What's unclear about it? It's a reference to common symbology in multiple creation myths.
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funny, I'm reading a book on quantum mechanics and it takes them a page at most
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after you've acquired several years worth of math and physics as background, sure. You don't think, maybe, you're looking at something you don't have requisite background in?
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last time I studied physics was 10 years ago, whereas I deal with philosophical stuff every day. Therefore I'm much less confident in understanding quantum physicists than I am philsophy
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let's just cut to the end. you've got a political dispute with Peterson which is why you want to criticize him. you don't care much about the academic subject matter, do you? don't suppose you've spent a lot of energy criticizing any other psychologists.
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and that's fine. I disagree with a lot of his political stances too. why not critique those directly though?
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it's a strange way to have a discourse, ya know? Speaker: "I advocate Policy A to address rising anomie and economic problems in society" Critic: "your work on the migratory patterns of sea-birds in Chile is second rate!"
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I'm not talking about his academic work though, am I? I'm talking about his weird self-help stuff, which is why he's famous. I've shown you explicit quotes which somehow are irrelevant because I haven't spent hours trawling through his work
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yes, of limited relevance because shallow understanding of complicated subject matter does not produce highly relevant criticisms. repeating myself: make better criticisms. practice steel-manning. practice charitable interpretation. engage with material before dismissing it.
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