*back!*

[alexr_rwx]

So I'm back in Atlanta, and I think these next few days are going to be busy indeed... compilers is due on *shudder* Thursday, and I need to get stuff done for research Really Soon, and I need to get going on that dad-blammed NLU project (but that's going to be really cool, actually -- we're totally going to do machine learning techniques and train our agent on Atlanta Latino so's it can do automated translation...)... and ...

"It's not where you come from -- it's go and go get it."
-- The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, "Where You Come From"

I feel good. I'm ready to get down to business.

And I think it turns out that my mother dramamamalama is more tolerant than I am -- particularly when it comes to people whom I view as having destructively smallminded and Patently Wrong viewpoints -- but that might just mean that I'm 22 and more than a bit paranoid. This came up when we were discussing her new job, which is helping out with the music department at the local Baptist church...

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For example: clinging to a literalist interpretation of the Bible when it comes to the creation story, I would say, is destructively smallminded.

The reason for this: it gets in the way of honest scientific inquiry, in that people who believe the myth and think that other people should, too... legislate with their viewpoint in mind.

And that doesn't help bring up more evolutionary biologists, now does it?

Also destructively smallminded -- perhaps more immediately and obviously so -- is the idea that it's okay to kill in a holy-war setting.

I'm not saying I've got the big picture -- I'm saying it's very clear to me that many other people don't either, and the problem there is that they don't realize their own ignorance. It's not about not sharing beliefs; you're still missing my point.