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For all the new parents and grandparents on the bored

#1 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Thu Jul 17, 2008 3:57 pm

Suitguy is not bitter.

feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive

The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.

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#2 Post by kayrharris » Thu Jul 17, 2008 4:21 pm

Those things will not only traumatize the infant but the parents and grandparents as well.
"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. "
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#3 Post by Bob Juch » Thu Jul 17, 2008 6:42 pm

And even the great-grandparents!
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)

Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.

Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.

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