Sitting in the middle

27 April 2007  

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.

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5 Responses to “Sitting in the middle”

  1. TW on April 27th, 2007 11:40 pm

    Excellently put :-)

  2. nullifidian on April 27th, 2007 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.

  3. TW on April 28th, 2007 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!

  4. nullifidian on April 28th, 2007 7:49 pm

    D’oh!

  5. Jeffrey on May 1st, 2007 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.”

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