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Mankind's Benefactor: The Individual
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Posted on 01/30/2011 5:35:03 PM PST by El Gringo

Unvetted (i.e., without credentials) individuals such as the Wright brothers and Thomas Edison have had a far more beneficial effect on mankind than have all the vaunted, vetted collectives such as the Service Employees International Union, or Napoleon's Army for that matter. Here are a few unvetted individuals I have in mind: Wright brothers, A. Einstein, H. Ford, Thomas Alva Edison, Moses, Abraham Lincoln, Jesus of Nazareth, John Adams, Benito Juarez, Robert Goddard, Ronald Reagan, Frederick Douglass. Often they were at odds with the Establishment and the power structure. They were likely to be dismissed as unusual or strange.

On the other hand, some of the most revered (in certain quarters) collectives have had a negative impact on mankind. Think of United Auto Workers, Enron, and the USSR. To follow these thoughts, go here

(Excerpt) Read more at individualsversuscollectives.blogspot.com ...


TOPICS: General Discussion; Issues
KEYWORDS: collective; individual

1 posted on 01/30/2011 5:35:08 PM PST by El Gringo
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To: El Gringo
(Excerpt) Read more at individualsversuscollectives.blogspot.com ...

Why not just post it here?

What's wrong with it? Porn? Queer stuff?

2 posted on 01/30/2011 5:38:11 PM PST by humblegunner (Blogger Overlord)
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To: El Gringo

Not only that, but consider all the good that these men did that would NOT have been done if, as kids are in schools today, they had been given drugs for ADD and ADHD and all the rest.


3 posted on 01/30/2011 5:41:17 PM PST by Jerrybob
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To: El Gringo

I don’t think it is proper to just stick Jesus in with a list of “uncredentialed” men in order to make a rhetorical point.

Jesus was much more than a man and he was credentialed beyond the ability of mortal, fallen man to fully understand.


4 posted on 01/30/2011 5:52:42 PM PST by rogue yam
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To: El Gringo

btt


5 posted on 01/30/2011 7:22:01 PM PST by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To: humblegunner

Limited number of characters. Clunky HTML required.


6 posted on 03/09/2011 2:32:32 PM PST by El Gringo (Adelante, con ganas.)
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To: El Gringo
Limited number of characters.

Negative.
Quit diddling the excerpt button and you can post thousands of words.

Clunky HTML required.

So laziness caused you to excerpt? Bullshit.

You want blog hits.

7 posted on 03/09/2011 2:37:58 PM PST by humblegunner (Blogger Overlord)
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To: El Gringo
Thank you for your excerpt. Whether to post an article in its entirety or not is, of course, a matter of personal preference, so I don't see what all the hubbub is about.

If someone feels strongly about the issue, I suppose they are free to move on to another thread, rather than having to subject themselves to the horrible fate of visiting your blog to see the remainder of the content.

If your posting is in gross violation of the site's guidelines, then I guess it will be deleted.

If, on the other hand, your article is not deleted, then the implication to me would be that maybe you're not such a criminal after all.

Thus, believe it or not, I am not particularly alarmed by the fact that you would like to get some traffic to your blog. It's not causing me any heart palpitations. It's a free country, after all, so all the hand-wringing and gnashing of teeth by self-appointed blog police seems rather gratuitous...

8 posted on 03/09/2011 2:58:27 PM PST by sargon (I don't like the sound of these "boncentration bamps")
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To: sargon; El Gringo; humblegunner; shibumi; Larry Lucido; 50mm; Eaker; Allegra; Salamander; ...
Will you listen to Jim on these issues?

Here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2636843/posts?page=552#552

Also:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2659004/posts?page=39#39

9 posted on 03/09/2011 4:15:43 PM PST by TheOldLady
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To: El Gringo
I hope I'm not the only one who sees the extreme irony of you referring to anything as "unvetted"...




10 posted on 03/09/2011 4:17:24 PM PST by Bean Counter (Stout Hearts!)
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To: El Gringo

He said 'unvetted'!

11 posted on 03/09/2011 4:23:47 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: sargon
it would be best if you do not excerpt your own material and if you would actually join in on the discussion here on FR. We’re not really that interested in driving OUR traffic to YOUR blog.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2636843/posts?page=552#552

12 posted on 03/09/2011 5:00:57 PM PST by Eaker (The problem with the internet, you're never sure the accuracy of the quotes. ~ Abraham Lincoln, 1865)
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To: sargon; El Gringo

Well, all I’ll say is, I don’t get it.

You fancy yourself a writer worth reading, a member of the so-called New Media.

You get a free soapbox.

So what do you do? You don’t share, but rather you tease and seek to get hits.

Kinda like Mark Antony saying “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your.....(excerpted, meet me at the next forum over, and be sure to visit our sponsor booths, there is a special on olive oil today, 2 cans for the price of one!).

You aren’t really a part of the community, you are a user.


13 posted on 03/09/2011 5:43:11 PM PST by Larry Lucido (The "examiner" is the Typhoid Mary of blogs. Crank up the antivirus and visit at your own risk!)
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To: sargon; El Gringo; humblegunner; Eaker; TheOldLady; Salamander; Larry Lucido; 50mm; Allegra; ...
"It's a free country, after all, so all the hand-wringing and gnashing of teeth by self-appointed blog police seems rather gratuitous... "

No more gratuitous than the self-appointed arbiters of decorum who decide what is and is not appropriate use of the forum by posting parasites who cheaply rehash yesterday's news and crassly demand pay-per-hit revenue to view their pathetic, purloined efforts.
14 posted on 03/09/2011 7:26:30 PM PST by shibumi (I am The Nexus One - I want more life, Baby I aint done!)
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To: El Gringo
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How original. /s

15 posted on 03/09/2011 8:10:27 PM PST by 50mm ( I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.)
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To: Larry Lucido

“Kinda like Mark Antony saying “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your.....(excerpted, meet me at the next forum over, and be sure to visit our sponsor booths, there is a special on olive oil today, 2 cans for the price of one!).”

OMG...LMAO!

That was so apropos and funny that I nearly had.....

[to be continued]


16 posted on 03/09/2011 8:56:13 PM PST by Salamander (I may be lonely but I'm never alone...and the nights may pass me by......but I never cry.)
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To: shibumi

Duh, but I’m stoopid.

I *want* to “pay” for something I could read completely free, elsewhere.

Cookies, adware, trackers and spyware?

Gawrsh...I just love them things.

I got zillions of ‘em already.

[all from accidentally clicking “contaminated” links on FR....go figger]


17 posted on 03/09/2011 8:59:15 PM PST by Salamander (I may be lonely but I'm never alone...and the nights may pass me by......but I never cry.)
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To: El Gringo

Wave goodbye, because the individual is being marginalized by the global tribe.


18 posted on 03/15/2011 7:10:28 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand (Every knife in my back pushes me forward.)
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To: El Gringo

Oh, ha! Jesus is in some pretty high company I see.


19 posted on 03/15/2011 7:11:55 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand (Every knife in my back pushes me forward.)
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