Re: Bill O'Reilly and the Potty-Mouthed Eight-Year-Old Girl
 

I was meaning strictly people in a media position, not just "regular" people.
Like, people put more stock and credability in someone, just because they are on TV, forgetting that they can be on TV for various reasons, and that can falsly influence people with really...really bad advice and outlooks. IE: Ann Coulter.

Re: Bill O'Reilly and the Potty-Mouthed Eight-Year-Old Girl
 

I totally agree with that. Many people let others determine their opinion, simply because its easier than thinking about it. But don't think that this only takes place in the media. Just look to our schools and universities to see endoctrination replace education.

I have a education certification from a highly regarded school in that field; a school that had Sociological Foundations of Education as a required course. That sounds wonderful, until you realize that most of the course covered the writings of Karl Marx and the benefits of his theories. Many people in my class took his word as absolute truth.

The man had a doctorate and was immensely intelligent, yet I did not agree with most of his theories. Still, I listened to him and learned a lot about topics I never learned about before. I did not simply accept his opinion, but I can't deny that his opinions and materials changed the way I thought about Marx and education.

Allowing others to help shape your opinions is not the same as becoming a sheep, but one can become one if they stop thinking and allow others to do it for them.

Re: Bill O'Reilly and the Potty-Mouthed Eight-Year-Old Girl
 

...'but'?:p

Re: Bill O'Reilly and the Potty-Mouthed Eight-Year-Old Girl
 

I thought I saw Satan skating to work today.

Re: Bill O'Reilly and the Potty-Mouthed Eight-Year-Old Girl
 

Now that was funny :)

Typhoid and I are not political parties. I'm not going to disagree with him simply because he is Typhoid. I disagree with many of his ideas and questionable methods in which he supports them, but I don't just disregard anything he says because he is Typhoid.

If we see eye to eye on something, the admission of that is not a sign of weakness, its simply stating the truth. The exchange of ideas is not a debate in which you are competing with arguments. Ideas can be heated and strongly felt, but they are not exclusive or infallible.

The exclusivity and infallibility of ideas is called Idealism, which is a dangerous and intelelctually stagnating mindset.

Re: Bill O'Reilly and the Potty-Mouthed Eight-Year-Old Girl
 

I don't agree with that... :)

I know all of this of course. Still, it's nice to read what we all perhaps take for granted in our minds put down into explicit words.