Red tailed hawks oh James i digress...your asking terribly tough decisions today... no one likes a referendum in something you cannot clearly understand as the PM has an emotional moment! I guess he feels the voice is correct! how cynical or how realistic have I become....you remove correctness for political correctness and now everything has the precision of a feeling...women become men...men become woman and young women become red tailed hawks...follow the logic and capture the feeling m...don’t you get it James....truth doesn’t matter if you feel you are helping someones feelings you can feel your doing the right thing....it’s just the right think to do I can feel it!
I feel very sorry for this generation, sorry for their children, and more to the point very sorry and worried for my grandchildren who will be living in this kind of world. My grandchildren will be taught by this generation, my grandchildren will have to interact with this disturbing generation in all areas of their lives as they grow. My first grandchild is now 13… this disturbing generation will most likely be in parliament running the nation when she is old enough to vote. Who will she ever be able to compete with in sport, who will she ever be able to interact with and who will be making the laws for her generation… (ohhh sorry this crazy generation are already in parliament running the nation and making crazy laws)
What is objective truth?To the ABC its only that which is scientifically verifiable. But saying the only objective truth is scientifically verifiable truth is a philosophical statement, not an objective truth. Besides, if you believe "Nature" Journal a highly respected scientific journal which now demands only scientific research ompatible with an ideologically fashionable worldview be published, truth is not objective. What is arguably the world’s most influential scientific journal is strangling academic freedom and science itself with the hands of the far left.
“Although academic freedom is fundamental, it is not unbounded,” a recent volume of Nature Human Behavior reads. “For example, research may — inadvertently — stigmatize individuals or human groups.”
Nature bills itself as “the world’s leading multidisciplinary science journal.” It is certainly among the most read, cited, and prestigious academic journals, demands that science be compatible with an ideologically fashionable worldview. Journalist Andrew Follett says " Perhaps the most disturbing feature of Nature’s new editorial guidelines is the broadened definition of research-related “harm,” which researchers must prevent, to now include negative social consequences for studied groups. Currently, scientific ethics is concerned with preventing harm to individual research subjects, with rules set up in the aftermath of human experiments performed by the Nazis and Imperial Japan."
Woke gatekeepers censor research publications and can influence or reject funding of research if they believe the outcome contradicts an accepted ideological position for which there is "no argument". Some examples would include- AGW, that homosexuality is innate not a proclivity, that gender is a social construct, not a biological fact.
"This comes at a time when left-wing academics are redefining academic freedom, such that “some ideas don’t deserve a hearing,” and it’s part of a growing trend: Many other scientific journals and funding agencies are adjusting research policies to favour progressive views." states Follett.
The guardians of truth used to be the religious high priests, now its the mandarins of the woke bureaucracy and their subservient minions in the academy- he who pays the piper, calls the tune. As for me and my family, we know of only one truth- the only one who claims to be the truth personified. I AM THE.... TRUTH (Jn 14.6)
Another accurate and succinct assessment once again Mr Macpherson.
We are witnessing the wholesale acceptance of mental illness as normality while reality and objective truth, as you say, are abandoned. It is a widespread cultural mental illness born of a spiritual degeneracy as society rejects biblical Truth, does what is right in their own eyes and ends up believing the lie.
"There is a way that seems right unto man but the end thereof is death."
The concepts of right and wrong must have an objective basis from which to appeal, or else they become simply relative to the culture.
And if your objective truth comes from the bible, you cannot with biblical consistency argue against the LGBTQ agenda, adultery, abortion, euthanasia, racism, or critical race theory without the literal, historical truth of Genesis 1–11. This is because a biblical position on identity, sex, gender, marriage, the sanctity of life, and racism is founded on the literal historical truths of Genesis 1–11.
The west is going down the toilet.
Well said James. Short and to the point.
it is called Post-Modernism where you make up your own reality and everyone else does the same thing only different.
It sure demonstrates that A supreme God is not even regarded by many
Agree
Red tailed hawks oh James i digress...your asking terribly tough decisions today... no one likes a referendum in something you cannot clearly understand as the PM has an emotional moment! I guess he feels the voice is correct! how cynical or how realistic have I become....you remove correctness for political correctness and now everything has the precision of a feeling...women become men...men become woman and young women become red tailed hawks...follow the logic and capture the feeling m...don’t you get it James....truth doesn’t matter if you feel you are helping someones feelings you can feel your doing the right thing....it’s just the right think to do I can feel it!
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Totally agree..100%
James, well said🙏
I feel very sorry for this generation, sorry for their children, and more to the point very sorry and worried for my grandchildren who will be living in this kind of world. My grandchildren will be taught by this generation, my grandchildren will have to interact with this disturbing generation in all areas of their lives as they grow. My first grandchild is now 13… this disturbing generation will most likely be in parliament running the nation when she is old enough to vote. Who will she ever be able to compete with in sport, who will she ever be able to interact with and who will be making the laws for her generation… (ohhh sorry this crazy generation are already in parliament running the nation and making crazy laws)
It's a strange world
What is objective truth?To the ABC its only that which is scientifically verifiable. But saying the only objective truth is scientifically verifiable truth is a philosophical statement, not an objective truth. Besides, if you believe "Nature" Journal a highly respected scientific journal which now demands only scientific research ompatible with an ideologically fashionable worldview be published, truth is not objective. What is arguably the world’s most influential scientific journal is strangling academic freedom and science itself with the hands of the far left.
“Although academic freedom is fundamental, it is not unbounded,” a recent volume of Nature Human Behavior reads. “For example, research may — inadvertently — stigmatize individuals or human groups.”
Nature bills itself as “the world’s leading multidisciplinary science journal.” It is certainly among the most read, cited, and prestigious academic journals, demands that science be compatible with an ideologically fashionable worldview. Journalist Andrew Follett says " Perhaps the most disturbing feature of Nature’s new editorial guidelines is the broadened definition of research-related “harm,” which researchers must prevent, to now include negative social consequences for studied groups. Currently, scientific ethics is concerned with preventing harm to individual research subjects, with rules set up in the aftermath of human experiments performed by the Nazis and Imperial Japan."
Woke gatekeepers censor research publications and can influence or reject funding of research if they believe the outcome contradicts an accepted ideological position for which there is "no argument". Some examples would include- AGW, that homosexuality is innate not a proclivity, that gender is a social construct, not a biological fact.
"This comes at a time when left-wing academics are redefining academic freedom, such that “some ideas don’t deserve a hearing,” and it’s part of a growing trend: Many other scientific journals and funding agencies are adjusting research policies to favour progressive views." states Follett.
The guardians of truth used to be the religious high priests, now its the mandarins of the woke bureaucracy and their subservient minions in the academy- he who pays the piper, calls the tune. As for me and my family, we know of only one truth- the only one who claims to be the truth personified. I AM THE.... TRUTH (Jn 14.6)
Another accurate and succinct assessment once again Mr Macpherson.
We are witnessing the wholesale acceptance of mental illness as normality while reality and objective truth, as you say, are abandoned. It is a widespread cultural mental illness born of a spiritual degeneracy as society rejects biblical Truth, does what is right in their own eyes and ends up believing the lie.
"There is a way that seems right unto man but the end thereof is death."
Absolutely. Great response.
The concepts of right and wrong must have an objective basis from which to appeal, or else they become simply relative to the culture.
And if your objective truth comes from the bible, you cannot with biblical consistency argue against the LGBTQ agenda, adultery, abortion, euthanasia, racism, or critical race theory without the literal, historical truth of Genesis 1–11. This is because a biblical position on identity, sex, gender, marriage, the sanctity of life, and racism is founded on the literal historical truths of Genesis 1–11.