Philosophy
When you think of a nerd, you probably have a very specific image in your mind of someone who wears thick glasses and lacks physical and social grace, but if you were to think about the general qualities that characterize a nerd, you'd find things like borderline-insane obsession with very narrow pursuits, a general inability to relate to folks who don't share their passions, a megalomaniacal sense of self-importance because they happen to hold what they mistakenly believe to be some ultimate and transcendent truth, virtually zero athletic prowess, a tendency to interpret fiction as facts... and probably not much in the way of pre-marital sex.
And if you think about other groups to which these features apply, you'd realize that religious fundamentalists are the ultimate nerds...
But that's not all true... Catholic priests have plenty of sex :)
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Philosophy
Religious Fundamentalists Are the Ultimate Nerds
And if you think about other groups to which these features apply, you'd realize that religious fundamentalists are the ultimate nerds...
But that's not all true... Catholic priests have plenty of sex :)
- Roots Of Nerd Rock
There are a set of bands that are comprised of and have music aimed at nerds. Go to see Moxy Fruvous, They Might Be Giants, or Weezer and you'll be comfortably in the company of nerds galore. How far back does this movement go? Who are the founding...
- Religious Pluralism And Consistency
Enigmaman, over at Enigmania, has a very nice post up about the pragmatic need for inconsistency and motivates it with the question of religious pluralism. We could take pluralism in the strong sense that Feyerabend, for example, does and think of it...
- Larceny Week: The Ethics Of Talking Shop
To end up larceny week, I'm going to steal a post from Richard over at Philosophy, et cetera -- a blog that is one of my daily reads. Some commenters here complain about how "Social misfits are really rife in philosophy." It can certainly be discomforting...
- The Allegory Of The Bourne Identity
Continuing the discussion about education, Socrates begins telling the story of prisoners kept under a very specific set of conditions. These prisoners are kept shackled so that they may only face the wall of a dark cave that they are in, and all they...
- Einstein And The General Motors Advertisement
"GM wins Einstein ad lawsuit..." by Jerry Hirsch October 18th, 2012 The Los Angeles Times General Motors is winning the nerd wars. Earlier this week, it prevailed against Hebrew University of Jerusalem in a lawsuit over the use of the image of Albert...