So what are we going to do? Bear it tamely? Or fight? If we fight, we’d better do it soon, because it’s going to come to violence if we go too much farther down this road. Violence — or slavery.

Much as the Catholic dogmatic doctrine and the Protestant pastor doctrine has determined that Mormonism is founded on false cult beliefs and the worship of the Angels “Moroni” and other spiritual devils or demons or some such, so I also think the Catholic “Mary” worship belief is not exactly as they have painted it. There are many entities that can be described as the Queen of Heaven, creating an immortal son, such the ISIS/Osiris mythologies.

One needs to be very accurate in their portrayl of an elohim’s basic character before they can then use their human language cores to tell the rest of us that she is who they think she is.

Um… if I may be so bold, I would categorically and implicitly state that the Problem is that you cannot teach something that you yourself don’t know anything true about.

Which in this case means that academy shouldn’t be wondering whether they should teach Plato or Aristotle… because few if any of them understand Plato or Aristotle’s work as they were originally written.

Most of the things you raised I have thought about and finished analyzing 10 years ago. These events may be new, shocking, and surprising to the moderns, but to me they are just old school cycles and stuff that bores me. Already seen where this leads.

You should input “Yuri Bezmenov” on youtube and see his lectures directly, Snow. You might actually comprehend the extent of his meaning now given how your context has changed due to recent events in American life.

See, comprehension is not a matter of IQ to me as an autodidact. It is more a matter of life experience and wisdom, or applications and experience.

Ancient Hebrew is much akin to Old English vs Shakespeare Middle English vs Modern English. You may be using the same sounds and the same words even, if slightly misspelled, but they don’t actually mean what you think they mean any more. The culture, political socio economic society has changed too much.

How will you pass down civilization to another generation so they might – eventually – raise up the banner of freedom and truth once again?

The Pre Flood Civilizations etched often unreadable writing and mathematical drawings upon pillars that were high enough to be above the waters. Of course much of this stuff is now on the ocean beds as underwater pyramids and crystal structures.

Who was it who said battles in academia are so fierce because the stakes are so low?

Someone who lacked the proper understanding of how to build a nation in the long term… or tear it down.

Rufus, the World will Burn, as I told people back in 2015. First Water was used to reset this server matrix world. Next is Fire. No point being depressed about it; it is baked in the cake already. Either eat it or not.

Victor Davis Hanson spent decades teaching Classics, including Greek and Latin, to Fresno State students, many of whom are Hispanic. He has commented on the fact that the discipline is collapsing as an academic subject,

Happened long time ago, based on the various stories from Michael Heiser concerning Ancient Semitic language department he was in. Quite an interesting view into “academic” corruption that poses as intellectual rigor and honesty. You humans are pretty funny in how you make the Gap between farcical social masks and the actual truth.

As for CS Lewis, he wrote truth as fiction, not prophecy. A prophecy is an event where a person channels a higher order entity, aka any god or The Creator a specific god or elohim, in order to accomplish some aim of that entity. There are many instances of channeling that had little to do with the desires of a higher order entity, Edgar Cayce being one example.

The Army routinely teaches young men to become fluent in Russian or Arabic in 18 months.

One potential problem with learning Ancient Semitic or Homerish Greek is that they are dead languages. That means humans have to interpolate what the words mean in the original social context. These “interpolations” get corrupt from so called peer review. If 99% of your peers think this word meant that Greeks loved homo sex, and you think this word means something slightly different, unless you have hardcore scientific scholarly research backing you up (aka Authorities), you are not going to get far in “peer review” publishing. This might be a good thing since it cuts down on cranks and crazies, but it is usually the crazy stuff that pushes the boundaries and forces humanity to leap ahead. Otherwise, the academic field stagnates and becomes just the Old Guard talking about how airplanes won’t work, via Lord Kelvin. There were very good reasons why airplanes shouldn’t work, and the science is not quite as comprehensible as people believe given engineering feats. But it worked nonetheless. Many such instances happen in science, such as so called transmutation aka cold fusion, which is not actually fusion using gravity. It is actually scalar energy tech but they called it cold fusion to blow it up and suppress research into it. Another result of “peer review”. So the field stagnates. And humanity continues to live in the “Dark Age” of Enlightenment and modern conveniences.

But anyways, back to the topic of languages that aren’t dead. In the US, people may still comprehend what a Super Bowl means and what a Lemon means when it comes to “buying a lemon” that doesn’t work. But to future generations, without our cultural context, can they actually decipher what we meant by super bowl and buying bad lemons? They might just be taking us literally at our word because you know, 99.9999% of the other texts defined lemons as a fruit and a super bowl as a really big bowl to eat out of…

That’s basically what scholars have to go on with Ancient Semitic and Homerish Greek. If there’s no text that has a denotative or connotative usage of a term, then the term is locked to the existing texts, which are locked to the existing comprehension of denotative and connotative meanings and usage of a term. So if a word has 10 different connotations like “gender” or “sex” does for us, then they won’t understand all the nuances and meanings like a person that lives in the language when it was spoken would understand it as. So they basically have to memorize a bunch of dead grammar, which is fine if your memory works but if you want to utilize language processing, then it requires you to think in that native language. However, one cannot think in a language that is dead because you don’t have their cultural matrix and assumptions down. It would be like someone thinking they can learn American English but they don’t know anything about America. Their English will still be English but it won’t be American English. Maybe Australian and British “pop” English

1. Well, for a start, add a question to state voter registration forms about what institutions in state awarded you a degree. Forward the data to the state board of elections, who cross-check the responses with alumni records and send postcards to respondents asking them to clarify any anomalies. In this way, the state board of elections (or secretary of state) builds a database of registered voters who are degree holders (bacclaureate, master’s, doctoral) from the state’s public and private institutions.

2. Incorporate into state law mandatory amendments to the by-laws of each higher-ed corporation in the state. For baccalaureate granting institutions or higher, the law would command they be governed by a board of trustees elected by their alumni resident in-state. The number of trustees to be elected for each institution would be a function of the number of resident alumni, with a minimum set at 5.

3. The elections would be conducted by the state board of elections (or secretary of state) and the voting would be by post. Any alumni would be eligible to run (though there might be rotation-in-office rules).

a. You arrive at the offices of the state board, fill out an application with identifying information, pay a deposit refundable if you achieve a certain performance, and leave behind a 600 word statement explaining your candidacy.

b. When the registration period lapses, the board then has ballots printed up. Because it’s a low information election, you need to vary the order of names on the ballot or the numbnutzes will see to it that the first five names listed are elected; if you vary the ballot order, the numbnutzes cancel each other out. You hold a drawing and put each name you draw on a daisywheel. To construct one stereotype, start at a point on the daisywheel for the top name on the ballot, and run counterclockwise for each of the other names. To construct another, you start at a different point and move counter-clockwise. You construct as many stereotypes as candidates who qualify for the ballot and then print up an equal number of each stereotype. In the population of ballots you mail out, each candidate will have an equal chance to occupy the top position, the second position, the third position, etc.

c. The board assembles the statements of the candidates into a prospectus, and sends out a mailing to each registered voter. The mailing consists of the prospectus, a ballot, and a set of instructions. The voter fills out the ballot and mails it back to the state board. Any ballot arriving by election day is deemed validly cast. Those arriving later are mailed back to the voter with a note of regret.

d. This ballot would be an ordinal ballot, where the choices are ranked. The condorcet tabulation method would be used. You have multiple rounds of tabulation until you have left a set of candidates in number equal to the number of slots on the board.

4. Require by law that all trustees elected in the state be administered an oath (or be directed to state an affirmation) by a local justice of the peace. The content of the oath would require they acknowledge their responsibility for the academic integrity of the institution.

5. Require by law that the board fill out reports to the state board of regents listing the staff employed by the board, and affirming that the offices of the staff are not on the campus and that none of the staff are employed by any component of the institution other than the board.

6. Enact by law a glossary which nominates degree and concentration programs and provides capsule descriptions of them. Require by law that public institutions offer only those programs which are to be found in the glossary. Require that private institutions issue a disclosure form to all constituents listing any programs offered which are outside the glossary. Make the wording of such disclosures standard per statute.

7. Require that any state institution wishing to offer a degree program apply to a supervisory commission appointed by the board of regents. The commission would then hold hearings where the institution presented its case and other public institutions could present a case that the market was saturated or that the franchise to start such a program was properly allocated elsewhere. Concentration programs subordinate to degree programs would not require a franchise, but would be permitted so long as the superordinate degree program was permitted.

8. Subject all state institutions to periodic audits by the state comptroller. What the auditor would do is look retrospectively at the number of degrees in a given subject awarded each year to those students whose board scores placed them above the 30th percentile of their entering class. Then you calculate for each year the share of graduates (excluding those below the 30th percentile of their entering class) who receive this degree. Then you take the median figure for the full array of graduating classes you have in your dataset (limiting your set to the last 35 graduating classes if its a venerable major). If this metric falls below a critical value, the program would be ordered closed by the state comptroller unless it merited a reprieve. You’d grant a reprieve under two circumstances: the program had been founded < 12 years earlier or the school was designated to be the repository of said program it not being offered in any other state institution.

9. State functions of trustees in state law: to select the institutions president; to monitor searches for the president's direct reports and their direct reports, and impose their own choices at their discretion; to vet all contract renewals and grants of tenure for faculty; to adopt the institution’s budget prescribing all expenditures; to determine when to issue bonds and commercial paper; to determine whether or not to initiate or settle a suit; to adopt an employee manual in accordance with state law; to adopt a student disciplinary manual in accordance with law; to approve all statements to constituents which create legal obligations by their utterance.

10. End all state grants and subsidies to private institutions in the state.

11. Limit state funding of public institutions to the proceeds of a dedicated income tax.

12. Mandate that faculty retire once they are eligible for full Social Security, eligible for Medicare, and have contributed to TIAA-CREF for 40 years (pro-rating years of p/t employment). Limit multi-year contracts to 12 semesters and limit continuous tenure to faculty over 55 (excepting those awarded endowed chairs).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oveHzHuG9vQ

FIRE’s site: https://www.thefire.org/ ;

& see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_for_Individual_Rights_in_Education

Lots of left-leaning organizations are involved in some of the coalitions, however. For instance the National Coalition against Censorship’s “Free Expression Network” shows among its many member associations: People for the American Way, the AAUP, the ACLU, the Friends Committee on National Legislation; on the other hand, EFF — the Electronic Frontier Foundation — and also FIRE. For list of member organizations, with links, see

https://ncac.org/free-expression-network

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By the way, The Chronical of Higher Education” has this piece up: “The Koch Institute Is Worried About Free Speech on Campus. But Not in the Way You Might Think,” from last August.

I haven’t yet read the whole thing.