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What are you saying here?

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

I think he believes that the Kantian irrationalist excrement filling most of the left side quotes is some kind of deep and profound wisdom.

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That's what I thought but tthr quotes on the right are from people who presumably OP wouldn't like?

Also the people on the left are brilliant physicists who are not saying what it seems on a superficial level when you understand physics in a formal sense

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

the people on the left are brilliant physicists

Yes

are not saying what it seems on a superficial level when you understand physics

Yeah they are. The Einstein quote and the second from Bohr are unobjectionable, but especially the first Heisenberg and first Bohr quotes are (1) in the realm of philosophy rather than natural science, and (2) extremely bad philosophy, derived from the work of the mystic and fraud Immanuel Kant.

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Only one of the men on the right hand side is a noteworthy scientist (Dawkins), whereas all the men on the left hand side are. And what you quote from Dawkins is entirely defensible -- more than can be said for three of those on the left, which exemplify the catastrophic collapse of Western philosophy.

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You know what the greatest ability the human brain is capable of? Self reflection, and self reflection is also its greatest weakness.

You ever notice social media's main manipulative means manifests as massaging your mammalian instincts?

For something to be engaging there has to be relevance to human existence in some way. To people who have had close calls with death, witnessing that may have more visceral impact to someone who has never stared death in the face and lived to tell about it.

Take someone like 50 cent for instance. Would he be the person he is now if he didn't take 9 bullets and lived through it, hell to the fuck no. Each one of those bullets was a crash course in life and purged the nigger out of him. He made millions as a result.

You will never feel more alive than if you face your own mortality, those that do die in peace.