"Evolutionary Theory to Disappear from Science Textbooks"

[Gansie]

I genuinely don't understand how you can be a reactionary and claim to be open-minded. Isn't that a contradiction?
If you are against progress, then how can you accept anything? Do you reject the sewer system designed by "progressive" Romans and the increase in life-expectancy that followed? Do you reject the abolishment of the feudal system? Do you reject that women have equal rights? Is there a specific decade in which you choose to get "stuck" in? I'm sincerely curious about this idealogy?

And back to the point of this thread: Shouldn't students have the right to at least learn about evolution before they can reject it? If you are concerned about people who just conform without thinking, why does that mean you wish to deny them the right to think at all?

And if you are against progress and the introduction of new values, why are you in Korea? Aren't you stepping on the territory of Korean reactionists?

If evolution is proven to be wrong, scientist will surely be surprised, but then they will move on - progress....

This warps my fragile little mind!

[confusedsafferinkorea]

I have a bad feeling about this thread...

Happy weekend everyone.   

[Alphonsus Jr.]

I genuinely don't understand how you can be a reactionary and claim to be open-minded. Isn't that a contradiction?

Etc. etc. etc.

I understand where you're coming from. Today's processing has led most - namely, the processed legions- to believe all this with all their hearts. And being sentimentalists, they believe that the strength of their feelings is sufficient proof of their rectitude. 

But in fact it's the opposite of a contradiction.

The liberal's mind is so open that his brains have fallen out. He's lost his mind. He's not open-minded. He's lost-minded.

True openness requires discrimination. Constantly discriminating by sweeping away the clouds (error) from his vision of the sun (truth), the reactionary is truly open-minded. For true openness demands that one's eyes be fixed only upon the truth. Openness to error thus isn't openness at all, but decadence.

I don't feel like answering the rest of your questions, as it'd mean writing as essay.

But as for the best time, it was clearly the 13th century. (Notice how wild this suggestion is to those processed by the myth of progress and the chronological snobbery it breeds! Incomprehensible!)

You seem like you might just be open-minded, so I'll suggest the following reading:

http://www.amazon.com/thirteenth-greatest-centuries-James-Joseph/dp/1172793107/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1

http://www.amazon.com/Those-Terrible-Middle-Ages-Debunking/dp/0898707811/ref=pd_sim_b_1


http://www.amazon.com/Another-Sort-Learning-James-Schall/dp/089870183X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1337362269&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Perplexed-E-F-Schumacher/dp/0060906111/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1337362301&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.com/Brave-New-World-Aldous-Huxley/dp/0060850523/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1337362329&sr=1-1

Regarding that last one, notice how prophetic Huxley was. Look around. Notice:

-Men without chests
-Barren wombs
-Laboratory babies
-"Compassionate" killing
-All entertainment, all the time
-All sex, all the time
-Children sexualized
-Mass permanent adolescence
-Mass shamelessness
-Mass chronological snobbery
-Screens everywhere
-Silence intolerable
-Roses bred without any scent
-Plastic faces
-Plastic souls
-Infants murdered on the sacrificial altar of Choice and Convenience
-Mustapha Mond elected President

Not to mention that more people have been killed in the last century alone than in all previous centuries combined.

Progress? Is somebody kidding?

Welcome to the brave new world.

Wonderful!

[wrinklebump]

alphonsosaurus, 13th century europe (to which i imagine you are specifically referring) is recognized as a wellspring of profound thought in medicine, art and philosophy. the first book on your list is indeed a must read. but soreeyes with spare time might lazily argue that other civilizations, at their apex, were comparable analogues. alphonsosaurus, why are the ordered merchant societies of the islamic states circa 1000 inferior choices with regards to the preferred state of human civilization?

[woman-king]

I genuinely don't understand how you can be a reactionary and claim to be open-minded. Isn't that a contradiction?

Etc. etc. etc.

I understand where you're coming from. Today's processing has led most - namely, the processed legions- to believe all this with all their hearts. And being sentimentalists, they believe that the strength of their feelings is sufficient proof of their rectitude. 

But in fact it's the opposite of a contradiction.

The liberal's mind is so open that his brains have fallen out. He's lost his mind. He's not open-minded. He's lost-minded.

True openness requires discrimination. Constantly discriminating by sweeping away the clouds (error) from his vision of the sun (truth), the reactionary is truly open-minded. For true openness demands that one's eyes be fixed only upon the truth. Openness to error thus isn't openness at all, but decadence.

I don't feel like answering the rest of your questions, as it'd mean writing as essay.

But as for the best time, it was clearly the 13th century. (Notice how wild this suggestion is to those processed by the myth of progress and the chronological snobbery it breeds! Incomprehensible!)

You seem like you might just be open-minded, so I'll suggest the following reading:

http://www.amazon.com/thirteenth-greatest-centuries-James-Joseph/dp/1172793107/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1

http://www.amazon.com/Those-Terrible-Middle-Ages-Debunking/dp/0898707811/ref=pd_sim_b_1


http://www.amazon.com/Another-Sort-Learning-James-Schall/dp/089870183X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1337362269&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Perplexed-E-F-Schumacher/dp/0060906111/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1337362301&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.com/Brave-New-World-Aldous-Huxley/dp/0060850523/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1337362329&sr=1-1

Regarding that last one, notice how prophetic Huxley was. Look around. Notice:

-Men without chests
-Barren wombs
-Laboratory babies
-"Compassionate" killing
-All entertainment, all the time
-All sex, all the time
-Children sexualized
-Mass permanent adolescence
-Mass shamelessness
-Mass chronological snobbery
-Screens everywhere
-Silence intolerable
-Roses bred without any scent
-Plastic faces
-Plastic souls
-Infants murdered on the sacrificial altar of Choice and Convenience
-Mustapha Mond elected President

Not to mention that more people have been killed in the last century alone than in all previous centuries combined.

Progress? Is somebody kidding?

Welcome to the brave new world.

Wonderful!

Huxley would never have advocated excessive state control of free will to create anyone's version of utopia--even his own.  If you didn't get that part, you didn't get Huxley.   

But seriously, the fact that you're moving to South Korea to escape all this is erroneous on your part.  You'd be better off moving to Louisiana or Mississippi.  Korea is rapidly developing and modernizing, and their rates of things like divorce and abortion are increasing while their marriage and birth rates are dropping.  Their adjustment to the modern world will probably be, in your views, "worse" than in the United States where, if you haven't noticed, a Republican nominee candidate with views and beliefs matching your own did pretty well in the states I mentioned, and a few others. 

If you're just trollin' for good times, well, you've definitely done your homework or have a very real background with the sort of people you impersonate.

[hilarity ensues]

More people are also being born than ever before.

Torture is on a decline and is generally abhorred by the general public, and this:

http://www.medievality.com/torture.html

has become unthinkable.

Wars are happening on a much smaller scale than they have ever been before in history-- the great powers never fight anymore.