Postby Technomancer » Thu Jun 19, 2003 7:36 pm
That's heavy, you've got my prayers friend. It sounds like you've got two issues that you need to work out, your life in Colombia and the nature of your faith. Will your father let you live with relatives (I'm sorry I can't remeber if you wrote where you're from or not) either State-side or somewhere more conducive to your personal needs (like in the city)?
The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in corrrecting its mistakes. Taking this point of view, we may conclude that science is not physics, biology, or chemistry—is not even a "subject"—but a moral imperative drawn from a larger narrative whose purpose is to give perspective, balance, and humility to learning.
Neil Postman
(The End of Education)
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge
Isaac Aasimov