Sam Harris The moral landscape contest

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Sam Harris The moral landscape contest

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Sam Harris is offering 20,000 USD to anyone who can write a 1000 word essay changing his view on morality. 2000 for best essay, even if he isn't convinced. I think Rich D did a negative review of the book, didn't he?
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But examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good.
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Jac,

Here's your chance to get some cash to start your girls' college fund. :eugeek:
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Unfortunately I don't think an argument can sway someone who's mind is already made up. I think Jac would be wasting his time, but you never can say never, stranger things have happened. If he is anything like me, he would not part with money easily. :lol:
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just a publicity stunt, no one will write an essay or succeed and Harris could easily say there is nothing to refute his theory. Smart Tactic.
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neo-x wrote:just a publicity stunt, no one will write an essay or succeed and Harris could easily say there is nothing to refute his theory. Smart Tactic.
Then we can write him collective essay. ;)
But examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good.
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1over137 wrote:
neo-x wrote:just a publicity stunt, no one will write an essay or succeed and Harris could easily say there is nothing to refute his theory. Smart Tactic.
Then we can write him collective essay. ;)
We could. y:-?
It would be a blessing if they missed the cairns and got lost on the way back. Or if
the Thing on the ice got them tonight.

I could only turn and stare in horror at the chief surgeon.
Death by starvation is a terrible thing, Goodsir, continued Stanley.
And with that we went below to the flame-flickering Darkness of the lower deck
and to a cold almost the equal of the Dante-esque Ninth Circle Arctic Night
without.


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One word that makes his talk of morality incoherent: Determinism
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