What Does It Mean to Die?

Re:What Does It Mean to Die? by DyslexicAtheist on Thursday February 01, 2018 @02:54PM (#16285261)

my favorite literature on the subject is Ernest Becker The Denial of Death. A great book. This article is (not that I ever had expectations from the newyorker.com but even for their low standards) total pish.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Denial_of_Death

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Re:What Does It Mean to Die? by djtriptych on Thursday February 01, 2018 @03:16PM (#16285454)

Any backup evidence or material to support your claim that the newyorker has low journalistic/editorial standards?

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Re:What Does It Mean to Die? by DyslexicAtheist on Thursday February 01, 2018 @03:38PM (#16285628)

how do you provide evidence driven by personal disgust about writing style? Especially when that style of writing is only journalism which is the lowest form of writing.

Vox, Slate, Salon, New Yorker pretty much all the same, ... except a major difference (that makes it even more annoying). With the former I generally expect utter trash and am not surprised when it is trash, but the latter is trash dressed up in fancy pseudo-intellectualism.

reading Taleb's Black Swan might help also understand some peoples distaste for it: https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/877259529196642306

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Re:What Does It Mean to Die? by sincerely on Thursday February 01, 2018 @03:56PM (#16285806)

I've read Black Swan but I genuinely have no idea how it's related to this discussion. Could you elaborate?

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Re:What Does It Mean to Die? by djtriptych on Thursday February 01, 2018 @04:02PM (#16285861)

Pretty sure he went through and downvoted all my recent comments. I'm guessing there's not much chance he's willing to suffer challenges to his viewpoint.

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