![]() ![]() This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. "The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. The truly wishful dreams, the many-minded dreams are now irresistible - they become facts." - 'The Outward Urge' by John Wyndham But true peace has never been one of the genuine dreams - we have got little further than preaching against war in order to appease our consciences. Sidney Bembridges set is a museum-quality replication of the underpass. If we had truly wanted peace, we should have had that as well. I spent many minutes last weekend staring at Our Lady of the Underpass. For centuries we have dreamt of flying recently we made that come true: we have always hankered for speed now we have speeds greater than we can stand: we wanted to speak to far parts of the Earth we can: we wanted to explore the sea bottom we have: and so on, and so on: and, too, we wanted the power to smash our enemies utterly we have it. ".The quintessential quality of our age is that of dreams coming true. SERIOUSLY.! | - Rhino-FS2 Tutorial | CapShip Turret Upgrade | The Complete FS2 Ship List | System Background Package The FreeSpace Universe Reference Project. ![]() He is also author of numerous books, including Looking for a Miracle. Joe Nickell is Senior Research Fellow of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal and writes the "Investigative Files" column for the organization's science magazine, Skeptical Inquirer. Some of the zealous then proclaimed the salvaged image "another miracle." To obliterate the graffiti, state transportation workers covered the image with brown paint, but a nearby carwash's employees subsequently used a degreaser to remove most of the fresh paint and polish. After a suspect was arrested, his niece said he had felt people venerating the stain were violating the second Commandment ("Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image." ), a prohibition against idolatry. Indeed, on the night of May 5, 2005, a man used black shoe polish to write "Big Lie" over the stain. and the Protestant Reformation.) It remains an often emotional issue. (Historically it became an issue of the iconoclastic crisis of 724-843 a.d. To many, outright image worship smacks of idolatry. Some skeptics said the stain-which the Illinois Department of Transportation attributed to salt runoff-most resembled a chess pawn. It was subsequently purchased by an online casino () for publicity purposes. A more recent instance was the face of a woman (looking more like a Hollywood starlet than the Virgin it was said to be) scorched onto a grilled cheese sandwich. Highly publicized simulacra include the figure of the Virgin formed by a stain on a store's bathroom floor, the face of Jesus in a giant forkful of spaghetti illustrated on a billboard, a Christ portrait in skillet burns on a tortilla, a faceless Madonna on the glass façade of a finance building and another on a hospital window, and an image of Jesus in the foliage of a vine-covered tree. Frequently, the discerned image is a face or other human shape because infants begin to recognize people as soon as they can see.) (The best known simulacrum is the Man in the Moon. In fact, the image is merely another simulacrum-a "Rorschach Icon" in which a random pattern is "recognized" by the mind's tendency, known as pareidolia, to interpret vague images as specific ones. ![]()
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