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 Post subject: Re: The God topic
PostPosted: Fri August 19, 2022 5:31 pm 
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Don't think I could have assembled a better group of frauds and charlatans, other than maybe whoever is at Beri Weiss's "university"

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its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.


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 Post subject: Re: The God topic
PostPosted: Fri August 19, 2022 5:39 pm 
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What is IDW?

Intellectual Dark Web.


A group of adults chose this name for themselves? lol

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 Post subject: Re: The God topic
PostPosted: Fri August 19, 2022 5:45 pm 
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It was kind of a joke, but it's still pretty lame.

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 Post subject: Re: The God topic
PostPosted: Sat August 20, 2022 12:33 am 
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The IDW characters had nothing in common except feeling persecuted/canceled/shamed, whatever. They were whining about the “woke crowd” before it was a thing, really. That’s what brought them together. As Mickey said earlier, this coalition was always destined to fail, very easy to see. A group with Sam Harris and Ben Shapiro… yea…

I am glad it existed, though. Bari Weiss was sane, at one point, and had an interesting perspective early on. Also, Jordan Peterson is crazy, but I checked out some of his earlier lectures and just weird, random stuff… When it’s not politically charged, he’s got some interesting ways of thinking. But that more of a “ok, time to move on” type of person for me.


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 Post subject: Re: The God topic
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If Sam Harris was as smart as he thinks he is, he’d have known to stay away. Harris is weird, but he’s smart, and I used to listen to him a lot.


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 Post subject: Re: The God topic
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They were useful for providing a pretty devastating response to wokeness at a time when it was ascendent and basically unchallenged. Peterson is pretty interesting at times, but the others are basically just academic scientism types. They're mostly fine I guess, but they aren't very interesting.

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 Post subject: Re: The God topic
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They were useful for providing a pretty devastating response to wokeness at a time when it was ascendent and basically unchallenged. Peterson is pretty interesting at times, but the others are basically just academic scientism types. They're mostly fine I guess, but they aren't very interesting.


That the reaction to Peterson et all ever got warmer than, "you are wasting your time, you can get a better version of this elsewhere" is kind of confusing. The intellectual dork web ranged from a waste of time to anodyne to cringe. Suggesting it was somehow dangerous was a weird response.


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PostPosted: Sat August 20, 2022 2:34 pm 
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simple schoolboy wrote:
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They were useful for providing a pretty devastating response to wokeness at a time when it was ascendent and basically unchallenged. Peterson is pretty interesting at times, but the others are basically just academic scientism types. They're mostly fine I guess, but they aren't very interesting.


That the reaction to Peterson et all ever got warmer than, "you are wasting your time, you can get a better version of this elsewhere" is kind of confusing. The intellectual dork web ranged from a waste of time to anodyne to cringe. Suggesting it was somehow dangerous was a weird response.


Peterson before his crusade against woke culture has some interesting stuff, though I guess maybe you do have to be a dork. I’m basically an atheist (tho agnostic applies better), and Peterson has a really interesting way of explaining the Bible in a pretty secular way, even tho he calls himself a Christian. I found it fascinating. He also had some good lectures on “conservative vs progressive/liberal”, not in the political sense, but in the personality sense. I dunno. He was worth some time to get to know, and then, like I said, move on.


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 Post subject: Re: The God topic
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BurtReynolds wrote:
They were useful for providing a pretty devastating response to wokeness at a time when it was ascendent and basically unchallenged. Peterson is pretty interesting at times, but the others are basically just academic scientism types. They're mostly fine I guess, but they aren't very interesting.


Lol. Lmao.

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its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.


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 Post subject: Re: The God topic
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Mickey wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:
They were useful for providing a pretty devastating response to wokeness at a time when it was ascendent and basically unchallenged. Peterson is pretty interesting at times, but the others are basically just academic scientism types. They're mostly fine I guess, but they aren't very interesting.


Lol. Lmao.


That was literally their mission - counter and destroy wokeness. Like Mickey, I also don’t know what to do but laugh at the bolded, Burt. They did have a few good responses, but their responses didn’t devastate anything. They were only minimally popular among people who probably would agree with them. Other than Shapiro, those guys weren’t really in the political realm. They were mostly irrelevant.


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 Post subject: Re: The God topic
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You make a compelling case


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