But it's very frustrating isn't it, we can live with footballers being stupid outside of football, rockkstars etc but when there is someone who has excelled in a brainy field by using their brain... and yet they are a knob, it feels like false advertising at best... at darker moments it feels as though the universe isn't working properly.The thing with Dawkins is he's a knob.
Like in physics or something when they discover a new and unpredicted behaviour for something and that means that they have to reconsider the theory that described how that thing was supposed to behave.But it's very frustrating isn't it, we can live with footballers being stupid outside of football, rockkstars etc but when there is someone who has excelled in a brainy field by using their brain... and yet they are a knob, it feels like false advertising at best... at darker moments it feels as though the universe isn't working properly.
I second this, assuming sufi is even interested or feels remotely obliged to represent this.We need sufi to lead us on this one. Those moon poems he posred the other day were really good. Also there's that guy on urbanomic, Jason babak monagegh or something like that, he has done an interesting sounding book on angels, ghosts, something like that
Ibn means son of I guess.. but doesn't Bin meant that too? And maybe Ben in IsraelPersonally I need to get a better handle on the naming conventions. I understand "ibn" means son, pretty sure in gendered way but I could be mistaken. And understanding of the holy figures ought to help in clearly distinguishing the names that would otherwise be too culturally remote, in my case, to sufficiently distinguish .
Yeah I find that fascinating as well. Seems to really put an emphasis on names, in western culture, that aren't derived from the Abrahamic tradition.Ibn means son of I guess.. but doesn't Bin meant that too? And maybe Ben in Israel
One thing I noticed or realised or maybe I always knew but it clicked when I was teaching is how names have many kind of regional variations. Like Josef is basically Yusef and many other similar ones and Ibrahim and Abraham are the same and... so on and so forth.
Ilyas = Elias?Ibn means son of I guess.. but doesn't Bin meant that too? And maybe Ben in Israel
One thing I noticed or realised or maybe I always knew but it clicked when I was teaching is how names have many kind of regional variations. Like Josef is basically Yusef and many other similar ones and Ibrahim and Abraham are the same and... so on and so forth.
I find things which are supposedly fixed or self-evident more difficult to contend with than things which are ambiguous. That being said, it helps when people frame stuff like science as description rather than explanation. It's telling you what's happening, not why it's happening.I certainly don't understand advanced mathematics (or basic mathematics really) - but is that because I'm fundamentally too thick to understand it (thick when it comes to maths, I mean), or is it because I have no interest in it, and so have never worked long and hard enough on understanding it?
It's both, stupid.