Posted on 04/22/2017 2:38:17 PM PDT by freedumb2003
Plagiarizing myself from another post:
I have pbs TV on, as background right now.
They are full of CR*P, but I feel the need to know the enemy.
Today is ERF day, so all these specials are about global warming, dead coral, stealing the liver (coal) from the earth, ... , Colonization is from the root of Colon, which is to digest (no, it is from farmer - me).
Science should be the ultimate authority. You are all Patriots and make people Examine the Evidence, Glaciers melting, Seas rising... Vote, Contact your politicians - they WILL respond, ... , Citizen Science, Planetary Village, ...
This is the brainwashing to feed the Sheeple, with some appearance of authority.
People driven my their emotions.
Rom 1:28
Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done.
This Scripture is SO REAL to me right now.
Ignoring God,
Rom 1:25
They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creatorwho is forever praised. Amen.
Rom 1:22
Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools
I do not know how fast the end is coming, but it IS coming.
just think where we would be of we had spent the gw money on real science.
Well they did used to practically be doctors!
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Good, applicable scriptural references.
Science is not a democracy or popularity contest where the idea with the most followers wins. In fact, History is full of examples where the “general consensus” was wrong, and shattered by lone rebels who didn’t agree.
In the late 1800s, the “general consensus” was that heavier-than-air craft could never fly, and was said to be a “physical impossibility” by the world’s greatest scientist, Lord Kelvin. Two bicycle-makers from Ohio made the world’s scientists look like fools.
Lots of other examples where dissenters broke the existing “consensus” and showed the truth. Science needs to always be questioned, if the idea is solid, it will withstand any rigid questioning.
Similarly, concepts that NEED to be protected from rigid questioning are probably suspect.
Part of the problem is with us. WE WANT SIMPLE ANSWERS.
What happens when a politician says, “I don’t know.” (I know it is tough test since it can never happen)
What happens wen a scientist says, “I don’t know.”
I don’t know is a most proper answer for 99% of questions.
Pseudo Science bump for later...
I had brunch today not far from downtown. Several “science” marchers came in wearing their event tee shirts. They all looked like 50 yo+ Hillary voters.
Wasn’t there a consensus many years ago that the earth was flat?
Not really. At least among the ancient cultures that had ships and watched them “disappear” over the horizon.
The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough. The wisest and most cautious of us all frequently gives credit to stories which he himself is afterwards both ashamed and astonished that he could possibly think of believing.The man whom we believe is necessarily, in the things concerning which we believe him, our leader and director, and we look up to him with a certaindegree of esteem and respect. But as from admiring other people we come to wish to be admired ourselves; so from being led and directed by other people we learn to wish to become ourselves leaders and directors . . .
The desire of being believed, the desire of persuading, of leading and directing other people, seems to be one of the strongest of all our natural desires. - Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)
What happens when a politician says, I dont know.
= = =
Then, “It is a complex problem (implying you all are stupid).”
Only we ‘elites’ are smart enough to cure it.
I am absorbed in this line of thinking right now.
Everything I see relates. Even “Democracy Now.”
Direct application is Granddaughter stuck in govt schools. Her parents are ‘cool’ with the system, or stuck with it.
I’m an old Grandpa. But her parents ARE smart enough to see that the system is not consistent with itself. Got to keep going (and praying) ...
Secondary application is me and wife’s lives. Not retirement as advertised.
The Bible/Word of God is more REAL each day. It is increasingly the ONLY solid TRUE foundation in my life. And that takes us to Revelations ... which WILL come to pass.
‘Life is what happens when you are busy making plans.’
(Which I have been crediting to John Lennon, but Googling suggests older sources ... will search and adjust credits as necessary.)
The left will change its tune on abortion in the same manner India (the world’s largest democracy) did when it became clear that “undesirable” children (in India’s case, females) were being deliberately aborted on that basis alone. When it becomes clear that Americans are doing the same thing (and they may be; a skewed male:female ratio I noticed decades ago when I was in grade school seems to be repeating itself in my children’s classes), then unborn babies will be “human” - but only the female ones (or if a “gay gene” is ever discovered, they’ll be human as well).
Consensus is not part of the scientific method. Consensus is often wrong.
The consensus was that manned supersonic flight was impossible.
Uncles Mao, Adolf, Stalin and others all had consensus.
IMHO
There is, FWIW, a "science" surrounding manipulation of the masses. It is trivially easy to mislead people.
But the left never lies.
They care about the children.
They love America.
They never commits crimes or bend the rules.
They are never hypocrites or illogical..?
So, therefore man made Global Warming, i mean Climate Change, must be fact.
And if it is a fact then must be taxed!
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