I don’t even have an inkling of the leaps in logic one must make to reach that conclusion
Doesn’t matter. The point is to sound educated and profound. Gingrich understood that too, which is why he was described as “a dumb man’s idea of what a smart man sounds like”.
Especially considering that the Empire fell after it had chucked all that philosophical relativism and gone Christian. Everybody seems to forget that, for some reason.
Did the Empire ever have philosophical relativism?
““The reason that is very troubling to me,” Carson explains, “is that it’s the very same thing that happened to the Roman Empire. They were extremely powerful. There was no way anybody could overcome them. But these philosophers, with the long flowing white robes and the long white beards, they could wax eloquently on every subject, but nothing was right and nothing was wrong. They soon completely lost sight of who they were.””
Huh. I was under the impression that it was Athens that had all the philosophers. I thought Rome fell because of insane politicians and lead poisoning from the plumbing, which, given the conservative’s view of the EPA, are both more likely causes of a U.S. collapse.
Bill O’Reilly wants us to hire mercenary armies to fight wars for us, which is another thing that led to the fall of the Roman Empire. So far we’re batting 1.000: mercenaries, environmental poison, insane politicians and Christianity.
Been nice knowin’ y’all.
What? I thought the problem with “political correctness” is supposed to be exactly the opposite, that it’s super-judgy about what’s right and what’s wrong. You know, the “correctness” bit.
Not even Ben Carson seems to have a clue what Ben Carson’s talking about.
In this case, sure he does. “Political correctness” is a code term for liberalism, with all the scary change-y stuff that implies.
Ted Nugent. Again.
In a way.
“The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful.”
– Edward Gibbon
The Smith Act is still on the books. Why isn’t it being invoked?
"Dr. Keith Ablow, the resident psychiatrist at Fox News and a member of the network’s Medical A-Team, declared this week that President Barack Obama was allowing Ebola into the United States because his 'affiliations” and ‘affinities’ were more with Africa.
On Tuesday’s edition of The John Gibson Show on Fox News radio, Ablow looked ‘deep inside the president’s psyche’ to determine that Obama did not want to seal the borders or build a wall because he sees Americans as a ‘scourge on the face of the Earth.’"
- “His affinity, his affiliations are with them! Not us! That’s what people seem unwilling to accept. He’s their leader. We don’t have a president. We don’t have a president who has the American people as his primary interest, who believes the country has Manifest Destiny and has been a force for good.”*
“The Fox News doctor went on to speculate that Obama had only been elected because Americans were victims of Stockholm Syndrome, and decided to elect somebody ‘who has names very similar to two of our archenemies, Osama, well, Obama. And Hussein. And what it does is it removes the United States from its rightful place at the leading edge of a march for freedom in the world and encourages those who hate freedom like ISIL to go on their own march, which they have,’ Ablow asserted.”
He’s confused on his Ancient sources anyway. The Sophists (y’know, the moral relativists who prided themselves on being able to argue anything and its opposite) were a Greek thing, not a Roman thing. And even in Greece they had their share of critics… on the grounds that they argued everything and its opposite and lacked direction/morals.
Roman philosophers were a lot more categorical on the whole. You know, this is good, that is bad, don’t get fucked in the arse, fuck other guys in the arse instead because that is proper manly, that sort of thing.
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Bill O’Reilly wants us to hire mercenary armies to fight wars for us, which is another thing that led to the fall of the Roman Empire. So far we’re batting 1.000: mercenaries, environmental poison, insane politicians and Christianity.
Been nice knowin’ y’all.
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Shit, man, at least throw in midgets fighting bears and public orgies to make it worth my while !
Huckabee:
Carson:
Robes are bad, mmkay?
Will WWF and Cinemax do? 
Could be worse than philosophy. Could be faith.
Meh. Vanilla. I want midgets having public orgies with bears!
Does this mean little people fighting full sized bears or tiny bears in boxing gear?