Doctor Scratch wrote:He never gives examples, probably because he's terrified of having his tastes criticized.
LOL. You harshly criticized my tastes in the utter absence of relevant examples, so, yes, I think it's a certainty that my tastes would be criticized if I gave some.
"[I]f, while hoping that everybody else will be honest and so forth, I can personally prosper through unethical and immoral acts without being detected and without risk, why should I not?." --Daniel Peterson, 6/4/14
Daniel Peterson wrote:Which, of course, means that you're supposed to think about me.
Scratch almost always brings every conversation around to me eventually.
A few years ago, he was even lamenting my conventional, conformist, unadventurous, hyper-orthodox, middle-brow, vanilla sensibilities in literature, art, music, and film -- despite the fact that he actually knows little or nothing about what those tastes are.
I'm just generally bad.
Tedious, more like.
The person who is certain and who claims divine warrant for his certainty belongs now to the infancy of our species. Christopher Hitchens
Faith does not give you the answers, it just stops you asking the questions. Frater