Nature Sets Limits....

[Cecilie1200]

Being something like 1,500 miles of ocean water away from what you’re rebelling against was probably a contributing factor to the lesser bloodshed of the American Revolution.

Damn you’re dumb

Speaking of dumb, how about substituting split-second personal opinions for in-depth historical study, Cornball? Seems pretty dumb to ME, but then, I don't typically think with my glands like you do.

 

[Cecilie1200]

Being something like 1,500 miles of ocean water away from what you’re rebelling against was probably a contributing factor to the lesser bloodshed of the American Revolution.

Damn you’re dumb

Now that's my favorite baby killer! Her whole post went right over you tiny twisted head!

That's because Cornball thinks information, study, and introspection are wastes of time when you can just take a surface look at something and jump to an emotional conclusion and move on.

 

[Cecilie1200]

.....but Liberals don't understand that.


The greatest President in a hundred years said “It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so many things that aren't so.” So many of the doctrines and predictions on which Progressive/Liberal beliefs are built…..aren’t so.


1.With the Enlightenment came the view that mankind can do anything, can know everything, and is without limits in relation to the universe.

It gave rise to the French Revolution, and the end of religion as no longer useful: man became God. And no matter where and how often the idea came to chaos and destruction…..it persists today as communism, Progressivism, socialism, and Liberalism.




2.“April 13, 1798, was a Friday. But it was springtime in revolutionary Paris, meaning that under the Directory’s new calendar it was the twenty-forth day of the month of Germinal in the Year Six, and the next day of rest was still six days distant, not two.

Has any reform been more futile? The Government’s arrogant discard of Christianity means that weeks have been extended to ten days instead of seven. The revision’s intent is to supplant the papal calendar with a uniform alternative of twelve months of thirty days each, based on the system of ancient Egypt.

Bibles themselves were torn up to make paper gun cartridges in the grim days of 1793, and now the biblical week has been guillotined, each month instead divided into three decades of ten days, with the year, with the year beginning at the autumn equinox and five to six holidays added to balance idealism with our solar orbit. Not content with regimenting the calendar, the government has introduced a new metric system for weight and measure.

There are even proposals for a new clock of precisely 100,000 seconds each day. Reason, reason!...The new calendar is the kind of logical idea imposed by clever people that completely ignores habit, emotion, and human nature and thus forecasts the Revolution’s doom.


Your colonial revolution was one of political independence. This one in France is about the very order of life. My God, a king guillotined! Thousands sent to slaughter! Wars unleashed on every French border! Atheism enshrined! Church lands seized, debts ignored, estates confiscated, rabbles armed, riots, anarchy, and tyranny!” From the novel “Napoleon’ Pyramids,” by William Dietrich


3. Bolsheviks claimed descent: “Historians of the French Revolution, which the Russians saw as a model for their own…”
Bolshevik Festivals, 1917–1920



4. When reason and science became the replacement for religion and morality, one of the limits on mankind had been reached. How many times must we realize that science can tell us what we can do, not what we should do?

5. When religion was attacked and terror became government policy, in the course of France's short revolution, 600,000 French citizens were killed, and another 145,000 fled the country. Schom, "Napoleon Bonaparte," p. 253.

The reason our revolution was so different from the violent, homicidal chaos of the French version was the dominant American culture was Anglo-Saxon and Christian. “52 of the 56 signers of the declaration and 50 to 52 of the 55 signers of the Constitution were orthodox Trinitarian Christians.” David Limbaugh



Shouldn’t this have been an indication on mankind’s limitations, a warning?

I just finished listening to Ben Shapiro's "Right Side of History" on audiobook. He made some excellent points about the differences in the philosophical underpinnings of the American Revolution and the French Revolution. I don't have a text version on hand to quote for you, but I recommend the book highly.

 

[PoliticalChic]

.....but Liberals don't understand that.


The greatest President in a hundred years said “It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so many things that aren't so.” So many of the doctrines and predictions on which Progressive/Liberal beliefs are built…..aren’t so.


1.With the Enlightenment came the view that mankind can do anything, can know everything, and is without limits in relation to the universe.

It gave rise to the French Revolution, and the end of religion as no longer useful: man became God. And no matter where and how often the idea came to chaos and destruction…..it persists today as communism, Progressivism, socialism, and Liberalism.




2.“April 13, 1798, was a Friday. But it was springtime in revolutionary Paris, meaning that under the Directory’s new calendar it was the twenty-forth day of the month of Germinal in the Year Six, and the next day of rest was still six days distant, not two.

Has any reform been more futile? The Government’s arrogant discard of Christianity means that weeks have been extended to ten days instead of seven. The revision’s intent is to supplant the papal calendar with a uniform alternative of twelve months of thirty days each, based on the system of ancient Egypt.

Bibles themselves were torn up to make paper gun cartridges in the grim days of 1793, and now the biblical week has been guillotined, each month instead divided into three decades of ten days, with the year, with the year beginning at the autumn equinox and five to six holidays added to balance idealism with our solar orbit. Not content with regimenting the calendar, the government has introduced a new metric system for weight and measure.

There are even proposals for a new clock of precisely 100,000 seconds each day. Reason, reason!...The new calendar is the kind of logical idea imposed by clever people that completely ignores habit, emotion, and human nature and thus forecasts the Revolution’s doom.


Your colonial revolution was one of political independence. This one in France is about the very order of life. My God, a king guillotined! Thousands sent to slaughter! Wars unleashed on every French border! Atheism enshrined! Church lands seized, debts ignored, estates confiscated, rabbles armed, riots, anarchy, and tyranny!” From the novel “Napoleon’ Pyramids,” by William Dietrich


3. Bolsheviks claimed descent: “Historians of the French Revolution, which the Russians saw as a model for their own…”
Bolshevik Festivals, 1917–1920



4. When reason and science became the replacement for religion and morality, one of the limits on mankind had been reached. How many times must we realize that science can tell us what we can do, not what we should do?

5. When religion was attacked and terror became government policy, in the course of France's short revolution, 600,000 French citizens were killed, and another 145,000 fled the country. Schom, "Napoleon Bonaparte," p. 253.

The reason our revolution was so different from the violent, homicidal chaos of the French version was the dominant American culture was Anglo-Saxon and Christian. “52 of the 56 signers of the declaration and 50 to 52 of the 55 signers of the Constitution were orthodox Trinitarian Christians.” David Limbaugh



Shouldn’t this have been an indication on mankind’s limitations, a warning?

I just finished listening to Ben Shapiro's "Right Side of History" on audiobook. He made some excellent points about the differences in the philosophical underpinnings of the American Revolution and the French Revolution. I don't have a text version on hand to quote for you, but I recommend the book highly.

Couldn't agree more......I read ......studied .....the book, and have notes on it.

“The juxtaposition between the American Revolution and the French Revolution demonstrates the contrast btween the strains of Enlightenment thinking. The American Revolution, based on Lockean principles regarding the God-given rights of individuals, the value of social virtue, and a state system created to preserve inalienable individual rights, broke sharply with the French Revolution, based on Rousseau’s ‘general will,’ Voltaire’s scorn for traditional virtue, and an optimistic sense of the perfectibility of mankind through the application of virtue-free reason.” Ben Shapiro, “The Right Side Of History,” p. 122

 

[PoliticalChic]

.....but Liberals don't understand that.


The greatest President in a hundred years said “It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so many things that aren't so.” So many of the doctrines and predictions on which Progressive/Liberal beliefs are built…..aren’t so.


1.With the Enlightenment came the view that mankind can do anything, can know everything, and is without limits in relation to the universe.

It gave rise to the French Revolution, and the end of religion as no longer useful: man became God. And no matter where and how often the idea came to chaos and destruction…..it persists today as communism, Progressivism, socialism, and Liberalism.




2.“April 13, 1798, was a Friday. But it was springtime in revolutionary Paris, meaning that under the Directory’s new calendar it was the twenty-forth day of the month of Germinal in the Year Six, and the next day of rest was still six days distant, not two.

Has any reform been more futile? The Government’s arrogant discard of Christianity means that weeks have been extended to ten days instead of seven. The revision’s intent is to supplant the papal calendar with a uniform alternative of twelve months of thirty days each, based on the system of ancient Egypt.

Bibles themselves were torn up to make paper gun cartridges in the grim days of 1793, and now the biblical week has been guillotined, each month instead divided into three decades of ten days, with the year, with the year beginning at the autumn equinox and five to six holidays added to balance idealism with our solar orbit. Not content with regimenting the calendar, the government has introduced a new metric system for weight and measure.

There are even proposals for a new clock of precisely 100,000 seconds each day. Reason, reason!...The new calendar is the kind of logical idea imposed by clever people that completely ignores habit, emotion, and human nature and thus forecasts the Revolution’s doom.


Your colonial revolution was one of political independence. This one in France is about the very order of life. My God, a king guillotined! Thousands sent to slaughter! Wars unleashed on every French border! Atheism enshrined! Church lands seized, debts ignored, estates confiscated, rabbles armed, riots, anarchy, and tyranny!” From the novel “Napoleon’ Pyramids,” by William Dietrich


3. Bolsheviks claimed descent: “Historians of the French Revolution, which the Russians saw as a model for their own…”
Bolshevik Festivals, 1917–1920



4. When reason and science became the replacement for religion and morality, one of the limits on mankind had been reached. How many times must we realize that science can tell us what we can do, not what we should do?

5. When religion was attacked and terror became government policy, in the course of France's short revolution, 600,000 French citizens were killed, and another 145,000 fled the country. Schom, "Napoleon Bonaparte," p. 253.

The reason our revolution was so different from the violent, homicidal chaos of the French version was the dominant American culture was Anglo-Saxon and Christian. “52 of the 56 signers of the declaration and 50 to 52 of the 55 signers of the Constitution were orthodox Trinitarian Christians.” David Limbaugh



Shouldn’t this have been an indication on mankind’s limitations, a warning?

I just finished listening to Ben Shapiro's "Right Side of History" on audiobook. He made some excellent points about the differences in the philosophical underpinnings of the American Revolution and the French Revolution. I don't have a text version on hand to quote for you, but I recommend the book highly.

Bet you'd like this one I'm working on right now.....this moment, actually.

 

[HenryBHough]

As much as I like you, Chic, ya gotta learn that if it won't fit on a bumper sticker there is not a single lingle whose train of thought is sufficient to even begin to grasp it.

 

[Cecilie1200]

.....but Liberals don't understand that.


The greatest President in a hundred years said “It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so many things that aren't so.” So many of the doctrines and predictions on which Progressive/Liberal beliefs are built…..aren’t so.


1.With the Enlightenment came the view that mankind can do anything, can know everything, and is without limits in relation to the universe.

It gave rise to the French Revolution, and the end of religion as no longer useful: man became God. And no matter where and how often the idea came to chaos and destruction…..it persists today as communism, Progressivism, socialism, and Liberalism.




2.“April 13, 1798, was a Friday. But it was springtime in revolutionary Paris, meaning that under the Directory’s new calendar it was the twenty-forth day of the month of Germinal in the Year Six, and the next day of rest was still six days distant, not two.

Has any reform been more futile? The Government’s arrogant discard of Christianity means that weeks have been extended to ten days instead of seven. The revision’s intent is to supplant the papal calendar with a uniform alternative of twelve months of thirty days each, based on the system of ancient Egypt.

Bibles themselves were torn up to make paper gun cartridges in the grim days of 1793, and now the biblical week has been guillotined, each month instead divided into three decades of ten days, with the year, with the year beginning at the autumn equinox and five to six holidays added to balance idealism with our solar orbit. Not content with regimenting the calendar, the government has introduced a new metric system for weight and measure.

There are even proposals for a new clock of precisely 100,000 seconds each day. Reason, reason!...The new calendar is the kind of logical idea imposed by clever people that completely ignores habit, emotion, and human nature and thus forecasts the Revolution’s doom.


Your colonial revolution was one of political independence. This one in France is about the very order of life. My God, a king guillotined! Thousands sent to slaughter! Wars unleashed on every French border! Atheism enshrined! Church lands seized, debts ignored, estates confiscated, rabbles armed, riots, anarchy, and tyranny!” From the novel “Napoleon’ Pyramids,” by William Dietrich


3. Bolsheviks claimed descent: “Historians of the French Revolution, which the Russians saw as a model for their own…”
Bolshevik Festivals, 1917–1920



4. When reason and science became the replacement for religion and morality, one of the limits on mankind had been reached. How many times must we realize that science can tell us what we can do, not what we should do?

5. When religion was attacked and terror became government policy, in the course of France's short revolution, 600,000 French citizens were killed, and another 145,000 fled the country. Schom, "Napoleon Bonaparte," p. 253.

The reason our revolution was so different from the violent, homicidal chaos of the French version was the dominant American culture was Anglo-Saxon and Christian. “52 of the 56 signers of the declaration and 50 to 52 of the 55 signers of the Constitution were orthodox Trinitarian Christians.” David Limbaugh



Shouldn’t this have been an indication on mankind’s limitations, a warning?

I just finished listening to Ben Shapiro's "Right Side of History" on audiobook. He made some excellent points about the differences in the philosophical underpinnings of the American Revolution and the French Revolution. I don't have a text version on hand to quote for you, but I recommend the book highly.

Couldn't agree more......I read ......studied .....the book, and have notes on it.

“The juxtaposition between the American Revolution and the French Revolution demonstrates the contrast btween the strains of Enlightenment thinking. The American Revolution, based on Lockean principles regarding the God-given rights of individuals, the value of social virtue, and a state system created to preserve inalienable individual rights, broke sharply with the French Revolution, based on Rousseau’s ‘general will,’ Voltaire’s scorn for traditional virtue, and an optimistic sense of the perfectibility of mankind through the application of virtue-free reason.” Ben Shapiro, “The Right Side Of History,” p. 122

Thank you. I actually prefer text books, so that I can quote from them, but audiobooks are handy for when I'm driving, so whatcha gonna do?

 

[Cecilie1200]

.....but Liberals don't understand that.


The greatest President in a hundred years said “It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so many things that aren't so.” So many of the doctrines and predictions on which Progressive/Liberal beliefs are built…..aren’t so.


1.With the Enlightenment came the view that mankind can do anything, can know everything, and is without limits in relation to the universe.

It gave rise to the French Revolution, and the end of religion as no longer useful: man became God. And no matter where and how often the idea came to chaos and destruction…..it persists today as communism, Progressivism, socialism, and Liberalism.




2.“April 13, 1798, was a Friday. But it was springtime in revolutionary Paris, meaning that under the Directory’s new calendar it was the twenty-forth day of the month of Germinal in the Year Six, and the next day of rest was still six days distant, not two.

Has any reform been more futile? The Government’s arrogant discard of Christianity means that weeks have been extended to ten days instead of seven. The revision’s intent is to supplant the papal calendar with a uniform alternative of twelve months of thirty days each, based on the system of ancient Egypt.

Bibles themselves were torn up to make paper gun cartridges in the grim days of 1793, and now the biblical week has been guillotined, each month instead divided into three decades of ten days, with the year, with the year beginning at the autumn equinox and five to six holidays added to balance idealism with our solar orbit. Not content with regimenting the calendar, the government has introduced a new metric system for weight and measure.

There are even proposals for a new clock of precisely 100,000 seconds each day. Reason, reason!...The new calendar is the kind of logical idea imposed by clever people that completely ignores habit, emotion, and human nature and thus forecasts the Revolution’s doom.


Your colonial revolution was one of political independence. This one in France is about the very order of life. My God, a king guillotined! Thousands sent to slaughter! Wars unleashed on every French border! Atheism enshrined! Church lands seized, debts ignored, estates confiscated, rabbles armed, riots, anarchy, and tyranny!” From the novel “Napoleon’ Pyramids,” by William Dietrich


3. Bolsheviks claimed descent: “Historians of the French Revolution, which the Russians saw as a model for their own…”
Bolshevik Festivals, 1917–1920



4. When reason and science became the replacement for religion and morality, one of the limits on mankind had been reached. How many times must we realize that science can tell us what we can do, not what we should do?

5. When religion was attacked and terror became government policy, in the course of France's short revolution, 600,000 French citizens were killed, and another 145,000 fled the country. Schom, "Napoleon Bonaparte," p. 253.

The reason our revolution was so different from the violent, homicidal chaos of the French version was the dominant American culture was Anglo-Saxon and Christian. “52 of the 56 signers of the declaration and 50 to 52 of the 55 signers of the Constitution were orthodox Trinitarian Christians.” David Limbaugh



Shouldn’t this have been an indication on mankind’s limitations, a warning?

I just finished listening to Ben Shapiro's "Right Side of History" on audiobook. He made some excellent points about the differences in the philosophical underpinnings of the American Revolution and the French Revolution. I don't have a text version on hand to quote for you, but I recommend the book highly.

Bet you'd like this one I'm working on right now.....this moment, actually.

George Will has done some excellent works.

 

[candycorn]

Being something like 1,500 miles of ocean water away from what you’re rebelling against was probably a contributing factor to the lesser bloodshed of the American Revolution.

Damn you’re dumb

Speaking of dumb, how about substituting split-second personal opinions for in-depth historical study, Cornball? Seems pretty dumb to ME, but then, I don't typically think with my glands like you do.

I’m sorry you’re immune to logic. Also from what I hear deodorant.

 

[Cecilie1200]

Being something like 1,500 miles of ocean water away from what you’re rebelling against was probably a contributing factor to the lesser bloodshed of the American Revolution.

Damn you’re dumb

Speaking of dumb, how about substituting split-second personal opinions for in-depth historical study, Cornball? Seems pretty dumb to ME, but then, I don't typically think with my glands like you do.

I’m sorry you’re immune to logic. Also from what I hear deodorant.

I'm sorry you're immune to knowing what words mean. Also, from what I read in your posts, making meaningful points.

What you do is as closely related to logic as cotton candy is to cumulus clouds: a half-witted child would assume they're the same because they look the same, but no one more intelligent would.

 

[PoliticalChic]

As much as I like you, Chic, ya gotta learn that if it won't fit on a bumper sticker there is not a single lingle whose train of thought is sufficient to even begin to grasp it.

You'll have to look elsewhere for succinct, Hank.

I know what I want to say, and how I want to say it.

My target audience needs far more remediation than you do.

 

[rightwinger]

Liberals created this country


All you need to know

 

[PoliticalChic]

.....but Liberals don't understand that.


The greatest President in a hundred years said “It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so many things that aren't so.” So many of the doctrines and predictions on which Progressive/Liberal beliefs are built…..aren’t so.


1.With the Enlightenment came the view that mankind can do anything, can know everything, and is without limits in relation to the universe.

It gave rise to the French Revolution, and the end of religion as no longer useful: man became God. And no matter where and how often the idea came to chaos and destruction…..it persists today as communism, Progressivism, socialism, and Liberalism.




2.“April 13, 1798, was a Friday. But it was springtime in revolutionary Paris, meaning that under the Directory’s new calendar it was the twenty-forth day of the month of Germinal in the Year Six, and the next day of rest was still six days distant, not two.

Has any reform been more futile? The Government’s arrogant discard of Christianity means that weeks have been extended to ten days instead of seven. The revision’s intent is to supplant the papal calendar with a uniform alternative of twelve months of thirty days each, based on the system of ancient Egypt.

Bibles themselves were torn up to make paper gun cartridges in the grim days of 1793, and now the biblical week has been guillotined, each month instead divided into three decades of ten days, with the year, with the year beginning at the autumn equinox and five to six holidays added to balance idealism with our solar orbit. Not content with regimenting the calendar, the government has introduced a new metric system for weight and measure.

There are even proposals for a new clock of precisely 100,000 seconds each day. Reason, reason!...The new calendar is the kind of logical idea imposed by clever people that completely ignores habit, emotion, and human nature and thus forecasts the Revolution’s doom.


Your colonial revolution was one of political independence. This one in France is about the very order of life. My God, a king guillotined! Thousands sent to slaughter! Wars unleashed on every French border! Atheism enshrined! Church lands seized, debts ignored, estates confiscated, rabbles armed, riots, anarchy, and tyranny!” From the novel “Napoleon’ Pyramids,” by William Dietrich


3. Bolsheviks claimed descent: “Historians of the French Revolution, which the Russians saw as a model for their own…”
Bolshevik Festivals, 1917–1920



4. When reason and science became the replacement for religion and morality, one of the limits on mankind had been reached. How many times must we realize that science can tell us what we can do, not what we should do?

5. When religion was attacked and terror became government policy, in the course of France's short revolution, 600,000 French citizens were killed, and another 145,000 fled the country. Schom, "Napoleon Bonaparte," p. 253.

The reason our revolution was so different from the violent, homicidal chaos of the French version was the dominant American culture was Anglo-Saxon and Christian. “52 of the 56 signers of the declaration and 50 to 52 of the 55 signers of the Constitution were orthodox Trinitarian Christians.” David Limbaugh



Shouldn’t this have been an indication on mankind’s limitations, a warning?

I just finished listening to Ben Shapiro's "Right Side of History" on audiobook. He made some excellent points about the differences in the philosophical underpinnings of the American Revolution and the French Revolution. I don't have a text version on hand to quote for you, but I recommend the book highly.

Bet you'd like this one I'm working on right now.....this moment, actually.

George Will has done some excellent works.

This one is a bear of a book....nearly 600 pages, and I'm reading two fiction works at the same time.....really have to portion my time. That's why I have to stay off the board for an hour at a time.

But, like you....I love books.

 

[TRFjr]

6. Is there a nature inherent in all human beings, a ‘human nature’?

Is it simply a social construct, malleable and flexible, to be altered according to the type of laws and government in effect?

Or, is this also one of the limitations that nature imposes?






“What was, however, distinctive to American progressives early in the twentieth century was the sweep of their serene confidence that science, including and especially political science, now enabled the benevolent control of “life”- all of it.
…one impediment had to be removed. Human life could not be made sufficiently malleable until human beings we disabused of the idea of human nature. The philosophy of natural right…the Republic’s foundation, rests on one premise: There is a universal human nature.

Progressivism rests on….a heroic negative….the idea that human beings are essentially blank slates on which pretty much anything can be written…”
George Will, ”The Conservative Sensibility,” p. 35



Liberals, Progressives, Democrats…..still out to prove that.


In 1969, Hillary Rodham gave the student commencement address at Wellesley in which she said that “ for too long our leaders have used politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible….We’re not interested in social reconstruction; it’s human reconstruction.”
-http://www.wellesley.edu/PublicAffairs/Commencement/1969/053169hillary.html


Human reconstruction….the belief that there is no inherent, immutable, human nature.
They need to believe it or there can be no Progressivism, no Liberalism.....

There was a neat little book called the Politics of Star Trek....I know, but it was interesting in how it looked at episodes of the series and the philosophy you find in them....

The author made the point that Conservatives don't believe you can change fundamental human nature, but you can effect behavior.......left wingers don't believe you can control behavior, so you must completely change human nature.....which is why they fail every time, and end up filling mass graves with innocent men, women and children.

the fundamentals of human nature can never be changed those same fundamentals are baked into every living creature its how all species survived over the millenniums

 

[Cecilie1200]

.....but Liberals don't understand that.


The greatest President in a hundred years said “It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so many things that aren't so.” So many of the doctrines and predictions on which Progressive/Liberal beliefs are built…..aren’t so.


1.With the Enlightenment came the view that mankind can do anything, can know everything, and is without limits in relation to the universe.

It gave rise to the French Revolution, and the end of religion as no longer useful: man became God. And no matter where and how often the idea came to chaos and destruction…..it persists today as communism, Progressivism, socialism, and Liberalism.




2.“April 13, 1798, was a Friday. But it was springtime in revolutionary Paris, meaning that under the Directory’s new calendar it was the twenty-forth day of the month of Germinal in the Year Six, and the next day of rest was still six days distant, not two.

Has any reform been more futile? The Government’s arrogant discard of Christianity means that weeks have been extended to ten days instead of seven. The revision’s intent is to supplant the papal calendar with a uniform alternative of twelve months of thirty days each, based on the system of ancient Egypt.

Bibles themselves were torn up to make paper gun cartridges in the grim days of 1793, and now the biblical week has been guillotined, each month instead divided into three decades of ten days, with the year, with the year beginning at the autumn equinox and five to six holidays added to balance idealism with our solar orbit. Not content with regimenting the calendar, the government has introduced a new metric system for weight and measure.

There are even proposals for a new clock of precisely 100,000 seconds each day. Reason, reason!...The new calendar is the kind of logical idea imposed by clever people that completely ignores habit, emotion, and human nature and thus forecasts the Revolution’s doom.


Your colonial revolution was one of political independence. This one in France is about the very order of life. My God, a king guillotined! Thousands sent to slaughter! Wars unleashed on every French border! Atheism enshrined! Church lands seized, debts ignored, estates confiscated, rabbles armed, riots, anarchy, and tyranny!” From the novel “Napoleon’ Pyramids,” by William Dietrich


3. Bolsheviks claimed descent: “Historians of the French Revolution, which the Russians saw as a model for their own…”
Bolshevik Festivals, 1917–1920



4. When reason and science became the replacement for religion and morality, one of the limits on mankind had been reached. How many times must we realize that science can tell us what we can do, not what we should do?

5. When religion was attacked and terror became government policy, in the course of France's short revolution, 600,000 French citizens were killed, and another 145,000 fled the country. Schom, "Napoleon Bonaparte," p. 253.

The reason our revolution was so different from the violent, homicidal chaos of the French version was the dominant American culture was Anglo-Saxon and Christian. “52 of the 56 signers of the declaration and 50 to 52 of the 55 signers of the Constitution were orthodox Trinitarian Christians.” David Limbaugh



Shouldn’t this have been an indication on mankind’s limitations, a warning?

I just finished listening to Ben Shapiro's "Right Side of History" on audiobook. He made some excellent points about the differences in the philosophical underpinnings of the American Revolution and the French Revolution. I don't have a text version on hand to quote for you, but I recommend the book highly.

Bet you'd like this one I'm working on right now.....this moment, actually.

George Will has done some excellent works.

This one is a bear of a book....nearly 600 pages, and I'm reading two fiction works at the same time.....really have to portion my time. That's why I have to stay off the board for an hour at a time.

But, like you....I love books.

 

[2aguy]

.....but Liberals don't understand that.


The greatest President in a hundred years said “It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so many things that aren't so.” So many of the doctrines and predictions on which Progressive/Liberal beliefs are built…..aren’t so.


1.With the Enlightenment came the view that mankind can do anything, can know everything, and is without limits in relation to the universe.

It gave rise to the French Revolution, and the end of religion as no longer useful: man became God. And no matter where and how often the idea came to chaos and destruction…..it persists today as communism, Progressivism, socialism, and Liberalism.




2.“April 13, 1798, was a Friday. But it was springtime in revolutionary Paris, meaning that under the Directory’s new calendar it was the twenty-forth day of the month of Germinal in the Year Six, and the next day of rest was still six days distant, not two.

Has any reform been more futile? The Government’s arrogant discard of Christianity means that weeks have been extended to ten days instead of seven. The revision’s intent is to supplant the papal calendar with a uniform alternative of twelve months of thirty days each, based on the system of ancient Egypt.

Bibles themselves were torn up to make paper gun cartridges in the grim days of 1793, and now the biblical week has been guillotined, each month instead divided into three decades of ten days, with the year, with the year beginning at the autumn equinox and five to six holidays added to balance idealism with our solar orbit. Not content with regimenting the calendar, the government has introduced a new metric system for weight and measure.

There are even proposals for a new clock of precisely 100,000 seconds each day. Reason, reason!...The new calendar is the kind of logical idea imposed by clever people that completely ignores habit, emotion, and human nature and thus forecasts the Revolution’s doom.


Your colonial revolution was one of political independence. This one in France is about the very order of life. My God, a king guillotined! Thousands sent to slaughter! Wars unleashed on every French border! Atheism enshrined! Church lands seized, debts ignored, estates confiscated, rabbles armed, riots, anarchy, and tyranny!” From the novel “Napoleon’ Pyramids,” by William Dietrich


3. Bolsheviks claimed descent: “Historians of the French Revolution, which the Russians saw as a model for their own…”
Bolshevik Festivals, 1917–1920



4. When reason and science became the replacement for religion and morality, one of the limits on mankind had been reached. How many times must we realize that science can tell us what we can do, not what we should do?

5. When religion was attacked and terror became government policy, in the course of France's short revolution, 600,000 French citizens were killed, and another 145,000 fled the country. Schom, "Napoleon Bonaparte," p. 253.

The reason our revolution was so different from the violent, homicidal chaos of the French version was the dominant American culture was Anglo-Saxon and Christian. “52 of the 56 signers of the declaration and 50 to 52 of the 55 signers of the Constitution were orthodox Trinitarian Christians.” David Limbaugh



Shouldn’t this have been an indication on mankind’s limitations, a warning?

I just finished listening to Ben Shapiro's "Right Side of History" on audiobook. He made some excellent points about the differences in the philosophical underpinnings of the American Revolution and the French Revolution. I don't have a text version on hand to quote for you, but I recommend the book highly.

Bet you'd like this one I'm working on right now.....this moment, actually.

George Will has done some excellent works.

This one is a bear of a book....nearly 600 pages, and I'm reading two fiction works at the same time.....really have to portion my time. That's why I have to stay off the board for an hour at a time.

But, like you....I love books.

George lost his mind when Trump was elected....the guy who would rather the bully kick sand in his face than to stand up and fight back, thinking standing on the principal of not engaging a bully was better than stopping the sand in his underwear....

 

[PoliticalChic]

.....but Liberals don't understand that.


The greatest President in a hundred years said “It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so many things that aren't so.” So many of the doctrines and predictions on which Progressive/Liberal beliefs are built…..aren’t so.


1.With the Enlightenment came the view that mankind can do anything, can know everything, and is without limits in relation to the universe.

It gave rise to the French Revolution, and the end of religion as no longer useful: man became God. And no matter where and how often the idea came to chaos and destruction…..it persists today as communism, Progressivism, socialism, and Liberalism.




2.“April 13, 1798, was a Friday. But it was springtime in revolutionary Paris, meaning that under the Directory’s new calendar it was the twenty-forth day of the month of Germinal in the Year Six, and the next day of rest was still six days distant, not two.

Has any reform been more futile? The Government’s arrogant discard of Christianity means that weeks have been extended to ten days instead of seven. The revision’s intent is to supplant the papal calendar with a uniform alternative of twelve months of thirty days each, based on the system of ancient Egypt.

Bibles themselves were torn up to make paper gun cartridges in the grim days of 1793, and now the biblical week has been guillotined, each month instead divided into three decades of ten days, with the year, with the year beginning at the autumn equinox and five to six holidays added to balance idealism with our solar orbit. Not content with regimenting the calendar, the government has introduced a new metric system for weight and measure.

There are even proposals for a new clock of precisely 100,000 seconds each day. Reason, reason!...The new calendar is the kind of logical idea imposed by clever people that completely ignores habit, emotion, and human nature and thus forecasts the Revolution’s doom.


Your colonial revolution was one of political independence. This one in France is about the very order of life. My God, a king guillotined! Thousands sent to slaughter! Wars unleashed on every French border! Atheism enshrined! Church lands seized, debts ignored, estates confiscated, rabbles armed, riots, anarchy, and tyranny!” From the novel “Napoleon’ Pyramids,” by William Dietrich


3. Bolsheviks claimed descent: “Historians of the French Revolution, which the Russians saw as a model for their own…”
Bolshevik Festivals, 1917–1920



4. When reason and science became the replacement for religion and morality, one of the limits on mankind had been reached. How many times must we realize that science can tell us what we can do, not what we should do?

5. When religion was attacked and terror became government policy, in the course of France's short revolution, 600,000 French citizens were killed, and another 145,000 fled the country. Schom, "Napoleon Bonaparte," p. 253.

The reason our revolution was so different from the violent, homicidal chaos of the French version was the dominant American culture was Anglo-Saxon and Christian. “52 of the 56 signers of the declaration and 50 to 52 of the 55 signers of the Constitution were orthodox Trinitarian Christians.” David Limbaugh



Shouldn’t this have been an indication on mankind’s limitations, a warning?

I just finished listening to Ben Shapiro's "Right Side of History" on audiobook. He made some excellent points about the differences in the philosophical underpinnings of the American Revolution and the French Revolution. I don't have a text version on hand to quote for you, but I recommend the book highly.

Bet you'd like this one I'm working on right now.....this moment, actually.

George Will has done some excellent works.

This one is a bear of a book....nearly 600 pages, and I'm reading two fiction works at the same time.....really have to portion my time. That's why I have to stay off the board for an hour at a time.

But, like you....I love books.

You betcha'!!!!!

One reason I take copious notes is because I can't always find a book I want to revisit.

 

[PoliticalChic]

.....but Liberals don't understand that.


The greatest President in a hundred years said “It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so many things that aren't so.” So many of the doctrines and predictions on which Progressive/Liberal beliefs are built…..aren’t so.


1.With the Enlightenment came the view that mankind can do anything, can know everything, and is without limits in relation to the universe.

It gave rise to the French Revolution, and the end of religion as no longer useful: man became God. And no matter where and how often the idea came to chaos and destruction…..it persists today as communism, Progressivism, socialism, and Liberalism.




2.“April 13, 1798, was a Friday. But it was springtime in revolutionary Paris, meaning that under the Directory’s new calendar it was the twenty-forth day of the month of Germinal in the Year Six, and the next day of rest was still six days distant, not two.

Has any reform been more futile? The Government’s arrogant discard of Christianity means that weeks have been extended to ten days instead of seven. The revision’s intent is to supplant the papal calendar with a uniform alternative of twelve months of thirty days each, based on the system of ancient Egypt.

Bibles themselves were torn up to make paper gun cartridges in the grim days of 1793, and now the biblical week has been guillotined, each month instead divided into three decades of ten days, with the year, with the year beginning at the autumn equinox and five to six holidays added to balance idealism with our solar orbit. Not content with regimenting the calendar, the government has introduced a new metric system for weight and measure.

There are even proposals for a new clock of precisely 100,000 seconds each day. Reason, reason!...The new calendar is the kind of logical idea imposed by clever people that completely ignores habit, emotion, and human nature and thus forecasts the Revolution’s doom.


Your colonial revolution was one of political independence. This one in France is about the very order of life. My God, a king guillotined! Thousands sent to slaughter! Wars unleashed on every French border! Atheism enshrined! Church lands seized, debts ignored, estates confiscated, rabbles armed, riots, anarchy, and tyranny!” From the novel “Napoleon’ Pyramids,” by William Dietrich


3. Bolsheviks claimed descent: “Historians of the French Revolution, which the Russians saw as a model for their own…”
Bolshevik Festivals, 1917–1920



4. When reason and science became the replacement for religion and morality, one of the limits on mankind had been reached. How many times must we realize that science can tell us what we can do, not what we should do?

5. When religion was attacked and terror became government policy, in the course of France's short revolution, 600,000 French citizens were killed, and another 145,000 fled the country. Schom, "Napoleon Bonaparte," p. 253.

The reason our revolution was so different from the violent, homicidal chaos of the French version was the dominant American culture was Anglo-Saxon and Christian. “52 of the 56 signers of the declaration and 50 to 52 of the 55 signers of the Constitution were orthodox Trinitarian Christians.” David Limbaugh



Shouldn’t this have been an indication on mankind’s limitations, a warning?

I just finished listening to Ben Shapiro's "Right Side of History" on audiobook. He made some excellent points about the differences in the philosophical underpinnings of the American Revolution and the French Revolution. I don't have a text version on hand to quote for you, but I recommend the book highly.

Bet you'd like this one I'm working on right now.....this moment, actually.

George Will has done some excellent works.

This one is a bear of a book....nearly 600 pages, and I'm reading two fiction works at the same time.....really have to portion my time. That's why I have to stay off the board for an hour at a time.

But, like you....I love books.

George lost his mind when Trump was elected....the guy who would rather the bully kick sand in his face than to stand up and fight back, thinking standing on the principal of not engaging a bully was better than stopping the sand in his underwear....

Yup....a Never-Trumper.


Book is still worth reading.

 

[2aguy]

I just finished listening to Ben Shapiro's "Right Side of History" on audiobook. He made some excellent points about the differences in the philosophical underpinnings of the American Revolution and the French Revolution. I don't have a text version on hand to quote for you, but I recommend the book highly.

Bet you'd like this one I'm working on right now.....this moment, actually.

George Will has done some excellent works.

This one is a bear of a book....nearly 600 pages, and I'm reading two fiction works at the same time.....really have to portion my time. That's why I have to stay off the board for an hour at a time.

But, like you....I love books.

George lost his mind when Trump was elected....the guy who would rather the bully kick sand in his face than to stand up and fight back, thinking standing on the principal of not engaging a bully was better than stopping the sand in his underwear....

Yup....a Never-Trumper.


Book is still worth reading.

Yeah...smart guy, just a cake eater.....not a fighter......as Dan Proft, a local radio host in Chicago would say....

 

[PoliticalChic]

Bet you'd like this one I'm working on right now.....this moment, actually.

George Will has done some excellent works.

This one is a bear of a book....nearly 600 pages, and I'm reading two fiction works at the same time.....really have to portion my time. That's why I have to stay off the board for an hour at a time.

But, like you....I love books.

George lost his mind when Trump was elected....the guy who would rather the bully kick sand in his face than to stand up and fight back, thinking standing on the principal of not engaging a bully was better than stopping the sand in his underwear....

Yup....a Never-Trumper.


Book is still worth reading.

Yeah...smart guy, just a cake eater.....not a fighter......as Dan Proft, a local radio host in Chicago would say....

I'm gonna construct some OPs based on Will's book.....bet you won't have any problem with 'em.