Comments by Strider

Comment #125949 by Strider on February 12, 2008 at 10:08 am

Is there any way all the cards can be displayed on a page outright, instead of having us sort through each one individually?

2. A History of Violence

Comment #29164 by Strider on April 2, 2007 at 12:38 am

"This article is about how and why the whole of human history testifies to a decline in the acceptability of violence. It's a good read. I recommend it."

I agree. And I think Pinker mentions the thing that is most greatly responsible for this decline, that being the invention of the printing press, and thus the widespread distribution of print material. This not only led to the common man's increased access to general knowledge, but also(and more importantly) access to a wide range of people's inner thoughts, allowing empathy and undersanding to flourish. I believe the printing press was directly responsible for the Age of Reason/Enlightment as well as the Scientific Revolution.

3. Der Digitale Planet (lecture)

Comment #22678 by Strider on February 20, 2007 at 3:41 pm

Just want to second IQHQs request. If anyone knows where to get a hold of this panel discussion, I would absolutely love to see it.

The whole lecture was fascinating. Even if it was a bit redundant if you were familiar with the speakers' writings at all.

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"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful."

Seneca the Younger

"The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive...but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetic in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve. And every step in astronomy and geology ever taken has been opposed by bigotry and superstition. The Greeks surpassed us in artistic culture and in architecture five hundred years before Christian religion was born."

Mark Twain

"The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear."

Richard Dawkins

"Certainly I see the scientific view of the world as incompatible with religion, but that is not what is interesting about it. It is also incompatible with magic, but that also is not worth stressing. What is interesting about the scientific world view is that it is true, inspiring, remarkable and that it unites a whole lot of phenomena under a single heading."

Richard Dawkins

"There was no place in the land where the seeker could not find some small budding sign of pity for the slave. No place in all the land but one-- the pulpit. It yielded last; it always does. It fought a strong and stubborn fight, and then did what it always does, joined the procession-- at the tail end. Slavery fell. The slavery texts in the Bible remained; the practice changed; that was all."

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