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The 5K Contest

August 8, 2002 by Michael Boyle

The 5K Contest

: the winners 2002 in the “Anything Goes” category.

Tags: Test

Things have been changing

July 18, 2002 by Michael Boyle

Things have been changing

around here at a rapid pace for about a year now. The latest? We (Nadia and I) would like to welcome Jordie to the family.

Tags: Test

Huge congratulations

June 5, 2002 by Michael Boyle

Huge congratulations

are due to Caterina and Stewart, who were married June 1 in Victoria. I’ve only met them briefly, but they immediately struck me as one of the greatest pairings I’ve met. Yay!

Tags: Media, Test, War

Dan Gillmor

March 25, 2002 by Michael Boyle

Dan Gillmor

: “I’m not a thief. I’m a customer. When you treat me like a thief, I won’t be your customer.”

Anyone still think the CDA was the worst part of the Telecommunications Reform Act? Hint: it was a smokescreen to deflect criticism and protest over everything else in the law, which of course was signed in 1996.

Tags: GNE, Protest, Test

I followed a link from plasticbag

February 18, 2002 by Michael Boyle

I followed a link from plasticbag

early this morning and took an interesting test: Battleground God. The basic idea is that it tests the consistency of your beliefs in god and such. As a long-time atheist, but one who has studied religion in various forms, I was particularly interested in seeing this thing in action.

I ended up being judged to be very consistent with my views, but I got one “direct hit” – meaning that I was badly inconsistent in one opinion. The site said,

Earlier you said that it is justifiable to base one’s beliefs about the external world on a firm, inner conviction even when there is no external evidence for the truth of this conviction. But now you do not accept that the rapist Peter Sutcliffe was justified in doing just that. The example of the rapist has exposed that you do not in fact agree that any belief is justified just because one is convinced of its truth. So you need to revise your opinion here. The intellectual sniper has scored a bull’s-eye!

This is wrong – similar to what Tom found, the site has judged something inconsistent incorrectly. In saying that it is justifiable to base beliefs on a firm inner conviction, it does not follow that any firm inner conviction is therefore justifiable or acceptible. I base my beliefs about the world on firm inner convictions but also upon other things, such what I feel “society” or my community finds acceptible. For me, it is the constant dialogue between my existing inner convictions and the demands of the wider world that determines my morality, not only firm inner convictions, unconnected to anything else.

Tags: Community, Intel, Test

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