If I asked you........

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-17-2008
If I asked you........
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Fri, 10-24-2008 - 3:08am

Who is the last group of people to say ‘History doesn’t matter.’

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iVillage Member
Registered: 10-20-2008
Sun, 10-26-2008 - 9:19pm
Being college professors doesn't make them any more intelligent for having signed such an inane petition. Just another demonstration proving tenure should be abolished.
iVillage Member
Registered: 09-25-2008
Sun, 10-26-2008 - 9:26pm

>>Being college professors doesn't make them any more intelligent for having signed such an inane petition. Just another demonstration proving tenure should be abolished.<<


Thank you so much for providing such a classic example of why the tenure concept

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-17-2008
Sun, 10-26-2008 - 11:23pm

"Nope, nope, nope.

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-17-2008
Sun, 10-26-2008 - 11:45pm

"Bombing is a tactic, not a philosophy or point of view. "


I agree. I wasn't calling him a Stalinist because of the bombing.

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-17-2008
Mon, 10-27-2008 - 12:31am

"Please provide a link to a credible source that shows that Ayers wants "economical/political social cleansing."

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-20-2008
Mon, 10-27-2008 - 1:33am

>>> So, he is not an anarchist like Ayers.

I don't believe so. You're the first person to make that allegation that he is.

>>> Your "view" of anarchy speak for themselves.

Well, I hope so...otherwise what was the point of having written all those words?

>>> "First, there’s your naïve interpretation of the definition of “anarchy.” You make it sound like Eden, with people living in harmony, unconstrained by laws and government when, in fact, that state is qualified by the preceding definition of “disorder”…and “chaos.” So, the alternative is pro government, right?

Well, that's pretty generic, but yes.

>>> Wouldn't you be for the Authoritarian style of government mileaimn?

No.

>>> The problem is you have two candidates that want to grow government but in different areas. Which direction would you prefer?

McCain isn't trying to grow government but Obama certainly is. Government has it's purpose, but I want less of it IN my life.

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>>> Maybe you should inform yourself about different forms of ideology.

So I can tell if someone doesn't support anarchy it doesn't automatically mean they support authoritarianism? LOL!

>>> I think another poster suggest the importance of information and higher education.

I guess it hadn't occurred to you before they mentioned it?

>>> No one said Marx was an anarchist but there is such a thing as libertarian socialism which is a form of anarchy with a twist of lime. It is very anti Stalin's or Lenin's ideology unless Ghandi or Einstein were closet commies LOL. http://www.geocities.com/capitolhill/1931/secI1.html

Um…yeah, you kinda did when you grouped Marxism and anarchy together as a single identity…”BTW, Anarchist/Maxist is not the same as Lenin or Stalin.”

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>>> I take it he cares about human conditions.

So far, the only “human condition” I’ve seen Obama be concerned with is Obama’s.

>>> I can't imagine what it must be like to be living in some of the European countries who tend to be much more socialist than us or Canada for that matter. Do they have red stars in their homes?

No, they just have people waiting months to see a doctor.

>>> I see you answered that Obama was more Authoritarian than McCain. Unique position,

Not really…Obama wants more government control over people’s lives…that makes him “more authoritarian” than McCain.

>>> but McCain is less of a conservative fundamentalist than most of his counterparts and probably why so many of his party loath him.

Actually, “many of his party loath him” because, unlike Obama, he votes his conscience instead of his party.

>>> What is a fundamentalist to do? I know you have defended Bush many times, so I see you are in support for this type of Authoritarian government. Would you like McCain to be more Authoritarian like Bush, or less so like Obama?

Actually, Obama is “more authoritarian” than either Bush or McCain…but your confusion makes it pretty clear that you don’t’ really understand the definition of “authoritarian.” I little research might help clear that up.

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>>> We agree. McCain has flip flopped all over the place so it is hard to know what his real stance is on numerous issues.

McCain has been consistent in his views except where the facts have changed…unlike Barry, who flips and flops, almost on a daily basis, depending on which way the political wind is blowing. Say, did you see the neat flag pin he’s been sporting? LOL!

>>> Some people like the old McCain while others like the new reinvented version compliments of Cato and company.

I prefer any version of McCain, to the corrupt, racist, anti-American, radical, lying, inexperienced elitist that is Obama.

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-20-2008
Mon, 10-27-2008 - 1:59am

>>> Thus far you've been the only person who claimed you'd actually pull your children out of a top notch University if you discovered they had a teacher who signed a petition. How ironic that you claim any one *else* here thinks they can control what their college age kids think (reference again for anyone who missed it earlier, from post #26 in this thread)

No, not a single wacko-lib teacher, I believe I actually said "haven". If there was only one fringe-dweller, I'd simply make sure that my kid was never subjected to his/her radicalism.

>>For myself, I think that it’s better not to wait until your children are in college to teach them values.<<

>>> I asked once before, but will do again....who has suggested they will wait until their children are in college to teach them values?

The one who seems to suggest that's where they'll learn about values...and "make up their own minds."

>>A church that espouses non-belief beliefs. Interesting...but no thank you.<<

>>> No worries, pluralism isn't for everyone.

Ok

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-17-2008
Mon, 10-27-2008 - 2:01am

"Hey! He was "just a guy from the neighborhood." "


iVillage Member
Registered: 10-17-2008
Mon, 10-27-2008 - 2:07am
"Call me biased but seeing the following heading I lost interest...

Thoughts Of A Conservative Christian"

You don’t find the video of an FBI agent testifying under oath credible?

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-20-2008
Mon, 10-27-2008 - 2:39am

>>> *sigh* and so, proving my point.

That liberals do not espouse morals and values? An argument easily won.

< You may feel differently, but personally, I'd want my kid to go to school to get an education, not an indoctrination.

>>> Exposure to many different viewpoints IS an education.

So is trying lots of drugs, going to prison or trying a stint as a prostitute. There are some kinds of "education" that I'm not interested in subjecting my kids to.

>>> If you've given them the foundation of morals and values you so passionately espouse, why would hearing other views and ideas be such a danger to them? Why would you fear that they wouldn't, in the end, choose the "right" way of thinking?

Ask the German people, circa 1936...or the folks from Heaven's Gate...or Obama's supporters.

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