Absolutely outrageous !

[KingNick865]

Just pointing out...

Reagan > Voltaire

Umm...........no.

 

[Brog]

That's not really a comparison you can try and make. It'd be like trying to figure who is greater, King Tut or Mark Twain.

 

[KingNick865]

That's not really a comparison you can try and make. It'd be like trying to figure who is greater, King Tut or Mark Twain.

:lolabove: Excuse me, but I just laughed my ass off. I don't know why.

 

[SavageOrangeJug]

Umm...........no.

:shakehead:

Umm...........yes.

 

[KingNick865]

:shakehead:

Umm...........yes.

Voltaire - Published over 2,000 works, fluent in 5 languages, and was an Enlightenment figure.

Reagan - "Win one for the Gipper"

 

[SavageOrangeJug]

Voltaire - Published over 2,000 works, fluent in 5 languages, and was an Enlightenment figure.

Reagan - "Win one for the Gipper"

Nothing I can say will highlight your lack of knowledge on the subject, as well as your own statement. :hi:

 

[KingNick865]

Nothing I can say will highlight your lack of knowledge on the subject, as well as your own statement. :hi:

Now, I could be a smarta**, but instead, I'll refer to this.

Good old Savage always having to resort to insults because it's all he has.

 

[SavageOrangeJug]

Now, I could be a smarta**, but instead, I'll refer to this.

Refer to what you want. Your statement still stands as testament. k:

 

[Brog]

What exactly is this knowledge that Reagan > Voiltare? They lived in completely different worlds/lifetimes and did completely different things.

 

[KingNick865]

Refer to what you want. Your statement still stands as testament. k:

To what? I'm not the one trying to comparing an 18th century writer and philosopher with a 20th century world leader.

 

[SavageOrangeJug]

To what? I'm not the one trying to comparing an 18th century writer and philosopher with a 20th century world leader.

I'm not the one trying to compare the impact on mankind of a poet/philosopher and one of the greatest leaders of the free world the 20th century saw.

Reagan changed the world for the betterment of mankind. "Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"

Voltaire only talked about it.

 

[KingNick865]

I'm not the one trying to compare the impact on mankind of a poet/philosopher and one of the greatest leaders of the free world the 20th century saw.

Reagan changed the world for the betterment of mankind. "Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"

Voltaire only talked about it.

To say Voltaire wasn't a huge influence in the thinking of the French and American Revolutions is inaccurate.

 

[SavageOrangeJug]

To say Voltaire wasn't a huge influence in the thinking of the French and American Revolutions is inaccurate.

Voltaire's closest influence to the American Revolution, was drinking and chasing skirts with Ben Franklin.

 

[KingNick865]

Voltaire's closest influence to the American Revolution, was drinking and chasing skirts with Ben Franklin.

Umm.................no. His writings influenced the American Revolution, and at the very least, influenced the American writers to write and talk about such things.

Much like Reagan's philosophy had a huge effect on your political thinking, I would imagine.

 

[SavageOrangeJug]

Umm.................no. His writings influenced the American Revolution, and at the very least, influenced the American writers to write and talk about such things.

Much like Reagan's philosophy had a huge effect on your political thinking, I would imagine.

You hit one dead on.

Carter laid this country on it's back. Reagan stood it on it's feet again. Those little details of winning the Cold War without firing a shot, and bankrupting the Soviet Union on a Star Wars bluff. Those were just added bonuses.

 

[gsvol]

To say Voltaire wasn't a huge influence in the thinking of the French and American Revolutions is inaccurate.

But now French school teachers are discouraged from mentioning Voltaire because that is considered to be offensive to Islam.

What do you think of that??