how does guillerver's opinion of the brobdignagians change?
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You need to go back and read "Gulliver's Travels."
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I think it will bottom out about 25% corresponding to the number of far right wing radicals that want to come in your house and legislate their morality. I think most of the centrist will swing away and of course the far left, the ones that want to regulate your poops will always be away. so if something don't happen soon his popularity will keep going down. I don't see anything that will change due to his far right affiliation.
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I was a missionary to the Philippines, and I'm not familiar with Guinsaugon, but Catholic is the main religion for lowland people, many of the mountain tribes are still very into spirit worshiping. More and more many other religions are sending in missionaries, and so the gospel is going into the mountains, and its not just Catholics.
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I love that book.  Anyway, in the "Voyage to Lilliput" section, that nation is at war with Blefuscu over the proper manner to eat a hard boiled egg, obviously a trivial matter.  \n\nThere are many layers of satire in "Gulliver's Travels", and one of them here concerns the Catholic-Protestant problems which have often plagued Britain.  Swift was basically claiming that bloodshed between Catholics and Protestants over their theological differences made just as much sense as going to war over the correct way to eat eggs.\n\nI hope this helps.  "Gulliver's Travels" really is a great book, the later parts are, in my view, even better than the more famous voyages to Lilliput and Brobdingnag.
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Many folks in these parts think that it would be just fine if there were no more liberals around, anywhere. They see liberals as anti-religion, anti-American, and anti-anything that they believe in. People develop these attitudes as they are brought up. They get their viewpoints from their parents, their friends, their ministers, and others in their circle of acquaintances. People develop their attitudes irrationally and, unfortunately, not with their own minds. In other words, people do not think for themselves very much.\n\nOne night many years ago, William Jennings Bryan was speaking before a crowd of mostly farmers in Omaha, Nebraska. Afterwards, a young farmer came up to Bryan and earnestly inquired. "Why did God make conservatives?"\n\nBryan replied with another question, "When you want to plow a field, what kind of horses do you use?" The farmer replied that he used his strongest team.\n\n"Well," replied Bryan, "So what kind of plow would you use?" The farmer said he would use the best he had, the one that would plow the deepest and hold fast in the ground.\n\n"Well," said Bryan, "God made strong horses and stubborn plows and that way you get your field cultivated. So God made liberals--they are the strong horses--and conservatives--they are the plow--and if the liberals pull and the conservatives hold on, the work gets done. We need both."\n\nToday most people are quick to claim that they are "a conservative". Fewer claim to be liberals. Some call themselves "progressives", which I take to be a code word for liberal. The word liberal is spelled with four letters in the minds of many Southerners. But how many of us actually know anything about liberalism, or even conservatism, and the respective histories of these traditions? When we say that we are one or the other, what are we really saying?\n\nLiberals and conservatives historically differ in style and in temperament; and where they differ particularly is in their attitudes toward change. "The castle which conservatism is set to defend," said Ralph Waldo Emerson, "is the actual state of things, good and bad." Against this view the liberal urges the wisdom and the feasibility of change in order to improve the human and social condition. The conservative supposes that human contrivance is so treacherous a guide that efforts at making things better will generally produce more grief than good. The liberal, while he does not believe in the perfect nature of man or the infallibility of reason, does contend that intelligent decisions by mankind can improve individual opportunity and security. The conservative is the traditionalist; the liberal, the experimentalist.\n\nA society made up exclusively of conservatives or of liberals would be too dismal to contemplate. A good tension between the two camps provides fertile ground for society as a whole. "Each half is great," wrote Emerson, "but an impossible whole."\n\nWhile the liberal says, "Let's get going," the conservative says, "Wait a minute," and both are essential to progress. The job of innovation is usually performed by the liberal. The job of restraint is held by the conservative. While the durability of our society can be broadly attributed to conservatives, its creativity is the main province of its liberals.\n\nMost people, most of the time, are conservative for the same reason that they are conventional and accept and abide by the customs of their neighbors. They conceive of progress as a series of slow and relatively minor adjustments; drastic change almost always alarms them. The liberal is less patient in his search for remedies for the faults and failures he sees. He is prepared to accept change in larger doses. Both groups are always with us, and the political history of our country is mainly an account of the shifting strengths and weaknesses of these elements. From
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I agree with you and I cant wait for his smug smile to be wiped from his face the next time he is nominated. He has such a superior oppinion of hisself. He is a bully the way he shouts at the others. He thinks his oppinion is the only one that counts.He is so creeping round Suzy Ashleyne and Leah but he is so bitchy and as two faced as the others who he calls.He has now started trying to belittle Glynn. He is an idiot.I hope the housemates nominate him next week or they even put some other housemates that don`t like him in.
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No. Simply because others don't agree with you and harrass you about it won't change most peoples views. Look at politics.
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It changes their mood. \n\nThis article talks about this.
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I believe you are right but thats for the initial opinion your opinion may change when the person speaks, walks, or does anything else
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I thought he got kicked out when Naparis disappeared, instead he is trying to hide. I got an e-mail from someone saying he got Naparis kicked out. I haven't reported him, but very tired of it all. \nEDIT:\nI think I said it wrong. This morning a lady poster told me she thought Stephanvest got Naparis kicked out. Why are only people on the right getting in trouble, I never report anything, but the real nasty kids. Not politics
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brianl for the rest of the class thinks he is cool and knows something the rest of us don't. but see that is where brianl is suffering from delusions of grandeur. as you can see this is illness afflicts many people at answers and it is up to us to help those who can't help themselves. he needs to feel intellectual superior to others but as we have seen in the past its usually some sarcastic witch who comes along and brings them down the pit from which they have managed to claw their way out of. the answer is i am not a sheep so easily lead to the slaughter. i have lots of opinions none of which you could being to understand. so next time try not to be so condescending. i have found over the years it is usually those people with small things that ape your kind of behavior.
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he certianly did change people's opnions about him. I do belive his approval rate is at an all time low right now....hmm I wonder why.
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I hope it is the hippies because they are the only decent ones left. I hope that the frat boys are off soon because they are so annoying. But overall, the hippies gotta get it. I mean, how cool are they to stop and pick up hitchikers so they can find out about the people. (Not that I suggest doing that in USA unless you want to get murdered)
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Very good point.  \n\nI think people become intransigent in their points of view because their POVs are being attacked.  There's little room for reasoned discussion when the first statement of an argument is "you're an idiot."
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Hmmmm, interesting.\n\nI think you are entitled to their opinion and they are entitled to their opinion, in their opinion. :)
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The gay community has gotten so strong and arrogant that they are showing a great deal of distain towards not all straights,  just the ones that dont support them.   If you disagree with the gay lifestyle your branded as an intolerant bigot homophobe.  \n\nPersonally I dont care what they say about me.   I'm not the one trying to fertilize turds.
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I think it shows an independence of character.  Today's republican party has changed significantly in the last few years. For example, they used to strongly "conserve" money and hold the Gov't accountable for spending (other than militarily). The reckless spending in Iraq is a polar opposite of careful spending and accountability.\n\nI had to be true to my own ideas and switched parties as the times changed. \nEmerson said "It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."\n\nIt's important regardless of party to hold true to our character. So my answer is yes I would still have respect for them if I believed in their character.