tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post3943316293438023385..comments2024-03-19T11:28:58.168-04:00Comments on History Unfolding: Bringing reason back?David Kaiserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020082243968071584noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-41178963792231015582010-07-16T20:42:22.279-04:002010-07-16T20:42:22.279-04:00Mr. Baxter,
For a person who espouses rationality ...Mr. Baxter,<br />For a person who espouses rationality as the ultimate goal, you seem strangely short of it. Your writing is filled with assertions that you treat as axioms, and I see as drivel. For example you assert that an individual or society committed to a so-called natural hierarchy of mind over body will not sanction glandular rule over reason. Well, this is a statement of extreme idealism. I can show you multitudinous examples of our most rational persons who succombed to glandular rule. The evidence outweighs your theories.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-13002613405684464302010-07-16T20:34:59.654-04:002010-07-16T20:34:59.654-04:00For a person who espouses rationality as the ultim...For a person who espouses rationality as the ultimate goal, you seem strangely short of it.DAnglerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15640249980275890593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-58862938862074658852009-04-22T09:02:00.000-04:002009-04-22T09:02:00.000-04:00The defenders of homosexuality continue the oxymor...The defenders of homosexuality continue the oxymoron<br />contradiction of attempting to use the mind to justify the <br />rule of carnal glands.<br /> <br />Thinking Americans still don't give 'a tinkers-sham' what <br />homosexuals do with their body-parts. An individual or<br />a society which is by law and tradition committed to the<br />natural human hierarchy of mind over body will not, how-<br />ever, sanction glandular rule over the human mind.<br /> <br />Undisciplined human desire can induce distorted perception.<br />The disturbed personality or inverted character can be<br />considered to be cognitively confused. This description is<br />confirmed by the work of English psychoanalyst Money-<br />Kyrle, who indicates that it is more accurate to recognize<br />such a condition as the result of distorted perception.<br /> <br />Neurosis, psychosis, stunting of growth, etc., are all, from<br />this perspective, cognitive diseases contaminating not only<br />perception but thinking, learning, remembering, valuing, and<br />decision- and choice-making.<br /> <br />Money-Kyrle affirms that scientific truth is not attained by a<br />trendy self-serving fashion, confession of inadequacy, <br />abdication, or collective majority-vote. There is no excuse for<br />professional ignorance willfully maintained.<br /> <br />By definition, a standard that is flexible is not a standard at all.<br />The human mind requires a standard of comparison that is<br />invariable. A criterion must be greater than the value measured<br />in order to supply value-meaning in a predictable direction of<br />survival and progression. The mind thus equipped is enabled <br />to maintain a natural dominion over the body and its appetites.<br />The very survival of the body itself, therefore, depends upon this <br />maintained intellectual authority. <br /> <br />Our posterity cannot respect what it does not perceive, and it<br />cannot perceive that which has been abandoned or inverted to<br />an appetite of physical expediency by the equivocal person.<br /> <br />With confidence in the laws of human nature, we can know that <br />in the clash between carnality and intellect, the 'man of the mind'<br />will always prevail. <br /><br />That is nature's way and intent all along.<br /><br />semper fidelis<br />Jim Baxter<br />Sgt. USMC<br />WWII & Korean War<br /><br />"Got Criteria?" See Psalm 119:1-176Jim Baxterhttp://www.choicemaker.net/noreply@blogger.com