is going to marry my daughter? Or instead, put his "filthy CF-hating hands on her pro-CF, untarnished body?" :) Or Park? Or Huizenga? Close? No no no, RANDI! Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrg! (((((((((((((((((( ( ( ( ( (O) ) ) ) ) ))))))))))))))))))) William J. Beaty SCIENCE HOBBYIST website billb at amasci com http://amasci.com EE/programmer/sci-exhibits amateur science, hobby projects, sci fair Seattle, WA 206-762-3818 unusual phenomena, tesla coils, weird sci
