RE: Harris' take on the recent events in Paris
November 17, 2015 at 12:34 am
(This post was last modified: November 17, 2015 at 12:38 am by Edwardo Piet.)
Seen this one EP?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYUPr6cH294
Sam Harris is used to being misrepresented. As for those who suggest he is disingenuous or a propagandist, you couldn't be further from the truth. There's a reason why he's written a book about the perils of dishonesty.
Sam Harris is so brutually honest it pisses people off. Look at how he handles the issue of Free Will and doesn't use compatabilist redefinitional meaningless bullshit that dodges the issue.
He's not just honest he's the most honest public intellectual I know. Probably even more so than Dawkins I would argue, as there are certain issues, such as Free Will, which Dawkers seems to not want to think about too much.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYUPr6cH294
Sam Harris is used to being misrepresented. As for those who suggest he is disingenuous or a propagandist, you couldn't be further from the truth. There's a reason why he's written a book about the perils of dishonesty.
Sam Harris is so brutually honest it pisses people off. Look at how he handles the issue of Free Will and doesn't use compatabilist redefinitional meaningless bullshit that dodges the issue.
Sam Harris Wrote:Among the many paradoxes of human life, this is perhaps the most peculiar and consequential: We often behave in ways that are guaranteed to make us unhappy. Many of us spend our lives marching with open eyes toward remorse, regret, guilt, and disappointment. And nowhere do our injuries seem more casually self-inflicted, or the suffering we create more disproportionate to the needs of the moment, than in the lies we tell to other human beings. Lying is the royal road to chaos.
SH Wrote:To lie is to intentionally mislead others when they expect honest communication.
SH Wrote:Honesty is a gift we can give to others. It is also a source of power and an engine of simplicity. Knowing that we will attempt to tell the truth, whatever the circumstances, leaves us with little to prepare for. We can simply be ourselves.
He's not just honest he's the most honest public intellectual I know. Probably even more so than Dawkins I would argue, as there are certain issues, such as Free Will, which Dawkers seems to not want to think about too much.
