http://www.kalyr.com/weblog/2006/04/24/soap-bubble-fundamentalism/ RPGs. Trains, and bands that write 12 minute songs about Hobbits Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:49:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 http://www.kalyr.com/weblog/2006/04/24/soap-bubble-fundamentalism/#comment-765 Serdar Tue, 25 Apr 2006 04:25:06 +0000 http://www.kalyr.com/weblog/2006/04/24/soap-bubble-fundamentalism/#comment-765 Oh, and great post and great link, BTW. Must pass that around. Oh, and great post and great link, BTW. Must pass that around.

]]> http://www.kalyr.com/weblog/2006/04/24/soap-bubble-fundamentalism/#comment-764 Serdar Tue, 25 Apr 2006 04:21:28 +0000 http://www.kalyr.com/weblog/2006/04/24/soap-bubble-fundamentalism/#comment-764 I get rather annoyed trying to point out to people raised in or near said worldview that the it is not an all-or-nothing choice. I do not believe in any god(s) or supernatural phenomena, but I'm not a nihilist -- I do believe there are values worth living for and defending and that they do not have to come from something other than man to be valid. This is nothing that hasn't been talked about and defended for 250+ years, but people like this have no sense of history about such things anyway, so they simply pretend the whole thing doesn't exist. And sometimes they manage to pull off this magic trick for a good long time. Scary. I get rather annoyed trying to point out to people raised in or near said worldview that the it is not an all-or-nothing choice. I do not believe in any god(s) or supernatural phenomena, but I’m not a nihilist — I do believe there are values worth living for and defending and that they do not have to come from something other than man to be valid. This is nothing that hasn’t been talked about and defended for 250+ years, but people like this have no sense of history about such things anyway, so they simply pretend the whole thing doesn’t exist. And sometimes they manage to pull off this magic trick for a good long time. Scary.

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