Posted on 05/22/2013 2:18:46 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Any sort of social system they can dream up can be made fact.
#4. I’m smarter than everyone else.
#4 There’s nothing wrong with human nature.
And the more absurd the point they are rationalizing, the greater their sense of accomplishment and superiority. Anyone can prove what is patently obvious but as an intellectual exercise it is more interesting and you get more notice when you can build a case for the absurd.
Libs:
All moral systems are equal and therefore you cannot say one moral system is any better than another.
They only say that in attacking a system that predominates which they despise. When they impose their own system it WILL be unassailable and absolute.
RE: All moral systems are equal and therefore you cannot say one moral system is any better than another.
Is that a moral statement? If so, is belief in this moral statement a superior belief?
I cornered a phd in electrical engineering with some evidence against global warming. His only response was “why would anyone risk their professional career on something that wasn’t true.”
“Animals lack both conscience and consciousness...”
Maybe he’s never had a cat or a dog as a pet.
Yes, you have to be taught to be that stupid.
Not that far back I watched a bunch of engineers with numerous degrees spend over 10 million dollars producing a design that couldn’t and didn’t work. I later saw an other engineer with just a high school diploma take on the same project and successfully complete it for a few thousand dollars.
It seems that the “professional” engineers used their electronic brains and never realized they had introduced a major error.
The project?
Designing a new gun mount for the AC-130U aircraft.
She wasn't joking.
I wonder what asylum she lives in now.
Probably a professor at Berkely.
May I be so bold as to guess your PhD is NOT in "Women's Studies"?
Weird university degrees weren't available when I was in colleges/universities. You had to actually learn something worthwhile when I was there.
Counseling Psychology (including Psychological Testing)
I held the following certificates:
Medical Psychotherapist
Licensed Professional Counselor
Assoc. School Psychologist
Special Programs Counselor/Psychological Examiner
School All Level Counselor
PhDs, as is commonly said, know a whole lot about very little. Most of us are way to curious about way too much to concentrate on so little.
Just another stupid article written by a moron, proving, if this guy is a PhD, that not everyone awarded one deserves one.
I've heard this dichotomy a lot recently and thought before it was the opposite.
Conservatives believe man is basically good and the role of government is further and allow him/her to exercise his innate nature to do what is right. Whereas liberals believe man to be naturally evil and requiring of a strong government to control him/her.
I agree that man's instincts are often evil, but that the moral and religious man emerges with universal values - even if any single individual is unable to follow them.
In this context I think of the founders belief that freedom and the republic depend on moral citizens and no amount of laws can overcome an immoral electorate.
And the more absurd the point they are rationalizing, the greater their sense of accomplishment and superiority. Anyone can prove what is patently obvious but as an intellectual exercise it is more interesting and you get more notice when you can build a case for the absurd.the problem is education sometimes takes the ability to reason and transforms it into the ability for rationalization - tophat9000
. . . which is what you might expect of a Sophist.And yet, in the face of this self-evident truth—that objective moral standards exist—universities continue to teach that morality (especially sexual morality) is man-made and varies wildly from culture to culture. The sophists of ancient Greece taught this as well, and they were just as wrong as their academic heirs today. In the fifth and fourth centuries before Christ, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle rose up to dash the sophists' ethical house of cards, but over the last two centuries, relativism has returned with a vengeance. True, there have been many brave souls in academia (C. S. Lewis was one of them) who have spoken out against this resurgent relativism, but the majority chooses to remain silent or even to propagate the lie that morality is a human invention.IMHO claims of “journalistic objectivity” are inherently sophistry, because nobody can know that they themselves - or anyone they agree with - is objective. IMHO journalists use the term “objective” as a code for “wise,” knowing that the Sophists were defeated by the Philosophers on precisely that point.
the more laws a country has - if they are godly laws - is a barometer of the moral condition of the general populous.
we had tons less laws when this country was founded. our founders said our system could only work with a moral people self controlling themselves.
That is a wonderful article. Thank You for posting.
I am especially amused by #2, the lack of distinguishing between the sexes.
Male and Female characteristics exist all through the Animal Kingdom. A quick look at a Pride of Lions, or a pair of Peacocks, shows a decided difference. Even when the differences aren’t so obvious, I don’t have to look at an animal’s “undercarriage” to know if it is Male or Female. “Sugar-The-Boxer”, my student’s beloved pet, has a definite Feminine “look” to her Dog-Face. Her “mannerisms” are also VERY Female. Nature is divided perfectly along sexual lines. Anyone who messes with it is being foolish, evil, or both.
As other FReepers have pointed out, there are a number of other STUPID theories to which PHD’s tend to subscribe (AGW, Gaia, etc.).
It is as if they must believe Absurdity in order to feel superior to the “hoi polloi”.
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