Challenging "the Moral Landscape" ?

[LazyGun]

Anyone here tempted to take Sam Harris up on his challenge?

http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/the-moral-landscape-challenge1

[pixie373]

Interesting, Naomi. I interpreted that in a completely different way. I thought it was saying that if a person was religious and lost their religion, they would use anything to fill the space. The quote doesn't seem to apply to people who have never been religious. I think you're right in what it actually meant, but quite a self-defeating statement.

[sandyRoe]

Is The Donkey dogrel? I rather liked it.

[Khandro]

As v_e may yet point out; we can't find the reference, and he may not have said it at all, but whoever said it, I feel certain that pixie was correct in her first analysis, and it can easily be extended to fit her second.

[vetuste_ennemi]

The Donkey - yet another gap in my education, Sandy. I'm afraid Khandro may accuse you as he has me of sentimentality. I have the impression that he views this as no trivial defect. And under no circumstances mention the Fiddler of Dooney.

[sandyRoe]

Not to everyone's taste, but as I said, I like it.

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/177440

[vetuste_ennemi]

My mistake was to mention Thompson's Hound of Heaven, a poem of which I I am fond. I hope I don't presume too much in suggesting that you are, too.

[Khandro]

I know I'm going to regret this but //Fiddler of Dooney.//?
Is it like the 'Death of Little Nell' which I'm sure is always by your bedside.

[sandyRoe]

Who was it said you'd need a heart of stone to read of Little Nell's demise and not laugh?
I believe I once mentioned that hound to Naomi but she wasn't impressed.

[sandyRoe]

Here you are, Khandro.
http://www.bartleby.com/146/11.html

[naomi24]

//Who was it said you'd need a heart of stone to read of Little Nell's demise and not laugh? //

Oscar Wilde. Who else?

[Khandro]

sandy; Thanks, //Fools! For I also had my hour;// Years since I heard that.
Dealing in the animal realm I like this most;

[vetuste_ennemi]

Little Nell? Who she? But I have tra-la-la'd along to the death of Mimi many times. And Butterfly. And Tosca. Oh dear. Hole in ground. Stop digging, VE.
Forgotten Bovary and Karenina. Reaches for Kleenex.

[naomi24]

Ah, Puccini!! My favourite! How strange that so many, even though about to kick the bucket, still have the energy and the will to sing their soulful hearts out.

[sandyRoe]

Indeed. One minute spluttering her lungs up and the next dancing and drinking with the best(or worst) of them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_XD-zN3Jg8

[Khandro]

To return to LG's OP. It doesn't require a thousand words;
Tempora mutantur et nos mutamur in illis should do it.

Times change and we change with them.

[vetuste_ennemi]

And the winner is...

[vetuste_ennemi]

... on the Harris web site.

[Khandro]

v_e; Nine months pass before you return with an extraordinarily opaque post. Good to hear from you, more power to your elbow, and may you never run short of Barolo. :-)