It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
What kind of proof?
A physical practical demonstration/ experiment showing a large body of standing water with the surface naturally displaying convex and conforming to the exterior of a shape?
A physical practical demonstration/ experiment showing a vacuum next to a non-vacuum, without a barrier?
A physical practical demonstration/ experiment showing air pressure being created without a container?
An experiment proving gravity, telling you what myindependent and dependant variables were.
Will they do for a start?
Or am i still a reality denier who has no understanding of science (especially physics) and only have faith and pseudoscience to support my zealot like beliefs?
I mean posting a famous 18th century painting of some Americans pulling down a statue is hardly zealot like beliefs, but you seem to think it is.
One question at a time is fine and you can ask for help if you are struggling .
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
You do know we've still got plenty of things in America named for Brits and Loyalists right? Still got The Boot monument for BENEDICT ARNOLD most famous traitor ever. As for Civil War stuff you don't understand the healing process that the nation went through ALSO.... Statue(s) of Oliver Cromwell are still up yeah? There's a statue of Charles II up still yeah?
Also when former KKK member Robert Byrd has had 0 things named for him renamed, 0 statues torndown....yeah all this is arbitrary Marxist Critical Theory Iconoclasm.
Well..duh. Stop judging people by your own all or nothing criteria. Where was i advocating tearing statues down or forbidding them like they are some kind of holy relic ?
You have never admitted nuance or common sense. You are an advocate for the very same blanket brush statements that prove how PC you are, despite insisting everyone else must be the ones wanting to censor everything, simply to avoid adding any complexity into your simplistic model of the world.
And again let TIC answer the questions. You guys are like a soyboy tag team.
Ah yes I forget that you're unable to be nailed down. You claim one thing, then you distance, you bitch about my talking about "Antifa" claiming you yourself are "Antifascist" and then you walk it back saying "I'm not a member of Antifa". So you want all the good things and none of the negative things, it's a childish way you operate and you've lied multiple times to attempt to achieve this nice little bubble where you're unimpeachable, you're never held to account for what you truly believe and you try your damnedest to never post on the record of what you truly believe.
The fact is, your "fellow travelers" are the ones tearing down history. And what do you have ot say about them? Your "fellow travelers" are demanding people pass political purity tests "or else". Your "fellow travelers" are running cancel culture.
I've never admitted nuance? No you've never perceived nuance from me because you become emotional and fly off the hinges assuming the absolute worst of a human being in me. Doesn't really give me encouragement to try and correct you seeing how low you rate me and what little benefit of the doubt you give me. Your tone may very well be "flat calm & peace lovin'" but the posts you've made are the farthest thing from it.
You're quite tedious to deal with.....doesn't have to be that way, but you do yourself 0 favors. Look at how many people you're arguing with. Why? And you think all of us are evil racist fascist Nazis or that we're dumb? How kind of you to allow us all an out, "Oh you're not a horrible person, you're just dumb"....I'm sure that's appreciated by all.
Beanz we beg to differ, that is why we have a democratic vote.
All people have a right to their opinion and that is fine by me.
You have no idea what you are talking about. None.
Here you are again demonstrating how ignorant you are by insisting that you get to define the entire world based on your own very insular and backwards third hand view of it. Being antifacist does not make you a member of a club like the Shriners or the fucking Proud Boys you fool. You are demanding that it does, Why? because you want to demonize the term and reduce anyone using it into a caricature that you can dismiss. You do the same thing with everything. Gay people, Trans People, People on the Left, Academics etc. For you the worst possible example of any of those groups is what you will always use to dismiss the rest. Pick an outlier and define everyone else by it. It is wicked to stereotype in such a pernicious manner, and yet it is what you do.
You are incredibly insulting by insisting that you get to reduce a huge diverse group of people from Veterans and Pensioners, to teenagers and everyday people, into some group you have the fucking cheek to chastise. Fuck You. Who the fuck do you think you are to be able to get on your soapbox and lecture people for refusing to adopt fascist and racist attitudes. You are quite obviously an ally of a lot of racists and Fascists, but even that is not enough for you, here you are demanding that everyone else reflects you by adopting your own bigotry.
Fellow Travelers? What the fuck are you talking about? Travelers? as in Gypsies? Or do you mean actual History Professors and Folk Musicians and Anthropologists and people far more engaged in history in a professional capacity than you, that you want to dismiss because you want to stamp your feet in a hissy fit because it turns out you don't get to claim victimhood anymore? That is the root of you fear. You have had it all your way and you don't want a level playing field because you are used to being the big man, the loudest voice in the room.
You are the embodiment of cancel culture, of rewriting and varnishing over history. You have been doing so for years.
Look at your touchstones, your cultural beacons. They are based on mocking others and assuming a superiority that simply does not exist. You are not alone, you , Walrus , Gandalf, Al you all think that you are from some superior culture and that everyone else are peasants and savages, second best ...in the words of Gandalf the absolute cunt...'they needed civilizing'...that is from a bloke who does not even know about his own cultures history despite having a degree ffs.
You are all fucking ignorant. The difference with most other people is that we are all aware of that being something we have in common. We know there is plenty we do not know and life itself is a constant learning experience but you lot think you have it all sewn up. An illusion based purely on your refusal to face complexity and nuance and the possibility that you may not be the experts you claim to be.
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