Diamond's original specialism was salt absorption in the gall bladder---
Here the text in full pdf format
www.unl.edu/rhames/courses/war/diamond-vengeance.pdf
Let me say in a non-Papuan(?) Hawaiian Kahuna tradition way
I'm sorry Please forgive me Thank you I love you Happy Ho ' oponopono
loving yourself
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda <no_reply@...> wrote:
>
> Nice find about an often discussed topic my dear C. thank
>
> After listening to "Sam Harris - The Illusion of Free Will" and him
> mentioning the article "Vengeance is Ours" written by Dr.J.Diamond
> under Annals of Anthropology(April 21, 2008 issue of The New Yorker
)--
>
>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf9eGUWGtyo&feature=player_detailpage#t=1\
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> 096s
> http://tinyurl.com/6r2pj8n
>
>
> --I had a distinct inkling that there was something wrong with that.
The
> article Sam Harris quotes was intended to explore the question "What
can
> tribal societies tell us about our need to get even?
> After a long hunt locate the full text of the article available for
> viewing online
> Read more (Vengeance Is OursWhat can tribal societies tell us about
our
> need to get even?by Jared Diamond April 21,2008)
>
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/04/21/080421fa_fact_diamond#ixzz\
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> 1yJqPsdqK
> http://tinyurl.com/8ybrxr4
>
> Like Margaret Mead*(Cardy you ma be too young to remember) before him,
> Jared Diamond seems to be an academic which is seeking to represent
> history and human reality through a political lens disguised as
academia
> his publications may altered and are intended to alter the way we
think
> about past societies and their relationships with their environment,
> spawning debate and further research in multiple fields from
linguistics
> to ecology.It seems Diamond strung together to create a narrative
that
> was entirely untrue throw together a body of work by making up quotes
> and are falsely shaping information which is then used to impact
society
> in (IMO) a destructive way,--- earning him a $10 million lawsuit.
>
>
> More than ever people should be careful about taking the words of
wisdom
> coming from public intellectuals without question.
>
http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=152
> http://tinyurl.com/6vvc29j
>
>
>
> *Margaret Mead,largely used her "ethnographic studies" to justify her
> own lifestyle, also misrepresented the Samoans to indicate that free
sex
> and promiscuity were the natural condition of humans living in
paradise,
> and she has since been proven radically mistaken by people who
actually
> lived with the Samoans longer than six weeks (and learned their
> language)
> Look it up, investigate for yourselves.
>
> m
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@ wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@ wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > "In a psychological sense, accepting free will is a form of
> narcissism because we do not want to be the effect... we want to be
> the cause. sorry to destroy your childhood dream but we are
but
> feathers in the wind and personally I don't see anything ugly in
that."
> > >
> > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jint5kjoy6I
> > >
> >
> > "sam harris would win, why? because all kaku is doing is replacing
> determinism with chance. This does not in anyway mean that free will
> exists. the only way kaku's argument would is valid is if we could
> control where the electron is. this obviously doesn't follow. think of
> it this way, kaku says determinism cant say what you will eat ten
years
> from now because of quantum improbability. Instead he says the
> random chance involved does. How does this leave room for free will?"
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf9eGUWGtyo
> >
>
