Michael Rich Loc: Lapine Oregon

You'll will never know the love of having a baby you've made...its different.

Seth

...says the butter knife.

Michael Rich Loc: Lapine Oregon

Yes he did, and I was so scared that Rosie O'Donnell would step in.

I mean that makes as much sense as his prediction.

kemmer

For 35 years I’ve had 30+ children in my care and under my instruction 6 hours a day. That is quite sufficient, thanks.

Michael Rich Loc: Lapine Oregon

It's not the same. Do you celebrate all of their birthdays, weddings, Christmas?

Singularity

I have birth children, step children, fostered children and a couple twins I actually legally kidnapped.

Love is love, limited only by a lack of imagination or a certain type of heartlessness.

I don't celebrate Christmas but all seasonal gifts are still gratefully demanded.

straightUp Loc: California

This is a description of a stereotype. Do all intellectuals fall into this stereotype? No. In fact the strongest challenges to intellectuals are from other intellectuals. This is because intellectuals have the capacity to argue, but its frustrating for non-intellectuals who don't. For these people, it becomes a matter of who they trust which is something that is easily exploited, something that religious and political authorities have been doing throughout human history.

So a population of non-intellectuals who can't think for themselves and therefore depend on trusting the thoughts of others winds up being an opportunity for those others to misguide them. Paul Johnson is one of those opportunists and if he can discredit intellectuals in the minds of the unthinking, then he essentially perpetuating their intellectual disability leaving them powerless to do anything but trust and follow.

I advocate the opposite. I think everyone is capable of intelligence, they just need to stop listening to people who try to classify intellectuals as the enemy and start learning how to think like an intellectual.

Of course the challenge is daunting because learning how to think isn't as easy nor does it appeal to the emotions that drive us as much as jumping on a bandwagon does.

Singularity

Nice analysis.

Now prepare for incoming.......

Seth

That sounds like 30+ young minds being indoctrinated to grow up as the American wing of Komsomol or the Communist Youth.

straightUp Loc: California

LOL - I know, right?

Cuda2020

That's because logic and reason is there first go to. You really can't get there through logic. Reason yes, we can reason ourselves into anything, logic...nope, it's at the complete other end of the spectrum and I don't mean that in any way offensively, it's just the way of it.

Dwight Logan

I recently had a psychologist give me an iq ytest. When it was over he told me that my iq was the same as Einstein's. I said ...and... He said that Einstein would not have to lie about his.

Michael Rich Loc: Lapine Oregon

When the Creator brings prophecy to happen, is sure proof of His existence.

It takes identifying ancient nations as they are today.

Iliamna1

That's because logic and reason is there first go to.

I think you meant 'their.' Otherwise that sentence makes little sense.

Cuda2020

I believe this explains the Trump die-hard followers, and why to get a civil debate is near impossible on here. Why they also are negative on public education, moving backward again to preferring only private institutions for the elite. Look at what is happening. This is not how we strengthen a free country it is how we suppress the people of a country. They are not trying to lift people up, their goal is to hold them down.

If they were for the betterment of the country, higher education would be offered for thr public. Other countries are gaining great strides ahead of us, we still have done nothing to improve our standard with the rest of the world.