A new offering from author Theodore Dalrymple – When I was a young man I thought that metaphysics was the most exciting (and important) thing in the world. I wish now that I had not wasted so much time…”
A new offering from author Theodore Dalrymple – When I was a young man I thought that metaphysics was the most exciting (and important) thing in the world. I wish now that I had not wasted so much time…”
Atheists, so confused. It’s as Dalrymple writes about how many people eat. Like magpies, attracted by the bright and colourful, without the excuse of a bird brain…
On to the next bright, shiny idea…
Atheists are simply angry that some people believe there is a being greater than Obama.
When I was a young man I thought that micro computers were the most exciting (and important) thing in the world. I wish now that I had not wasted so much time…”
Although Theodore Dalrymple is an atheist of sorts at least he isn’t angry about it like Richard Dawkins and the late Christopher Hitchens, etc.
Regarding discovering the existence of God, I like this vignette from Andrei Bitov, a Russian novelist, who lived in the atheistic Soviet Union. Maybe it’s because I had some experience with depression myself in my atheist days.
“In my twenty-seventh year, while riding the metro in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) I was overcome with a despair so great that life seemed to stop at once, preempting the future entirely, let alone any meaning. Suddenly, all by itself, a phrase appeared: Without God life makes no sense. Repeating it in astonishment, I rode the phrase up like a moving staircase, got out of the metro and walked into God’s light.”
From “The Meaning of Life”, David Friend, ed.
Good example, with computers bureaucrats have a capability to become even more bureaucratic. Churning out several times the volume of paper they could before. With the accompanying several times longer time frame to accomplish the same thing. Along with whole floors of data entry people. All of which was accomplished by two people, in earlier times. The particular department I’m thinking of was the leasing of Crown land. I don’t believe there’s any more land than before…
Even mundane transactions take longer, and are more complicated. A knowledge partsman could get you the part in half the time prior to this ‘time saving’ device. It’s just that with these devices partsmen need not be very knowledgeable.
They’re also good for forcing you to drive around with a bomb, called an airbag, in front of your face. Whether you want it or not. By law. The operation of the bomb being so integrated into the electronics of the vehicle, it is difficult to defuse.
I find it mostly good for entertainment, such as here. Not much else.
Computers are a wonderful addition to civilization. that is the good news. the bad news is that they will forever be handicapped by the fact that they are only as “smart” as the person who programmed it. now that everyone has one they are only as useful as the dumbest person using it.
Kindle edition procured – glanced through – a pleasant read to come.
I genuinely enjoy seeing atheists doing a prat fall in their own sanctimony and having it documented by a wise observer.