Talk to philosophy professor in equivalent to 101 class

>talk to philosophy professor in equivalent to 101 class
>he believes in God, but not free will
>bring up based Spinoza
>”Oh yeah, he’s like, a dude. I don’t have much of an opinion on him.”

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Was he the Marvel/Rick and Morty guy?

Yes

Should have asked him if he’s an antisemite. How dare he not have an opinion on Spinoza?

He describes himself as a “smug liberal” so I imagine no
If he were far-left potentially

nobody who cares about philosophy or truth in general would ever subject themselves to a university humanities department

Professors/teachers are just gatekeepers. They are to education what (((merchants))) are to commerce, to a certain extent necessary in order to facilitate movement of goods (or knowledge) but should be minimized as much as possible. There needs to be a closer relationship between the producers of knowledge (authors, thinkers) and the consumers (students). Teachers tend to just get in the way. I’m rephrasing an aphorism of Nietzsche’s btw, he says the exact same thing in Human all too Human (or Wanderer and his Shadow, I think)

>You're now aware that academia is a pyramid scheme that shovels unqualified children into for-profit pits to sell them a credential that only validates them to continue the pyramid scheme in order to support, in this order, 1) the salaries of the administrative staff and the returns for investors 2) the research performed by universities, which is only this important because it brings more money to the school to achieve the first point and 3) far in last - across a gulf on the other side of a void - improving human knowledge.
The majority of your undergrad professors at the majority of schools are people who could not make use of their education outside of academia (read: untalented, incompetent hacks who probably went to academia in the first place because "you need a degree!"). There is little, if any, desire to strive for excellence, improve your academic character (and don't even think about improving your moral or ethical character), or search for new information or truth. This problem is present in STEM, but pervasive in the humanities, since children who were never taught the importance of education, who think school is that thing you have to do to make money, are scared of math and therefore the STEM fields. Every year, an ever larger number of people who don't fucking care are funneled into the humanities, where the least interested among them will filter themselves into the lowest-effort fields.

>Do you think all the horrible opinions and non-scientific """"""research"""""" of late out of places like sociology, social psychology, or the various identity politics-based fields were some kind of purposeful subterfuge concocted by a shadowy fifth column? I can assure you that our intellectual and social downfall is infinitely more banal and mundane than anything like that. The reality is that people aren't fucking interested in caring or committing effort to thinking, and that's why you have a philosophy professor who spouts memes and links to web comics.

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If you're expecting teachers to be good thinkers you're in for some serious disappointment. The entire profession has a 110 IQ average.

Bump

Who is this anime?

The transformation of the sciences into "STEM" is a bigger symptom of academic apathy than anything happening in the humanities. All the kids who don't care are getting filtered into low-quality biology and computer science programs, not gender studies or creative writing.
The "STEM" acronym is a product of the "every high school grad HAS to go to college" mentality in primary education that caused all this in the first place.

Machi from Kumamiko
It was some shitty anime about a miko who grew up along with a bear (loosely related to that Ainu bear sacrifice ritual described in one fragment from The Golden Bough), who ended up developing social anxiety due to never having left her village and having an over-protective bear friend.
If you like self-inserting as a fictional Japanese girl living a village between the woods up in the Tohoku region and are autistic/schizoid, you might be able to easily relate to her.

Based prof

spinoza was a posuh

Better that be admits not to have an opinion than gives you a poorly thought out one.

Wrong

I didn't know Bill Maher taught college courses

Your criticism is right, but there's nothing wrong with that image. It's just a small jab at a mainstream argument which has existed since the Cold War.

I'm glad I never went into STEM. Why people keep saying it's a superior choice to the humanities is beyond me, as it's an incredibly over saturated market.

It is a legitimate tragedy that people aren't as physically revolted by communists as they are fascists

I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that many people don't know the difference between socialism and communism. Not to mention that the west never really experienced the horrors of communism first hand and were only made aware of them from heresay. The west meanwhile had fascism at one point in it's recent history, so it feels a lot more strongly about that.

My philosophy always equated Earth and creation in of itself as a science project of God, one that had a habit of going against the primary hypothesis i.e. eating of the tree of knowledge, being so shitty that he tried a full reset, having a 'chosen people' to have a constant factor in the great equation of it all, etc.
At a certain point, you simply get bored of working on the same project for such a long time, so you shelf it. Not necessarily destroy it, just focus on other things in the meantime; maybe you come back to it, maybe not.

As such, I see it as the duty of mankind to make itself worthy of that divine attention once more. Perhaps achieving the point where we become on par in power, as we see in the scripture God is nervous at such an idea: being glad that mankind only ate the tree of knowledge and not the one of eternal life "lest they become as us" (I paraphrase, but that's pretty close to what Genesis says), and the destruction of the Tower of Babel and the splitting of the unified mankind.

There's my words, words, words novel, hope you enjoyed.
Pic unrelated
>inb4 schizo-poster

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All I ever got from that anime was suffering. I watched like 5 episodes of that girl being fucking anxious and mortified by everything and people openly making fun of her, I couldn't take it. Didn't really get the point

>I'm glad I never went into STEM.
You're perpetuating the issue by using that acronym. Stop reducing all of science to a glib 21st century American marketing device.

You can really tell how many people here are NEETS or still in school by what they believe life in the work force is like.

Isn't Spinoza one of the 15 most influential philosophers? I'm a dilettante but that's what I'd gleaned on the street.

I sure hope you are not paying for that shit

>Believe in God
>But not free will
What the fuck these things are mutually inclusive

Read spinoza, you little shit

Lern 2 calvinism

They're not.

Meme-tier theology.

God being all knowing includes that he knows the course of action of all beings, meaning that we would not have free will.

Read Boethius

>The west meanwhile had fascism at one point in it's recent history
Are you referring to FDR's administration?

I’m actually not

Sounds like my life story.

>Based Spinoza

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Looks interesting, I'll add him to the list

>Read this dude's cope

Funny when white people are the only ones who say this. Read the marxists, unironically.

schizoposter

What's with all these threads about retard phil 101 professors?

I'm getting into CS. Is this a bad move?