Who are you favorite intellectuals?

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02 Feb 2009, 5:38 pm

I've always been a fan of Jesus; unfortunately, he is often poorly cited by Christian and atheist alike. For someone to not be considered an intellectual of their day; yet, able to wittily respond to one's opponents who were is priceless.

Beyond that, I don't have a favorite but enjoy many.

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02 Feb 2009, 6:30 pm

sartresue wrote:

Ludwig Wittgenstein

There's one I forgot. The logical positivists too were pretty important in my intellectual development in highschool.

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I hate Nietzche, I'll go with the almight Thomas Hobbes. For some reason he has NEVER enjoyed widespread popularity; most likely because he was pretty right about everything except squaring the cirlce and cubing the sphere. Most people DETEST truth; the prefer to embrace either what they want to believe or what beliefs will gain them social approval.

The only thing I've ever read by Hobbes was Leviathan, which while I suppose is a good read on political philosophy no matter how seminal it was it isn't the end all be all of the subject (I defer generally to Locke and Nozick in that area).

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04 Feb 2009, 5:38 am

Noam Chomsky and Groucho Marx.

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04 Feb 2009, 8:08 am

Steven Pinker.

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04 Feb 2009, 2:47 pm

I respect Jiddu Krishnamurthy, although I don't agree with a few things he said.

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04 Feb 2009, 3:09 pm

I have two william shakespeare and frank wedekind thge things they wrote about were so beautiful. they are true genuises

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04 Feb 2009, 3:27 pm

Your Mom :mrgreen:

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05 Feb 2009, 12:06 am

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leonardo, telsla,hawkins, jerry lewis

DiCaprio is over-rated; I sometimes enjoy his work, but don't consider him that great.

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05 Feb 2009, 7:34 am

Does anyone else here have intellectual action figures?

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05 Feb 2009, 7:45 am

Magnus wrote:

Does anyone else here have intellectual action figures?

LOL! I found a Freud action figure at a shop in NYC and gave it to my psychotherapist. Freud is even holding a cigar. I thought it should come with a Persian-carpet covered divan and some Greco-Roman pottery (like Freud had in his office in Vienna) but, alas, none were available. My "psychowoman" put Freud on a shelf in her office.

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05 Feb 2009, 7:48 am

I tried to post a picture of a Freud and Jung action figure duking it out. :lol:

I have a Jung doll and it's fun to joke around and pretend like we are talking. He gives me some good advice. :lol:

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05 Feb 2009, 7:53 am

Magnus wrote:

I tried to post a picture of a Freud and Jung action figure duking it out. :lol:

I have a Jung doll and it's fun to joke around and pretend like we are talking. He gives me some good advice. :lol:

Good thing you have Jung - I don't think Freud would give such good advice. Maybe years of exploring your subconscious yearnings (and if they're subconscious, how could you possibly know they exist?).

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05 Feb 2009, 8:14 am

How can we know our subconscious yearnings?

Dream interpretation
Honest self awareness
Understanding coincidences
and smoking salvia divinorum of course!

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05 Feb 2009, 8:21 am

Magnus wrote:

How can we know our subconscious yearnings?

Dream interpretation
Honest self awareness
Understanding coincidences
and smoking salvia divinorum of course!

YESSSS! The science of salvia divinorum!!

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05 Feb 2009, 11:52 am

Zonder wrote:

Did you find one of him snorting coke?