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6088851 No.6088851 [Reply] [Original]

Can someone convince me to take Sam Harris seriously?

>> No.6088874

I suppose we could put him in a morning grey stroller with a Hombourg hat and make him watch Robert Redford for posture, but I'm not sure if he would essentially still be Sam Harris without the fedora.

>> No.6088980
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6088980

No.

>> No.6089666
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6089666

Someone gave me a copy of Free Will, which was a decent use of an afternoon, but my qt 3.14 gf saw my copy and keeps buying me all of his books and I'm too anxious and polite to tell her to stop and now I have every Sam Harris book.

>> No.6089826

>>6089666
You're lucky to have such a nice girlfriend. That's a thoughtful gesture, even if they are Sam Harris books (which, I should add, are often criticized unfairly).

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>>6088851
Nope
>>6088980
Damnit you beat me to the comics

>> No.6089855

>>6089848
>strawman fights a strawman

Whatever helps you sleep at night, Anon.

>> No.6089859

>>6089855
Nice dubs neckbeard

>> No.6089885

>>6088851
He's satire

>> No.6090847

Sam Harris can. He's a very smart man and is also nice.

>> No.6090893

>>6089855
it's a webcomic. they're jokes. not arguments.

>> No.6090904

honestly, who the fuck should you take seriously?

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>>6090904
Rude

>> No.6092361

Why people here hates him so much? Oh well
> muh faith.

>> No.6092370

This guy should act in those hollywood comedies, he's got a perfect face for it

>> No.6092472

>>6092361
It's a battle of personalities, like cat and dogs, or the Japanese and Chinese, forever destined to fight.

This is why I just contain my anger and save it for the day I go crazy

>> No.6093512

>>6089826
Sam pls

>> No.6093527

I don't know too much about Sam but isnt he just trying to be realistic?

>> No.6093560

>>6089848
He's not a fucking neuroscientist. He's a COGNITIVE neuroscientist, they're really fucking different. The former is actual science, the latter is a branch of psychology.

>> No.6093570

no, hes a fucking retard trying to cash in on the Dawkin market.

I can't think of a single one of his books that produces anything new or original. Its a very paternal explanation of why you should stop being a naughty un-scientific boy.

amazing atheist tier

>> No.6093593

I have only read one of Sam's books and watched some of his debates, but he seems to make some sense. Maybe his ideas aren't awfully original, but he does make some valid criticisms. The only thing I don't like about the New Atheists is their focus more on the alleged barbarity of religion rather than the evidence for it.

>> No.6094484

>>6088851
Movement atheists aren't serious people at all. To identify as atheist is really a pretty superficial thing.

>> No.6094498

>>6088980
>>6089848
>yfw these came from reddit

Most of /lit's/ claimed OC came from r/badphilosophy

>> No.6094738

>>6092361
I don't think people would hate him if he weren't so popular and if we didn't have a thread about him every other day.

I read a few pages of The Moral Landscape and I new instantly that he was a hack. He says that we can figure out morality using nothing but science. But then he says that Right and Good are whatever improves wellbeing without appealing to science to justify that claim. He just says, "Well *of course* improving wellbeing is the moral thing to do. You can't reasonably doubt that."