Comments on: Misguided Laudable Knowledge day http://www.coopernundrums.com/2009/01/misguided-laudable-knowledge-day/ a lively collection of random musings from the mind of a webgeek Sun, 04 Jul 2010 21:27:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Laura Cooper http://www.coopernundrums.com/2009/01/misguided-laudable-knowledge-day/comment-page-1/#comment-59 Laura Cooper Thu, 22 Jan 2009 03:13:46 +0000 http://www.coopernundrums.com/?p=240#comment-59 I am a Liberal Democrat and voted for Barack Hussein Obama on November 4, 2008 - and proud of both facts! I am a Liberal Democrat and voted for Barack Hussein Obama on November 4, 2008 – and proud of both facts!

]]> By: JayCooper http://www.coopernundrums.com/2009/01/misguided-laudable-knowledge-day/comment-page-1/#comment-58 JayCooper Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:13:32 +0000 http://www.coopernundrums.com/?p=240#comment-58 Obviously my wife does not share my views.. Obviously my wife does not share my views..

]]> By: Laura Cooper http://www.coopernundrums.com/2009/01/misguided-laudable-knowledge-day/comment-page-1/#comment-57 Laura Cooper Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:33:58 +0000 http://www.coopernundrums.com/?p=240#comment-57 Very well stated, Jay McPherson. Very well stated, Jay McPherson.

]]> By: Jay McPherson http://www.coopernundrums.com/2009/01/misguided-laudable-knowledge-day/comment-page-1/#comment-55 Jay McPherson Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:31:36 +0000 http://www.coopernundrums.com/?p=240#comment-55 I don't think you are a racist and I dont think you are unintelligent... I do however think your view is a little skewed. first off above all things we have to get out of the way the fact that Martin Luther King Jr. was as you say just a person....we are all just people...Just as Thomas Edison was just a person. We put people that do remarkable things in to a light that perhaps makes them seem more pious then perhaps they really are..after all they are just people, right. I think in this aspect you are truly correct but every person who has ever done something great...lets face it..probably masturbated...probably said things that sounded ignorant and racist....perhaps they had an affair.....take Kennedy for example or Clinton. The thing is that is not what defined them as people. It was the good things they did that mattered. You compared Edison and the light bulb to MLK jr and the civil rights movement and this is where I disagree. The light bulb as you said did indeed deliver a world from a "dark age"..but this deliverance was not fought for...no one ever got the full force of a fire hose and dogs for wanting a light bulb. No one ever got beaten, raped, or even hung for owning or not owning a light bulb. When you are talking about Martin Luther King Jr. you are talking about the voices of Millions of people. You are talking about A civil and spiritual movement of proportions unparalleled throughout history. While I agree that Edison was an amazing man I just dont see the comparison for the argument of Nat'l holiday that you make here. I certainly don't expect to change your mind in this matter. And I certainly respect what it is that you are saying. I feel like perhaps it has been articulated in the wrong way. Yours, Jay I don’t think you are a racist and I dont think you are unintelligent…
I do however think your view is a little skewed.
first off above all things we have to get out of the way the fact that Martin Luther King Jr. was as you say just a person….we are all just people…Just as Thomas Edison was just a person.
We put people that do remarkable things in to a light that perhaps makes them seem more pious then perhaps they really are..after all they are just people, right.
I think in this aspect you are truly correct but every person who has ever done something great…lets face it..probably masturbated…probably said things that sounded ignorant and racist….perhaps they had an affair…..take Kennedy for example or Clinton. The thing is that is not what defined them as people.
It was the good things they did that mattered.
You compared Edison and the light bulb to MLK jr and the civil rights movement and this is where I disagree.
The light bulb as you said did indeed deliver a world from a “dark age”..but this deliverance was not fought for…no one ever got the full force of a fire hose and dogs for wanting a light bulb. No one ever got beaten, raped, or even hung for owning or not owning a light bulb.
When you are talking about Martin Luther King Jr. you are talking about the voices of Millions of people. You are talking about A civil and spiritual movement of proportions unparalleled throughout history.
While I agree that Edison was an amazing man I just dont see the comparison for the argument of Nat’l holiday that you make here.
I certainly don’t expect to change your mind in this matter. And I certainly respect what it is that you are saying. I feel like perhaps it has been articulated in the wrong way.

Yours,
Jay

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