Nick_A wrote: ↑Thu Jun 29, 2017 3:15 am
Greta wrote: ↑Thu Jun 29, 2017 12:58 am
Walker wrote: ↑Wed Jun 28, 2017 2:20 pm
Good grief. That’s like saying: Hillary Clinton is brilliant. Brilliance, think about it … etc.
Nonsense. No relation whatsoever. A silly over-emotional response. Take a deep breath, Walker.
The entire point of progressivism is
obviously progress. The point of conservatism is to slow progress, presumably to allow systems to adapt. The tension and the competition between these, and other, concerns sculpts public policy.
Ecclesiastes 3
A Time for Everything
3 There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under the heavens:
2 a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
3 a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
4 a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
6 a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
7 a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
8 a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.
There are universal laws which explain why every process on earth turns in cycles. There are no straight lines in nature. It is the same with Man on earth and all their lofty progressive aspirations. When Man is left to his own devices, secular progressivism must over time produce its opposite. It doesn’t matter how intolerant and insulted progressives become, the result is the same. It is the natural result of universal law which creates these cycles.
No. Wisdom on a large scale requires a quality of knowledge and the ability for conscious choice we do not have making wisdom meaningless. As Socrates said: "I know nothing." Sisyphus keeps pushing the boulder up the hill until it falls back down. Progressive dictates or intolerance won't change it. Since we are as we are, everything is as it is.
Ecclesiastes 1
Everything Is Meaningless
1 The words of the Teacher,[a] son of David, king in Jerusalem:
2 “Meaningless! Meaningless!”
says the Teacher.
“Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless.”
3 What do people gain from all their labors
at which they toil under the sun?
4 Generations come and generations go,
but the earth remains forever.
5 The sun rises and the sun sets,
and hurries back to where it rises.
6 The wind blows to the south
and turns to the north;
round and round it goes,
ever returning on its course.
7 All streams flow into the sea,
yet the sea is never full.
To the place the streams come from,
there they return again.
8 All things are wearisome,
more than one can say.
The eye never has enough of seeing,
nor the ear its fill of hearing.
9 What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.
10 Is there anything of which one can say,
“Look! This is something new”?
It was here already, long ago;
it was here before our time.
11 No one remembers the former generations,
and even those yet to come
will not be remembered
by those who follow them.