Ayn Rand sure was a clever person. She did understand that people prefer social acceptance of certain views over factual correctness. You can see this in this quote. Those facts that are an opposite of what is generally accepted are often generally ignored, until of course, something very bad happens that urgently requires to have some second thoughts. Like a war, a financial crisis or a revolution.
Yes as the stupid Kennedy staffers say it is the Evangelicals not the Muslims. I wish I never met this staffer my whole week is going bed. I have a sour after taste.
A pithier French version of this is De Gaulle's reply to the heckler who shouted "Mort aux cons" (in essence: down with the jerks or, by extension, down with the dopes):
Who is so deafe, or so blynde, as is hee, That wilfully will nother here nor see.
[1546 J. Heywood Dialogue of Proverbs ii. ix. K4]
There is no manne so‥blynd as he that will not see, nor so dull as he that wyll not vnderstande.
[1551 Cranmer Answer to Gardiner 58]
Which makes me wonder‥that having access to those Records‥he should declare himself unable to decide the doubt. ‥But none so blind as he that will not see.
[1659 P. Heylyn Examen Historicum 145]
You know, there's none so blind as they that won't see.
[1738 Swift Polite Conversation iii. 191]
‘None so blind as those that won't see.’‥A single effort of the will was sufficient to exclude from his view whatever he judged hostile to his immediate purpose.
[1852 E. Fitzgerald Polonius 58]
Owen shook his head and picked up his drink. ‘There's none so blind as those that will not see.’
[2000 P. Lovesey Reaper xv. 185]
It's interesting that the boy in the story of The Emperor's New Clothes is able to see because he did not get the wrong information while the masses fear ostracism for being truthful. Reminds me of everyone I meet who is brainwashed by the MSM and their own twisted PC ideology into not seeing.
Clarity is understanding. Understanding is a requirement of wisdom.
'Oh ye of little understanding'...'In all your getting, get understanding'. Illumination...enlightenment.
The light of truth has been shined on Islam, and those who 'see' because of it have become enlightened.
Those who willfully fail to comprehend
will not become enlightened.
So the work of the enlightened in resisting Islam is doubled.
You must hold off the dim witted, with one hand while struggling with jihad/terrorism with the other. Double duty for the wise...It's hard work but someone has to do it...Thanks RS...
Ayn Rand sure was a clever person. She did understand that people prefer social acceptance of certain views over factual correctness. You can see this in this quote. Those facts that are an opposite of what is generally accepted are often generally ignored, until of course, something very bad happens that urgently requires to have some second thoughts. Like a war, a financial crisis or a revolution.
I wonder how many times that saying could have been trotted out over the last 10 years?
With substantive evidence to back it up!
Just a thought.
Room. Elephant.
That's the whole point, haramfidel. The amount of evidence doesn't matter.
Broom closet. Polka dot elephant.
Yes as the stupid Kennedy staffers say it is the Evangelicals not the Muslims. I wish I never met this staffer my whole week is going bed. I have a sour after taste.
A pithier French version of this is De Gaulle's reply to the heckler who shouted "Mort aux cons" (in essence: down with the jerks or, by extension, down with the dopes):
"Vaste programme, monsieur."
Or, if you prefer to keep things as simple as possible:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZYzbkk5X4M
Ha! I've sent that YouTube link to my ex already, Hugh. Thanks.
"The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see."
The explanation to that is 'fear'.
It would take a looong article to explain why that is, and how it relates to Islam and jihad...
But no article is needed, you can observe it yourself, by 'seeing', not just 'looking', in the right direction...
Broom closet. Polka dot elephant.
Posted by: Haid Dasalami at September 30, 2008 9:23 AM
Nice.
For the mathematicians: projection into a null space.
Who is so deafe, or so blynde, as is hee, That wilfully will nother here nor see.
[1546 J. Heywood Dialogue of Proverbs ii. ix. K4]
There is no manne so‥blynd as he that will not see, nor so dull as he that wyll not vnderstande.
[1551 Cranmer Answer to Gardiner 58]
Which makes me wonder‥that having access to those Records‥he should declare himself unable to decide the doubt. ‥But none so blind as he that will not see.
[1659 P. Heylyn Examen Historicum 145]
You know, there's none so blind as they that won't see.
[1738 Swift Polite Conversation iii. 191]
‘None so blind as those that won't see.’‥A single effort of the will was sufficient to exclude from his view whatever he judged hostile to his immediate purpose.
[1852 E. Fitzgerald Polonius 58]
Owen shook his head and picked up his drink. ‘There's none so blind as those that will not see.’
[2000 P. Lovesey Reaper xv. 185]
Hugh: Great link there to Danny Kaye.
It's interesting that the boy in the story of The Emperor's New Clothes is able to see because he did not get the wrong information while the masses fear ostracism for being truthful. Reminds me of everyone I meet who is brainwashed by the MSM and their own twisted PC ideology into not seeing.
Clarity is understanding. Understanding is a requirement of wisdom.
'Oh ye of little understanding'...'In all your getting, get understanding'. Illumination...enlightenment.
The light of truth has been shined on Islam, and those who 'see' because of it have become enlightened.
Those who willfully fail to comprehend
will not become enlightened.
So the work of the enlightened in resisting Islam is doubled.
You must hold off the dim witted, with one hand while struggling with jihad/terrorism with the other. Double duty for the wise...It's hard work but someone has to do it...Thanks RS...
And the spectre of Obama hadn't yet been given birth; nor the emptied banks, ACORN, tranparent media....