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Re: Reality just completely broke. This...um...this... *holds head*
« Reply #25 on: January 09, 2009, 01:21:05 PM »
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So in this example, art history is the serious major?  laugh

Yes, humanities are serious majors. You cannot understand the world around you without understanding how people before you thought.
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Re: Reality just completely broke. This...um...this... *holds head*
« Reply #26 on: January 09, 2009, 01:25:27 PM »
Yes, humanities are serious majors. You cannot understand the world around you without understanding how people before you thought.

This is a very succint and intelligent means of explaining the importance of any number of subjects.

It's a shame no one believes that in the public schools.
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Re: Reality just completely broke. This...um...this... *holds head*
« Reply #27 on: January 09, 2009, 03:22:08 PM »
It gets worse.

They are putting the "Hope" poster in the Smithsonian.

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Re: Reality just completely broke. This...um...this... *holds head*
« Reply #28 on: January 09, 2009, 04:04:59 PM »
This is a very succint and intelligent means of explaining the importance of any number of subjects.

It's a shame no one believes that in the public schools.

I went to a private school after age 14 for a damn good reason. My parents contributed more to my education than the public schools did before that - or, to be frank, than the private school did, too.
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Re: Reality just completely broke. This...um...this... *holds head*
« Reply #29 on: January 09, 2009, 09:00:24 PM »
I always thought Spidey boy sucked anyway....A pox on the Marvel house and Stan Lee can now officially kiss my....

The only thing he still writes is the daily newspaper strip.

I don't think Spidey sucks, he's just a misguided do-gooder without any especially cool powers or weaknesses. That's one thing Stan got right most of the time, a superhero/villain seems much more interesting and human with weaknesses, life problems, and ego.


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Re: Reality just completely broke. This...um...this... *holds head*
« Reply #30 on: January 09, 2009, 10:29:01 PM »
Yes, humanities are serious majors. You cannot understand the world around you without understanding how people before you thought.
Then how is it that most  humanities majors don't understand squat about the world around them?

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Re: Reality just completely broke. This...um...this... *holds head*
« Reply #31 on: January 10, 2009, 02:23:09 AM »
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Then how is it that most  humanities majors don't understand squat about the world around them?

He said something about understanding your predecessors, not anything about your contemporaries.

Why do you think most journalism students argue about the 1st Amendment being supreme while failing to grasp that the 2nd Amendment insures that they have the right to spout their bull?

It is really a shame that lots of these people can't do a little time in a place that would strip them of the rights so that they could understand exactly what it is that they are trying so hard to destroy.

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"No, I have the truth."

"Have you cleared it?"

"What?"

"They have guns, you don't. You die and the truth never comes out."

"This is the land of the free."

"Free to say what we approve."

and on and on...

you get the idea

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Re: Reality just completely broke. This...um...this... *holds head*
« Reply #32 on: January 10, 2009, 09:45:39 AM »
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Why do you think most journalism students argue about the 1st Amendment being supreme while failing to grasp that the 2nd Amendment insures that they have the right to spout their bull?

Leftism. And see below:

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Then how is it that most  humanities majors don't understand squat about the world around them?

There are people who take humanities because they feel they need to have some form of BA and because they think that is 'easier'. I know these people, but frankly that's just because they're idiots. They don't count.

You cannot understand what the modern Democratic Party is about or where it came from if you haven't familiarized yourself, at least on a superficial level, with guys like Lester Ward and the Populist movement of the late 19th century. Nor can you really understand the Founding Fathers without learning about the intellectual, social, and yes, religious climate they formed their ideas in.

Yes, some people think that if they read a few books, they're going to be just the same as a guy with a degree in history. Which is about the same as me saying I'm as good as Walter Williams because I read a dozen books in economics – nonsense.
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Re: Reality just completely broke. This...um...this... *holds head*
« Reply #33 on: January 10, 2009, 09:55:50 AM »
"The true mad scientist does not make public appearances! He does not wear the "Hello, my name is.." badge!
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Re: Reality just completely broke. This...um...this... *holds head*
« Reply #34 on: January 10, 2009, 10:45:53 AM »
Then how is it that most  humanities majors don't understand squat about the world around them?

Yeah, it's only the engineers and scientists who get it.  Because they're all up on all the latest news and complex mathematics yield sensible political positions.

The problem is that many critics don't actually read the work that is conducted in the various fields that comprise "humanities", and so they conclude that it's not intellectually rigorous.  It's an interesting irony, having these commentators accusing other people of not understanding the world because the commentators themselves don't understand what's going on.
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Re: Reality just completely broke. This...um...this... *holds head*
« Reply #35 on: January 10, 2009, 05:20:26 PM »
Are you a humanities student, SS?

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Re: Reality just completely broke. This...um...this... *holds head*
« Reply #36 on: January 11, 2009, 07:22:53 AM »
Are you a humanities student, SS?

;)

No.  Better: I'm an attorney.
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"Human existence being an hallucination containing in itself the secondary hallucinations of day and night (the latter an insanitary condition of the atmosphere due to accretions of black air) it ill becomes any man of sense to be concerned at the illusory approach of the supreme hallucination known as death."

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Re: Reality just completely broke. This...um...this... *holds head*
« Reply #37 on: January 11, 2009, 08:35:55 AM »
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It is much more powerful to seek Truth for one's self.  Seeing and hearing that others seem to have found it can be a motivation.  With me, I was drawn because of much error and bad judgment on my part. Confronting one's own errors and bad judgment is a very life altering situation.  Confronting the errors and bad judgment of others is usually hypocrisy.


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Re: Reality just completely broke. This...um...this... *holds head*
« Reply #38 on: January 11, 2009, 11:22:34 AM »
Aw, come on. They can't all be evil.  =D

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Re: Reality just completely broke. This...um...this... *holds head*
« Reply #39 on: January 11, 2009, 09:21:23 PM »
Aw, come on. They can't all be evil.  =D

Well it would seem statistically unlikely anyway.  =D
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Re: Reality just completely broke. This...um...this... *holds head*
« Reply #40 on: January 11, 2009, 10:09:14 PM »
Spidey is an Obamanoid??

 Where'd I put that can of Black Flag, anyway??.... 

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Re: Reality just completely broke. This...um...this... *holds head*
« Reply #41 on: January 12, 2009, 02:26:59 AM »
Well it would seem statistically unlikely anyway.  =D

They probably got some "advice" before publishing the stats, I imagine :)
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