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by apocalypstyx 9y ago
It's not the Biblical references / usages that bothers me, and that's in and of itself is not what I mean. I engage with it theology myself and often respect theological thinkers in regards to their arguments. This is alway
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by apocalypstyx 9y ago
Having been raised in fundamentalist Christianity, Peterson always sets off preliminary warning bells for me: The enemy is all around you. Access to secret "true" knowledge. The world is corrupt. A plan that if you follow correctl
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>The fewer such barriers we have, the easier it becomes to understand others. More like the easier it is to maintain the pretense of understanding others.
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by apocalypstyx 9y ago
Birds nests and termite mounds. Ants invented farming and animal domestication (and slavery) before humans evolved as a species (certain strains of fungus have gone extinct in nature and only still remain because of their cultivation. Herm
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by apocalypstyx 10y ago
For a large class of cases — though not for all — in which we employ the word meaning it can be explained thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language. ---Ludwig Wittgenstein
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by apocalypstyx 10y ago
I'd love to know where that 99% comes from. (Or maybe I wouldn't.) I'd say there's far more than anecdotal evidence, but not, obviously, not enough to draw necessarily firm conclusions. So I would say there's enoug
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by apocalypstyx 10y ago
Along with a increased chance of being a creationist and/or jihadist. http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Salem_Hypothesis http://scienceblogs.com/tfk/2007/11/11/the-salem-hypothesis-.
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by apocalypstyx 10y ago
Fiction: Inherent Vice --- Thomas Pynchon The Great and Secret Show --- Clive Barker Jurassic Park --- Michael Crichton The Mothman Prophecies --- John A. Keel (1) The Wind in the Willows --- Kenneth Grahame Ender's Game ---
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by apocalypstyx 10y ago
Freedom is (maybe?) psychologically (perhaps biologically?) untenable in humans. GNU/Linux ---> too much user choice Freely shared scientific inquiry ---> technologists giv[ing] control of their knowledge to people who have no
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by apocalypstyx 10y ago
Can we please not go into ubermensch territory. We (the geeks) also created atomic bombs, hydrogen bombs, built electric chairs, designed Auschwitz, and as we speak are hooking together a system of globalised mass surveillance... And to qu
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by apocalypstyx 10y ago
My problem with shunting Kafka into post-modernism is it becomes too much a grab bag. Just like they try to vacuum up Cervantes and Sterne, aswell. Kakfa died 40 years before post-modernism; (and Cervantes 343 and Sterne 191). But it brin