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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: koan who wrote (44002)	9/3/2008 7:41:08 AM
From: lorne	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224718

koan...Read your life story..very interesting but I'm not sure why my talk about weak minds tending to congregate within the liberal democratic party brought on this response? ...."Your reality is set and so is mine. There is no way I can change your mind or you mine. My story:".... I am certainly not trying to change your mind...however I can change my mind when logic convinces me I need to. I do not belong to any political party nor have I ever belonged to any political party...guess that I consider part of my personal freedom...I am free to change my mind if I choose to. It is I believe unfortunate when one is unable to change their minds...sort of like indoctrination is complete. ...."Let me try a little logic on you and see what you think. We are a secualr democracy. So if we start teaching creationism alongside evolution in the schools which religious version do we teach?"... Not sure what your question has to do with my comments that weak minds tend to gravitate to the liberal democratic party but what the heck..why not give an answer and maybe upset someone. :-) I am non religious and favour none of them but I do believe they serve a very important need for some people. I personally don't believe that any religion should be taught in any public tax funded schools. When an infant is born into a religion they are taught certain life ways which they believe to be true and facts...they have no choice they believe what they have been taught...big problem with islam terror today. It is unfortunate that children can not grow to adulthood and then decide what if any religion they wish to belong to. And again I feel for anyone who is so set in there ways that even logic can not cause them to change their ways.

To: koan who wrote (44002)	9/3/2008 9:06:02 AM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224718

Let me boil it down: You learned to throw around pseudo-intellectual catch-phrases and now you're a full-fledged member of the liberal academic elite. The great ideas of Plato, Sartre, Camus, Watts, Tolstoy, Baudelaire, Hesse, Huxley, Voltaire, Malreaux - you realize not all these guys had the same "great" ideas, don't you? Try reading Thomas Sowell, The Vision of the Annointed or a Conflict of Visions. Go slow and try to understand it.