The main reason to become a scientist is because it is fun.
Oh for God's sake. Look, there are tons of us who consider science (or at least our various STEM fields) fun. The question is: when does "do it for the fun, not the money" become just another excuse for a career path in which I can't hope to start a family?
Technically, that was a literary criticism or postmodernism journal, not a philosophy one.
On the other hand, there seems to be an intermediate step between philosophical ignorance and deep philosophical knowledge where people actually think postmodernism is a cool idea. I think it's called sophomore year.
Well, Mr. Anonymous Coward, that's because you're looking at undergrads, who were selected into the school on the basis of how well they did in high school. And what determines how well one does in high school? Getting the basics, regurgitating spoon-fed information, and faithfully obeying instructions without creativity.
That made it easier. While the College Board claims that the writing section is the best estimator of success in university, in fact there's an extremely direct, extremely high correlation between your SAT Writing Score and the sheer amount you wrote. The more, the better.
You might as well say that you consider ecosystems a failure because their normal functioning includes periodic die-backs and even extinctions. It's basically the same thing.
The attitude that moar class hours, moar tests, moar class days, and moar homework will improve our kids' learning. All too often we talk about changing the educational system simply in terms of "MOAR" without ever acknowledging that kids are kids and therefore suffer rapidly diminishing returns once pushed past a certain amount of dull, repetitive, pointless busy work.
There's a difference between loathing the army that keeps attacking your region and loathing the Crusader-Jewish conspiracy that controls all the world's economies, media sources, and military power. There's danger in putting all one's energy into fearing and loathing an enemy who doesn't exist.
None of what's been said came from the American government. It came from Iran themselves.
The American government has plenty of its own faults, but if you don't believe in Islamist fascism when it comes from the horse's mouth, you're deluding yourself.
No, actually, when they say "regime change" they mean changing "ethnically Jewish country" to "religiously Muslim country". Try getting your information from something other than a conspiracy website.
And if you think it's not antisemitic to propose that the Jewish state be abolished and its citizens put to death for their Jewishness, you've got bigger problems than just apologizing for racists with cheap, worn-out rhetorical sleights of hand.
Didn't the Israeli invade Palestinian lands pretty much exactly the way the Germans invaded French lands?
No, they didn't. The Israelis took land in defensive wars fought against Arab armies. You cannot simply invent a "Palestinians" who sat through three different wars over a period of thirty years naked, innocent, and doing nothing -- particularly not when the PLO formed itself in 1964 with the goal of "liberating" Jaffa, Tel-Aviv, Netanyah, and Haifa!
OK, putting aside your remarks on evangelicals (since I don't even know any)...
Hizballah was originally formed to fight the Israeli occupation of Lebanon. Since 2000, Israel hasn't occupied a square inch of Lebanon, and yet Hizballah continues trying to kill every Israeli and every Jew they can. Their leader gives antisemitic speeches. And, finally, they've tried to blame Israel for the assassination of the Lebanese head of state Rafiq Hariri, which in fact was aided by men from.... Hizballah! They're a fascist paramilitary that's trying to take over Lebanon. All equivalencies between this and Zionism (read: "nationalism for Jews") are simply false.
As to your "European point of view", is this the same European point of view under which the Soviet Union were good people, and Slobodan Milosevic as well?
And according to Noam Chomsky, a French Holocaust-denier was "a relatively apolitical liberal of some sort". Chomsky is a nutbag who will befriend anyone who opposes the United States or American business, and make them up a nice-sounding history to keep them having to take any blame for their own actions to boot.
The only thing they really have in common is the promise to exterminate all or most Jews.
Being a Jew, that's the bit I'm worried about! Seriously, what the fuck do you think you're doing trying to calculate how much Jewish blood will satisfy the Iranian regime? We're not giving you a drop!
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The people voted the Democrats out in November because they didn't like where they were taking the country.
Actually, last November's election was mainly just a difference in turnout and enthusiasm between Republican and Democratic voters.
The main reason to become a scientist is because it is fun.
Oh for God's sake. Look, there are tons of us who consider science (or at least our various STEM fields) fun. The question is: when does "do it for the fun, not the money" become just another excuse for a career path in which I can't hope to start a family?
So is Doctor Who chopped liver now?
Technically, that was a literary criticism or postmodernism journal, not a philosophy one.
On the other hand, there seems to be an intermediate step between philosophical ignorance and deep philosophical knowledge where people actually think postmodernism is a cool idea. I think it's called sophomore year.
Well, Mr. Anonymous Coward, that's because you're looking at undergrads, who were selected into the school on the basis of how well they did in high school. And what determines how well one does in high school? Getting the basics, regurgitating spoon-fed information, and faithfully obeying instructions without creativity.
You get what you breed for.
That made it easier. While the College Board claims that the writing section is the best estimator of success in university, in fact there's an extremely direct, extremely high correlation between your SAT Writing Score and the sheer amount you wrote. The more, the better.
If they hadn't been marching under Trotstkyist and Islamist banners, it would have worked much better.
You might as well say that you consider ecosystems a failure because their normal functioning includes periodic die-backs and even extinctions. It's basically the same thing.
What do you mean, quantity?
The attitude that moar class hours, moar tests, moar class days, and moar homework will improve our kids' learning. All too often we talk about changing the educational system simply in terms of "MOAR" without ever acknowledging that kids are kids and therefore suffer rapidly diminishing returns once pushed past a certain amount of dull, repetitive, pointless busy work.
OK, is someone going to explain to me whether we're talking about a fold left or a fold right ;-)?
Ah, but to increase the quality of our public schools, we would have to admit that education doesn't come from quantity.
That sounds creepily like an allegory for today.
There's a difference between loathing the army that keeps attacking your region and loathing the Crusader-Jewish conspiracy that controls all the world's economies, media sources, and military power. There's danger in putting all one's energy into fearing and loathing an enemy who doesn't exist.
Why, it's almost as though Islamists were trying to cover for their own violent rise to power by demonizing Israel!
None of what's been said came from the American government. It came from Iran themselves.
The American government has plenty of its own faults, but if you don't believe in Islamist fascism when it comes from the horse's mouth, you're deluding yourself.
No, actually, when they say "regime change" they mean changing "ethnically Jewish country" to "religiously Muslim country". Try getting your information from something other than a conspiracy website.
Israelis are Middle-Easterners. Arab and Middle-Easterner are two different things, as Jews, Kurds, and Persians are excellent proof of.
And if you think it's not antisemitic to propose that the Jewish state be abolished and its citizens put to death for their Jewishness, you've got bigger problems than just apologizing for racists with cheap, worn-out rhetorical sleights of hand.
Didn't the Israeli invade Palestinian lands pretty much exactly the way the Germans invaded French lands?
No, they didn't. The Israelis took land in defensive wars fought against Arab armies. You cannot simply invent a "Palestinians" who sat through three different wars over a period of thirty years naked, innocent, and doing nothing -- particularly not when the PLO formed itself in 1964 with the goal of "liberating" Jaffa, Tel-Aviv, Netanyah, and Haifa!
OK, putting aside your remarks on evangelicals (since I don't even know any)...
Hizballah was originally formed to fight the Israeli occupation of Lebanon. Since 2000, Israel hasn't occupied a square inch of Lebanon, and yet Hizballah continues trying to kill every Israeli and every Jew they can. Their leader gives antisemitic speeches. And, finally, they've tried to blame Israel for the assassination of the Lebanese head of state Rafiq Hariri, which in fact was aided by men from.... Hizballah! They're a fascist paramilitary that's trying to take over Lebanon. All equivalencies between this and Zionism (read: "nationalism for Jews") are simply false.
As to your "European point of view", is this the same European point of view under which the Soviet Union were good people, and Slobodan Milosevic as well?
According to Noam Chomsky
And according to Noam Chomsky, a French Holocaust-denier was "a relatively apolitical liberal of some sort". Chomsky is a nutbag who will befriend anyone who opposes the United States or American business, and make them up a nice-sounding history to keep them having to take any blame for their own actions to boot.
Yeah, the Nazis were such socialists that they killed every socialist, Communist, social democrat, or trade unionist they could find!
The only thing they really have in common is the promise to exterminate all or most Jews.
Being a Jew, that's the bit I'm worried about! Seriously, what the fuck do you think you're doing trying to calculate how much Jewish blood will satisfy the Iranian regime? We're not giving you a drop!
Yeah, the virulent fear and loathing for America and the Jews.
The US certainly supported Saddam's Iraq. It was a modernized, secular government in a region that lacked many similar examples.
It was a totalitarian, fascist dictatorship!