Tokens Of Gratitude And Esteem
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The Island of Misfit Toys?
Yes, indeed.
I called bullshit because I was not persuaded that any serious honest research had been done*, and that everything these Smart People were telling me was merely the latest Mensa crowd fashionable nonsense spouted by people with an extreme tolerance-and-diversity fetish. I’d heard so much over the years, in fact, that I reflexively doubted anything they’d say without independent verification from non-assholes.
* Other examples: “woke” pseudo-science documented in Fashionable Nonsense by Alan Sokal and Higher Superstition by Levitt and Gross. Also the claims that a radically new and different mRNA vaccine for COVID, developed in only a few months, was perfectly safe and fully effective with no short- or long-term risks.
The importance of education.
Oh, they’re belief-based alright, just not belief in anything found in the Bible.
“It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.”
–G.K. Chesterton in one of his Father Brown stories.
Interpreted by biographer Émile Cammaert as “The first effect of not believing in God is to believe in anything”.
Well, they are women right? Right? Well most of them anyway…