“They saw their injured country's woe;
The flaming town, the wasted field;
Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, - but left the shield.”
―Philip Freneau
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And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?
Archilochus
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
The Inherent Hypocrisy of Relativism
When the Disempowered Take Power, Why Does the Left STOP Protesting Injustices Against the Recently Disempowered?
As the Greeks used to say, "Help your friends, punish your enemies!"
On the reason for Absolutism's turgidity, for "absolutes" belong only to the world of "forms" (each "form" with its' own unique "horizon" in our "sensible" world)
ergo 1 cannot equal "1", for if it did, it would be "2".
"Pleasant forms of hypocrisy -- it used to be called 'politeness' -- are vastly preferable to rudely aggressive forms of sincerity. If it weren't for hypocrisy, it would not be possible to have any society at all. We'd all be living in the jungle."
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Please do a post on The Turgid Tautology of Absolutism one of these days.
No one could do better that to post a copy of Plato's "Parmenides"
On the reason for Absolutism's turgidity, for "absolutes" belong only to the world of "forms" (each "form" with its' own unique "horizon" in our "sensible" world)
ergo 1 cannot equal "1", for if it did, it would be "2".
A now-infamous lady named Bright
Once exceeded the speed of light.
She traveled all day
In a relative way,
And returned on the preceding night!
~ Attributed to Albert Einstein
"Pleasant forms of hypocrisy -- it used to be called 'politeness' -- are vastly preferable to rudely aggressive forms of sincerity. If it weren't for hypocrisy, it would not be possible to have any society at all. We'd all be living in the jungle."
~ Medusa de Prave
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