Comments on: Willem Buiter: Sanctity as Idolatry

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 05:43:00 +0000

wow…talk about sanctimonious….

…unsubscribe..

By: R. Manhammer

R. Manhammer — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:02:00 +0000

I rather enjoyed Buiter's point, that sactimonious asshats appear to be responsible for much of what's wrong with the world currently, and those self-same sanctimonious asshats are not from one single tribe. We have our charismatic evangelical xtian asshats, our Islamofascistfeminazi asshats, our pro-authoritarian America-hating asshats, our military worshipping asshats, and many others.

I also rather enjoyed reading that more than one sanctimonious asshat here felt his toes stepped upon and felt obligated to diss the writer as snarkily as their native wit allows

Myself, I find it opens up a rather interesting conversation around the question, "What do I hold to be sacred?" It most assuredly isn't cheap gas, low taxes, or the police state, which I'm morally certain makes me different. I'm also equally certain that there will be no ongoing conversation about the things we ourselves hold to be sacred. Clearly, that would be dangerous.

Personally, I'm an atheist, and like Buiter, I've never met an actual holy person. Every human being I've ever met has been flawed in some way, some profoundly flawed. Generally, those who are incapable of empathizing with other people I categorize as profoundly flawed. I found a lot of those in b-school.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:24:00 +0000

“For I so loved the world that I sacrificed myself to myself to appease my anger at my own creation” – God, Paraphrased.

Personally I think belief in an after life PERIOD is what devalues THIS world and had folks doing idiocy like flying airplanes into buildings.

Religions come and go, beer and wine remain. Good luck with your particular brand of superstition stud!

By: dearieme

dearieme — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:09:00 +0000

Is this chap in any way related to the Adolf Buiter who was lately calling for the extirpation of small countries like Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, Liechtenstein and so on, in the sacred name of suppressing tax avoidance?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:57:00 +0000

I find his pompousness less offensive when it is directed toward religion.

Given the photograph he as chosen to "represent" him on his website I suspect there is more to his pomposity than mere writing style.

His little "One God" ditty is interesting because, underneath it all, the message is simple - life's a free for all hung on two very nebulous ideas completely open to interpretation.

How very Protestant of him!

Those with quick minds are happy to embrace the doctrine of the "fools and the knaves." It is no accident this man is an economist. That's where the money is.

By: Yves Smith

Yves Smith — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 14:53:00 +0000

One of Buiter’s less than endearing tendencies is that his writing style tends towards the pompous.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 14:45:00 +0000

That’s actually a pretty sloppy theology of holiness.

By: Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 14:41:00 +0000

Not knowing is the truth. The truth is sacred and immutable.

By: rtalcott

rtalcott — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 14:32:00 +0000

Yeah…a big X IV on that anonymous…
rt

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:19:00 +0000

“One God. All other claims to sanctity and holiness are blasphemous. Nothing is sacred, except the One God.”

Kind of sanctimonious, no? I mean, who the hell knows. That’s what bothers me about atheism, it’s just as sanctimonious as religion. Can’t anyone be happy just not knowing everything? Happy equinox.