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A Romantic Rationalist

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April 28, 2007

Finals are over May 11th, then it is off to the Bay Area to see my children, then I will transfer old posts from my Windows Live blog and create new ones.

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A Romantic Rationalist: Rapid City, South Dakota; I am a Romantic Rationalist.
In his biography of Thomas Jefferson, "Thomas Jefferson: Passionate Pilgrim", author Alf J. Mapp described Jefferson as both a Romantic and a Rationalist. If one accepts only the modern meaning of "looking for love" as the definition of "romantic," then you are in the wrong place. According to Merriam Webster Online..."romantic" can mean: "5a: having an inclination for the romantic: responsive to the appeal of what is idealized, heroic, or adventurous."
Too often, rationalists/freethinkers/skeptics/atheists (the exact label matters little) are perceived as being cold, unfeeling, and unimaginative so I wanted to poke my finger in the eye of that perception. And to be completely honest, I also thought that the alliterative way in which it rolls off the tongue was nice too.
I do not suffer fools gladly and am convinced that everyone ought to think deeply and rationally about all aspects of existence and scale their acceptance of all propositions accordingly.

A longer (and earlier) biographical essay can be found here.

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