We live in a time that people are more inclined to obey an unlawful executive order than they are to follow a court order 🤦🏾♀️.
Dictators are created due to cruelty, cowardice, & compliance! IF THEIR ASSES will ignore the Supreme Court, we can definitely IGNORE HIM!
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staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by Senator Chris Murphy
The elevation of Pope Leo XIV is a profound and historic occasion. Like so many around the world, I am praying for him and wishing him and the Church well as his papacy begins.
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So let me get this straight, we finally get an American pope, and some of the America first crowd is mad because he cares about the poor and immigrants. Am i missing something here?
“is intelligence proof against authority?”
This would have been my guess prior to the previous three years. Alas, I’ve had a PROFOUND shift in my assessments many institutions and their employees.
I fall into that ~25% of not caving to Asch-style conformity not due to my intellect, but due to my stubbornness. Which has been a problem in the past, but served me admirably the last three years.
I didn’t really have doubts about my position, but the cognitive dissonance in watching (purportedly) intel…
I remember going to my small liberal arts college in 1980 and being told repeatedly that the point was not to teach us facts, but to teach us how to think. Somewhere along the way, that basic fundamental of higher education was flushed down the toilet.
And how did they teach people how to think, exactly?
At my state school, there were two exceptional professors in the Speech Communications department. One also served as the forensics team coach. She taught us how to apply critical thinking skills to all that we took in whether it was a news broadcast, or articles we read in magazines like TIME, Newsweek, US News & World Report, et al.
The weekly assignment was to objectively analyse an article from any previous week's issue of the periodical of our choice – that exercise forced us to recognise o…
I've never been taught critical thinking, but i think i have been doing it without realising since this Covid fiasco began. I call it "my gut feeling", read as Faith.
