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To: Smokin' Joe

I’m going to add to your answer!

I am not an anti-intellectual.

I believe that the intellect is a product of the will, and unless properly directed, completely worthless. The important part is faith, to guide us in the proper application of intellect so that we might better ourselves and better others.

I am sick and tired, of people telling me that faith constrains the intellect, and that we should instead pursue unbrindled studies into whatever fascinates us in the momement, to fixate on the mere trivialities that happen to have letters behind their names.

So what am I in opposition? I am in opposition to jargon, which hampers the conjugation of thought; censorship, which hampers the distribution of thought; political correctness, which hampers the expression of thought; credentialism, which seeks to dictate who can deliver thoughts; sentimentalism, which seeks to reduce thought to mere emotions; nihilism, which argues that there is no such thing as meaning; relativism, which argues that all thoughts mean the same thing.

I am against all the defenders of said regimes, declaring me to be an anti-intellectual, when in fact, I am precisely the opposite, in defending thought against those who would deconstruct it of all it’s fervor and strength. Yet walled up in their ivory sinecures, they pronounce their murmurs as the purest thought and none other may comment that the emperor has no clothes whatsoever.


22 posted on 11/22/2011 3:10:02 AM PST by BenKenobi (Honkeys for Herman! 10 percent is enough for God; 9 percent is enough for government)
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To: BenKenobi

Cain is hardly afraid to make appearances. He almost daily enters the lions den, such as going toe to toe on the liberal jackwagon Letterman. He has been all over the place


25 posted on 11/22/2011 3:21:51 AM PST by over3Owithabrain
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To: BenKenobi

Outstanding! I agree fully!


47 posted on 11/22/2011 11:28:03 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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