[MD] Doug Renselle & Language

[Krimel]

> [Krimel]
> You are projecting your fear here. Chance is the ultimate arbiter of
> fairness. That's why we flip coins to decide who kicks and who receives.

John:  Well if the home team always won the toss, I think the visitors would
grumble a bit about it being unfair.  So there must be some expectation of
fairness beyond mere chance - it's not the ultimate arbiter.  The ultimate
arbiter of fairness is the joint expectation of the players of the game.

[Krimel]
Right and what they expect jointly is that flipping a coin or drawing
straws, is fair because it is entirely a matter of chance.

> [Krimel]
> A pessimist is an optimist with experience. Buddhists become free of fear
> by lowering their expectations, Christians by surrender to the unknowable 
> will of God. It's all just responses to uncertainty.

[John]
"And if the Son sets ye free, then ye are free indeed."

[Krimel]
But what makes you free in not "the Son" but belief that the Son sets you
free.

> [Krimel]
> I have no interest in killing intellectual patterns.
>
> I love to watch them breed.
>
> If I were interested in killing them, it would be for their pelts which I
> would sew together into a cape and fly away.

[John:]
I guess I agree.  Not about the fanciful flying, but killing ALL
intellectual patterns sounds like an overzealous response to the
biodiversity of intellect.  A reductionist approach indeed!

Kill the weak and unfit intellectual patterns, and let the good ones
survive.

Natural selection rules!

[Krimel]
The "weak and unfit" patterns tend to dies of their own accord or to live on
in the Mythos mostly for some latent emotional satisfaction they provide.
It's the strong vibrant transparent patterns that need a good thrashing
every now and then. But good old fashioned skepticism tends helps to keep
them in line most of the time. Execution is rarely required.