Posted on 03/17/2015 2:25:43 PM PDT by lifeofgrace
Sorry, but 2+2 does equal 5.
(For large values of 2, as two approaches 2.5)
And so goes the “logic” of liberals.
Let us all remember that Dorkbama and his minions would flunk the most simple of real MIT courses, where real is defined as those courses in STEM.
Philosphy is derived from experience and the wisdom learned from making the wrong mistakes. The left doesnt want to be held accountable ero they don’t value wisdom or pasrt experience because it deprives of them of the things they want now. It’s all about selfish needs and wants to satisfy their own carnal nature...
Philosphy is derived from experience and the wisdom learned from making the wrong mistakes. The left doesnt want to be held accountable ergo they don’t value wisdom or past experience because of the correction that comes from it because that would deprive them of the things they want right NOW.. It’s all about selfish needs and wants to satisfy their own carnal nature for them...
Sorry, but 2+2 does equal 5.
Yes it does.
It can equal 5, 6 or any other number.
When either “2” represents something that is ever changing.
It’s the teaching of “Uncertainty”.
To the Left, Common Core was never about improving STEM education, it was instead about promoting the category error at the heart of its own dark pursuits
The reason why I helped write the standards and the reason why I am here today is that as a white male in society I am given a lot of privilege that I didn’t earn[.]
Dr. Pook went on to say all kids deserve an “equal opportunity to learn how to read” and the same advantages he had. However, according to Campus Reform, the Derryfield School where Pook works considers the CCSS inferior and does not use the Common Core State Standards, not to mention that the school has a student body that is 91 percent white. In addition, Campus Reform notes that the “Standards” have been especially hard on black and Hispanic students, who have seen their test scores plummet since the introduction of Common Core.
According to Dr. Pook, not all children have equal opportunity to learn to read. He never stated what advantages he, as a white male, had over other students. What specifically is prohibiting children from having equal opportunities to learn? What has changed over the past 50 years? Perhaps the real problem with public education is caused by liberalism.
Precisely. Liberalism is a religious cult founded on the will of the strongest leader. It is Machiavellian and, ultimately, Manichean.
Liberalism holds as absolute truth those positions that give it its greatest power. When the power shifts, as, for example, with the demise of “global warming” a new truth is sculpted from the old one that is more readily dogmatized. As, for example, “environmental degradation.”
Dogmatic liberals hold to the view that there are no absolutes except those in their own pantheon. Thus the world is divided into the truth of progressivism and the fantasy of everything else, thus, its Manicheanism.
At its heart the progressive movement is demonic. It seeks to destroy the foundational structures of tradition, of thought, and of culture.
Get YOUR children out of the government indoctrination centers - NOW!
I was stunned to hear how a young girl who had just graduated from high school defined propaganda. When I was in high school, propaganda was defined as tactics of deception. Her definition was any type of persuasion - be it the gospel, capitalism - was propaganda. She had been taught that in high school.
This is funny, because leftists don’t say very much that is consistent with observable fact.
Global warming? No.
Keynesian economics? No.
White privilege? No.
Racism against blacks? No (except for Democrats).
Anything the Clintons say? No.
Anything Obama says? No.
Islam is a peaceful religion? No.
I could go on, but you get the point.
Conservatives ought to be calling Democrats on their lack of facts constantly, and humiliating them a la Saul Alinsky.
The Left has its own Da Vinci Code, a secret woven into the fabric of its power....
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Don’t know anything about this author, but I cannot read further after he uses the term “Da Vinci Code” as if it referred to something in reality rather than a novelist’s conceit.
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Sorry, but the Common Coreites and Langdon are both confused.
They both class all statements about the world as being necessarily sortable into two groups: facts and opinions.
A fact is something that is demonstrable, like a mathematical theorem.
But there are many categories of truths that are not facts.
To take perhaps the most obvious example: “We hold these truths to be self-evident..”
Note the Founders did not say “these facts.” They recognized that their statement referred to something that was partway between an opinion and a fact. Which was why they recognized they’d have to fight to make the moral truth they held effective. Nobody goes to war over 2+2.
The equality of people is metaphysical and moral. It cannot be demonstrated to be a fact, because at root it is outside the realm of science or facts.
There are moral truths, but there are no moral facts. Morality and facts inhabit different realms.
At the same time, moral truths are not just opinions.
The problem arises when Langdon accepts the Coreites assertion that all statements about the world must fall into one of two categories. This requires him to assert that moral facts exist.
Very good point. There are moral truths but there are no moral facts.
I always enjoy your posts, Sherman Logan.
Well, thanks.
I know what I want to say on this issue but don’t know how to word it.
It just seems to me that the confusion arises from insisting that only facts and opinions exist. This turns everything that cannot be demonstrated to be a fact into “just an opinion.”
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