Genuine opinion of Sam Harris?

A mid-level intellectual. Suffers from typical champagne socialist delusion about people outside his group. He believes in moderating and modernizing Islam and takes the naive view that people crave democracy and freedom and want to be like the West. He’s a perfect example of why intellectuals are worthless. People get along fine without them and have since our inception. Why would Islam want to modernize? They’re only growing in influence and are about inherit an entire continent based off globalism/white guilt.

Is typing Sam Harris Scott Adams into google too much effort these days?

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Jewish faggot, just like you

>having such a simple mind that literally just typing things into google answers all your questions.

FYI you can share timestamped links if there are exact moments in an over 2 hour podcast that are highlights. I know, technology is crazy these days huh...

Jew

kike

>Free Will Doesn't exist
>We should all try to be the best moral being we can possibly be, even if we don't have the will to do so
>Also, let's judge moral and value systems of the West based on their 'failures' of basic natural rights even though the West is solely responsible for the concept of natural rights to begin with
>I hate religion but I highly respect and practice Zen Buddhism even though there's no soul--only 'conscience'

Self-contradictory, masturbatory, narcissistic faggot. Pure fucking cancer.

A snooze fest that got dumpstered by a /sip/ boy. Much better options out there.

THis. Based dilbert influence man ruins career of manlet fedora-tipping zionist "philosopher"

This is a good post.
He has also some knock-off Kantian philosopher shtick where he wrote a book that basically was about why you should never lie.

Funniest thing was for several guests later his bitterness showed as he tried to trash scott when he wasnt there. So bitter lol.

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And Scott just moved on. Too busy to deal with manlet temper tantrums

youtube.com/watch?v=ReKIJvOJDrs&t=1213s

Sam Harris is a smart man when it comes to certain things. But when it comes to politics he's completely delusional against Trump. I don't blame him- he made his case for and against Hillary and Trump on Rogan.

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Proves that you don't have to be intelligent to make it, you just need to pretend to be intelligent.

Literal idiot, Christopher Hitchens 2.0

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>Dennis Rodman visting best Korea
Couldnt have happened without Potcoin

A jew, A faggot, and controlled opposition, in some order.

he is just jewish

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>We should all try to be the best moral being we can possibly be, even if we don't have the will to do so

Literally one of the most common questions he answers on free will. We judge people on what they are likely to do. If you had a tumor in your brain that made you a shooter like that texas guy who wrote he wanted an autopsy in his suicide notes, i.e. your actions are seemingly involuntary and not of your free will, that doesn't change what you did and that you should be punished by the law for the safety of everyone.

>I hate religion but I highly respect and practice Zen Buddhism even though there's no soul--only 'conscience'

Not all religions are equal, like all cultures and value systems aren't equal. He's also said many times he's not a buddhist. He's got an entire podcast about "why buddhism is real" where they go to great lengths to pretend you can say that while cherrypicking the bits he and his guest likes, i.e. the meditation, while ignoring the religious aspect of it.

You mean the dilbert man so incredibly impressed of an apparent master plan by a master manipulator such as trump that every possible outcome is a calculated one? The man willing to jump any number of hoops to insist every move of trump is a manipulation act, regardless if there's a clear motive to even trump himself? It's like an elaborate joke that people are actually taking seriously. The next part of scott adams' fever dream, trump crashes the plane, for you.

his book "waking up" is a good introduction to spirituality and should be listened to by Jow Forums
thepiratebay.org/torrent/11469675/Waking_Up_--_Sam_Harris

also download and listen to thepiratebay.org/torrent/7154827/Alan_Watts-_Out_of_Your_Mind_(The_Essential_Lectures)

its ok sam. You're free to choose not to be butthurt anytime you so desire

Why listen to Harris at all if you're recommending Watts?

>it's intellectually lazy to say that Islam is bad

that's like saying 2+2 is intellectually lazy. Easy formulas are just easy, doesn't mean they're not true.

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If I had children, I wouldn’t let him come near them

sam presents some thought-experiments which will make watts lectures easier to accept

>sam presents some thought-experiments
Would mind sharing some interesting ones? I've only listened to some of his podcasts and haven't read any of his work.

Intelligent and has some good takes but smug beyond measure. Insufferable

download the audiobook and listen to it all on a commute or something. Only 6hr long in total. But the middle section is where the most relevant stuff is, such as "The Riddle of the Self", "What Are We Calling "I"?"

I can't wait to watch him publicly humiliate Jordan Hackerson for a third time.

Saying butthurt doesn't make scott adams' argument any better.

Is there any overlap in Harris' thinking with Douglas Hofstadter?

Jewish

Could be much worse, but he isn't our guy.

Why are there so many threads asking for a "genuine opinion" on a person. They always have the same sentence, are they datamining, outside information gathering, journalists writing articles? Stop it

Honest opinion? He cant keep getting away with it.

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his jew ethnicity dictates his positions.

Wew

Gtfo sam, you are a disengenious shill.

9/10 it is that person, or someone who works for that person.
Sam is is extremely insecure.

>We judge people on what they are likely to do.
This makes no fucking sense.
>user is likely to kill a nigger
>Let's judge him on that...even if he doesn't actually do it.
> your actions are seemingly involuntary and not of your free will, that doesn't change what you did and that you should be punished by the law for the safety of everyone.
If actions are involuntary why does Justice exist? We don't kill a Lion because his nature dictates that he eats an innocent zebra, so why the fuck should we imprison a murderer if he was predisposed to do it? On what ground can we make a moral judgement if the murderer literally couldn't help himself. If this were the case, we would be locking up children who regularly fight other children because they can't help themselves. Retarded argument.

>Not all religions are equal, like all cultures and value systems aren't equal.
Yet he villifies Christianity. Buddhism is self-serving, selfish nonsense. Why the fuck do you think the East remained wholly internal and stagnant while the West advanced every major intellectual endeavor? The monastic traditions of each religion and culture are the key factors here. Christian monastics saw the world as being created and imbued with the Divine at every turn, and thus pursued endeavors to exalt and elevate mankind in all facets.

He's dishonest because he can't get past free will and morality. He's also comically biased. Aside from his bias - which isn't a problem,it's more that he claims he doesn't have one - he's a bright person.

filthy multicultural globalist. hes pretty smart, and his leftist opponents even crazier, but they're all deluded.

Low IQ Kike who has never made a single accurate political prediction in his life, and who is eternally BTFO by Trump.

Also, fake scientist has never done anything relevant in his field, regularly lies about history and philosophy, has no coherent framework for his belief system, is a sophist.

If you feel any respect for this kike, stop immediately. He doesn't deserve it.

It actually gets worse when you realize that deliberation on any topic is, necessarily, non-deterministic. Free will is literally self-evident.

Guy's entire "philosophy" is built on nothing.

In The End of Faith, Harris is critical of the Jewish faith and its followers:

The gravity of Jewish suffering over the ages, culminating in the Holocaust, makes it almost impossible to entertain any suggestion that Jews might have brought their troubles upon themselves. This is, however, in a rather narrow sense, the truth. […] the ideology of Judaism remains a lightning rod for intolerance to this day. […] Jews, insofar as they are religious, believe that they are bearers of a unique covenant with God. As a consequence, they have spent the last two thousand years collaborating with those who see them as different by seeing themselves as irretrievably so. Judaism is as intrinsically divisive, as ridiculous in its literalism, and as at odds with the civilizing insights of modernity as any other religion. Jewish settlers, by exercising their "freedom of belief" on contested land, are now one of the principal obstacles to peace in the Middle East.

Regarding Israel and Judaism, Harris has said, "I don't think Israel should exist as a Jewish state. I think it is obscene, irrational and unjustifiable to have a state organized around a religion. So I don't celebrate the idea that there's a Jewish homeland in the Middle East. I certainly don't support any Jewish claims to real estate based on the Bible. Though I just said that I don't think Israel should exist as a Jewish state, the justification for such a state is rather easy to find. We need look no further than the fact that the rest of the world has shown itself eager to murder the Jews at almost every opportunity. So, if there were going to be a state organized around protecting members of a single religion, it certainly should be a Jewish state. Now, friends of Israel might consider this a rather tepid defense, but it's the strongest one I've got. I think the idea of a religious state is ultimately untenable." - I dont like Sam Harris, but I fail to see how he's a zionist.

Super Jacobin who believes in eternal unalterable moral laws discoverable by reason alone and to be forcibly imposed on other in order to create a "global civilization" (His expression).

He's consistent enough that he realizes that this view is not compatible with Islam. Not all atheists who essentially believe in progress and a global society are.

>People always stay the same

One could make the argument that locking up murderers protects society and it also serves as a deterrent. It doesn't necessarily have to be about punishment.

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ITT: A lot of character assassination without any references to confirm its veracity.

But that is just Jow Forums being Jow Forums.

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>One could make the argument that locking up murderers protects society and it also serves as a deterrent. It doesn't necessarily have to be about punishment.
Protect society from what, specifically? If morality is an illusion then it is of no consequence, and neither is justice. Mankind, void of teleological agency, is nothing but an intelligent animal and life has no inherent meaning.

Also, what good are deterrent's if you have no free will? No deterrent will prevent you from committing an immoral act.

This. The fact he doesn't know why people like Trump just means he completely self absorbed and completely unaware of the real world.

Lefty kike.

He does have a nice, soothing voice though.

Except I wouldn't really hold that against Harris given just how good of a proponent of his positions Scott Adams is. That dude could literally defend Trump raping a child & make it sound reasonably convincing. Harris is insufferably anti-Trump, but Adams has made a recent profession out of riding Trump's dick, & he just happens to be really good at it.

Except free will doesn't exist, so.

Not soft on the Muslim question. Right about atheism. Open to race realism.

Alright by me.

>(((Sam Harris)))

He's a charlatan.

youtube.com/watch?v=ENtlW-LEqu8

This was after he wrote a book about Christianity. You would expect him to actually research the material he's criticizing but that would be too much work. It's much easier to just bullshit an audience that you know will eat up anything you say.

Another """"intellectual"""" leading pawns away from the truth. Could be controlled opposition.