Feeling Reality (General)

by dhw, Thursday, February 17, 2011, 11:10 (5027 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: I now fully understand your position: you are a faithless wonder! You prefer design over chance, but will not accept a side in the debate. Which makes you right and wrong at the same time. And you must have elephant-hide buttocks to avoid the pain of the pickets. Does this phenotypical position have a meme? Is it heritable? Does Dawkins know?-There is no pain in the buttocks ... the fence is well padded with cushions of philosophical resignation and intellectual, even emotional pleasure: one day we agnostics may learn more (which is exciting), but if we don't, we shall simply go to sleep and not wake up. In the meantime, we can have lots of fun debating with the theists and atheists who know so much more than us and one another, while they have lots of fun telling us and one another how wrong we/they are.
 
"You're a fool, dhw," the old theist said,
 "We know there's a God up on high, 
Who rejected the void and designed life instead, 
So pray to the Lord ere you die." -"You're a fool, dhw," the atheist said, 
"If you listen to talk of design. 
We know there's no God. When you're dead, you stay dead, 
So forget God and all will be fine."
 
"You're no fool, dhw," nobody said, 
"Though you'll never be rich and famous,
For who cares when the wise man shakes his head
And admits he's an ignoramus?"