Name 5 of the most influential people to you.

[owbu]

My MOM and

1. Noam Chomsky
2. Bruce Lee
3. Terence McKenna
4. Howard Stern
5. Dr Martin Luther King Jr.

those are some really bad people to be influenced by. Like really..I dont know what you were thinking. Alll of them are really bad choses. (This is how this thread works, right?)

[Deleted]

Then I suggest you listen to and/or read their works. Education will enlighten you

i dunno man whenever i watch something of those kind of people on youtube they strike me as just as crazy/extreme as the people they argue against. i guess it's the nature of a polarized space but really it doesn't help them much.

[Independent voter]

Sam Walton, founder of Walmart.

[NM 156]

Saul Alinsky
Aldous Huxley
George Orwell

And probably my parents, even though they were largely negative influences.

[Doctor Amadeus]

Then I suggest you listen to and/or read their works. Education will enlighten you

I have listened to all three at length, Richard Dawkins is kind of a cult figure, most of what he says is really not all that brilliant or NEW, however he does seem to rattle on like a raving lunatic against some of the very same ideas he sites correctly for having the same type of people.

Sam Harris is basically a Comedian turned Guru and free speech Icon, because he like Dawkins kind of says what used to be a lot of controversial stuff. Since he has also been a cult like figure, he has bumped heads with many intellectual betters.


As for Steven Pinker, near as I can tell concerning his geneticism fetish is that he is pretty good at making a lot of broad comparisons with not a whole hell of a lot of fact behind it, not the least of which goes along with his Right Wing Conservative Think Tank organization, American Enterprise Institute AEI.

If you haven't googled them you should check them out. But at the best all three just opportunist in much the way that the 700 club is. Or all of the above are white supremacist.

In any event interesting choices Just surprised haha

[schwarzkopf]

i guess it's the nature of a polarized space but really it doesn't help them much.

Rational discourse doesn't mean being agreeable, it means fighting for what is true. However, you need to avoid them in recorded 'publicity' stunts by religious nutters.

Focus in on their planned discussions - not the media snippets.

I listen to Sam Harris have a 2 hours in depth conversation on a single topic - it is one of the most satisfying experiences of a rational mind.

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I have listened to all three at length, Richard Dawkins in kind of a cult figure,

Well - ONE of those two sentence fragments is incorrect as they contradict each other.

Please determine which one it is, so I can proceed with further response.

[Doctor Amadeus]

those are some really bad people to be influenced by. Like really..I dont know what you were thinking. Alll of them are really bad choses. (This is how this thread works, right?)

No, but since you started go on continue.

Those 5 are great influences.

Every person I mentioned is and/or was a great mind, and genius in their fields and perspectives, which were rooted in fundamental understandings regarding their interest and causes.

Doing what most people only ever figure out part of, and spend life times and years figuring out later.

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Rational discourse doesn't mean being agreeable, it means fighting for what is true. However, you need to avoid them in recorded 'publicity' stunts by religious nutters.

Focus in on their planned discussions - not the media snippets.

I listen to Sam Harris have a 2 hours in depth conversation on a single topic - it is one of the most satisfying experiences of a rational mind.

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Well - ONE of those two sentence fragments is incorrect as they contradict each other.

Please determine which one it is, so I can proceed with further response.

I have listened to all three at length, Richard Dawkins is kind of a cult figure

Yeah I fixed that.

[Medusa Cascade]

1. Momofuku Ando
2. Hayao Miyazaki
3. Captain Picard
4. Osamu Tezuka
5. The creator of Bulldog sauce

[schwarzkopf]

.....rubbish posting removed...

Well, if you want to start editing responses - it does sort of set the stage for why you don't like rational discourse.

[Twix]

1. Myself
2. Myself
3. Myself
4. Myself
5. Myself

[joeymagz]

1. Goku.

2. Sargeras.

3. Vegeta.

4. Yamcha (He taught me not to be weak. Since, if you're weak, then you're Yamcha).

And 5. Madoka Magica. She taught me that trailers for her show are nothing more than Illusions. D:

1. Goku

2. Naruto

3. Vegeta

4. Sasuke

5. Peter Griffin / Rick Sanchez

[Doctor Amadeus]

Well, if you want to start editing responses - it does sort of set the stage for why you don't like rational discourse.

Yeah, when you start editing my post, then you shouldn't complain the same is done with yours, nor should you think you have any room to dictate terms. You like who you like, I'm moving on.

[Deleted]

My idols are better than yours.
The thread.

[Fencers]

1. My father
2. My mother
3. Albert Camus
4. My older sister
5. Cormac McCarthy

[Doctor Amadeus]

My idols are better than yours.
The thread.

Name 5 of the most influential people to you.

Doesn't have to be an idol, as I said, just whoever had an influence on you, simple as that.

[ItachiZaku]

1. Genghis Khan
2. Geronimo
3. Sitting Bull
4. George Carlin
5. Eric Draven

Honorable mention: Ferris Bueller and Deadpool

[schwarzkopf]

Yeah, when you start editing my post

Sorry, you've lost me now.

[Mittens]

1. My mother
2. My history professor
3. Milton Friedman
4. The CPC (It taught to hate everything related to it and redpilled me on trade)
5. My brother.

[Doctor Amadeus]

Sorry, you've lost me now.

It doesn't really matter, you changed one of the quotes of me to something else, I did the same thing about you liking chinese food, no big deal. I deleted it because it wasn't meant to be serious. Anyways thanks for the picks, interesting selection.

[schwarzkopf]

It doesn't really matter,

Exactly... next time don't start playing with fire if you don't want the fire nation to come and play.