Comments on: Professor Zapatero’s Required Reading http://pjmedia.com/blog/professor-zapateros-required-reading/ Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:40:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: truth seeker http://pjmedia.com/blog/professor-zapateros-required-reading/#comment-1616138 truth seeker Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:02:12 +0000 http://dev.pajamasmedia.com/blog/professor-zapateros-required-reading/#comment-1616138 Why are truth and knowledge not considered mutually exclusive. Why must you know something to be true for it to be so. For example: What was the tallest mountain before mount Everest was discovered? Just because it was unknown that mount Everest is the tallest mountain did that make it any less true? If we know something to be true today, then how could it have ever not been true?http://knowledgeoftoday.blogspot.com/ Hypothetically lets say that the center of the earth is made of cheese. Just because we do not know that the center of the earth is made of cheese, does it make it false even though the center of the earth is indeed comprised of cheese? http://knowledgeoftoday.blogspot.com/ I just don't understand why truth is seen as subjective. Why are truth and knowledge not considered mutually exclusive. Why must you know something to be true for it to be so. For example: What was the tallest mountain before mount Everest was discovered? Just because it was unknown that mount Everest is the tallest mountain did that make it any less true? If we know something to be true today, then how could it have ever not been true?http://knowledgeoftoday.blogspot.com/

Hypothetically lets say that the center of the earth is made of cheese. Just because we do not know that the center of the earth is made of cheese, does it make it false even though the center of the earth is indeed comprised of cheese? http://knowledgeoftoday.blogspot.com/

I just don’t understand why truth is seen as subjective.

]]> By: geodotto http://pjmedia.com/blog/professor-zapateros-required-reading/#comment-23824 geodotto Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:08:42 +0000 http://dev.pajamasmedia.com/blog/professor-zapateros-required-reading/#comment-23824 Excellent article. Excellent article.

]]> By: Sentido comun http://pjmedia.com/blog/professor-zapateros-required-reading/#comment-23823 Sentido comun Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:01:36 +0000 http://dev.pajamasmedia.com/blog/professor-zapateros-required-reading/#comment-23823 Les pido disculpas por usar el español, desgraciadamente solo domino este idioma y el hibrido que produce el traductor de Google. Verán, la II republica Española fue sometida por los jacobinos izquierditas Pro-bolcheviques, y el mejor resumen de sus manejos, lo encontré (para que se hagan una idea) en un libro de Burke donde contaba su experiencia con la "mesa nacional de la revolución francesa" en el fondo a estos y a aquellos les movía el mismo espíritu. A día de hoy la romántica visión de las vicisitudes de la Republica española llevada del ronzal de la izquierda a la destrucción, por sus ansias marxistas soviéticas y jacobinas debe ser liberada de la hipócrita visión de los "progresistas izquierda" únicos responsables de confundir progreso con izquierda. El historiador Paine es un buen ejemplo para acercarse a la realidad. O el español Pío Moa para conocerla desde la realidad española. Saludos desde España y reitero mis disculpas por no poder expresarme en inglés Les pido disculpas por usar el español, desgraciadamente solo domino este idioma y el hibrido que produce el traductor de Google.

Verán, la II republica Española fue sometida por los jacobinos izquierditas Pro-bolcheviques, y el mejor resumen de sus manejos, lo encontré (para que se hagan una idea) en un libro de Burke donde contaba su experiencia con la “mesa nacional de la revolución francesa” en el fondo a estos y a aquellos les movía el mismo espíritu.

A día de hoy la romántica visión de las vicisitudes de la Republica española llevada del ronzal de la izquierda a la destrucción, por sus ansias marxistas soviéticas y jacobinas debe ser liberada de la hipócrita visión de los “progresistas izquierda” únicos responsables de confundir progreso con izquierda.

El historiador Paine es un buen ejemplo para acercarse a la realidad. O el español Pío Moa para conocerla desde la realidad española.

Saludos desde España y reitero mis disculpas por no poder expresarme en inglés

]]> By: Gringo http://pjmedia.com/blog/professor-zapateros-required-reading/#comment-23822 Gringo Sun, 24 Feb 2008 06:12:58 +0000 http://dev.pajamasmedia.com/blog/professor-zapateros-required-reading/#comment-23822 Too bad Zapatero didn't travel to BA. Borges coralled his guests into reading for him. Given that his grandfather lost his life for taking a stand during the Civil War, it is understandable that he is obsessed by the Civil War. It is sad that he is, because 1) it clouds his judgment and 2) most Spaniards have probably moved beyond it. At the same time, we have to look at our own country and the problem of Civil Wars. My southern mother told me that she was tired of her grandparents and parents rehashing the Civil War in the 1930s, and she vowed not to fight the Civil War again. Not until Jim Crow was destroyed in the 1960s could it be said that the South had put aside the Civil War- a century after its end. We should cut Zapatero some slack,and hope that he doesn't get reelected. He would make a better Borges scholar than he has a leader of his country. Too bad Zapatero didn’t travel to BA. Borges coralled his guests into reading for him.
Given that his grandfather lost his life for taking a stand during the Civil War, it is understandable that he is obsessed by the Civil War. It is sad that he is, because 1) it clouds his judgment and 2) most Spaniards have probably moved beyond it.

At the same time, we have to look at our own country and the problem of Civil Wars. My southern mother told me that she was tired of her grandparents and parents rehashing the Civil War in the 1930s, and she vowed not to fight the Civil War again. Not until Jim Crow was destroyed in the 1960s could it be said that the South had put aside the Civil War- a century after its end.

We should cut Zapatero some slack,and hope that he doesn’t get reelected. He would make a better Borges scholar than he has a leader of his country.

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