That Darn Context

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_Doctor Scratch
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Droopy wrote:Actually Ray, I get my information from a plethora of sources.


Bull. Frontpage.org is pretty much the only thing you ever cite. If you've got a "plethora of sources," then post them. My bet is that you can't do it.

Frontpage is probably the single best clearinghouse for journalism, history, critique, and the following of current events regarding the modern Left, its ideology and history.

Stay well away from it Ray, its dangerous...


Right. Of course it is. By this logic, the best place to get information from the LDS Church is not from the LDS Church itself, but from CARM, or from Ed Decker, or something of that nature.
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Bull. Frontpage.org is pretty much the only thing you ever cite. If you've got a "plethora of sources," then post them. My bet is that you can't do it.


Only going to show that not only is Scratch not very well read or educated, he's not very well read regarding my own posting history here over the last three years.

Frontpage is probably the single best clearinghouse for journalism, history, critique, and the following of current events regarding the modern Left, its ideology and history.

Stay well away from it Ray, its dangerous...


Right. Of course it is. By this logic, the best place to get information from the LDS Church is not from the LDS Church itself, but from CARM, or from Ed Decker, or something of that nature.

The best place to get information about what the Left believes about itself and its agenda, is from the Left. The best place place to get criticisms and critique of what the Left believes is from serious critics of the Left. This is especially important because the Left, collectively speaking, has always found it necessary, with the general population at large, to be deceptive and deceitful about their actual beliefs, agenda, and desires. So you have to go to the Left itself (separating, for instance, environmentalist PR to the general public from what it actually discusses in its own serious texts) as well as to serious critics of the Left to bring a different perspective to their claims and philosophical grounding.

Frontpage, being the brainchild of two people who were themselves major figures on the Left in the late sixties and early seventies, and who personally knew many other major figures in "the movement", has been an intellectual clearinghouse for substantive critique and information on the New Left and its progeny in our own day since its inception, and has attracted some of the best intellectuals and academics on the Right and from the Left to its roster of contributors.

People like Scratch are just threatened by it, lest their delicate translucent bubble of fantasy be unceremoniously popped.

No wonder Scratch is so poorly read. Study is dangerous to leftism, and can be fatally so at ever deeper and broader levels.
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Re: That Darn Context

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Droopy wrote:
Bull. Frontpage.org is pretty much the only thing you ever cite. If you've got a "plethora of sources," then post them. My bet is that you can't do it.


Only going to show that not only is Scratch not very well read or educated, he's not very well read regarding my own posting history here over the last three years.


Nope. No new sources here. Just more Frontpage.org.



Right. Of course it is. By this logic, the best place to get information from the LDS Church is not from the LDS Church itself, but from CARM, or from Ed Decker, or something of that nature.

The best place to get information about what the Left believes about itself and its agenda, is from the Left. The best place place to get criticisms and critique of what the Left believes is from serious critics of the Left. This is especially important because the Left, collectively speaking, has always found it necessary, with the general population at large, to be deceptive and deceitful about their actual beliefs, agenda, and desires.


Just like the LDS Church!

Frontpage, being the brainchild of two people who were themselves major figures on the Left in the late sixties and early seventies, and who personally knew many other major figures in "the movement", has been an intellectual clearinghouse for substantive critique and information on the New Left and its progeny in our own day since its inception, and has attracted some of the best intellectuals and academics on the Right and from the Left to its roster of contributors.


Again: using this logic one would need to turn to Decker and other ex-Mormons in order to get the best, most accurate information on the LDS Church. Right? Is that what you think, Loran?

Also: as I predicted, you don't have any additional sources or citations. You bloviate endlessly about studying "broadly," but, based on the overwhelming evidence, it doesn't seem that you read anything other than Frontpage.org.
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New entry in the wiki ...

{Droopy & left} : see monomania
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Droopy wrote: I have a deep respect for the ideas of the Austrian school.



Was that the ideas of the Austrian School before or after Maria and Captain Von Trapp fled the country?
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moksha wrote:
Droopy wrote: I have a deep respect for the ideas of the Austrian school.



Was that the ideas of the Austrian School before or after Maria and Captain Von Trapp fled the country?

Something off but to the story:

They left Austria for Italy by train (the real Von Trapp family).
In the film, they have fled over the mountains, to Switzerland. :idea:
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My one (austrian) schilling, with the edelweiss. More than two cent.
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Droopy wrote:No wonder Scratch is so poorly read. Study is dangerous to leftism, and can be fatally so at ever deeper and broader levels.

God, you're dumb.

Hey, did you know that Hayek advocated for substantial government regulation and income redistribution in The Road to Serfdom?

I knew that, because I actually read books before name-dropping them. You, on the other hand, do not.
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