[Buddha-l] Re: New trans. of poetry of the Sixth DL

[jkirk]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard P. Hayes" <rhayes at unm.edu>
To: "Buddhist discussion forum" <buddha-l at mailman.swcp.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2005 9:21 AM
Subject: Re: [Buddha-l] Re: New trans. of poetry of the Sixth DL


> On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 22:27 -0600, Joanna wrote:
>
>> Not knowing who Pinker is, I checked with amazon and found this blurb for
>> his recent book, _The Blank Slate : The Denial of Human Nature and Modern
...............................
> If you do a Google search on him you'll find several hundred references
> to people howling about his claim that a human foetus is not yet complex
> enough to support enough consciousness to speak of. This produced a
> spate of editorials in the NY Times decrying the fact that a person who
> advocates infanticide can get tenure at a major university, and
> criticizing the NY Times for allowing a child murderer to express his
> views in public.
>
> Let me know when the times we are living in are scary enough for you.
>
> -- 
> Richard Hayes
> http://www.unm.edu/~rhayes
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Very scary and it just gets worse with every passing day. This info on the 
NYT is mind boggling. Editorials, or letters to the editor? In any case, 
insanity rules.
I thnk I'll go over to the park and listen to some Blue Grass music.
Joanna