Sitting in the middle
Following on from a post from Why Don’t You, I had a look at the post TW mentioned: savvygeek’s “Religion Vs. Science”
Jeffrey, the author of the now defunct post, wrote:
Which brings us right back to the middle of the argument. And that is where people should be trying to be.
Teacher: “What’s two plus two?”
Student 1: “Six. My friend told me.”
Student 2: “No, it’s four. I counted it with marbles.”
Teacher: “Can you compromise and agree to say that it’s between both your answers: five?”
I hope that I don’t have to explain this.
Read TW’s post for more dismissing of the woo.
April 27th, 2007 at 11:40 pm
Excellently put :-)
April 27th, 2007 at 11:44 pm
It’s a shame that he removed the post, but I suspect that he saw the idiocy of some of his statements.
April 28th, 2007 at 7:23 pm
He didn’t get rid of it fast enough though :-)
I actually found it via Digg.com, which means he spent long enough to submit it before he realised!
April 28th, 2007 at 7:49 pm
D’oh!
May 1st, 2007 at 3:10 am
Just posted this with TW, but I figured I’d add it here to clear up the idea that I was trying to hide my post.
“Interesting take on what I wrote.
Actually, I removed the post because it’s not exactly what I’m attempting to focus SavvyGeek on. It didn’t really fit the site.
The point I was trying to make was that people’s beliefs or non-beliefs shouldn’t get in the way of cooperative progress.
I do not attempt to be in the middle of anything, I actually am quite firm in what I choose to believe.
But I do wish groups of people, and society in general could focus on the middle ground of accepting each other’s ideas, and not letting them stand in the way of mutual progression.”