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#19138428 - 11/14/13 09:14 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Who are your favorite intellectuals? Feel free to post videos.
Here are a few of mine.
Neil Degrasse Tyson (if you sit through these 12 minutes you won't be disappointed.)
Terence Mckenna
Sasha Shulgin
Noam Chomsky
Salvidor Dali (this man's genius is underrated)
Jimi Hendrix (hilarious interview, he was obviously tired but if you listen to his interviews he was incredibly intelligent.)
Frank Zappa
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Re: Your favorite intellectuals. [Re: mindgnome]
#19138440 - 11/14/13 09:16 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Re: Your favorite intellectuals. [Re: Alexestalex]
#19138463 - 11/14/13 09:20 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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haha Terence was awesome
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Re: Your favorite intellectuals. [Re: mindgnome]
#19138473 - 11/14/13 09:22 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I've been enjoying watching lectures by theoretical physicist Sean Carroll recently
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Re: Your favorite intellectuals. [Re: mindgnome] 1
#19138478 - 11/14/13 09:22 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Terence Mckenna, Ram Das, Stephen Hawking, Eintstein, Osho, Mooji, Ramana Maharishi, Walt Whitman to name a few
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Re: Your favorite intellectuals. [Re: mindgnome]
#19138500 - 11/14/13 09:26 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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mindgnome said: Salvidor Dali (this man's genius is underrated)
guy is a trip, I've loved his art for years but have never seen him on video. he seems very self-aware.
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Re: Your favorite intellectuals. [Re: Hobozen]
#19138504 - 11/14/13 09:27 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Intellectuals typically don't interest me… life is too short to take things so seriously.
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Re: Your favorite intellectuals. [Re: mindgnome]
#19138508 - 11/14/13 09:28 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Carrot Top. Miley Cyrus. Stevie from Eastbound & Down.
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Re: Your favorite intellectuals. [Re: dontknow]
#19138512 - 11/14/13 09:29 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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dontknow said: Intellectuals typically don't interest me… life is too short to take things so seriously. 
typically un-intellectual answer
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Re: Your favorite intellectuals. [Re: g00ru]
#19138521 - 11/14/13 09:30 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I like just about any humble intellectual.
Richard Dawkins makes me want to pull my hair out.
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Re: Your favorite intellectuals. [Re: Acaterpillar]
#19138524 - 11/14/13 09:30 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Re: Your favorite intellectuals. [Re: koods]
#19138525 - 11/14/13 09:30 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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that was a cool video that guy really knows his stuff
-------------------- "As I walk on through troubled times my spirit gets so downhearted sometimes so where are the strong and who are the trusted? And where is the harmony? Sweet harmony. Cause each time I feel it slippin' away, just makes me wanna cry. What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding?" - Nick Lowe "Psychedelic drugs don't change you - they don't change your character - unless you want to be changed. They enable change; they can't impose it...” - Sasha Shulgin
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Re: Your favorite intellectuals. [Re: Niffla]
#19138531 - 11/14/13 09:31 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Niffla said: Stevie from Eastbound & Down.
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Re: Your favorite intellectuals. [Re: Niffla]
#19138533 - 11/14/13 09:31 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Walter White
Basically the smartest man I know of.
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Re: Your favorite intellectuals. [Re: Acaterpillar]
#19138542 - 11/14/13 09:33 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Yeah Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens kind of annoy me on some of the points they've made in the past. They are certain about something that science cannot measure. I would say Dawkins is more humble than Hitchens was though.
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Re: Your favorite intellectuals. [Re: g00ru]
#19138544 - 11/14/13 09:33 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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g00ru said:
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dontknow said: Intellectuals typically don't interest me… life is too short to take things so seriously. 
typically un-intellectual answer
maybe dontknow was thinking of book-worm intellectuals. we all know education does not equal intelligence.
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Re: Your favorite intellectuals. [Re: Hobozen]
#19138551 - 11/14/13 09:34 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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blankk said:
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mindgnome said: Salvidor Dali (this man's genius is underrated)
guy is a trip, I've loved his art for years but have never seen him on video. he seems very self-aware.
He was a very strange person. Even if he said weird things he was intelligent. His art speaks volumes about what went on in his mind.
-------------------- "As I walk on through troubled times my spirit gets so downhearted sometimes so where are the strong and who are the trusted? And where is the harmony? Sweet harmony. Cause each time I feel it slippin' away, just makes me wanna cry. What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding?" - Nick Lowe "Psychedelic drugs don't change you - they don't change your character - unless you want to be changed. They enable change; they can't impose it...” - Sasha Shulgin
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Re: Your favorite intellectuals. [Re: g00ru]
#19138555 - 11/14/13 09:35 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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my professors are always in a bad mood, and all they've done is memorize what somebody else found.
maybe i shouldn't say intellectuals in general, but the ones who hail academia. especially the ones who they think are incredibly brilliant and attempt to show it at every turn. they always get mad about stupid shit, worrying about something that shouldn't be worrisome everyone just needs to take a 
Life's no fun when all the knowledge is handed to you it's more fun to go explore for it.
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Re: Your favorite intellectuals. [Re: Niffla]
#19138556 - 11/14/13 09:35 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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no order
Alan Watts
McKenna
David Icke
Sheekle
Huxley
Neitzche
Shulgin
Ralph Metzner
Neil Kramer
Ram Dass
and plenty more...those are just the "main characters"
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Re: Your favorite intellectuals. [Re: Hobozen]
#19138558 - 11/14/13 09:35 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Re: Your favorite intellectuals. [Re: Hobozen]
#19138561 - 11/14/13 09:36 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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g00ru said:
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dontknow said: Intellectuals typically don't interest me… life is too short to take things so seriously. 
typically un-intellectual answer
maybe dontknow was thinking of book-worm intellectuals. we all know education does not equal intelligence.
Pretty much.
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Re: Your favorite intellectuals. [Re: Hobozen]
#19138569 - 11/14/13 09:37 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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g00ru said:
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dontknow said: Intellectuals typically don't interest me… life is too short to take things so seriously. 
typically un-intellectual answer
maybe dontknow was thinking of book-worm intellectuals. we all know education does not equal intelligence.
yeah true it doesn't, you have to be able to reflect upon what you learn in the books. but i feel like being an intellectual type made me have to work out some issues for myself that might seem 'optional' to people and i wish more people would try it out...aint so bad lol
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Re: Your favorite intellectuals. [Re: dontknow]
#19138577 - 11/14/13 09:39 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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my professors are always in a bad mood, and all they've done is memorize what somebody else found.
maybe i shouldn't say intellectuals in general, but the ones who hail academia. especially the ones who they think are incredibly brilliant and attempt to show it at every turn. they always get mad about stupid shit, worrying about something that shouldn't be worrisome everyone just needs to take a 
Life's no fun when all the knowledge is handed to you it's more fun to go explore for it.
I try to live like I would in my dreams. I'll read my textbook on Mondays.
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Re: Your favorite intellectuals. [Re: Niffla]
#19138583 - 11/14/13 09:40 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Niffla said:
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Niffla said: Stevie from Eastbound & Down.

best face on television.
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Re: Your favorite intellectuals. [Re: dontknow]
#19138585 - 11/14/13 09:40 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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dontknow said:
my professors are always in a bad mood, and all they've done is memorize what somebody else found.
maybe i shouldn't say intellectuals in general, but the ones who hail academia. especially the ones who they think are incredibly brilliant and attempt to show it at every turn. they always get mad about stupid shit, worrying about something that shouldn't be worrisome everyone just needs to take a 
Life's no fun when all the knowledge is handed to you it's more fun to go explore for it.
yeah actually i can't stand a lot of professors. some are great but some will give you hell. maybe why i'm not in college ^_^
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Re: Your favorite intellectuals. [Re: g00ru]
#19138606 - 11/14/13 09:43 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I don't go to school but read textbooks using the PQRST method of learning. I can sift through the bullshit and learn what I want... on Mondays.
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Re: Your favorite intellectuals. [Re: mindgnome]
#19138613 - 11/14/13 09:44 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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mindgnome said: Yeah Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens kind of annoy me on some of the points they've made in the past. They are certain about something that science cannot measure. I would say Dawkins is more humble than Hitchens was though.
Oh, Dawkins and Hitchens are polar opposites on the humble scale. Humble was the only word in the English language that Hitchens didn't know.
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Re: Your favorite intellectuals. [Re: koods]
#19138619 - 11/14/13 09:45 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Re: Your favorite intellectuals. [Re: mindgnome]
#19138630 - 11/14/13 09:48 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I would have to say Aldous Huxley, I just got done reading Doors of Perception and Heaven & Hell. I read a Brave New World a while ago and the guy is a genius.
He tripped cid a lot too xD
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Re: Your favorite intellectuals. [Re: Bill_Oreilly]
#19138632 - 11/14/13 09:48 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I got some favorite scientists.
Linus Pauling. Carl Sagan Albert E. Schordinger Wernher von Braun
Wallace Carothers -(Invented Nylon but killed himself thinking he didn't invent shit...The following day he committed suicide in a hotel room in Philadelphia by taking cyanide dissolved in lemon juice, knowing that the ingestion of cyanide in an acidic solution would greatly intensify the speed and effect of the poison. No note was found)
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Re: Your favorite intellectuals. [Re: Starskii]
#19138634 - 11/14/13 09:49 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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oh definitely Aldous Huxley was very interesting. Good choice.
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Re: Your favorite intellectuals. [Re: mindgnome]
#19138662 - 11/14/13 09:54 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Huxley definitely changed my perspective on things. I had always wanted to try psychedelics but after reading the Doors of Perception I gained the courage to do so. So, I rolled for the first time a few months back. I am actually about to try Mescaline and E/Molly. I have done shrooms though and I honestly had a better experience on the cid.
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Re: Your favorite intellectuals. [Re: Gorlax]
#19138671 - 11/14/13 09:56 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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that was a funny video the only one I knew about was the Einstein one.
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Re: Your favorite intellectuals. [Re: Bill_Oreilly]
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Re: Your favorite intellectuals. [Re: Starskii]
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Yeah LSD is a very mystical experience I like it but only once in awhile... Huxley was interesting. The only person to ever take lsd on their death bed haha.
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Re: Your favorite intellectuals. [Re: Bill_Oreilly]
#19138690 - 11/14/13 10:01 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Alan Watts
McKenna
David Icke
Sheekle
Huxley
Neitzche
Shulgin
Ralph Metzner
Neil Kramer
Ram Dass
and plenty more...those are just the "main characters"
I respect that list
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Re: Your favorite intellectuals. [Re: mindgnome]
#19138703 - 11/14/13 10:04 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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William Burroughs
One of his most well known "The Junky's Christmas" still classic.
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Re: Your favorite intellectuals. [Re: TrentBoyett]
#19138975 - 11/14/13 11:09 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Re: Your favorite intellectuals. [Re: koods]
#19139041 - 11/14/13 11:21 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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George Washington Ben Franklin Isaac Newton Leo Da Vinci Albert Einstein Francis Bacon Tessla Thomas Edison Robert Boyle Adolf Hitler Hawking Bohr Celsius Nicolas Flamel Francis Crick Timothy Leary Terrance McKenna Hunter Thompson Aldous Huxley Aleister Crowley John Dee Elias Fludd Paracelsus Descartes Pascal Spinoza Leibniz Nostradamus Zechariah Stitchin Plato Aristotle Walt Disney Socrates
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Re: Your favorite intellectuals. [Re: GreySatyr]
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Two of my favorite Philosophers are Mao Tse Dung and Pris.
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Re: Your favorite intellectuals. [Re: starfire_xes]
#19139122 - 11/14/13 11:40 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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No Marx?
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Re: Your favorite intellectuals. [Re: koods]
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I forgot Lao Tzu and trAnce
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Re: Your favorite intellectuals. [Re: Bill_Oreilly]
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i was fairly impressed by the writing of Finnis and similar philosophists. i think i read a philosophy peace of Finnis' from ages ago, like 100 years++ or something, where he described the way of life and functioning of society, general philosophy stuff... and the interesting thing was , that when reading it , it seemed to still be in line with the struggles and problems faced by people in modern society. pretty impressive stuff though, how they can just scribe down "the way things are"
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Re: Your favorite intellectuals. [Re: Soulidarity]
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also, read "Les Miserables" by Victor Hugo. the original book. best book i've ever read in my life! and i'm a person who generally hates reading. it's on another level to the modern writers of today.
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Re: Your favorite intellectuals. [Re: Soulidarity]
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yeah I might have to look into him, I don't believe I know his writing. I think it is funny when people think someone like that is a psychic though...I think people that predict things are just very deep thinkers. They can foresee changes because of the way they think about things rather than actually having psychic abilities. If you look into Jimi Hendrix he was definitely one of those people.
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Re: Your favorite intellectuals. [Re: mindgnome]
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to be honest its fairly bland unless your interested in it, they write massive novels that might get boring. but theres definitely gold dispersed throughout Finnis' writing.
i don't think it has anything to do with being a psychic or anything like that, hes just a person who has observed the way of life and functioning of society, who understands the mindset of the average person, and has scribed it all down into theories in his books! deep thinkers is the right term for it! it takes a very intelligent person to be able to do that. and not only describe human nature in such a way that it is relevant not only at the time of the book, but in the future as well
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Re: Your favorite intellectuals. [Re: mindgnome]
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My two favorites (of people who I have read/looked into) are Ludwig Wittgenstein Georg Cantor
Wittgenstein actually despised the way Cantor's work was interpreted. They both are completely undervalued tho, imo.
"Cantor states that the connection between immanent and transient reality is founded in the 'unity of the All to which we ourselves belong' " from Cantorian Set theory and limitation of size.
The guy proved proved there are different kinds of infinities. Pretty trippy stuff.
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Re: Your favorite intellectuals. [Re: TheMule73]
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Hmm seems interesting. Mathematics aren't my strong suit though haha.
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Re: Your favorite intellectuals. [Re: mindgnome]
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mindgnome said: Hmm seems interesting. Mathematics aren't my strong suit though haha.
yeah same here lol. Cantor was also deeply religious though and it is interesting to read the philosophy behind what he thought he was accomplishing (working with infinite sets).
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Re: Your favorite intellectuals. [Re: TheMule73]
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Hmm. A writer I find interesting even though he isn't similar to those two is Stanislav Grof. He did research with psychotherapy and lsd but his book Psychology of the Future is a good read.
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Re: Your favorite intellectuals. [Re: mindgnome]
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mindgnome said: Hmm. A writer I find interesting even though he isn't similar to those two is Stanislav Grof. He did research with psychotherapy and lsd but his book Psychology of the Future is a good read.
I'll check it out, cool. I like me some psychology stuff every now and then.
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Re: Your favorite intellectuals. [Re: TheMule73]
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Yung was great too.
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Re: Your favorite intellectuals. [Re: Bill_Oreilly]
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Sarah Palin, Ophra, Alan Colmes, Tucker Carlson, Tucker Max
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Re: Your favorite intellectuals. [Re: robbyberto]
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Saving this thread for later yawl
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