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“Four disciplines. Four extraordinary minds. Two days. One relentless pursuit of truth.“ (thelemmy.club)
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Inspired by the intellectual tradition of ancient Greek symposia, this two-day event brings together prominent thinkers, academics, and members of the public for meaningful discussions about some of humanity’s most important questions.

The symposium will feature four major sections, each led by a distinguished speaker:

Philosophy: Stephen Hicks

Science: Steven Pinker

Religion: Justin Sledge (ESOTERICA)

Politics: Steven Bonnell II (Destiny)

Each section includes a one-hour featured lecture, followed by a 90-minute debate/discussion and a 90-minute community discussion involving the audience.

We are currently inviting academics throughout the San Francisco Bay Area to express interest in joining our speakers on stage during the symposium discussions.

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[–] 5 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 child)

You're mocking this? Really? The symposia which is going to raise 20 billion dollars for charity?

Anti obscure edit: Pangburn is an event organizer scammer who has been trying to book debates with Destiny (Bonnell) and public figures with far more importance by conjecturing that they might absurdly generate $5 million or more dollars of net revenue that can be donated to charity

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    • [–] 15 points 22 hours ago

    My opposition to torture leaving my body as i hear Destiny open his mouth

    This guy shouldn't have intact fingernails

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    [–] 39 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    "Four disciplines. Half a mind on a good day. Somehow, six pedophiles".

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    • [–] 8 points 20 hours ago

    Hardest fuck marry kill

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    [–] 37 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Calling what Steven Pinker does "science" is an insult to actual scientists, but has his star really fallen so far that he has to show up to events like this? Man's a professional bullshitter but he did bullshit his way into Harvard.

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  • [–] 4 points 16 hours ago (1 child)

    That's my thought too! Like, sure, in my mind Pinker is a complete hack and not worth paying even the slightest bit of attention to, but in his mind he's a serious academic. It's gotta sting that he's getting equal billing with a shitty twitch streamer. I hope it eats him up inside that fucking Destiny is considered of a similar intellectual level to himself

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    • [–] 38 points 1 day ago

    Stephan Boticelli: Politics

    The guy who thought Erdogan was the president of Egypt?

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    [–] 30 points 1 day ago

    calling Sexpestiny "distinguished" is laughable

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    [–] 20 points 1 day ago

    so two confirmed paedophiles, but two i've never heard of - so someone give me the rundown on Hicks & Sledge

    also pangburn lmao. just send professor dave to eviscerate these freaks

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    [–] 29 points 1 day ago

    finkelstein-lambaste Mister Berelli

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    [–] 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (14 children)

    Okay but Dr. Sledge is a marxist and fucking cool. Read his dissertation. I can almost guarantee he has no fucking clue who Destiny is as well, might be a funny watch.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 day ago (8 children)

    Sadly, it seems that he's a Zionist. The FAQ section in the bio on his website says, "I am Jewish, belong to the Reconstructionist movement, and closely align myself with the teachings of Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan." Which, as I understand it, makes him a Zionist.

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  • [–] 9 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 child)

    He might not be:

    Although the Reconstructionist movement officially supports liberal Zionism, it also has a disproportionate number of anti-Zionist members. Of the Jewish Voice for Peace rabbinical council, about 60 percent of their members were trained at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College.

    Wikipedia cites this: https://jewishcurrents.org/a-reconstructionist-reckoning It's about the increasing tension between the RRC and its non- or anti-Zionist students

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  • [–] 6 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

    He’s definitely done a lot of work with academics in occupied Palestine but he also tends to say the right things about the genocide. I don’t think we should make political assumptions about people based on their religious denomination and doctrines. He appears to be a religious Jew and reconstructionism is the denomination that he connects with the most (which is basically the most progressive of all Jewish denominations). I’d rather we judge his politics based on his words and actions about the state and the project rather than his religious affiliation.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 hours ago (2 children)

    "I’d rather we judge his politics based on his words and actions about the state and the project rather than his religious affiliation."

    I didn't judge his politics based on his religious affiliations. I judged it based on his own quote where he states that he most closely aligns his views with that of a zionist

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  • [–] 1 point 8 hours ago (1 child)

    I may not be the Kaplan expert that you are, but as others have pointed out, a significant number of living anti-Zionist rabbis are reconstructionist, which is a movement Kaplan founded, so I do not think it is a fair inference to say a religious Jew who most closely aligns his religious beliefs with Kaplan is necessarily a Zionist. Unless you are saying Judaism and Zionism are the same thing.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 hours ago

    I'm happy for those rabbis who were able to pull their heads out of their asses but we're decades into the formation of the zionist entity and years into a genocide and if his self-professed ideological stance is, "I closely align with a fascist and their fascist, settler-colonial ideology" without so much a peep decrying the zionist entity then I'm not going to give him the benefit of the doubt. And I don't understand why you have an expectation of me to do so. Sorry your youtuber is probably a fascist piece of shit.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 day ago* (1 child)

    Esoterica is an interesting channel, too. Sledge definitely is an expert in his field (religious studies, mysticism/occult) and is a good presenter. Really good if you're into that sort of thing.

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    • [–] 13 points 1 day ago*

    I'd watch if it was a battle to the death. I want to see the dude who looks like he's 900 years old and the dude who looks like he's 9000 years old pretending to be 30 call a truce and beat destiny to death with baseball bats before getting sledgehammered

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    [–] [S] 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    I hope finkelstein shows up to heckle everyone.

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    • [–] 20 points 1 day ago

    Yoooo they made ragebait irl!

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    [–] 9 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Nightmare blunt rotation 😖

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    • [–] 16 points 1 day ago* (2 children)

    Wow I just looked up the first two people they suck so bad and their own very specific ways. Why is Sledge here lmao?

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    That's funny, I recognized the other two names, but had to look up Hicks, and when he was about what I expected I thought I didn't even need to look up Sledge.

    Edit - Thanks for posting his dissertation in your other comment -- this looks like my kind of read.

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    • [–] 14 points 1 day ago

    "intellectuals"

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    [–] 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    I thought UU churches were supposed to be cooler than this

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    • [–] 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    What has PInker been up to? Anything slop?

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  • [–] [S] 22 points 1 day ago* (1 child)

    Found an op-ed from last month that offers "two ways for universities to truly improve campus discourse — and their reputations." Let's get some reputational advice from a friend of Jeffrey Epstein, everyone!

    dead-dove-2

    1. Get out of the moralizing business.

    dead-dove-3

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    • [–] 9 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    steves

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