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laconicsax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-17-09 02:17 PM Original message |
If something is intuitively obvious, why do children need to be actively indoctrinated in it? |
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d_b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-17-09 02:19 PM Response to Original message |
1. because children are naturally bad |
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Why Syzygy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-17-09 02:29 PM Response to Original message |
2. Evangelism |
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laconicsax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-17-09 03:21 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. That's a lot of money! |
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Why Syzygy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-17-09 03:31 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. It might partially explain their lobbying power. |
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conscious evolution (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-17-09 02:40 PM Response to Original message |
3. It's basic Marketing 101. |
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RagAss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-19-09 06:23 PM Response to Reply #3 |
29. It sure is ! n/m |
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moobu2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-17-09 07:29 PM Response to Original message |
6. Because it spreads somewhat like a virus (a mind virus) |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-17-09 07:47 PM Response to Original message |
7. Natural selection is intuitive and obvious once it is learned and understood. |
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laconicsax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-17-09 10:22 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. I don't question the right to hold the belief, only the methods in carrying it out. |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-18-09 11:57 AM Response to Reply #8 |
15. That's pretty much the way our entire educational system works. |
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ZombieHorde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-18-09 01:29 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Which part of step 4 "Use the child to pressure the parents to accept your beliefs" |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-18-09 10:28 PM Response to Reply #17 |
24. Children often come home and happily tell their parents all they've learned. |
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ZombieHorde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-18-09 10:39 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. The example you have offered seems like a likely scenerio to me. |
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laconicsax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-18-09 04:46 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. Because our educational system doesn't work that way. |
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ZombieHorde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-18-09 10:31 PM Response to Reply #7 |
25. "Natural selection is intuitive and obvious once it is learned and understood." |
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RagAss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-17-09 10:30 PM Response to Original message |
9. Only a lie needs repeating. |
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cosmik debris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-18-09 06:48 AM Response to Reply #9 |
11. That's not true. |
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RagAss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-18-09 07:07 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. The pine tree in the garden. |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-18-09 11:55 AM Response to Reply #9 |
14. That's completely untrue. |
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Why Syzygy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-18-09 11:59 AM Response to Reply #14 |
16. Another factor |
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RagAss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-18-09 09:07 PM Response to Reply #14 |
21. True. But the theorem is just that....a thereom. .... |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-18-09 02:14 AM Response to Original message |
10. You seem to think "intuitively obvious" is an objective quality that a fact or notion can have, |
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Sam1 (136 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-18-09 08:25 AM Response to Reply #10 |
13. Yes, Yes, Yes! |
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laconicsax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-18-09 05:03 PM Response to Reply #10 |
19. The leading question of the OP was rhetorical. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-18-09 07:41 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. The world is large, but our heads are small. What is "intuitively obvious" to anyone must depend |
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laconicsax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-18-09 09:09 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. I think you're missing the point. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-18-09 10:04 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. I disagree with you, and so you conclude I cannot possibly have understood what you are saying |
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laconicsax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-19-09 04:03 PM Response to Reply #23 |
27. I concluded nothing about you. |
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RagAss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-19-09 06:17 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. Your position makes perfect sense, if the topic was the manifest universe.. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-20-09 08:48 PM Response to Reply #27 |
30. Nyeh. I generally don't like gossip or rants about the idiocy of private citizens, based on |
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Silent3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 03:35 PM Response to Reply #10 |
32. Perhaps we need to make a distinction... |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 01:01 PM Response to Original message |
31. Why teach children anything at all? Schools are tools of the establishment man. nt |
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knitter4democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-22-09 03:54 PM Response to Original message |
33. Why are they selling God? |
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