tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4527682150026085560.post2550743407099009223..comments2013-01-20T18:02:07.073-08:00Comments on Poetic Atheism: Against Agnosticism: Pink Floyd, Bertrand Russell, BatterseaJennifer Michael Hechthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17335787820208988237noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4527682150026085560.post-46549509056773645002011-07-10T22:58:32.274-07:002011-07-10T22:58:32.274-07:00"The first smells baking bread. The second kn..."The first smells baking bread. The second knows this is the same bread Henry the Fifth smelt just before he dealt his quiverblow against the fearsome French . . . " Yes . . . . this is what parts of England feel like. Cultural stratigraphy: layers upon layers of life, each layer resting on what has gone before. <br /><br />Come to York, visit the Minster, spend some time at the juxtaposition of time.Jeradhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00606009511822434764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4527682150026085560.post-1122946692493943842011-07-09T16:52:41.083-07:002011-07-09T16:52:41.083-07:00Epistomolo You rock thanks for that cool response....Epistomolo You rock thanks for that cool response.<br /><br />Jennifer<br /><br />Nathan,<br /><br />You are welcome.<br /><br />Ralph,<br /><br />Pernicious! Right you are. But he got it from Catholic Fidism. Look it up, say, in Doubt: A History.<br /><br />Epistomolo thanks again you made/are making me grin. Good for the ink flow!<br /><br />Love,<br /><br />JenniferJennifer Michael Hechthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17335787820208988237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4527682150026085560.post-65816624495287443232011-07-09T10:57:56.915-07:002011-07-09T10:57:56.915-07:00Please keep on writing while I keep feasting.Please keep on writing while I keep feasting.Epistomolohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06704608923048868881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4527682150026085560.post-47456409580395901992011-07-08T22:50:45.725-07:002011-07-08T22:50:45.725-07:00I think Huxley's invention of "agnosticis...I think Huxley's invention of "agnosticism" is far more pernicious. It comes from Hume's epistemological position, which is just a hair's breadth from subjective idealism. Huxley disavowed materialism, particularly French materialism, which he termed "Catholicism without God". And this is quite in tune with the conservative Enlightenment of Hume & what Engels referred to as the "shamefaced materialism" of the British. Huxley as an empiricist eschewed any truth claims about what he considered to be metaphysical questions, e.g. the existence of God. Agnosticism, then, was a broader concept than reference to God alone. I think it is also a pernicious philosophical position.Ralph Dumainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15886304779683587087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4527682150026085560.post-13609671875289147612011-07-08T14:59:02.606-07:002011-07-08T14:59:02.606-07:00Very well written. Thank you.Very well written. Thank you.Nathan Jayneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02206929924807526473noreply@blogger.com