Posted on 08/18/2025 5:07:51 AM PDT by MtnClimber
We all know that our universities are the very last place to go if you want a free and open discussion of ideas. Only approved progressive ideas are permitted, and don’t you forget it.
Nothing new really. I’m reading 1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus at the gym, and author Charles C. Mann is describing wars to the death fought by academics over the decades about various migration theories in the Americas and the all-important question of when modern humans first arrived here. There’s the Clovis theory:
The "Clovis First" theory posited that the Clovis people, identified by their distinctive stone tools found near Clovis, New Mexico, were the first humans to colonize the Americas, arriving around 13,500 years ago via the Bering Land Bridge.
The academicians were arguing over whether the Americas were populated by humans before the last Ice Age when the sea level dropped enough for humans to be able to walk across the Bering Strait.
Divided the academics may be, but they are united in sneering at the efforts of amateurs grubbing around in the dirt on their farms and backyards without the trifecta of formal qualifications, government grants, and approved methods of analysis.
It’s odd how humans fight to the death over ideas. I get the necessity of fighting to the death on the border against those who would dispossess and despoil us and rape our women. But why do religions all seem to agree upon the necessity of eliminating heretics? Is heresy a life-or-death issue? That goes in spades for our modern secular religions like communism. And why do all political regimes wage war on the opposition? Why do academics insist that all the professors in the university department hew to the same ideology of logic and reason
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Agreed. IMHO, it's based on fragile superiority. The academics believe they are superior, all while fearing in the backs of their minds that they're really not superior. The slightest crack in their assumed greatness will show that their "intelligence" is a house of cards.
Of course, I'm talking about the stereotypical liberal arts style academics (with exceptions in some areas like business schools). Many of the math and hard science style academics aren't like that. My favorite computer science instructors were the ones with only masters degrees (thus taught only undergrad). They openly stated that they didn't want to get PhD's because they didn't want to spend all of their time writing papers and being part of the blah blah blah when they'd rather focus on teaching the next generation of programmers, in honor of their own teachers.
I bet he also didn’t know a doohickey from his elbow.
“It’s odd how humans fight to the death over ideas.”
Does that also make FR odd?
“...sin is actually a physical obstacle...”
Please explain how, or why you believe, sin is a physical obstacle. You might have to start by defining “sin”.
Dear Author: Most true “academics” are liberals. Figure it out.
They live in echo chambers where every belief is a hill to die on, justifying any action to defend it. That’s why so many end up committing crimes. They believe they are saving the world.
Most of us want to see ourselves as being right about things important to us. As a result we tend to identify, ie involve our ego, with our own beliefs, attitudes, or positions on issues. The more strongly we identify, the less tolerant we are of the range of positions which differ from us. If the alternative position is far enough away from our own, we even tend to distort our perception of it and make it seem even more discrepant (Trump = Hitler, law enforcement = fascism.). The key is the ego involvement: disagreement with our own position feels like a personal threat or ego insult against us, so we want to defend our selves and fight back. This holds for many domains, and both sides of the political divide.
The worst breakups, between humans, are between the lesbians in particular, who seem to have an affinity for a cat fight.
While all is fiar in love and war, within the Ivory Towers, reside the most arrogant of the “smartest person(s) in the romm”, each being that one of crowning mental acumen.
The need to be the the best and most prominent comes from being told you are such a person, but in your heart you must find ways outside shear mental powers to defeat your academic rivals.
In the hallowed halls of government the academics enshried reqirements for degrees but made allowances for those that may have acquired their experience or skills. However, one could be degreed or credentialed and get the job over the working stiff more easily, and the problem of academic credentials then were stacked on top of entry level people who were then promoted ot management.
Those both seeking and oftentimes eleveated quickly to management is due to their inabilit to actually put into application mental skills and produce labor; thus the idiots with degrees eventually run everything.
These that beleive or promote themselves as the smartest person in the room are mentally ill and have been indroctrinated in the Left’s BS and deviance’s.
They are, literally speaking, the worst of the best or the best of the worst. They will put a knife in your back quicker than a Japanese, so to speak. They will steal akin to a monkey, and they are more deadly than a scorpian riding a frog across a river.
I have often surmised that many die-hard “experts” have recently stayed at a Holiday Inn.
Close-minded and unable to apply critical thought to new information.
” law enforcement = fascism.”
Unless the law enforcement is arresting Covid protesters, Nazis or “Jan 6 insurrectionists”. Liberals don’t feel consistency is important. What’s important is to signal your virtue.
Yep, try answering good a question in a thread about say computer cpu’s or graphics cards, and watchthehate unfold... over graphic cards lol! Or a windows vs Linux thread, or anything g really. Redit is chokcerblock full of threads like that where people go absolutely mental if you don’t accept their version of reality.
Oh you 42ites are all the same. :)
Hence, there is no such thing as a "Native American," as separate from anyone else born here.
Because like govt officials, they have swamp power and they love it.
Scholars just love knowledge and wish to share it, and grow deeper knowledge.
Remove the swamp power.
Nice article with a historical perspective of education.
IMHO- It is also in human nature:
Look at two 8 year old kids on a playground that meet the first time.
The first thing they do is to say something they like and wait for a response to see if the other kid likes the same thing.
1.) The human tends to create “norms” and have everything the same. That actually has some benefits but it can be taken to far and become counter productive.
2.) But as to the “nastiness” of academia, some bureaucrats (like Comey: who ironically pretends to be a decent man) and many in our liberal media...
That is from a deep rooted belief that their values are superior and the other sides values are inferior.
When you are convinced that you’re absolutely right, and the others are just heathens and savages, you become a Conquistador (figuratively).
It’s the mind that believes they have “virtue” on their side and are “absolutely right” that becomes ruthless.
Those are the worst of the worst people because once they have convinced themselves of their idea, they are willing to go to ANY extreme to get what they want (to further their cause or ideology). Lying, cheating, stealing, moral inconsistencies, hurting other people, hypocrisy, all become acceptable because of this greater virtuous idea. These are the people those lose any sense of decency as they put on their blinders.
A persons “beliefs” and we ALL have them, are like a tree.
This tree grows and has roots, it also has branches that extend into every aspect of our life, how we see things.
When you show someone that how they see things might not be entirely correct, and you can do this in a very convincing way, it’s like shaking that tree, with them standing on a tree limb.
It makes them very uncomfortable.
It even makes them feel insecure.
The normal reaction will NOT be a “thank you” for enlightening them.
Rather it will be a vitriolic and fallacy based reaction attacking “you.”
Sadly, people are not taught to have these deep conversations.
They are not able to accept other views, and to realize that things they hold as absolute truths and believed all their life might be bullshit.
First, ever since I died of meningitis, left my body, crossed over and fully experienced Heaven, and returned to my body over 35 years ago, the consciousness of others became physical to my perception.
It has to to with a person’s frequency of consciousness, as our perception of reality is a function of the frequency of consciousness from which we observe it.
The Love in Heaven was so strong that it changed my soul, stabilizing my consciousness so it began functioning at higher frequencies. This is why Jesus taught the importance of Love as it is the glue that holds the soul together so it can grow to higher levels of consciousness. Without Love, everything else is worthless.
Just as a baby in the womb cannot grow and will automatically abort without the Love bond with the mother, the soul after birth cannot grow without Love. (Bowlby and Ainsworth did extensive research on the “Attachment & Bonding between Mother and Child.)
I define “Sin” as any obstacle to Love that exists in a person’s soul. I perceive them physically as clouds of lower frequency consciousness that block the Love & Light from the God connection. (All souls are born with this purity, thus we must be like a child to know and experience God.) It’s why a child’s eyes change when they experience a trauma, and they often cannot look at you afterward.
The soul consists of various flow patterns of consciousness that are very complex. I would say these flow patterns are more complex than the physical body manifested by the soul. (Consciousness is the greatest influence upon stem cell differentiation.)
One of my degrees is in psychology, which I never considered a science due to the biased variable of perception that influences all stimulus/response measurements. This is why I switched to neuroscience research in my studies.
My demonstrations actually make psychology a science as when I’m reading a person’s soul memories, their eyes are closed, I say nothing, do not physically touch them, and no taste or smell stimulus. Thus by touching and stimulating the specific memories in the soul many feet from a person’s physical body, their physical body moves without direct stimulation of the critical sensory neurons. (When I stimulate the stored memory by touching it, the memory back feeds through the various peripheral neurons in the dermatones, back through the central nervous system, and moves the physical body similar to a vestibular dysfunction.)
Most back pains are caused by the compression of the erector spinae muscles along the spine to put a tourniquet hold on the afferent sensory neuron’s cell body head in the dorsal root ganglion. If I touch a betrayal issue, the stab in the back feeling appears under the person’s shoulder blade. This compression is totally to block the stored emotional memory in the soul from communicating and manifesting discomfort in the physical body.
Often, touching these “Obstacles to Love” will knock the person off their feet. The same thing happens with repeated tests, even when performed on different days.
I don’t need to move a person’s body as I am directly perceiving the stored memory in their soul. I do the movement stimulation only to demonstrate to people where the memories are stored, i.e. to help the person understand the process.
The current soul field contains memories of all experiences since conception, even those experienced by the mother when the child is in the womb. It is easy for me to determine what the mother thought of the birth father while she was pregnant. I also often know when the identified father was not the birth father. (For example, about 90% of the many lesbians I have worked with, their mother was angry at their father when they were in their mother’s womb. These early stored memories or perceptual programming events have the greatest influence upon the developing child’s personality.)
Religion(s) are theories and philosophies of the anatomy & physiology of the human soul and how it interacts with its environment. They are for the most part accurate, but incomplete. They are teaching what I actually perceive directly, thus I teach and demonstrate why Jesus taught what He did. I am a Christian, and Jesus is my Savior.
I do the same with Buddhism and other religions. Not to discount them, but to bring the person to a higher level of understanding of their own religion that does not discount other religions, nor science or psychology.
If you want to understand the neuroscience of this, begin by reading about the frequencies of consciousness as recorded by EEG’s. They progress through Delta, Theta, Alpha, and Beta during normal life development. Integration and cleansing happens during mid-life crisis or the dark-night-of-the-soul experience. After that, when the ego self is diminished, human consciousness can begin to function in the gamma frequencies.
The gamma frequencies begin the born-again experience as you begin to perceive directly with your consciousness beyond your physical body. Transcendence is the goal of life in these earthly physical bodies.
Just as when you are born from your mother’s womb and you have new critical senses, but you have no idea what you are perceiving, the same is true of soul transcendence beyond the physical body. It is quite a learning process.
Just as a newborn child can not crawl or move around, a newly transcended soul is restricted to perception close to their physical body. After experience and learning, you become “One with Christ Consciousness” and can perceive anywhere on earth instantly. The soul expands outward the higher frequency it has achieved as it grows.
This is how Jesus knew the thoughts of everyone around Him.
Remember, in John 14, Jesus tells us that the things that he does and even more, we too shall do in His name. This is the truth.
The problem is, people worship Jesus rather than learning His teachings. Like a lifeguard, they claim He is their Savior and can rescue them when they die. Which would you sooner have, a lifeguard that waits until you are drowning and plucks you out of the water, or a lifeguard that teaches you how to swim? Jesus was a rabbi, a teacher. He was teaching us how to be like Him.
There’s plenty of people stuck on ideas here at FR.
Just read the Ukraine threads, or some threads dedicated to UFO or other ideas that can’t soak through thick skulls.
I’ve been involved in a situation since I was a teenager that was totally unbelievable by parents, sibs and other relatives. This situation has worsened with old age and is even more unbelievable to the point to where my last remaining sibling, a sister, laughs until she cried when I tried discussing it.
So people stuck on their own ideas is really all over the place. I’m certain many here can attest to that.
Back to the main thread, academics have an excuse, they are self righteous assholes to begin with.
Dig in hard! The bloke that wrote the dictionary was no expert on windows.
Are you sure? Those in the trades are taxed in order to run the universities. Just muttering to myself.
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