Terry Pratchet and British satirist. In his Discworld series of books one of the running jokes is the way that "million to one" chances are almost always a dead certainty.
It's further explained by his theory of "narrative causality" that is a sufficiently good story can impact reality in such a fashion as to bring the conditons of "reality" closer to that in the narrative.
The idea here being, how often in some story do they say "It's a million to one chance, but it just might work," and then, like magic it happens.
Check out;
http://www.ie.lspace.org/
for an idea of what he's all about. He's one of my favorite authors.
Cars have the VIN number secreted in multiple locations (not just the one you see on the dashboard)to aid in identification of vehicles in the event of theft, among other reasons.
As many reading this, I imagine, can speak to, it hasn't done a great deal of good in recovering their cars.
How is this exactly the opposite of how it's taken today?
The state still does not "interfere with nor attempt to control the expression of religion."
Excluding prayer from school, in no way does this. It merely prevents one religion's practices from being forced upon many people of varying cultures / religions.
Additionally, a blanket statement, such as "The founding fathers were deeply religious" is at best wildly inaccurate. Benjamin Franklin springs immediately to mind as a counter to this.
While I agree with your earlier proposal (implied) that some form of moral conditioning or exposure to some form of a code of morality, might serve a sound purpose in a child's life, an institution of education, in my opinion, is emminently unsuited for this task.
As I recollect, school was terminally boring to begin with, and many of the teachers employed there were capable of sucking the life out of any subject matter. Tedium is rarely conducive to imparting any form of information, let alone something that often runs counter to the self interest that is the subject at hand.
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Sorry it was supposed to be " Terry Pratchet, a British satirist."
My bad.
-H
Terry Pratchet and British satirist. In his Discworld series of books one of the running jokes is the way that "million to one" chances are almost always a dead certainty.
It's further explained by his theory of "narrative causality" that is a sufficiently good story can impact reality in such a fashion as to bring the conditons of "reality" closer to that in the narrative.
The idea here being, how often in some story do they say "It's a million to one chance, but it just might work," and then, like magic it happens.
Check out;
http://www.ie.lspace.org/
for an idea of what he's all about. He's one of my favorite authors.
-H
Cars have the VIN number secreted in multiple locations (not just the one you see on the dashboard)to aid in identification of vehicles in the event of theft, among other reasons.
As many reading this, I imagine, can speak to, it hasn't done a great deal of good in recovering their cars.
-H
Bloom County not Far Side. Credit where credit is due.
-H
Congratulations to you both.
I forgot to mention that your out of context quote from Ben is easily one of the most humorous things I've run across in quite some time. -H
How is this exactly the opposite of how it's taken today?
The state still does not "interfere with nor attempt to control the expression of religion."
Excluding prayer from school, in no way does this. It merely prevents one religion's practices from being forced upon many people of varying cultures / religions.
Additionally, a blanket statement, such as "The founding fathers were deeply religious" is at best wildly inaccurate. Benjamin Franklin springs immediately to mind as a counter to this.
While I agree with your earlier proposal (implied) that some form of moral conditioning or exposure to some form of a code of morality, might serve a sound purpose in a child's life, an institution of education, in my opinion, is emminently unsuited for this task.
As I recollect, school was terminally boring to begin with, and many of the teachers employed there were capable of sucking the life out of any subject matter. Tedium is rarely conducive to imparting any form of information, let alone something that often runs counter to the self interest that is the subject at hand.
Of course that's just my opinion.
-H