tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post8131689082286156648..comments2023-10-24T04:29:23.693-06:00Comments on Atheist Ethicist: Reality CheckAlonzo Fyfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05687777216426347054noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-5904182963426162472009-03-29T12:31:00.000-06:002009-03-29T12:31:00.000-06:00You wrote:"It is a mark of insanity to hold that w...You wrote:<BR/>"It is a mark of insanity to hold that whether global warming science is valid or invalid depends on political affiliation. The world is going to suffer huge costs as a result of former President Bush’s disconnect from reality. However, the worst costs are yet to come.<BR/><BR/>Future generations will not remember Bush as the President who brought about the financial crisis of the early 20th century, or the person who invaded Iraq without cause. They’re going to remember him as the President how ignored reality and, in doing so, set in motion a chain of events that explains why Miami is a set of underwater ruins that divers like to visit 40 miles off of the Florida coast."<BR/><BR/>Truth, according to reference sources, is the coformity with fact or reality. Also a verifiable and irrefutable fact. Reality is something that exists (factually) independent of opinion about it. While I agree that choosing a position on global warming science based on political ideology is "insane", it is simply an opinion and does not rise to the standard of truth nor reality. The very same thing applies to your judgment of President Bush since future generations do not exist and therefore cannot be remembering anything at this time, the entire narrative is neither truth nor reality. I believe that you mean to intimate that "if all things remain equal", much as economists qualify their prognostications, that yours will become fact or reality. However, at this time they are neither and no better (or worse) than any other opinion on the matter. In fact, my opinion is that your opinion is like the rectum - everybody has one.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-71140364483284203252009-03-19T07:47:00.000-06:002009-03-19T07:47:00.000-06:00Five star post!!!Five star post!!!antonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02909850387414677663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-61451047718259617172009-03-19T03:37:00.000-06:002009-03-19T03:37:00.000-06:00"Reality is going to win in the end. You can choos..."Reality is going to win in the end. You can choose to be on the same side, or you can choose to lose."<BR/><BR/>Alas, future reality is all too often shaped by current delusions.<BR/><BR/>Those of us who aren't deluded will, I'm afraid, suffer as much - maybe even more - from the delusions of the deluded as they will.<BR/><BR/>Unless reality prevails now, we shall all be losers in the future.anticanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18135207107619114891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-24508683224116745552009-03-18T11:32:00.000-06:002009-03-18T11:32:00.000-06:00Just to clarify, I realize truth is non-partisan. ...Just to clarify, I realize truth is non-partisan. I was primarily invoking the spirit of Colbert when he rails against reality because "Reality has a well-known liberal bias"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-2335058509604880682009-03-18T09:15:00.000-06:002009-03-18T09:15:00.000-06:00"Reality is going to win in the end. You can choos..."Reality is going to win in the end. You can choose to be on the same side, or you can choose to lose."<BR/><BR/>I'm going to be quoting that alot, methinks.Lukehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12968634190280933116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-74621510759395088892009-03-18T07:34:00.000-06:002009-03-18T07:34:00.000-06:00I make the same mistake some times, too -- the new...I make the same mistake some times, too -- the new pope is Benedict, not John Paul.<BR/><BR/>Just a nitpick; this is a very worthwhile post, well-written, and one to which I will link and refer people to when they insist that their delusions are realities.Burt Likkohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16060980744675990412noreply@blogger.com