"While all other religions endeavor to explain to the people by symbols and parables the metaphysical significance of life, the religion of the Jews is entirely immanent and furnishes nothing but a mere war-cry in the struggle with other nations."
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Our dear friend, Colin Sharpe, passed away in a tragic accident. He was a brilliant, kind, and courageous man who left an immense impact on our lives and many others.
We at BUCR extend our heartfelt condolences to Colin's family, friends, and all who knew him. Colin will be deeply missed by our organization and the wider communities of which he was part.
May he Rest in Peace.
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Last semester, I served as president of the Boston University College Republicans but decided to step down for this academic year. These days, I mostly just post about the books I read and have little interest in discussing politics on here.
But on Friday, this year’s president, Colin Sharpe, tragically died in a car accident. And now people are celebrating his death on BU’s anonymous student forum.
Yes, the post has only eight upvotes. But that is still eight people celebrating the death of a fellow student because of his political affiliation.
I’m sure the overwhelming majority of BU students find this just as disgusting as I do. But it is deeply disturbing that some people on this campus don’t merely disagree with conservatives.
They seem to genuinely want us dead.
Actors like BAP and REN, even Fugitive Caesar, have the good sense to oppose Vivek Ramaswamy’s gubernatorial bid while maintaining otherwise broad support for Republicans in the midterms.
Serf, Captive Dreamer, Doyle, and co. aren’t perceptive enough to realize how bad it’ll age, as bad as it looks right now to most Republicans under 25, to have backed candidates like Ramaswamy out of blanket loyalty to Trump and Republicans.
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Awful news. We DM'd a few times—he was quite thoughtful, though we were very different ideologically.
Rest in power @ColinJSharpe
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I’ve seen prominent Jewish figures like Ben Shapiro condemn comparisons of Gaza to the Holocaust, on the grounds that the Holocaust was far worse; now, with Hoppe, I’ve seen the same position taken for the contrary reason.
Always funny to me that people have this idea of phenomenology as woozy French poetry when for its founder it was intended to be even more strictly empirical, rigorous, and ‘objective’ than the physical sciences.
I don’t think the project succeeded in providing a pre-theoretical account of the world any more than the physical sciences have succeeded, but we nonetheless treat the latter as having broken into an ‘objective world’ undistorted by subjective prejudice because it is useful to us.
The point of phenomenology in general is to illustrate that the ‘scientific’ approach is merely one theoretical approach to the world; science (with respect to the physical sciences) cannot acknowledge this fact about itself without wandering into the territory of philosophy and ceasing to be scientific.
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The anger and tone of voice that we find in Reformation battles were alien to the Middle Ages. As we have to admit, Reformation contests were like peasant brawls compared to the elegant fencing of the scholastics. As I said yesterday, one could then make very radical assertions unhindered without going over the line or really getting out of step.
Karl Barth
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Max Scheler notes, in religious life, that “believing is seeing.” This runs contrary to the empiricist’s maxim that “seeing is believing” and that all perception is the perception of sensible and material objects.
In fact, faith is its own kind of perception with its own domain of knowledge, a domain qualitatively distinct from the others (i.e. the rational, practical, and scientific) but no less real.
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Max Scheler describes a type of man he calls an “arriviste” - we would say striver - that I think is relevant here. He is kindred to the man of ressentiment in that he (unlike the noble sort of person) never experiences his own value or that of another without it being mediated by comparing them and only perceives the qualities in them that constitute possible differences, “more” or “less”, “higher” or “lower” than his own. He arrives at all value judgments by comparing himself to others and vice versa, and feels any respect in which he could be lesser as a threat to his self-value. The arriviste/striver is one who has this problem but is also energetic and relatively capable, and so he pursues power, property, honor, etc, but not because he enjoys or values these things intrinsically, but only because they are indifferent occasions for him to try and one-up others in an attempt to soothe his oppressive feeling of inferiority conditioned by the neurotic rat race comparison game he's running in his head.
In a truly homogenous country, this dialogue aiming to identify and wax loquacious about that which “we share in common” is never even had. It’s like debating the existence of gravity.
Here, Weinstein is effectively saying guns don’t kill people, people kill people.
Unfortunately, guns, as a fairly effective method of killing people, allow people who want to kill people to kill more people quickly. If there was an effective way to rid the country of all guns by banning them, it would be a good idea, but there isn’t (criminals will still have them), so it isn’t a good idea.
We can scrap the H-1B visa program, however, and we can ban migrants from India from the country. We can disarm employers who seek to injure the American worker by importing foreign labor on the cheap.
Vivek says America’s founding fathers sacrificed their honor before their lives. Little slips like this tell you a lot about a person. He’s always comparing himself to America’s founding fathers because that is how he would behave in their shoes (if he actually wore any).
America’s founding fathers risked their lives for their honor, not their honor for their lives. Their way of life is totally foreign to someone like Ramaswamy, who will do and say literally anything to get ahead.
