Purloined by the French from Northern Syria. Yes it spent 2000 years being destroyed by the Syrians before the French rescued it. Imbecile, use smarter arguments.
Asides
That’s the theme of “On Bullshit” by Frankfurt. The bullshitter is neither right nor wrong. Unlike the liar, he does not care about/know the truth in the scientific sense.
1- You can have a class war 2- You can have a race war 3- You can have a gender war 4- You can have a culture war Do not conflate the four. People by now got that 1 & 2 are as Fat Tony wd say, “very different tings”. [Discussion w/an unnamed person; will be revealed later] 2) Note: by “culture war”, read secular-religious, Christian-Islam or Sunni-Shiite. 3) Tou can change class (this is commonly known as “opportunity”). You cannot change race. Which explains why immigrants can prefer capitalism and free markets while standing against racism.
No, SKEPTICISM & BS Busting does not cover things like ancestral activities w/hidden rationalities, things that contribute to survival. As w/Sextus Empiricus, it is “Against the Professors”, IYIs, interventionista social science/scientism, neither ancestral nor rigorous.
I am trying to avoid hurting him. Just using it as advice.
No.That is deflationary Yes supply is shrinking because of lack of demand; this is not a shortage caused by exces demand. And higher demand would cause unemployed pple to restart in their own business; there is no reconversion. At best, temporary restriction.
Callin Levantine Americans “Arab Americans” is a blockable offense, Nadim, the result of cultural appropriation. You must correct.
Pandemics: like wars, you know when they start, never when they’ll end. #TheBlackSwan #Denial #RetrospectiveDistortion
People say Taleb is arrogant but he issues definitive corrections more readily than anyone else I can think of.
Notes 1-Jesus didn’t “speak” either; Hebrew & Aramaic were languages for the learned. Pple spoke (as today) dialects; Jesus prob. spoke a Galilean one. 2-Netanyahu did not call Jesus by his Heb. name יהושע (Yehoshua) or ישוע, but by ישו “Yeshu” used to stress foreignness. 3) I learned from Maestro Al-Jallad @Safaitic : written texts were written by a minority class of scribes who communicated solely with one another (since few read & wrote). So the language at the time != that of written texts. Evidence: Persian & Mongolian texts are in Aramaic!
