Ah...Hegelian-speak! ...They cannot be rebuilt by consensus.
You of course realize that the word synthesis is older than Hegel?
Do you shun plants because they engage in photosynthesis?
Even useful hardware comes from synthesis -- e.g., photo+copier.
Whole ideas spring from the synthesis of theory with experimentation. Enormous progress springs from joining academic inquiry with empirical experience. It's not all the result of thesis and antithesis you know. Better yet, check your dictionary. Your definition is a late addition and hasn't rendered the original meaning obsolete. (Just as my life has not lost all gaity because I'm not homosexual<G>)
I pray you get my, er, drift. See, even analogies and metaphors (like "beat a dead horse" comes to mind for some reason) rely on synthesis of a current situation with a vivid image. My life and writing would sure be dull without them.
And come to think of it. Just which one of us responding like the Hegelian student here? <G> Perhaps you've become the anti-Hegelian? You've been studying it so long you've adopted a Hegelian view-point of all processes? Better be careful there -- your ideas may be coalesced and absorbed into the basis of the next thesis. <G>
Look, without a predetermined outcome, the synthesis of which I wrote had to with sparking new inspiration, not excision and elimination so as not to interfere with a predetermined goal.
Now, after all that, instead of a negative response, perhaps following my suggestion to compare and contrast those two links for common and uncommon ideas just could be safe? <G>
I was joking. Some might think that is a rare event. Not joking, however about the following:
Rom 6:16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
Remember the old time cartoon of an angel on one shoulder and a devil on the other? America has yielded itself continually for a long time to various forms of idolatry in its worship of Mammon -- hedonism, materialism, pride, selfishness, and every evil and sexual perversity under the sun. The few who remain who want good are appalled to see the country given over to socialist monsters who are not interested in the public good but in totalitarianism and slavery. Those one worlders will embrace their false prophet, Islam, and require that the whole world worship their beast system and will put a boot to the head of all resistors. As long as the Power Elite silence or eliminate the ones who expose their lies, writing to one's Congressmen is a waste of time. Congressmen should be renamed Transgressors...they have kicked out good and love their Barabbas to whom they bow.
The rich men of the earth who hide out in the Caymans enjoying their ill-gotten gains should party hard and enjoy every fresh breeze they can. Where they are ultimately going is going to be Hot and forever. One of the founders said of the republic..."if you can keep it" or something like that. America didn't keep it. There are serious consequences. Consensus may be comforting, but it is probably too late. Even Lot had to leave town.
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