Thinking Clearly .

I just saw this wonderful, wonderful Carlin quote (from, via):

When in comes to bullshit…bigtime, major league bullshit…you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims…religion. ... Religion has actually convinced people that there’s an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of 10 things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these 10 things he has a special place full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry for ever and ever until the end of time…but he loves you.

I wonder what Carlin would have said about tech advocacy (and Semantic Web Advocacy ).

(It’s good to practice humility. Treat your own cherished claims as bullshit. What survives may be gold.)

(I’ll have some hard core techy stuff soon! Never fear!)

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