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Sam Harris | #338 - The Sin of Moral Equivalence
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Listen to Sam Harris skillfully eviscerate the “both sides” argument in the Israel-Hamas war:
“The boundary between antisemitism and generic moral stupidity is a little hard to discern, and I’m not sure it’s always important to find it. I’m not sure it matters why a person can’t… Show more
The whole of Advaita reduces to a series of very simple and testable assertions: Consciousness is the prior condition of every experience; the self or ego is an illusory appearance within it; look closely for what you are calling “I,” and the feeling of being a separate self will disappear; what remains, as a matter of experience, is a field of con
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