So you want to help people-you see the media images of the starving and destitute, read about the mass scale of human suffering in the world-and you want to "make a differance", to do something to help. That is a noble sentiment. It is something conservatives and liberals agree on.
However, liberals and conservatives do not usually agree on the means to these noble ends. As for myself, I favor addressing the root causes of these symptoms with far more resources than we use right now. Most of our time and money is spent on addressing the symptoms. We send money and food to the starving and homeless. We give those things that destitute and sick people need right away. That is good. But the problem doesn't go away, and in many instances, becomes worse.
Friday, August 26, 2011
Discredit the Left Now
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discredit the left,
left wing ideology,
the left
Thoughts inspired by reason, objectivity, and faith!
Monday, June 13, 2011
How To Profit From the Death Panels
A Horrible Consequence of Socialized Medicine!
"How to Profit From Death Panels", by forensic psychologist Helen Smith
Dr. Smith's latest blog entry goes into chilling detail about one of the consequences of a free lunch, er uh a free health care system.
Dr. Smith's blog is interesting, well written and designed, and informative.
Seniors should take note here: the death panels will be an objective reality.
"How to Profit From Death Panels", by forensic psychologist Helen Smith
Dr. Smith's latest blog entry goes into chilling detail about one of the consequences of a free lunch, er uh a free health care system.
Dr. Smith's blog is interesting, well written and designed, and informative.
Seniors should take note here: the death panels will be an objective reality.
Labels:
death panels,
Dr. Helen Smith,
ObamaCare,
socialized medicine
Thoughts inspired by reason, objectivity, and faith!
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Just In: Christians are Stupid
Despite 2 millenia of having, for the most part, turned the world from barbarism and savagery to reason and faith, Christianity is still looked upon by its critics as shameful and suspect. For example, for two thousand years or more, it is has been generally accepted by the Christian community as a whole that homosexuality is a sin, which means: if you engage in this behavior, you are distancing yourself from God.
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gay marriage
Thoughts inspired by reason, objectivity, and faith!
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
On Music
First of all, please remember that music is marketed in the same basic process as any other product. What you see on the CD labels, commercials, advertisements and programs is designed to appeal to a specific audience. If the packaging appeals to a specific audience-if the marketing succeeds-then everyone involved in the production of the music wins. They make money, which is a good thing.
But, many times you will read a music critic blast a musician for "selling out", by which the critic usually means the musician has written music that appeals to a large number of people. This is "pop music", and a sure fire way to tell if someone's a sell out, as if the musician were a greedy charlatan instead of a true artist.
But, many times you will read a music critic blast a musician for "selling out", by which the critic usually means the musician has written music that appeals to a large number of people. This is "pop music", and a sure fire way to tell if someone's a sell out, as if the musician were a greedy charlatan instead of a true artist.
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music,
music critics,
pop music
Thoughts inspired by reason, objectivity, and faith!
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Social Justice
WHAT IS SOCIAL JUSTICE? If anything, it is an abstract, vague, and ultimately, meaningless term. How can two abstract words like social and justice be linked together in any coherently objective way? They can not... "social justice" means whatever any particular individual says it means, since it is an idea in someone's imagination of how the world should be. Who decides what is "socially" just or not?
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social justice
Thoughts inspired by reason, objectivity, and faith!
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