Posted on 04/13/2015 4:16:42 PM PDT by Kaslin
Maybe it’s the difference between the use of facts and certain unchanging truths. Facts, in the sense of the details of circumstances around us, are temporal but certain truths never change. How facts and truth are used seem to depend on certain underlying values and beliefs of the user.
It seems like at some point most people develop and are guided by their values and beliefs more than by the apparent facts. They are aware of the facts but they are not guided by them, at least long-range. Both Reagan and Obama had preset values and beliefs that guided their Presidency. I don’t think either one ignored the facts, but both wanted to change circumstances (facts) by implementing their values and beliefs.
Popular culture, especially the Left, loves to evaluate people and public figures on their intelligence. But more important than intelligence IMO is the degree that person believes in the truth or believes in falsehood.
Ultimately truth works and lies don’t. The results of Reagan’s and Obama’s presidency isn’t so much a matter of intelligence as it is about belief. The reason Reagan’s Presidency was so successful is it was guided by beliefs in certain fundamental, unchanging truths. The reason Obama’s presidency fails or will ultimately fail is the same reason socialism always fails: they are both based on belief in falsity.
You hit the nail square on it’s head
He's evil that id what he is
You said it
Neither do I
The current occupier of the White House is not brilliant in the least; he is a useful idiot for leftist dictators and causes.
Friedman’s Ego is at least 6,000 times larger than his tepid IQ. He isn’t a quarter the genius he thinks he is.
I agree with you.
I used to enjoy Imus but can't stand him anymore.
Yes, he has changed a lot.
Remember how he ripped both Bill and Clinton at the 1996 White House Radio and TV Correspondents Dinner?
http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2013/04/22/flashback-imus-rips-clinton/
http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20103215,00.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1880988/posts?page=80
He and the Clintons, especially Hillary, were near mortal enemies in those days - Now he is kissing up to them and attacking their critics and opponents.
It must be that all that money and city living have turned him into just another smarmy liberal.
Every Cuban alive during the Castro take over of that country will tell you that Raul Castro is a “MARICON”. For all these people that doesn’t understand Spanish, it means that Raul prefers young boys. this was well known, and yet this person we call our president had no problem with shaking hands with this “MARICON”. Would any one out there shake hands with some one who prefers young boys?
One of the basic assumptions of the leftist ideology is the rejection of objective truth.
They do this because of the “founding lie” of their religion of Humanism - YOU will be as gods, knowing [deciding] good and evil.
That’s often the way it is with intellectuals.
They believe they are far more capable than they are,
and that other “lessers” are too incompetent to breathe.
You got it.
That’s why the Left loves to emphasize “intelligence” as to the details of the facts and circumstances surrounding us but ignore the great leaps of irrationality of their conclusions because their basic beliefs are falsehoods.
The Left amounts to irrational intelligence.
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