Word: dogma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists told it, such books as the party's official History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Stalin's Foundations of Leninism were taught and studied by the faithful, not only as dogma, but "as guides to action." Only by violent action, the curriculum taught, could bourgeois governments be overthrown...
...rewarding ... to sit down at one table with the representatives of completely different churches ... as at Amsterdam-to sit down not with the purpose of formulating a new dogma or making compromises, but with the modest yet firm purpose of reaching through discussion a clear understanding of the things about which Christendom is united and the things about which it is divided ... So many . . . things at Amsterdam were simply encouraging . . . [that] I am glad that I did not harden myself against this new experience, but kept myself open...
...Nowadays, at his Institute of General Semantics in Lakeville, Conn., he still whisks about in his wheelchair, hammering away at his subject with all the fire left in him. The world is not always with him-in fact, very littl of it is. "[We] still believe ... in the poisonous dogma that 'in the beginning was the word,'" complains the count "Infantilism is rampant . . . Pooh!" On that point, Korzybski is willing to generalize, without date, and without...
Such an aromatic parcel of dogma is not worth refuting. I merely suggest that Hero Jones study the theory of the yin and the yan; the theory of extremes engendering their opposites; the moron's ability to reason in terms of black and white morality. The technique of loaded language the need not study...
...marry out of your Church, or you'll regret it all your life." So all Roman Catholic priests and many Protestant ministers warn their flocks. But most young people in love believe that love will conquer everything-including church dogma, ritual and customs...