Posted on 01/03/2013 7:37:50 PM PST by neverdem
You don’t have to imagine entirely. We already know, for instance, how the infamous “hockey stick” graph was concocted. Tracing the impact of it and how error was compounded upon it is infinitely more complex, but at least we know the launchpad for much of their adventures beyond reality.
That almost certainly wasn’t written by Eisenhower himself. But he had the sand to say it, which is more than I can say for all state-worshipping politicians since.
Next thing you'll be telling me is that Fred and Wilma didn't live next door to Barney and Betty in Bedrock.
The original author has made a major mistake in terminology. A fact is something that can be proved; facts don’t change. What he is calling fact is inference, or conclusions drawn from facts. As our knowlege increases, including more facts, the inferences we make from that knowlege can change, sometimes drastically.
What is true, is we ought to get as much empirical data as possible before we settle on the "facts."
To paraphrase Yogi Berra’s dictum: fifty percent of life is ninety percent mental. So there.
In the modern world facts change all of the time, according to Samuel Arbesman, author of the new book The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date (Current).
Facts do no change. The definition of a fact is that it is a true statement, thus it cannot change. Our apprehension of truth, our perception of what is, in fact, a fact, can change but the fact itself cannot change. Those facts that “changed” as described in the opening paragraph were not facts but merely mistaken opinions about facts.
What did he call the Judicial/law enforcement/prison complex.
The military/industrial has killed more people in other Countries however the JLP complex is the one Americans need to fear as they will use tools supplied by the MI on citizens of the USA
So then just what the hell was in all those brontosaurus burger I ate?!!!
Facts are circumstances that are changeable like the wind. Truth (technically with a capital "T") is derived from the Bible, God's Word, and is absolute - Truth never changes. I suppose you could talk about the "truth" about the "facts" but again, the truth aspect focuses on universal, unchanging principles, so interchanging "fact" and "truth" tends to confuse things.
For example, maybe the medical report says I have cancer. That's a fact, Jack. But then God tells me in His Word, the Bible, that "By His [Jesus'] stripes I am healed" (Isaiah 53:5, 1 Peter 2:24). That's the truth.
The circumstances of the medical report and symptoms are subject to change, and often do change. However, the truth of God's Word, that Jesus took all my disease upon Himself, never changes - it is always true no matter what. "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away." Matthew 24:35, Mark 13:31, Luke 21:33. And that's the truth.
...for sufficiently large values of 2.
As for the recent "Fiscal Cliff" deal, Eisenhower said this in his Farewell Address.
"Another factor in maintaining balance involves the element of time. As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering, for our own ease and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without asking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.
As I said, Ike was a very wise man.
“Life is becoming more like one long root canal appointment... “
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That appears to be the goal of our current regime, to make sure that we are all miserable all of the time. Their excuse for doing this will be that their intention was to make life a paradise for everyone. What was that old line about paving a road to somewhere?
Truth and fact are not perfectly synonymous, but are so on a certain level. Fact is associated with empirical reality. It covers what happens in actual reality. Truth may be about existence, but also applies to abstractions. We don’t need to experience two plus two squalling four, for instance with rocks we pick up from the ground, to know it’s true. That’s something we know by deduction.
Bring God into the balance, and you may have the embodiment of abstract Truth altering facts, as He supposedly has that power. He can stop the earth turning on its axis, for instance, or create a baby born to a woman but not of man. It remains unclear whether He may mess with truth, for instance by contradicting himself. Could He create a boulder so heavy that not even He could lift it?
“The circumstances of the medical report and symptoms are subject to change, and often do change.”
This is not the same as facts changing, I hope you realize. Either the reports are wrong or the condition of your body is different from what it was before. Which means there are new facts to consider, not that previous facts have changed. It remains factual that your symptoms were so and so yesterday even if they are different today.
Seriously the leaders that be with the media picked us a candidate that had as much chance as a piece of soggy bread winning. They took out all the others that were better with hit pieces and supposed “scandals” that never materialized into anything. I think we’d end up with a better pick if they didn’t drop out for reasons other than political, and everyone had a chance to vote for all major runners across the country rather than a few places at a time. Let the top guy in the field get the nomination.
Because Romney didn’t start to get any real attention until better candidates got picked off and he was relatively better than who else was left.
In other words treat the nominee process like a primary election.
The other realization is that the socialists mobilized the takers more than our side mobilized the makers. For a bunch of various reasons.
Well things like Obama being a lifelong Christian I got from his own scampaign website...
“Ninety percent of everything is crap.” - Theodore Sturgeon
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