That troubled fellow is back posting cut n' paste nonsense while he interjects rabid apoplectic name calling from post to post. Let me not repeat his name calling as you can click through a couple of his troubled posts. But here is an example of his cut n' paste nonsense:
"But we too imagine there are reasons to obey laws, be polite, protect the weak etc. Rubbish. We are nurturing a new religion, one where we imagine that such conventions have any basis in reality"
Note that the grounding of the free thinker in moral cooperative life in a society of compassion and progress is misstated as an "imagined" reality, and an "imagined" basis, and as "imagined" reasons!
"I'll marry and nurture children because my genes demand reproduction, I'll create because creativity served a survival advantage to my ancient ape ancestors,"
Note how shallow and obtuse this is. Yes, it is obvious that humans have a Nature. Indeed, we call our biological make-up over millions of years of evolving...Human Nature! So far, so good! But note that he entirely ignores our minds where we process information, set goals, and determine our values and what is important (MEANINGFUL) to us. The mind to these people is a blank-out! To that blogger we are just physical biological nature still surviving with the minds of trilobites. ;-)
"we too imagine there are reasons to obey laws, be polite, protect the weak etc. Rubbish"
As a consequence of what we have covered, he comes to this sad conclusion. He "imagines" there are reasons to be polite and to otherwise be guided by our values. Apparently, however, reality does not exist other than as an "imagined" construct. He doesn't get so confused when standing on the edge of a cliff or when "choosing" between eating maggots or a porterhouse! But when it comes to living in a society and setting standards of behaviour that protect the interests of the tribe and the individual--well...he can only "imagine" reasons for having values to live by!!
And then we come to perhaps the most stupid line of the essay:
"When you are ready to join me, let me know, I'll be reproducing with your wife."
Well...what does he "imagine" might happen then??? Possibly, he might come to understand that life actually is very very real!!!
When people post such mindless dribble it somewhat explains how they believe that we really are all mindless and need to be herded by some supernatural farmer like cows in a corral! |
