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Anonymous Mon Jul 7 17:28:42 2014 No.5107245 [Reply] [Original]

Who are the true living polymaths?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 17:32:05 2014 No.5107260 What's up with the constant Franco trolling?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 17:32:51 2014 No.5107263 The /lit/ poster who always uses implication arrows in her posts. She's extremely educated.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 17:33:58 2014 No.5107268 Harris.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 17:36:02 2014 No.5107276 Penis.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 17:39:15 2014 No.5107284 File: 63 KB, 948x1414, hue.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Dow-kin?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 17:39:46 2014 No.5107286 Feminister

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 17:40:45 2014 No.5107290 >>5107284 How is he so cute bros?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 17:43:52 2014 No.5107305 File: 235 KB, 440x410, dawkins-watson.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5107290 Because he has the same face as Emma Watson

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 17:44:18 2014 No.5107308 File: 111 KB, 800x789, Richard-Dawkins.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5107290 Satan loves him.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 17:54:37 2014 No.5107346 >>5107290 Number one (1) handsome man.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 18:04:41 2014 No.5107402 File: 48 KB, 980x230, huehue.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5107346

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 18:06:04 2014 No.5107412 >>5107245 Today is not impossible to be a polymath, but a lot harder than it used to be. This guy is pretty close, he has a ph.d in botanic, genetic and phiosophy and a master in biology.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 18:09:26 2014 No.5107432 >>5107412 www.moreintelligentlife.com/content/edward-carr/last-days-polymath

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 18:11:11 2014 No.5107437 >>5107263 As pained as I am to acknowledge it >this She's an idiot but a very knowledgeable one.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 18:15:09 2014 No.5107452 >>5107263 Who's that? Is she new? You're not talking about Feminister, are you?

Anonymous Mon Jul 7 18:18:17 2014 No.5107464

>>5107452
No, she's a crazy girl who do a phD in a math and logic related field, is very dismissive of non-positive knowledge, and brags online about being a sociopath. And she's probably doing some weird form of autistic trolling 90% of the time

She's pretty fun. .

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 18:23:35 2014 No.5107486 >>5107437 Meh, Colette has more knowledgeable whores than that chick. Maybe my standards on knowledgeable got ruined.

Anonymous Mon Jul 7 18:26:56 2014 No.5107505
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>martial artist
>sports commentator
>stand-up comedian
>podcasting pioneer
>philosopher
>pro-marijuana activist
>spreader of health consciousness

Seriously, though, the last living polymath was probably Paul Robeson

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 18:35:32 2014 No.5107533 >>5107505 >ultimate trolling right here he's a 'green pilled' guy with below average to average intelligence and lots of energy

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 18:36:06 2014 No.5107535 >>5107263 I think about her almost incessantly when I'm "offline", now.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 18:36:36 2014 No.5107540 >>5107535 that's a haram m8

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 18:37:05 2014 No.5107542 >>5107533 You'd have lots of energy too if you were on TRT and Onnit ShroomTech.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 18:37:44 2014 No.5107544 >>5107245 ted kaczynski, charles manson

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 18:38:01 2014 No.5107545 >>5107486 Colette ? >>5107535 Go out and meet real, non-sociopathic girls. I'm serious. Nothing good or even non-terrible will ever come from you being infatuated with crazy arrow girl.

Anonymous Mon Jul 7 18:38:33 2014 No.5107547

>>5107432
>Isaiah Berlin once divided thinkers into two types. Foxes, he wrote, know many things; whereas hedgehogs know one big thing. The foxes used to roam free across the hills. Today the hedgehogs rule.

So Duaw-kun is a leader of the hedgehogs.

By golly, that is abso-lutely disgusting.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 18:40:53 2014 No.5107560 >>5107542 he certainly runs on floation-tank marijuana-power, not sure what these other things are, you made them up?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 18:41:41 2014 No.5107561 >>5107245 Chomsky qualifies, Pynchon does too (unless you require that the person be making notable contributions to a number of fields, rather than just being educated in/knowledgeable about them), and Putnam probably does, too.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 18:43:31 2014 No.5107567 >>5107545 French author whose work would spark such popular tunes as Thank Heaven for Little Girls.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 18:45:49 2014 No.5107574 >>5107561 yes, polymath should have valid contributions in 2 or more fields. otherwise you're just any anon could consider himself a polymath because he read 2 books on different topics (happens all the time)

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 18:50:11 2014 No.5107588 >>5107561 >Putnam Seth?

Anonymous Mon Jul 7 18:51:04 2014 No.5107590
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Dickinson's interests include literature, writing, fencing (at which he has competed internationally, placing 7th in Great Britain,[108] and has founded a fencing equipment company under the brand name "Duellist"),[109] railway technology and aviation. Due to the wide variety of Dickinson's pursuits, Intelligent Life named him as a living example of a polymath in 2009.[110]

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 19:04:04 2014 No.5107640 >>5107263 fuuka warosu link posts pls

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 19:06:26 2014 No.5107647 File: 5 KB, 165x250, 1394597971553s.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5107464 >STEM Phd >is very dismissive of non-positive knowledge fucking dropped

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 19:11:14 2014 No.5107668 File: 92 KB, 796x602, best-guy.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5107346

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 19:16:32 2014 No.5107684 File: 32 KB, 539x646, intellectual-orgies.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5107268 >tfw not having intellectual orgies with Hitchens you heathen

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 19:18:02 2014 No.5107690 >>5107684 never close the browser tab on Hitchens

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 19:20:45 2014 No.5107701 File: 33 KB, 460x276, Umberto-Eco.-007.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Umberto Eco. Novelist and semiotician. Italian Borges, minus the maths.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 19:20:58 2014 No.5107702 >>5107690 never stop having luscious intellectual orgies /lit/

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 19:31:17 2014 No.5107754 File: 1.97 MB, 384x216, 1358564743481.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5107245 I actually read one of his short stories.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 20:26:15 2014 No.5107993 >>5107702 >does his own improvised version of the charleston >a dance only real men know how to dance >get closer to you gf, whisper "Capitalism, downfall." >staring at you intensely as the fedora tips through my luscious intelligence alone

>>	CUNT !mjtWobox9w Mon Jul 7 20:31:26 2014 No.5108013 >>5107754 Which one? How was it?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 22:31:04 2014 No.5108400 File: 48 KB, 1280x720, maxresdefault.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5107245

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 22:38:46 2014 No.5108424 >>5108400 >Not Frank Yang, artist, bodybuilder, philosopher, comedic performer

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 22:39:50 2014 No.5108426 >>5108424 oh I forgot violin virtuoso

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 22:45:49 2014 No.5108440 >>5108426 oh and sexual deviant

Anonymous Mon Jul 7 22:46:04 2014 No.5108441
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Kloor
>He is a writer, scientist, educator, researcher, inventor, story editor and producer, National Technology Policy Advisor, and a Chief Technology Officer with over 25 years experience in science & technology consulting, and commercial and military product development.
>He is currently producer and writer of Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey, a 3-D, computer-animated, action adventure, sci-fi program.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 22:47:01 2014 No.5108444 Sasha Grey.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 22:47:56 2014 No.5108447 >>5108440 you mean liberated transcendent sexual being

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 22:50:08 2014 No.5108454 Me in the future. Assuming I don't die before that happens

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 22:51:16 2014 No.5108460 >>5107647 You forgot the sociopathic pretense. It's her best part.

Anonymous Mon Jul 7 22:53:24 2014 No.5108465
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>Sir Walter Raleigh was an English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy, and explorer and cousin to Sir Richard Grenville. He is also well known for popularising tobacco in England.

That feel when you will never have a Wikipedia article listing you as over 6 different things.

Anonymous Mon Jul 7 22:53:58 2014 No.5108467

>>5107567
I have heard of Colette the author, but when you said "Colette has more knowledgeable whores" I assumed it was some website of club where knowledgeable whores gather and enjoy themselves. You can imagine my surprise and delight at that point.

I guess you were simply talking about Colette's characters. That's a letdown, but not by much.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 7 23:43:11 2014 No.5108643 >>5107561 Seconding Pynchon

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 00:26:20 2014 No.5108780 >>5107245 in México we have this five polymath hosts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRT03d3nzmk the dynamic of the show is viewers asks for the meaning and etimology of a word and then this polymaths start a dialogue-debate about the word

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 01:35:28 2014 No.5108988 >>5107245 cormac mccarthy

>>	Reality Check !Z6/0YaJApk Tue Jul 8 01:37:28 2014 No.5108996 Me.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 01:37:29 2014 No.5108997 >>5108460 I can deal with sociopath

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 01:37:57 2014 No.5108999 >>5107588 Presumably Hilary.

GLOWTEIN !zox0edNXkg Tue Jul 8 01:43:03 2014 No.5109017
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Elon "Fucking" Musk.

PhD Applied Physics

Co-Founder of Tesla, PayPal, SpaceX.

Multi Billionaire investor, holder/co-creator of many patents, some of which he just made public property.

I consider the man a polymath.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 01:44:04 2014 No.5109018 >>5109017 >PayPal I consider the man a piece of shit.

Anonymous Tue Jul 8 01:45:21 2014 No.5109022

>>5108013
Not the other poster, but I read one about him and his friends smoking weed in a park and talking about life and driving on the wrong side of the freeway while high. His use of tense was all over the place, and it seemed like something someone in high school would have written.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 01:48:56 2014 No.5109033 Arnold >top competitor in sport of choice >then multimillion dollar businesses >then #1 movie star in the world >then governor of one of the nation's most powerful states Dude conquers everything he does

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 01:58:24 2014 No.5109075 >>5109017 based

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