I do not advocate a science only education...I relish my introduction
into literature...the classics, newer serials, mystery, etc... add
quality to an education,
philosophy, theology, history, and government are important as well....
Michael Erskine wrote:
Thanks for your service to our country. If you were with the 1-501st
PIR, 25ID, you may have served with my son.
It sounds like you are spending your life well. First a soldier and
now becoming a scholar. Many good points here.
Well back to work.
-m-
Martes G Wigglesworth wrote:
You are very correct.
There are some serious pitfalls in only being a science-based society,
however, I was putting my own two-cents into the mix because it seems
that no one ever seems to argue that point. War is a necessary evil,
created by a society that is based on the imperfections of an imperfect
being. I am not a war monger, or one of those types. I just observe the
fact that we, as a society are flawed, and until we get to a point where
we are able to quell such things as war, and individual crime, we are no
better off putting our proverbial heads into the sand and omitting
scientific discovery from necessary social activity. I don't see why
this seems to come up so much. Powerless protest and inability to think
logically should not be seen as a requisite to being on a heightened
state of existence. In fact you have to have a healthy mixture of
scientific exploration and liberal social expression.
In your second paragraph, you seem to make my point. I am a vet. with a
purple heart from OIF II, so your soldier and priest examples in my
humble opinion, are much more important to a society's well being, than
someone who is getting paid a ridiculous some of money to do what others
do as a hobby. I am not saying that those individuals are less
important than the sports personalities. I am actually stating the
opposite view. I feel that it is nice that some people can spend their
lives never growing up, and getting paid to do so, however, I do have a
bit of an issue with how our society treats these people, and how we are
told from a young age how they are "role models" for us. I wish that I
had grown up thinking that professionals within my community were heroes
for being successful where there was great adversity, etc... However,
that is not how America works. If you have a whole bunch of money for
no real reason, then you are a hero. Even more so if you are so much of
a lucky person that you can thumb your nose at the common working
person. It just makes no sense to me, and probably never will.
The engineer may be creating something deadly, and that is for another
discussion, however, he did not just decide that he was not going to
study, or do homework and spend all his time to practice what he is
doing. It took years of laborious studying and work, and still the
income is not in the millions. (Entrepreneurship not being observed)
However, Micheal Jordon is an international business man now, purely
because he can put a basketball in a hoop. I understand that he is a
bad example because he is quite intelligent, and has a BA, etc... My
point is that I find it very unlikely that he would be anything more
than a nicely paid executive that has to still work everyday if he had
tried to do the business career without any basketball funding or having
played at all.
But no one sees anything wrong with this picture?????
I hear what you are saying, Michael, and I greatly agree with much of
your assessments about your educational system's disfunction.
I also did not catch the cooking flour != botanical flower before I sent
the message, however, thanks for the dialog, and the keen eye.
Hehehe.
It made me laugh quite a bit.... I was in the middle of making fried
fish batter, for lunch. Gotta stop operating on auto pilot, one of
these days...
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