Sometimes You Don’t Just Want

There May Be Things That Are Completely Unknowable To Us, So We Must Be Careful Not To Treat The Limits Of Our Knowledge As Sure Guides To The Limit Of What There Is.

Highly Technical Philosophical Arguments Of The Sort Many Philosophers Favor Are Absent Here. That Is Because I Have A Prior Problem To Deal With. I Have Learned That Arguments, No Matter How Watertight, Often Fall On Deaf Ears. I Am Myself The Author Of Arguments That I Consider Rigorous And Unanswerable But That Are Often Not Such Much Rebutted Or Even Dismissed As Simply Ignored.

Cults And Prophets Proclaiming The Imminent End Of The World Have Been With Us For Several Millennia, And It Has Been Another Sour Sort Of Fun To Ridicule Them The Morning After, When They Discover That Their Calculations Were A Little Off. But, Just As With Marxists, There Are Some Among Them Who Are Working Hard To "hasten The Inevitable," Not Merely Anticipating The End Days With Joy In Their Hearts, But Taking Political Action To Bring About The Conditions They Think Are The Prerequisites For That Occasion.

Problems In Science Are Sometimes Made Easier By Adding Complications.

I Think Many People Are Terribly Afraid Of Being Demoted By The Darwinian Scheme From The Role Of Authors And Creators In Their Own Right Into Being Just Places Where Things Happen In The Universe.