What a wonderful quote

The lesson today comes from the Gospel of St Jack.

Jack T Chance shared the following quote from Terry Goodkind's Chainfire with the world today:

"The Wizard's Ninth Rule

A contradiction can not exist in reality. Not in part, nor in whole. To believe in a contradiction is to abdicate your belief in the existence of the world around you and the nature of the things in it, to instead embrace any random impulse that strikes your fancy - to imagine something is real simply because you wish it were. A thing is what it is, it is itself. There can be no contradictions.

 

Faith is a device of self-delusion, a sleight of hand done with words and emotions founded on any irrational notion that can be dreamed up. Faith is the attempt to coerce truth to surrender to whim. In simple terms, it is trying to breathe life into a lie by trying to outshine reality with the beauty of wishes. Faith is the refuge of fools, the ignorant, and the deluded, not of thinking, rational men.

 

In reality, contradictions cannot exist. To believe in them you must abandon the most important thing you possess: your rational mind. The wager for such a bargain is your life. In such an exchange, you always lose what you have at stake."

 

I have highlighted in red the sentences I feel are most apposite. In danger of beating this particular horse to death, I feel that MFX owners who want their sonic screwdrivers to be screen accurate doesn't make it so.

 

I have received several private emails arguing that the MFX is screen accurate. Despite all the evidence I have posted to the contrary. To those poor deluded fools I urge you to read the above passage, read my blog post here: http://celestialtoystore.blogspot.com/2009/10/analysis-of-mfx-sonic-screwdriver-and.html and tell me in good conscience that you still hold on to your erroneous beliefs.

 

Here endeth the lesson. Amen.