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September 11th, 2012, 9:20 am
(quote not shown) What broke these ideas free for me was learning that sovereign equates to necessary and that subject equates to contingent. Objectivity does not actually exist because it is premised upon an absense of presupposition. Any explicit attempt to deny presuppositional reasoning implictl...
September 10th, 2012, 8:48 pm
Bermudj wrote:To me all very subjective.
That's quite the redundancy. Or would that be a tautology?
September 9th, 2012, 12:59 pm
Any attempt to explicitly deny the existence of truth implicly affirms its existence. That truth exists is axiomatic. The existence of truth is literally deniable; however, it is not logically deniable.-- Updated September 9th, 2012, 12:59 pm to add the following --Any attempt to explicitly deny the...
September 8th, 2012, 8:55 pm
[quote="TheCalvinistPastor"]Hello, I would like to get some input from the varying different worldviews here. Currently I am having a discussion with a friend about Morality. He asserts that there is NO ABSOLUTE standard for morality, yet at the same time, asserts that morality exists, and...
September 8th, 2012, 8:41 pm
(quote not shown) Being is actualized existence. Many ideas exist that have the potential to be actuaized. Many ideas exist that do not have the potential to be actuaized. Being actually exists. Inanimate objects actually exist; they have being. Unicorns exist in as much that we can discuss them and...
September 8th, 2012, 11:43 am
Quotidian wrote:You lost me at 'twisty'.
Being is actualized existence. Existence is not necessarily an object, being is.
-- Updated September 8th, 2012, 11:50 am to add the following --
Quotidian wrote:You lost me at 'twisty'.
Being is actualized existence. Existence is not necessarily an object, being is.
September 7th, 2012, 6:45 pm
Godless Truth wrote:Belinda,
The definition of truth is very clear; it can be demonstrated, it can be observed of its reasonable, rational and critically assessed existence.
Truth is that which corresponds to its predicate.
September 6th, 2012, 1:05 pm
To consider anything that comes from another human being to be a right is to redefine a right. Such a redefinition fundamentally redefines the US. There is one hundred and eighty degrees of difference between a nation of people endowed by their Creator with certain and inalienable rights and a natio...
September 6th, 2012, 9:45 am
There are two types of intellect: necessary-intellect and contingent-intellect. The OP describes a necessary-intellect. A person is a being with intellect-emotion-will. Intellect alone is not personal; no person is simple intellect. Again, a person is a complex of intellect, emotion and will. Ask mo...
September 6th, 2012, 8:15 am
Any attempt to explicitly deny the existence of truth implicitly affirms its existence.
September 6th, 2012, 8:08 am
HANDSON wrote:
Engagement doesn't necessarily require one to obtain a status job. One can participate, be a contributing factor in social/political dialogue while eking out a living working at McDonald's. In fact a no-brainer job allows one to put his/her energies into what really matters.
I grant you, the life-style isn't for everyone, but there are sustainable low-impact ways of living appealing to many that counter the insidious material excesses so prevalent today. For the astute, knowledge is available for the maintenance of a good life with out 'marketable skills'.
I would continue to maintain that what the world needs is original thinkers, not corporate drones, and one can still obtain the kind of education that leads to such enlightenment and for those who do its not simply about matriculation.
Marketable skills equate to skills that have value to others. Six of our seventeen laborers have soft degrees, so do four of our sixteen masons.
Denise and I live on less, much less, than we give away.
September 4th, 2012, 7:21 pm
HANDSON wrote:Perhaps one of the weaknesses of our educational system is that the career minded student and the university in need of those student dollars lead to the development of curricula, essentially training programs, to satisfy corporate, business needs. This situation leads to graduates with weak or non existent liberal arts background.
Understanding history, philosophy, literature, the arts leads to a well-rounded graduate albeit not necessarily one with 'job training', but one arguably capable of understanding and coming to grips with contemporary social, political, cultural issues. These are the people with the capacity to solve the problems we face.
So goes the argument above; in practice however, many of these thinkers are left to try to solve the problem of not having marketable skills.
Build your barn before your house.
Too many are left to believe that a credential is the solution to too many problems
September 4th, 2012, 7:57 am
Few pursue an education; most pursue a credential. Most university students, when asked about their university experience, will tell me about their matriculation not their education. As an employer, this indicates that they will most likely matriculate through their carreers also. Out here, in the r...
September 4th, 2012, 7:43 am
Agricultural technologies have had a disproportionate affect on the attributes listed above. All of the same arguments can be employed against Ag. Tech. We have not become stronger or weaker; what we consider a strength or a weakness has changed. Sanitation technologies doubled human life span in le...
August 26th, 2012, 9:45 pm
Maldon007 wrote:
You might want to re-read that.
I'll stand by that.