True. It takes all kinds to take us there, isn't it ?
On Aug 1, 7:53 pm, gruff <[email protected]> wrote:
> You're welcome ... but it was no trouble. I just went to Google and
> typed "define:liberal" then "define:conservative" and copied both
> results to here. Anyone with two fingers can do it.
>
> However, in mitigation of conservative philosophy, it is needed to
> keep human society from changing too fast and possibly blowing
> ourselves up in the excitement. Liberal philosophy can sometimes get
> us into trouble by bringing on change far too fast. A balance would
> be very nice, but ..... (sigh).
>
> On Aug 1, 6:34 am, Vamadevananda <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Must thank you, Gruff, for taking the trouble of enlightening us !
> > Amazingly, I had it right, more or less.
>
> > On Aug 1, 6:20 pm, gruff <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > Definitions of liberal on wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn:
>
> > > * broad: showing or characterized by broad-mindedness; "a broad
> > > political stance"; "generous and broad sympathies"; "a liberal
> > > newspaper"; "tolerant
>
> > > * having political or social views favoring reform and progress
>
> > > * tolerant of change; not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or
> > > tradition
>
> > > * a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform
> > > and the protection of civil liberties
>
> > > * big: given or giving freely; "was a big tipper"; "the bounteous
> > > goodness of God"; "bountiful compliments"; "a freehanded host"; "a
> > > handsome allowance"; "Saturday's child is loving and giving"; "a
> > > liberal backer of the arts"; "a munificent gift"; "her fond and
> > > openhanded grandfather"
>
> > > * a person who favors an economic theory of laissez-faire and self-
> > > regulating markets
>
> > > * free: not literal; "a loose interpretation of what she had been
> > > told"; "a free translation of the poem"
>
> > > Definitions of conservative on wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn:
>
> > > * resistant to change
>
> > > * having social or political views favoring conservatism
>
> > > * cautious: avoiding excess; "a conservative estimate"
>
> > > * a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas
>
> > > * button-down: unimaginatively conventional; "a colorful character in
> > > the buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business"- Newsweek
>
> > > * a member of a Conservative Party
>
> > > * bourgeois: conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle
> > > class; "a bourgeois mentality"- Hide quoted text -
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