User:Reverend Black Percy


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The reverend's community confession booth

 * These quotes about me were cherry picked chosen with distinction from here and here. 

Very active on this site. Generally polite unless provoked. Active, sane, all around-contributor. I support RBP's candidacy based on our constructive interactions. One of my favourite Europeans. Active with great contributions. Capable of self restraint. Always been friendly, at least to me. Adds a good amount of friendly personality to the site. At least to me. One of my favorite Swedes. Friendly, articulate, and calm, unless you make him angry (which is not often). A good reverend. I endorse Reverend Black Percy because [ word salad ]. Friendly and knows how to help out a person, when they start losing the sense of rationality, with logic and good reasoning. Friendly. Hard worker. Humorous. If every RWian was like him, RW would be three times as popular.

The Rev. does good work around here and I don't think the awesome mod powers will corrupt him (too much). A person who is fairly active on the wiki, understands how the site works, and is generally a nice guy. He has my vote. I'd be surprised if he gets one anti-endorsement. I support the Good Reverend. Has shown hezself to be quite valuable around here. A big, succulent grape. And a killer choice for a mod Appropriately level headed and diplomatic. Appears absolutely wonderful. I know that this guy has been trough some wild shit The plus sides to Percy as mod are: he is nowhere near as inclined to flip his shit at annoying shitheads as I am, but once he's recognized a problem, he's pretty good about quietly and affirmatively standing for the most reasonable position he can. Only downside is you do occasionally need mods who flip their shit. Rarely though, so some nice, quiet, reliable ones are good too. Reasonable and active contributor.

Food for thought
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great:

With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride,

He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast;

In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err;

Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little, or too much:

Chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd; Still by himself abus'd, or disabus'd;

Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all;

Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd: The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!

On cognitive bias
Will Storr, The Heretics: Adventures With The Enemies Of Science, pages 111-113.

On hope as a skeptic
Michael Shermer, The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies — How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths, page 119.

On the importance of fringe watching
Steven Novella, Your Deceptive Mind: A Scientific Guide to Critical Thinking Skills, lecture 17

On humanist progressivism
Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, page 283.

On science and spirituality
Carl Sagan, Carl Sagan Tribute Series, ep. 11.

On analytic philosophy
Bertrand Russel, , page 835.

On religious wish fulfillment
Sigmund Freud, , part VI

On the off chance that God exists
Michael Shermer, The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies — How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths, page 45.

On liberal democracy
, The Great Dictator's Speech.

On criminal justice
Bertrand Russel, 

On irrationalists with nuclear arms
Bill Maher, 

On curbing unwarranted self-importance
,  (written circa 125 C.E)