bet you feel pretty stupid now, don’t you?
Relativity is as much belief in supernatural order as radiation poisoning is divine retribution. I don’t even want to think how ignorant one must be to define religion that way, or single out Islam and Buddhism.
The book is “A Brief History of Mankind” and every chapter I read was as bad as this, full of conjecture drawn from mere bits of evidence, grasping at straws to make grand claims without ever indicating a mechanism for how a thing came to be. Even bad historians make the effort to find a proponderance of evidence, while this guy’s methods resemble a certain psychologist.
Superhuman order not necessarily supernatural. Unless you hold the philosophical position in wich reality is a product of human subjective experience. No i have not read the book but it says rigth there in the screenshot.
Its certainly a wierd taxonomy and i have no idea of what uses it may have. But there are sets that can be defined in such a way.
My main issue was with the “belief” and “order” parts so I didn’t even notice that I wrote it wrong. In science, there’s no concept of order or chaos. These are results of how humans process information and perceive their environment.
Relativity, or any other theory with predictions supported by experimentation are facts, not the order of things. If we find something that might be colloquially called out of order, this means the theory ought to be amended or replaced. This has no bearing on the actual phoenomenon, which was never in contradiction with the occurrance. They also don’t require belief beyond the acceptance that our observations ar egenerally accurate.
I should go into why I find his classification of religion entirely off but I’m too sleepy to muster the energy.
To play devils advocate one could argue that the theory of relativity stated as a matematical metaphor is already the information as processed by humans. And that such a descriptive statment about the world implies a belef in consistent natural laws.
I also dont see how that description about religion is useful. Dont worry abou being sleepy. Rest comarade. Somtimes i have migranes and take days to reply
this chart is dumb obviously that shape in the middle is the football
it’s even brown like a football
Are football fields not enough? Must we use non-standardized comparisons for everything!!?
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Textbooks are shit I got a political textbook rn that is 2 steps away from repeating Judeo-Bolshevism talking points
Sneaky socialists tricking workers into supporting communism by agitating for improving material conditions for workers, but it’s all a trick! they’re secretly plotting for world domination!
Thank you 19th century monarchists for cleverly outmaneuvering the communist scourge!
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Yes I am a serious academic textbook that you are required to read at a serious international College/University, why do you ask?
Looked up a bit more on this, appears the author considers any -ism to be a religion. Which, on one hand, okay not communism specifically, on the other, a monumentally “I’m 14 and this is deep” take.
“yeah, I’m an autism worshipper”
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if I ever get put against a wall, I would be honored to stand between a Muslim and a Buddhist
u will never be put against a wall, stop being melodramatic
Haha man thats whay i thought too, then i cracked some history books and oh boy
