Friday, October 24, 2014

Cesaria Evora - Tudo Tem Se Limite


This is what I was listening to as my dearest niece was being born a little over eighteen years ago.

Update:

Rotcha 'Scribida


1 comment:

  1. I shouldn't use your lovely posts for comments like this, but Salon is on a click-bait spree, posting as many articles related to religion as they can.

    The latest is a review of Karen Armstrong's new book which apparently takes down the Dawkins argument that religion is the root of all wars. The writer of the article makes a powerful case, so powerful it's fun to watch the defenders of "Religion is the root of all evil" twist themselves into pretzels trying to disagree with the article and Armstrong.

    Reason, rationality, and facts simply fly out the window. The article directly quotes Dawkins that all wars are the fault of religious belief, and commenter after commenter argues that no reasonable person (and certainly no true Scotsman, er, atheist) would ever say such a thing. And then (once or twice) I quoted Dawkins to them, and they fell silent.

    And then three more enter the room....(such is the nature of on-line arguments, they are never ending because there's a sucker born every minute).

    It's quite entertaining to see them ignore Armstrong's well reasoned arguments and simply insist she is wrong because it's not the precious view of the world they've been told is true (you know, the one where only atheists are human beings, and the rest of us are violent apes). I got tired of pointing out the article proved wrong what had just been posted as a comment, but watching them ignore reality and twist Armstrong's argument (the favorite is that she's set up a straw man. I find myself wanting to say "Takes one to know one") in order to dispel it is really quite entertaining.

    I am so going to hell for this.....

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