Posted on 09/16/2009 5:58:43 PM PDT by RWB Patriot
Suppose you had a friend you had known for many years, one who was very opinionated, who always seemed absolutely certain about everything, and yet who was always turning out to be wrong. He got you to buy stock in Enron and swore it would just keep on rising. He bet on the Yankees to sweep the Red Sox in ’04. He said mobile phones were just a fad, and before long people would give them up and go back to sending telegrams.
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Where is any of that conservative?
Intellectual midget.
Excuse my while my head explodes...
Who would ever want a computer at home that had more than 640K of memory?
Silly you, of course there were conservatives in the 15th century. Of course, there were people who were wrong, so, of course, they had to be conservatives. duh. (Sarcasm off)
I thought all the Enron stockholders were poor, deluded democrats who were cheated out of their money because the executives didn't tell them to sell their stock to other dupes before it crashed.
>In a few cases the conservative error was so clownish that it passed into legend and therefore hasn’t been forgotten.
Oh, let’s see these examples!
>The old belief that the sun and everything else in the universe went around the earth, for instance,
Oy vey! Here’s a wellspring of myth: science v. religion and NEVER SHALL THE TWO MEET!!
>wasn’t merely what people assumed when they looked at the sky;
And saying “the sun rises in the east and sets in the west” is inaccurate because the Earth rotates? Have you ever heard of relative positioning?
>it was a carefully structured system of doctrine with a great deal of ancient authority behind it, including Aristotle, the Bible,
Where in the Bible does it say that the sun orbits the Earth? Reference please.
>and an elaborate theology that put human beings and human history at the center of the cosmos.
And because we orbit the sun that cannot be true? Or, rather, the strange relationship that God has with mankind is the center of our cosmos, is it not?
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>Galileo and his like-minded colleagues plainly weren’t conservatives;
No; but Galileo’s house arrest was actually due to his reneging on an agreement with the Catholic church.
>their goal was not to save the orthodoxies of the past.
And who says that “conservative” strictly means that? I bet you could ask any conservative if Justice should be administered to Congress, like it is to us peons, and get an affirmative answer; not the negative which would be promoting the status quo.
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>They opposed the use of autopsies to learn how the body worked.
Most people [in the US] would be against the mandatory harvesting of organs of the deceased as opposed to just organ donors; what is the major difference there?
>They insisted that disease was caused by Satan’s influence,
Hm, so you think that if humanity were still housed in Eden we would have disease?
>epidemics by collective sin,
Well, if we as a nation [ie collectively] weren’t sexually immoral STDs would be a rarity; wouldn’t it? (If the sexual pairings were one husband and one wife with NO extramarital intercourse.)
>and mental illness by demonic possession.
Ah, now you’re assuming that a) there is no such thing as a demonic possession, AND b) that a demonic possession would have no observable affectations in the physical; if a demon possession causes some [observable] symptom then it obviously must have some connection to the physical.
I’m sorry but such obvious fallacies show only a shallow mode of thought.
What an idiot.
Did you see how LONG this nitwit goes?
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