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Posted on 04/28/2017 7:34:57 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I have read that all of philosophy is either in support of Thomas Aquinas or trying to fault him.
NYT’s relentless desire to redefine the meaning of truth.
The MSM is the Country’s greatest threat.
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Liberals hate philosophy. The intellectual cowardice of liberals make them incapable of
liking the next discipline. Yet it does not prevent them from criticizing others of being unphilosophical
The reason to post it is to share what is going on in the world so that FR doesn't become a bubble.
It bugs me no end when people criticize posters for posting articles from the MSM. Such postings are opportunities for comment and discussion here, which I find very valuable.
Are we a bunch of snowflakes who need trigger warnings and safe spaces to protect us from leftist BS?
Too many posters on FR are becoming like that, if you ask me.
If you don't want to read such posts, then just don't click on them. Capisce?
Not with a lead such as “truth is pliable...”
Why? Is the NYT missing them?
Some here prefer to Preach to the Choir while the Pews are empty.
NOW they say they care about truth, except that they can’t bring themselves within a country mile of it yet.
NewSpeak Alert.
For the first time I see the term ‘settled knowledge’ which appears to replace the term ‘settled science.’
Anyone who knows anything about science know little is ever settled... after all Pluto was a planet for a few hundred years until it wasn’t.
And Truth is non-existent in NY SlimesLand.
Mark
I remember during Bush’s term someone commented that the MSM as in a bind because they’d rave about what an idiot he was and employ graphics portraying him as a cretin or chimpanzee and then he’d embarrass them by running against them and winning, prevailing when they owned all available communication channels.
You could almost hear their egos screaming in unison. There’s a story about a master chess player who realized he was losing, overturned the chess board, jumped on the tabled screaming, “But I can’t lose to you! YOU are an idiot!”
And Aquino ,no wino , took the real which was queeno and left them all in the swingo.
“Miss Parks led a busy life because so many of us wanted to consult her. She was an important factor in preparing us to accept a materialist philosophy by mercilessly deriding what she called “dry rot” in existing society. I am sure she did help some students, but she did little for those who were already so emptied of convictions that they believed in nothing. These could only turn their steps toward the great delusion of our time, toward the socialist-communist philosophy of Karl Marx.”
(... snip ...)
“As I look back on the febrile group, so eager to help the world, looking about for something to spend themselves on, our earnestness appears pathetic. We had, all of us, a strong will to real goodness. We saw a bleak present and wanted to turn it into a beautiful future for the poor and the troubled. But we had no foundation for solid thinking or effective action. We had no real goals because we had no sound view of man’s nature and destiny. We had feelings and emotions, but no standards by which to chart the future.”
The above is taken from School of Darkness by Bella Dodd as she, having turned to Christ, looks back on how she was led to become an agent for the communists. She seemingly cannot see that her precious Miss Parks may well have been just the sort of person she had been and that her “help” may have been precisely to bring about the emptiness of materialistic views so her girls would become as she was: a socialist.
Yet it is all too obvious that she herself recounts (in previous pages to the above quotes) how Parks dealt rather mercilessly with her, not by calling her interests in the Middles Ages dry rot but by implicating that they the lives of those people were not normal for her, were basically alien to her, and therefore not something for her to admire.
Had she had a proper grounding in the Faith she might have quoted that there is a time for every purpose under Heaven. Had she had the benefit of a copy of Lewis’ The Abolition of Man somehow fallen through time to her hand she may have seen that Parks was debunking her interests, robbing her of them in so far as she could.
Bella Dodd is describing, even if she didn’t know it, a precursor of herself, as well as others like her ... so many who do their part to produce the leftist nitwits, snowflakes, and goons that now plague us.
Even though apparently repentant when this was written, Dodd doesn’t seem to come to grips with just who these girls she knew were, and who she had been one of, Miss Park’s sphere of influence. I would assert that they were in fact incapable of having “a strong will to real goodness” for they had already been led onto the shoals where goodness in them was bring wrecked and all that was to be left, had Miss Park’s had her way, were the very empty platitudes of social justice and socialistic pabulum.
And this was in the 1920s when people in education still had the habit of occasionally thinking and not just feeling only all the time!
How great must be the wreckage that is the leftist today, her counterparts that plague us now. Where she would become an agent of corruption in the “real goodness” she once thought she was capable of this current lot will smack you upside the head with a bike lock just for being unreceptive to their “goodness”. There can be no sentimentality about these people, for that lets our own Miss Parks unchallenged to do their harm, to Abolish Man in some kid if they are able.
Yes, Trump stole the Socratic Method like a thief in the night.
But they own it! It was theirs!
Parks’ proseltyzing of Dodd and her classmates is a good case study that illustrates the way left-wing ideology has proliferated. Academic Marxism in America started in the 19th century with a handful of left-Hegelian promoters at a few universities in the Ivy League and its prep schools, in St. Louis, and at Berkeley; from those places, its cells spread. As it spread, the disease progressed: where Marx preached in the name of “scientific” materialism, today’s Marxists want to abolish truth and scientific objectivity and turn science into a tool of the will to disempower global warming.
Perhaps, but it is nonexistent in Liberaland.
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