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Here's an excellent lecture by the always fascinating Jared Diamond, where he discusses the evolutionary factors that probably lead to the establishment of religions in human societies:
Monday, April 13, 2009
Christopher Hitchens beating the intellectual shit out of lots of blithering idiots
Christopher Hitchens: Man I love that guy. CH: knows history. Vs. other guy: makes up words about history he wishes were true.
Next, same deal, but five times worse. It's amazing that there are no arguments that are less than 300 years old, which have all been thoroughly refuted. My favorite is the gentleman who actually says science is good for intelligent people, but what about unintelligent people?
For his next trick, CH'll beat up a pack of kindergartners. (Don't these people read even one book before trying to debate this guy?
Bonus: Here he is shredding some nimrod on the radio.
Next, same deal, but five times worse. It's amazing that there are no arguments that are less than 300 years old, which have all been thoroughly refuted. My favorite is the gentleman who actually says science is good for intelligent people, but what about unintelligent people?
For his next trick, CH'll beat up a pack of kindergartners. (Don't these people read even one book before trying to debate this guy?
Bonus: Here he is shredding some nimrod on the radio.
Philosophiæ Doctor
I'm back, baby! And it's Doctor FardelsBorne now!
That was a miserable couple of months, but I turned in a 443 page dissertation to the University last week, jumped through all the hoops, paid obeisance to the bureaucracy, appeased the witch-doctors, achieved escape velocity, and I'm out!
That was a miserable couple of months, but I turned in a 443 page dissertation to the University last week, jumped through all the hoops, paid obeisance to the bureaucracy, appeased the witch-doctors, achieved escape velocity, and I'm out!
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