"Roberts overcame tuberculosis at age 17, when his brother carried him to a revival meeting where a evangelist was praying for the sick. Roberts said he was healed of the illness and his stuttering."
Simultaneously cured of tuberculosis and a stutter! Sweet Jesus! (How ironic: a stutterer named 'Oral'.) Jesus really was a friend of his.
We owe a great debt to Oral--he really was the first to envision the use of media to reach a wide audience to spread spirituality. Quite an achievement.
Except: for "owe" insert "pay"; for "to", "for"; for "reach", "exploit"; for "spirituality", "his own form of horrendous self-aggrandizing extortion by imposing guilt on people to force them to pay modern indulgences for sin".
And for "an", "a"; "achievement"--"shame, shame, abject shame".
Glaucon, your link induced a goddamned snorting guffaw. And I'm pretty sure the fancy dancing guitar player was either Aaron Ruell or Christopher Guest.
Off-topic, except for the theme of comically yet tragically bad leadership:
I've been thinking about WHY the APA so often drops, or never even catches, the ball. The folks who sit as presidents, committee chairs, committee members, are mostly good, sometimes very good, philosophers. Is it that they're too busy doing philosophy to care about their APA work? Is it that philosophers are by nature bad administrators? Or is there something else at work: some bit of APA institutional culture, or even academic philosophical culture, which contributes to the widely panned behavior of the APA?
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"Roberts overcame tuberculosis at age 17, when his brother carried him to a revival meeting where a evangelist was praying for the sick. Roberts said he was healed of the illness and his stuttering."
Simultaneously cured of tuberculosis and a stutter! Sweet Jesus! (How ironic: a stutterer named 'Oral'.)
Jesus really was a friend of his.
We owe a great debt to Oral--he really was the first to envision the use of media to reach a wide audience to spread spirituality. Quite an achievement.
Except: for "owe" insert "pay"; for "to", "for"; for "reach", "exploit"; for "spirituality", "his own form of horrendous self-aggrandizing extortion by imposing guilt on people to force them to pay modern indulgences for sin".
And for "an", "a"; "achievement"--"shame, shame, abject shame".
He's up there w/ 900 foot Jesus now.
Platowe,
Hey... you seem familiar. Are you my copy editor???
Glaucon, your link induced a goddamned snorting guffaw. And I'm pretty sure the fancy dancing guitar player was either Aaron Ruell or Christopher Guest.
Off-topic, except for the theme of comically yet tragically bad leadership:
I've been thinking about WHY the APA so often drops, or never even catches, the ball. The folks who sit as presidents, committee chairs, committee members, are mostly good, sometimes very good, philosophers. Is it that they're too busy doing philosophy to care about their APA work? Is it that philosophers are by nature bad administrators? Or is there something else at work: some bit of APA institutional culture, or even academic philosophical culture, which contributes to the widely panned behavior of the APA?
Watch Oral on Oral (talk about irony!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-BxqfAM1Ag
Best part about "Jesus is My Friend":
According tot eh lyric, the second benefit of befriending Jesus is that he teaches you how to handle people laughing at you.
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