24 Aug 16
If you please, complete the phrase and then describe how futile or what merit and meaning it has.
I guess I'll start.
The war on ignorance is futile since each successive generation is doomed to learn the lessons of their predecessors. Knowledge may be passed along, but experience is an individual endeavor. Thus history repeats itself, and there's nothing new under the sun.
24 Aug 16
Originally posted by josephwThe War On Doubt.
If you please, complete the phrase and then describe how futile or what merit and meaning it has.
And yet doubt is good. It's healthy. And it's quintessentially human. An ability to change one's mind should be seen as a virtue. Ideology seeks to eradicate doubt, deliberation and choice.
But doubt is mostly anathema to the Movers & Shakers.
Let's hope the War On Doubt never succeeds.
24 Aug 16
Originally posted by josephwI meant it exactly as written.
Don't know what you mean. There's no hidden agenda. If that's what you're suggesting. If you don't want to play along...
"The war on" is a head fake (misdirection, a non-substantive populist clause intended to give an impression of massive coordinated action).
24 Aug 16
Originally posted by josephwGod.
If you please, complete the phrase and then describe how futile or what merit and meaning it has.
I guess I'll start.
The war on ignorance is futile since each successive generation is doomed to learn the lessons of their predecessors. Knowledge may be passed along, but experience is an individual endeavor. Thus history repeats itself, and there's nothing new under the sun.
Not our God, your God, my God, but, all Gods. God is dead and Science and Ignorance war over the corpse.
24 Aug 16
Originally posted by FMFWhat do you mean "the war on doubt"? Why would anyone want to stop anyone from doubting? Doubting is a personal choice just as is believing.
The War On Doubt.
And yet doubt is good. It's healthy. And it's quintessentially human. An ability to change one's mind should be seen as a virtue. Ideology seeks to eradicate doubt, deliberation and choice.
But doubt is mostly anathema to the Movers & Shakers.
Let's hope the War On Doubt never succeeds.
If anything I think there's a war on believing.
24 Aug 16
Originally posted by Hand of HecateWell, if God is dead then the war is over.
God.
Not our God, your God, my God, but, all Gods. God is dead and Science and Ignorance war over the corpse.
Satan wins and Jesus is rotting in the grave. All that's left is for everyone to die off. Maybe the universe has a mind of its own and will cause the earth to spin off its orbit into oblivion. No more war.
