Thursday, May 31, 2018

Heard it from a friend

Here is a forwarded email that makes more sense than CNN:

Subject: Fwd: Mathematical logic



Who needs logic?
Conundrum

  "A gun is like a parachute. If you need one, and don't have one, you'll probably never need one again."
The definition of the word Conundrum is: something that is puzzling or confusing.  
    
Here are six Conundrums of socialism in the United States of America :  
    
1. America is capitalist and greedy - yet half of the population is subsidized.  
    
2. Half of the population is subsidized - yet they think they are victims.  
    
3. They think they are victims - yet their representatives run the government.  
    
4. Their representatives run the government - yet the poor keep getting poorer.  
    
5. The poor keep getting poorer - yet they have things that people in other countries only dream about.  
    
6. They have things that people in other countries only dream about - yet they want America to be more like those other countries.  
    
Think about it!  And that, my friends, pretty much sums up the USA in the 21st Century.    Makes you wonder who is doing the math.  
    
These three, short sentences tell you a lot about the direction of our current government and cultural environment   :  
    
1. We are advised to NOT judge ALL Muslims by the actions of a few lunatics, but we are encouraged to judge ALL gun owners by the actions of a few lunatics.  
    
Funny how that works.  And here's another one worth considering...  
    
2. Seems we constantly hear about how Social Security is going to run out of money.  But we never hear about welfare or food stamps running out of money?  What's interesting is the first group "worked for" their money, but the second didn't.  
    
Think about it.....and Last but not least:  
    
3. Why are we cutting benefits for our veterans, no pay raises for our military and cutting our army but we are not stopping the payments or benefits to illegal aliens.  
    
Am I the only one missing something?

Sunday, May 6, 2018

The Show-Me State

Academia is devolving into an arena for truth claiming.  By this, I primarily mean that students are taught that the only valid statement is one that you can support with evidence.  On the surface this sounds like progress, not progressiveism.  In many venues, this is a good thing.  However, when we train kids to think that every statement must have accompanying evidence, we are doing a disservice to them, society and ourselves.  If I have to provide evidence that lying is morally wrong before someone agrees with the statement, we have a 'Show-me Syndrome' on our hands.  Many things do not and should not require a court case in order to be accepted as reasonable or as a fact.  When we raise a generation to require winning a debate with evidence for any and every statement, we are steering culture into a reality that excludes aspects of life for which there is no evidence.  What is love?  What is morality?  What is conscience?  What things are immeasurable? What is faith?  The Show-Me Syndrome is dangerous because demanding proof for something that is not provable.  The lack of proof does not prove something is not true.

Here are a few links I have found so far:

http://www.qcc.cuny.edu/SocialSciences/ppecorino/PHIL_of_RELIGION_TEXT/CHAPTER_5_ARGUMENTS_EXPERIENCE/Burden-of-Proof.htm