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Moe Strausberg's avatar

I am furious they don't teach you English or philosophy. You can't be liberal and orthodox they are antonyms. You cannot be orthodox and liberal anything.

We all use the expression the more things change the more they remain the same.

I use the French translation but it remains the same seemingly contradictory expression.

It is 2022 and science is just beginning to acknowledge that there may be no real beginning or no real end. This is what is and what was and will always be regardless of what we want to believe.

Star Trek was the Bible for a generation but science isn't about the stars it is about our dreams and we are just learning about our dreams and a cigar isn't just a cigar. It has chemistry, it has physics, it has biology, it has architecture and it has design. Human design.

Darwin was about a universe of natural selection as opposed to design.

We can see measure and analyze natural selection but faith may move mountains but the evidence is rather scant.

I live in a secular humanist liberal Quebec speaking democracy. It isn't the USA it is what I wish America would become but that is not what democracy is all about. I like this Quebec . It had a revolution there was a transfer of power from the church, business and finance to the citizens and unlike in America here the people assumed more and more power as they assumed more and more responsibility and now we must pay to educate everyone, give everyone healthcare and take responsibility for everyone's long and prosperous life.

It took my wife and myself to get me to 74 but you know I have a Department of Autistic Affairs making sure my doctor and healthcare providers know more about my needs than my wife and I are willing to admit.

It is not easy for a retard to scream you are all a bunch of idiots at the very people he needs most.

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DMang's avatar

No need to be upset. Both English and philosophy were available to learn decades ago in my formative years and still are. You simply mistook my use of the word liberal for the meaning that does run counter to the word orthodoxy and not for what I intended, which was using it to identify a political ideology in it’s current iteration.

Today’s American liberals-in contrast to their beliefs only a few years ago-are comfortable with removing our freedoms as they see fit, and it is clearly a matter of politics. The examples are numerous. One only needs to look at how a former president was banned from Twitter and how social and mainstream media with the blessing of our current administration systematically banned and ruined the reputations of anyone who dared to question or refuse a vaccine and it’s accompanying restrictions. So much for our freedoms. As a secular humanist I’m sure you see the similarity to religious methodology. In the US one party believes in God, the other thinks it is God.

So in this case “liberal orthodoxy” is not oxymoronic.

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Moe Strausberg's avatar

Thank you Thank you thank you.

I know there are many like you who understand.

Diogenes could speak his truth because he chose to live the life of a dog.

If I may quote Firesign Theatre "Your dog is smarter than you are."

I miss my dog he taught me more about being human than I ever learned in school.

Orwell understood but he didn't do comedy.

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