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RE: RIP thread
April 20, 2024 at 8:18 am
(April 20, 2024 at 6:28 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (April 19, 2024 at 7:59 pm)Belacqua Wrote: I've never been a fan of Dennett's work, but today on Twitter there are hundreds of tweets remembering what a thoughtful teacher he was, and how he treated even combative undergrads with respect and courtesy.
These days university profs with his level of fame frequently turn out to have unpleasant episodes in their histories, exploiting that fame for sex or power. It's very nice indeed to hear that he was a genuinely good guy.
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Of course you haven’t - Dennett was an original thinker. If he’d simply parroted Plato, Augustine, or Aquinas, you’d not be able to get enough of him.
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Dennett: Dies
Bel: Well, at least he wasnt a sexual predator
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April 20, 2024 at 5:07 pm
t, also to cancer. Fuck cancer, and fuck the companies who get rich selling it.
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April 23, 2024 at 4:41 pm
Terry Carter, axtor best known for his roles as Colonel Tigh in the 70s TV show ‘Battlestar Galactica,’ He was 95
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: RIP thread
April 25, 2024 at 9:43 am
A neighbor was found dead in the tub a couple doors down.
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RE: RIP thread
April 25, 2024 at 1:30 pm
(April 25, 2024 at 9:43 am)Foxaèr Wrote: A neighbor was found dead in the tub a couple doors down.
The dead neighbor's roommate was just arrested by the sheriff.
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RE: RIP thread
April 25, 2024 at 2:15 pm
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(April 25, 2024 at 1:30 pm)Foxaèr Wrote: (April 25, 2024 at 9:43 am)Foxaèr Wrote: A neighbor was found dead in the tub a couple doors down.
The dead neighbor's roommate was just arrested by the sheriff.
Update: apparently, the roommate was arrested due to something unrelated to the death.
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RE: RIP thread
April 25, 2024 at 2:28 pm
(April 25, 2024 at 1:46 pm)Istvan Wrote: (April 19, 2024 at 1:14 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Daniel Dennett
Oh no! Now the only living philosopher atheists can name is William Lane Craig!
Who is William Lame Craig?
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