/lit/ - Literature

Why do people refer to Confucianism as a religion when it says like three times in the Analects that it's not?

>>2592036
>If there's anger in my tone - and there isn't really, but you don't know me and you're used to having your lazinesses and losses of interest pampered

Oh come on.

You're calling other people ITT "shit eaters." You've used the word "shit" eight times ITT. I counted.

>>2568228
>Scientifically blacks have a lower intelligence.

And what's the scientific basis for that?

Because it's not IQ tests, seeing as how Psychology has about as much to do with actual science as any other liberal art.

Because that's what Psychology is. A liberal art.

Stephan Jay Gould said that science in no way invalidates religion, unless religion makes a claim about the physical world that is demonstrability false.

For instance, with creationism.

Also, what had Dawkins ever done as far as actual science is concerned? Gould made many meaningful contributions to biology. He revolutionized the very concept of evolution with his theory of punctuated equilibrium.

But I get the impression that Dawkins spends more time worrying about theists than he does doing any actual research.

>>2361465
>I don't think so, with all due respect...

Anon, do you know how the Vatican responded when The Origin of Species was published? They basically stayed quiet about it. It was a new idea and they weren't ready to support it but, importantly, they were not against it because ever since the time of Saint Augustine Catholic theologians have taken the Genesis account of creation to be symbolic.

And since that time two Popes, John Paul II and one of the earlier ones, have basically stated that it's dumb not to accept evolution.

>The Christian faith always denied scientific discovery
Yeah, which is exactly why there have been no great Christian scientists.

Oh wait, what about Nicolas Steno, Isaac Newton, Gregor Mendel, and everyone else that I can't name off of the top of my head?

Anon, you seem to know a lot about Buddhism but your knowledge of Christianity seems to come largely from the bad impressions you've gotten from whatever Christian bigots you know in your personal life.

>The Death of the Author is a 1967 essay by the French literary critic and theorist Roland Barthes. Barthes's essay argues against traditional literary criticism's practice of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text, and instead argues that writing and creator are unrelated.

Does this seem stupid to anyone else or is it just me?

Is there really a whole paragraph about a girl having diarrhea in one of the books?

>>1762475
/sci/ is a bunch of kids quoting wikipedia articles well outside their understanding

that board really is very dumb

all you need to be a smart poster on /lit/ is to have read a lot