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Friday, April 18. 2014

A Greenie Warmist explains

Via Am. Thinker, explaining the deep thinking of a Soros employee: 



...It’s an outlook that is deeply critical, even skeptical, of systems, models and sedimented language, but is ultimately rooted in worldly faith, rather than skepticism itself.


Letting beings be — trusting them to come forth — it seems to me, is the motivating sensibility of radically progressive activism. It’s a question of faith — in the world, in polar bears, in sea turtles, in pygmy owls, in the authority of poetry and painting, in the rightness of ice that has cooled our planet for 800,000 years and is now coming apart.



What about dinosaurs? And the "rightness of ice"? Ice is never right in a gin Martini but, OK, it is right in a Mint Julip and in a Coke with a lime. The guy sounds psychotic to me. Word salad.




Posted by The News Junkie in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 12:02 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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Worldly faith being championed at a Roman Catholic institution? It would seem it has completely lost its way, and thus its reason for being.

(I will add that I think an annual football game around Halloween between Holy Cross and Transylvania St would be a sure fire winner).
#1 DrTorch on 2014-04-18 12:13 (Reply)
Transylvania University does have a basketball team and does play Thomas More University...

the quote does sound like a bit of free association or a sign that some one has not fully thought thru what he believes and would rather emote.
#1.1 walt moffett on 2014-04-18 13:29 (Reply)
I can be as alarmist as anyone about an environmental catastrophe if I can be convinced it's happening. I worry about the world's fisheries, about our estuaries, about clean fresh water--all kinds of things. I'm prepared to make big changes in my own life to address environmental problems that are important to me, like pesticide use and monoculture.

What separates me from warmists is that, try as I might, I can't make the evidence fit the conclusion. I think they're just nuts. It's not that I have faith in polar bears or anything ridiculous of that kind. Apparently the biggest difference is that I have a classical education in science and logic, while they have something I can't put my finger on, but it seems to involve a fuzzy belief in whatever is popular and/or politically expedient. These are the same people who can be taken in by "scientific" racism, opposition to vaccines, homeopathy, or--frankly--foolproof schemes to time the market or win at racetrack betting.
#2 Texan99 on 2014-04-18 15:19 (Reply)
Hmmmmmmm. Suckling sounds like a sucker, with not more than two toes in contact with reality.

I see that he graduated from Holy Cross, but CBD apparently is not connected with HC in any direct manner other than beian an alumnus.
#3 Sam L. on 2014-04-18 15:30 (Reply)

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