—“I would add that “Jesus” is a compound character made up of several people and that Christianity predates “Jesus” by a decade or two and is basically a failed Reformation of Judaism brought on by the Roman conquest of Palestine and the introduction of Hellenistic philosophical ideas.”—Andrey Sokoloff
Steven Pinker: You know, saying violence has decreased is a pointless truism. People who are subject to tax and consumer interest predation; immigration of working classes in a period of technical reformation; and gradual culturecide and genocide, are not the victims of direct violence. The human batteries in The Matrix, like the frog in boiling water simply do not know they’re victims.
—“I would add that “Jesus” is a compound character made up of several people and that Christianity predates “Jesus” by a decade or two and is basically a failed Reformation of Judaism brought on by the Roman conquest of Palestine and the introduction of Hellenistic philosophical ideas.”—Andrey Sokoloff
—“Reading the foundational texts, Postmodernism really questions how legitimacy is constructed as an image… And that image is used to justify power. People have taken this to mean that nothing is legit or that power is everything. But that’s kind of like saying that the theory of relativity is about how there’s no such thing as time.”– Alexander Lee
PERSONALITY TRAITS AND ACADEMIC SPECIALTIES And they’re entirely predictable.
—“Consistent findings across studies were that
– students of arts/humanities and psychology scored high on Neuroticism and Openness; – students of political sc. scored high on Openness; – students of economics, law, political sc., and medicine scored high on Extraversion; – students of medicine, psychology, arts/humanities, and sciences scored high on Agreeableness; and – students of arts/humanities scored low on Conscientiousness.
Effect sizes were calculated to estimate the magnitude of the personality group differences. These effect sizes were consistent across studies comparing similar pairs of academic majors. For all Big Five personality traits medium effect sizes were found frequently, and for Openness even large effect sizes were found regularly.”—-