>In 1986, as a student at Stanford University, Harris experimented with MDMA
>Leaving Stanford in his second year, he went to India, where he studied meditation with Buddhist and Hindu religious teachers
>Eleven years later, in 1997, he returned to Stanford, completing a B.A. degree in philosophy in 2000
What was Sam Harris really doing in the early 90s? Am I really supposed to believe he spent 1986 to 1997 in Indian studying meditation? He looks like he is hiding something.
>He looks like he is hiding something
His brain desu
>Harris was born on April 9, 1967 in Los Angeles, the son of actor Berkeley Harris and TV producer Susan Harris (née Spivak), who created The Golden Girls.
He's hiding that thing damned well, then
im guessing he was just fucking around with drugs and being an underachiever, and doesn't really want to talk about that publicly because his career depends on being taken seriously.
>Sam Harris
>taken seriously
By who?
Harris spent the early 90s in Bangkok, indulging himself on hard drugs and prostitutes.
Literally everyone that's not a regressive leftist or retarded trumple.
Seriously, no one takes him.
Trump is fucking awesome, numale cuck
>do MDMA
>go to India
>end up a materialist scientism collaborator
He did it wrong
My guess is witchcraft, Satanism, astrology, and alchemy.
my guess is fucking your mom
the first 5 years was spent finding her vagina cause she's so fat, then it took him another 5 to finish because she's so ugly, and the last year was spent in the shower because she's so smelly
I'm going to figure you out, Sam.
let me plant a flag on your mom
Are you trying to make the Wittgenstein face in this picture?
He was a slacker, now he's in entertainment, like his parents.
Nothing to tell.
try the redpill
>Quaker father
>Jewish mother
>go to school in California
>study philosophy
>do MDMA
>go to India
>end up a materialist, positivist, atheist STEMlord who thinks he still gets to be spiritual
How didn't just do it wrong. He fucked it up.
Ever notice how dudes who go on and on about being rational and "thinkers" are the ones who freak out when something doesn't go their way?
No. Any examples?
I bought the Moral Landscape yesterday, boys.
What am I in for?
Will I be able to derive an ought from an is after reading?
Will I defeat nihilism/relativism?
Advil?
Darwin, Kant, Schopenhauer
>man with a Bachelor's in Philosophy and a Doctorate in Neuroscience is called stupid by mid-20s NEETs on a website dedicated to Japanese cartoon pornography
>BA in Philosophy
Wow, it's fucking nothing.
>Philosophy
>Neuroscience
It's like you want me to think he's a joke.
I know a guy with a PhD in nuclear physics; he lives 2 doors down from my parents.
He has to pay an accountant to pay his bills because he forgets to do things like pay the electric bill.
He can't remember the birthday of his only kid.
He fell for the Nigerian Prince email and lost $8,000.
He is a Young Earth Creationist and insists that the world, the universe, is only 6,000 years old and that dinosaurs were killed in the flood.
Yet he is a very good nuclear physicist who is highly regarded in his field.
......................
Degree != IQ
Seems legit.
No, no, no you misheard me, I said I was a CLASSICAL liberal: the post
Some people are only good at one thing. They are called autists.
So Harris is one of those guys willing to take all the classes, spend his parent's money, and over the course of years get a degree.
Having a degree is not an inoculation against being a dumbass.
People aren't aware how many decorates are issued every year, or perhaps they don't want to know, it kinda destroys the pre-tense of being apart of the intellectual elite when you realize that over 60 thousand people in America alone every year also join the club.
>Fox and the grapes: the post
Sounds more like schizotypy desu
>Adjunct debates spending his last $1 on electricity to shitpost on the internet or a 4-pack of Ramen
You could probably write for the Onion, you put about as much effort into your posts as they do.
Sounds like airborne status in the US Army. Might impress people that don't know better, but soldiers know that cooks and laundry clerks are airborne qualified.
>implying I'm not smarter than him
I'd feel pretty bad doing that, that's basically stealing jobs from eng lit graduates, they need it more.
you're a dumb fuck if you think academia is anything other than a pyramid scheme
You're probably not.
how so
You don't know me cunt
The important thing was that you tried.
I'm not really familiar with how the military works in any country, but isn't being a military cook pretty much a guaranteed well-paying job? professorships at non-prestigious universities regularly receive 400-500 applications.
From stanford it's something
The point I was making is to a civilian 'airborne' sounds impressive when it isn't.
Outside of academe 'I have a PhD' sounds impressive, but when you know that there are 400 PhDs fighting for an adjunct position where they might, *might*, make $16k a year and you get a lot less impressed.
Thank you for being a friend Sam Harris!
I always knew I felt some odd dispositions about this fellow.
Is it just me or is Sam Hyde going for a Mishima vibe here?