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why are individuals in the hard sciences so keen on seeking public intellectual status by maiming the fields of philosophy, politics, history, and archaeology, among others? for some reason, it seems that this trend is escalating.
some hypotheses:
>popular media now much more pop. science focused in America than it is on the old "men of letters" tropes of past intellectual epochs (reaction to postmodern anxiety and desire of hoi polloi to return to the Enlightenment?)
>the very process of research and application of research in the hard sciences, once basic skills are attained, can sometimes be fairly rote, especially in modern functionalist contexts where people's research is being put towards incremental development of products and things; thus, those with the highest IQs in these fields feel unchallenged or undermotivated and so seek out other complex subjects. the inflated egos they have from having advanced degrees in "more difficult" subjects make them feel that they have something new to offer these fields when they don't see their tired epistemologies reflected in modern discourse in those subjects (could also play into scientists' anxieties themselves about postmodernism and almost reflexive need to silence debates about epistemology to maintain their advanced intellectual status in Western Europe and America vis a vis continental intellectual traditions)
>individuals in the hard sciences, cut off from popular discourse and normal people (academia insulates, and interaction with non-specialists is unnecessary when you work in such an abstracted field as evo psych or astrophys), think that there is actually a culture war going on with evangelicals that threatens their funding
>to use their own stupid determinist philosophy, maybe there is something inherent about the hard sciences that draws candidates who are also arrogant, ignorant prigs who can't shut their mouths about things they don't understand
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>stupid determinist philosophy
you almost had me there
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>>3179280
im referring to folks like harris and pinker who mechanistically apply evo theory to all human behavior. do you have a counter argument?
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>>3179287
you aren't being specific enough for anyone to present a counter argument
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>Sir! The Death Star plans are NOT in the main computer!
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>>3179243
>reincarnation isn't real
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>>3179348
And a failure in both lives, too
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>>3179243
B E A D Y
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>Adolf Hitler was the best friend of the Jewish people
His actions caused the creation of Zionist state of Israel.
How do you feel about this?
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>>3179225
Hitler wanted to relocate the Jews to an area near Palestine, but of course French and British mandates in the Middle East stopped that from happening. They could've had their own state, but thanks to the selfishness of Britain and France, Hitler had no other choice, but to exterminate the Jews.
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>>3179251
Kinda funny how that ended up happening anyways after the war.
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>>3179263
Jews are honestly the most autistic people on the planet.
>Brits offer Jews a homeland to escape persecution
>NO GOYIM
>Russians offer Jews a homeland to escape persecution
>DON'T THINK SO GOYIM
>US offers Jews a homeland to escape persecution
>NOT GOOD ENOUGH GOYIM
>Hitler offers Jews a homeland to escape persecution
>UM, NO SWEETIE
>UN offers Jews a homeland right in the middle of everyone who would persecute them
>SOUNDS GOOD GOYIM
How common were people who renounce society in human history?
Was there a place or time where they were more prevalent?
I can only think about religious hermits like the sannyasin in India or monks in christian monasteries, but how about groups of people? Maybe the amish, but still they seem to be mostly religion driven than for social/political reasons
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>>3179052
Hermits were recorded throughout history; They're just not very interesting.
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>>3179052
>How common were people who renounce society in human history?
Pretty fucking common. Of course it depends on when and where, (individuals/families can go off the grid quite easily, larger, organized breakaway communities rely on both private property, and not having savages to murderfuck them.)
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>>3179052
Most Siberian towns/villages were and still are quite isolated, while the native people there did not renounce society they did not exactly participate either. I remember reading about many people in the first half of the 20th century not knowing they were living under the rule of communism.
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What does /his/ think of Stoicism?
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God-tier way of life if you are adept at it.
It's pretty difficult and you might burn out if you actively try to be Stoic about everything.
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>>3178884
true nihilism is better and easier.
everything is meaningless in the end so i'm "free" to do much more.
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>>3180521
>True Nihilism
>Is still alive.
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Why did he really hate Jews when there were roughly 10 jews in the entirety of Spain?
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>Moreover Germany is not, as believe those fond of broad generalizations, the country of discipline, despite appearing to be so outwardly. The Germans are a very special people. They sing very well together in choral groups, they march to the same martial step; but every movement of indiscipline, of rebellion in the world, reminiscent of Spartacus, originated in Germany.[30]
damn....
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>>3178832
100% true, but not a bad thing at all. Kill fascists, kill emperors, kill commies. Rebel against all authority.
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How did israel manange to beat so many countries all by itself in just six days?
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american military aid
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Preemption, a very competent air force, and they were fighting against Arabs
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>>3178653
American aid only does so much
Remember Vietnam?
The kikes strike the Ar*bs pre emptively destroying their forces in deployment basically catching them with their pants down
Also the Israeli air force annihilated arab planes on the ground meaning they have not just air superiority,but supremacy
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This is Abdülhamid II. Say something nice to him.
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>>3178567
i like the sword
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>>3178567
fucking manlet
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Respect to him for resisting the Jew
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so.. what caused it, /his/?
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Slaves and state rights
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>>3178526
Confederates chimping out at fort sumter
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actually it was about ethics in slave ownership
Why do people get mad when they claim African civilizations, when "African" is literally in their moniker?
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>>3178485
African American is stupid, anyway. There are tons of African Americans who aren't black.
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Remember to sage and report. If you respond you're part of the problem.
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I recall answering this question several times now. Here it is again, one more time, since apparently you've forgotten:
Only in the USA can one think that the term "African-American" is politically correct. My friend Gerard, a white man from South Africa who relocated to Pennsylvania, is an African-American. My friend Hassan, a Moroccan who relocated to California, is an African-American. The white Zimbabwean businessman whom i met in Argentina and the black Angolan student whom i met in Brazil are African-Americans. But that is not what USA citizens mean when they say "African-American": they mean "black person who lives in the USA". In fact they call "African-American" even people from Haiti, Britain and France, as long as their skin is black. Most USA citizens (particularly the self-appointed African-American ones) think of Africa as being only sub-Saharan Africa, and of America as being only the USA. And they do not consider white people born in Africa as "African". In other words, when they say "African" they really mean "person with a black skin", and when they say "American" they really mean "USA citizen".
I think that "black" is more precise and, ultimately, more politically correct. Thus i use "black musician" to mean what USA citizens refer to as "African-American musician". If no nationality is provided, then it means that the black person is from the USA (this book is mostly about the USA, so it would be redundant to keep repeating "black USA musician"). I write both "black" and "white" lower case. Occasionally i lapse into the "African-American" thing myself, but that should be in a broader context (when i am indeed talking about the two continents).
-Scaruffi
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Was it autism?
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it was marxism
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It was lack of intelligence.
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>>3178338
Your post
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What does the next 100 years hold for the united states?
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>>3178291
A decline into irrelevancy
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Overall less important that it once was, but still one of the big boys
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25 year rule.
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Since there is only one true God not just for our solar system but for the entire universe, does the God appear to each species of Space Aliens as an Earth Human, or does he make himself look like a member of their own species?
Do all the different space aliens on their own planets get the same Jesus Christ, who gets tortured to death by whatever their historical evil empire happens to be?
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God is impersonal.
While there is revelation there is no such thing as direct revealing.
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>god
>aliens
>>>/x/
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>>3178203
Then why does everyone like the Jesus cat so much?
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
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I think you might be the worst poster on /his/. Every thread you've made with that picture has been worthless.
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>>3178192
We need to legalize infanticide for autistic children, it would improve the post quality on 4chan dramatically.
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Hola mis amigos. I got a new helicopter. Do you want to go for a ride?
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Winner of the 1983 "who can ruin their country the hardest" contest.
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>>3178145
>Peron
>1983
Hi brainlet.