a phrase from the ghost of bertand russel

modified infallible dogma
i was reading Russels tutorial on philosophy and this phrase jumped out at me from depths of his words, cracked me up, its like the ultimate,, uh what ya call em,? you know those phrases that cancel themselves out, like military inteligent, its on the tip of my tounge, damn this ghanghiemers

 

oxymorons?


in any case... good phrase. i love his work.

 

Bertrand's dead? Damn - I wonder if he went to heaven....

 

ok here ya go, thanx, and your welcome
bertand russell the art of philosophizing
philosophocel library
russell on the birth (rebirth of the scientific method
*"even infallible dogmas had to be surrepitiously modified to meet the onslaught of science"

 

one of my favourite quotes, from mark twain:

'blasphemy? no, it is not blasphemy.. if god i as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if he is as little as that, he his beneath it. '


peace,
sophia

 

Isnt it about time we all just admit that Bertrand Russel was a lousy atheist?
He just might be in Heaven considering he probably converted more people to Christianity with his terrible attempts to invalidate the religion lol!

He's so bad that nobody even bothered to create one of those 'Atheists Deathbed Conversion' urban legends about him.

 

hmm, if he was an atheist, he was lousy at it indeed. he didnt seem to care much for the closed mindededededness of dogma tho

 

Maybe, like occam, he was an immaculate misconception.

 

He was not an atheist he was agnostic, neither did he attempt to invalidate Christianity. He was continually bombarded with Christian conversion attempts, death threats from Christians, rebuttals from Christian professors of various things, was fired from various jobs because he was not Christian etc. . . He responded to these in an intelligent, rational, and kind manner instead of knucking under, if that is what is meant by "attempts to invalidate the religion" then maybe he did try. Here is a link to the bertrand russel society web site. http://www.users.drew.edu/~jlenz/brs.html