12-28-2007, 03:19 PM
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<------------------ the guy next to ron maclean.
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12-28-2007, 03:19 PM
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Deepak Chopra.
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12-28-2007, 03:55 PM
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I'll go with Hawking, as he has made some very profound cosmological discoveries and theorems.
Deepak Chopra? Are you serious? All I see from this guy is superstitious claims with no hard evidence to back anything up?
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12-28-2007, 04:02 PM
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Seriously... Jon Stewart, and the writers of the Daily Show. Before watching this show I was able to take most things at face value. Thanks to his satireistic ways, it's hard to take politicians seriously at all. And they back it up with proof, which is super important to me.
Sure, he hasn't discovered new worlds, or and science mumbo-jumbo. But he has taken a society that in more in tune with media more now than ever before, and become one of it's main sources of info. Maybe not the "greatest", but hard not to call him, and his writing crew intellectual.
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12-28-2007, 04:25 PM
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Hawking. This is an argument?
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12-28-2007, 04:27 PM
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Can I nominate the very opposite? Gary Bettman...
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12-28-2007, 04:51 PM
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I'd tend to vote that none exist any longer.
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12-28-2007, 05:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Cheese
Who would you consider as "the greatest" living intellectual? Use your own imagination as to the meaning and explain why he/she is your choice.
Stephen Hawkings?
Chomsky?
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I would venture a suggestion, however I want to use someone else's imagination.
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12-28-2007, 06:48 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GreatWhiteEbola
I would venture a suggestion, however I want to use someone else's imagination.
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If that's half as funny as I think it is, that's real funny.
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12-28-2007, 06:52 PM
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warren buffet
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12-28-2007, 06:53 PM
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Pope Benedict.
For his ability to provide such great thought provoking tirades, in the Off Topic Forum, that have absolutely nothing to do with what he said or has done.
Sheer briliance! 
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12-28-2007, 06:54 PM
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Jimmy Buffet
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12-28-2007, 07:12 PM
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Richard Dawkins. People nominating guys like Hawking are missing the point - an intellectual is more than just a really smart guy. You have to be a polymath, someone who is conversant in more than one field of knowledge, to be an intellectual - and one of those fields should be philosophy.
Dawkins is both a scientist and a philosopher, who has made major contributions in both fields. His idea of the "meme" alone has had a profound influence on many modern thinkers, both for and against. His books are passionate arguments for rationalism, and he demolishes many of the common assumptions that have driven Western culture since the Enlightenment.
Chomsky is another great intellectual, but I find his philosophy too partisan and based in outmoded ideas from the sixties. He is more a political commentator than anything else, which is fine, but a hundred years from now his ideas will be mostly irrelevant, which you cannot say about Dawkins (well, you can, but I think you'll be wrong).
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12-28-2007, 09:27 PM
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Stewie and Brian
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12-28-2007, 09:39 PM
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C.H. Dalton.
Edit: Oh. I'm supposed to explain too eh?
Well, he made racism funny again after decades of minorities (including women) ruining it for everyone. If you haven't read his most recent work, you should - especially if you live in an urban center populated with people who are not all, ethnographically speaking, exactly like you.
Last edited by flylock shox; 12-28-2007 at 09:51 PM.
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12-28-2007, 10:07 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JimmytheT
I'll go with Hawking, as he has made some very profound cosmological discoveries and theorems.
Deepak Chopra? Are you serious? All I see from this guy is superstitious claims with no hard evidence to back anything up?
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Its difficult for anyone to quantify spirituality and the connection between the mind and spirit. Yet however, in today's world where we are fed so much crap about such topics, Chopra actually manages to make sense of some of the larger spiritual questions.
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12-28-2007, 10:38 PM
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Hawking.
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12-28-2007, 10:51 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jammies
Richard Dawkins. People nominating guys like Hawking are missing the point - an intellectual is more than just a really smart guy. You have to be a polymath, someone who is conversant in more than one field of knowledge, to be an intellectual - and one of those fields should be philosophy.
Dawkins is both a scientist and a philosopher, who has made major contributions in both fields. His idea of the "meme" alone has had a profound influence on many modern thinkers, both for and against. His books are passionate arguments for rationalism, and he demolishes many of the common assumptions that have driven Western culture since the Enlightenment.
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Sounds very interesting, I will have to take a look.
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12-28-2007, 11:29 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Cheese
Stephen Hawkings?
Chomsky?
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I would vote for both. Hawkings continues to do amazing work in theoretical physics while Noam Chomsky is doing the same in philosophy, linguistics and political activism. Manufacturing Consent, though an old study in media dissent in the 80's continues to have a lot of truth in today's political climate.
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