tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post2372191312071973546..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: How We Got To HereAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-88857191278716408412008-06-22T16:54:00.000-04:002008-06-22T16:54:00.000-04:00Daniel Boorstin gave some very interesting and rea...Daniel Boorstin gave some very interesting and readable answers to "how we got to here." I particularly liked The Discovers and The Americans: The Colonial Experience.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-25495506509009240582008-06-22T05:16:00.000-04:002008-06-22T05:16:00.000-04:00Thanks - I, for one, share this view about prognos...Thanks - I, for one, share this view about prognostication as a subject matter (even the History Channel's Nostradamus-type shows are full of fluff, stretched theories and questionable conclusions). Fortunately there are those delving into the knowable past and doing great research that gives us a better understanding of where we've all truly come from - case in point, this eminent church historian whose obit today includes this statement: “The Anglican church may not have a pope, but it does have Henry Chadwick,” Archbishop (of Canterbury Rowan) Williams said, suggesting that that this was a common view."<BR/><BR/>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/22/world/europe/22chadwick.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-87778886254189971822008-06-22T00:18:00.000-04:002008-06-22T00:18:00.000-04:00Agreed. The tendency toward linear prediction and...<A HREF="http://nooilforpacifists.blogspot.com/2008/06/all-weather-reasoning.html" REL="nofollow">Agreed</A>. The tendency toward linear prediction and <I>post-hoc ergo propter hoc</I> shallow synthesis is <A HREF="http://www.acampbell.ukfsn.org/essays/skeptic/casaubon.html" REL="nofollow">the Casaubon delusion</A>--and a staple of Marxism.@nooil4pacifistshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16688417615117569825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-64426339818399680622008-06-21T10:37:00.000-04:002008-06-21T10:37:00.000-04:00Great quote.Great quote.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-47435058071118293732008-06-21T08:24:00.000-04:002008-06-21T08:24:00.000-04:00Instead of an apocalyptic emphasis, a religion of ...Instead of an apocalyptic emphasis, a religion of hope for the world:<BR/><BR/>"So, let me add that Christianity is, and always has been, and always will be, not just essentially a religion of hope, but in itself, the most stupendous hope the world has ever known. Only Incarnate god would have dared to hold out to us all, mere men and women of every sort and condition, sweet Mongols and pundits and professors and beauty queens, the sick and the well, the stupid and the clever, those who stumble equally with those who lend an arm, whoever and whatever we may be, a hope of being involved in a destiny set in eternity and encompassing the universe. Imagine telling caterpillars that they are destined to become butterflies” Malcolm Muggeridge, from “Christ & The Media”<BR/><BR/>found above under the title A TV Panel of Caterpillars @ http://www.dougwils.com/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com