Thread 16769977

Did you find meaning and belonging when you joined the academia?

>>16769977 (OP)
Checked and kekked.
No. Academia is like a bunch of starving Gazans fighting over the last crumb of funding.
It wasn't until I found the infinite money stream of military funding in industry that I felt I had found my true calling.

>>16769984
I am glad you found your calling anon.

>>16769984
>finally, I can maximize killing these stupid people in the world
describe your peers though, something tells me they might be rather special

>>16769989
>describe your peers though
It's like living in a /gif/ rekt thread. Things go boom, parts fly around, hilarity ensues, then we get beers.
And you start at six figures.
8 billion targets of opportunity; who's going to miss a few million.

>>16769977 (OP)
Why are wizards and scientists so similar

>>16769977 (OP)
Not really but at least I have summers off

>>16770068
Wizardly tropes stem from past learned-men aesthetics and stereotypes. Science is a descendant of past magical thought. Modern science is, in-essence, the magic of the future.

>>16770068
>Why are wizards and scientists so similar
Dimwits are unable to distinguish between physics and magic. It helps them feel special.

>>16769977 (OP)
Meaning? Yes, I love science and discovery. Belonging? No, I hate these sociopathic losers.

>>16770082
>Dimwits are unable to distinguish between physics and magic
What is magic to you? Something that isn’t nature? Only a dimwit thinks that.

>>16770094
>wizards are real
Anon, they are making fun of you. Magic isn't real.

>>16770112
>Magic isn't real.
The chemistry in the brain that leads up to “wow it’s like magic” is very real. If you think magic is a specific something rather than a way of looking at something, then you don’t know what magic, or religion, is.

>>16770116
>my childlike sense of wonder proves that i am a child
You win.

>>16770125
If things like mystery, wonder, horror, etc, make magic, and religion, then ignorance is the greatest magic of all. Simple as.

Also, if you don’t see nature or science as a magical field, then you don’t exactly appreciate science or nature, do you?

>>16770125
So when a biologist feels a sense of wonder when confronting the mystery of some previously undiscovered form of deep sea life, you shame them for it?

>>16770126
>If things like mystery, wonder, horror, etc, make magic, and religion, then ignorance is the greatest magic of all. Simple as.
"If FALSE then FALSE" is always a true statement, Anon. Tautologies aren't proofs. They are definitions. Simple as.
>>16770128
>blithering appeals to emotion
Not a scientist at all, are you. Practically a woman, really.

>>16770176
You’re a sad greyblob atheist devoid of wonder. You see a force of beauty and your amygdala freaks out or something.

>>16770254
>femanist rant about her cycle
Why are you here with us swine rather than out in your god's green ass?

>>16770077
This 100%

Habe nun ach, Philosphie Juristerei, Medizin und leider auch Theologie studiert.
Hier steh ich nun, ich armer Thor und bin so klug als wie zuvor.

>>16770278
You’re just sad.

>>16769977 (OP)
No.
>t. undergrad

>>16770082
>he thinks contemporary models explain in perfect, exhaustive detail

>>16770975
I am extremely well compensated.

>>16770985
Aww, someone's still believes!

>>16769977 (OP)
no

>>16770082
Gravity is borderline magic to this day.

To be sure, an alien UFO would be borderline magic to us, not the alien, unless that alien doubled as a prick (“Can anyone else explain a successor theory to general relativity? No? I’m the wizard here.”), and magicians are pricks (“I know something you don’t know, I can do something you can’t do, lalala”). All they have to say is “yep, it’s magic, to you” and normies will just nod.

Some higher dimensional alien could probably cosplay as God and convince even hardcore atheists. That’s all God is. A sufficiently godlike alien.

>>16770992
>he thinks magic comes from nowhere
Even magic has a cause, and conjuration isn’t truly conjuration.

>>16770992
>t. filtered by upper division undergrad BSM

>>16771000
>everything i don't understand is magic
>and magic is everywhere

>>16771004
>Even magic has a cause
But not a magical cause. Sorry.

>>16771010
Yes. Existence is both stage and magician. This I know. It outright causes shit like religion, or accusations of hocus pocus. The ancients looking to the bright stars in the night sky and considering them gods, is no different from pulling a white rabbit out of a black hat. It’s all stage magic logic. Science, magic, is a black box that is white within. Simple as.

>>16771014
Buddy, even math was seen as magic for thousands of years, all the way back to Pythagoras and his crazy numerical cults, and all the way back up to Isaac Newton and his obsession with sacred geometry.

There is nothing simpler or more root level than math. If math, numbers, could be seen as magic, then why not literally anything else?

Sounds like you fundamentally just don’t want to appreciate the wonder or mystery underlying everything. There’s always a further frontier, or curtain, or veil, to tear down.

>>16771019
>why do i even need to understand anything?
>magic is enough
>i am home

>>16771023
Understanding something is understanding the magic of something. You don’t necessarily lose your sense of wonder or appreciation for mystery once you understand a thing.

>>16771027
>magic is wonder in what i don't understand
>understanding is only seeing the magic
Now repeat ad infinitum ad nauseam

>>16771030
You truly struggle loving reality, don’t you?

>>16771030
Nah. He’s saying magic is descriptive while science is definitive. Both aren’t mutually exclusive, and a chemist is in their absolute right to see the surviving magic/mystery/wonder/etc within their field, like that one scene from Breaking Bad. Magic survives as something to describe, not to define. Really, go ahead and define magic at your own peril, to the detriment of anything else out there that can be seen or appreciated as something magical. Because again, even math was seen as magic for thousands of years. It was normal to see two mathematicians in a debate as indistinguishable from some sort of autistic, verbal, wizard battle.

>>16771033
And we've passed Go. Everyone collect $200!
Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.

>>16771027
>Understanding something is understanding the magic of something
>>16771037
>Nah. He’s saying magic is descriptive while science is definitive.
Now watch me whip
Now watch me nae-nae
Whip, whip
Now watch me nae-nae
But you will never make up your fucking mind.

>>16771038
>>16771039
lol

>>16771042
kys

>>16769977 (OP)
No. It demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt that most degree holders are fucking idiots.

>>16771042
>>16771700
lmao

>>16771042
Did you know that this whinejak is pictured in front of the opening lake in the shining? Do you even understand what that means?

>>16769977 (OP)
>Did you find meaning and belonging when you joined the academia?
From beginning my studies to getting my MSc, yes. From starting to work on a PhD (6th year now), it lost most of the meaning to me. The work feels useless and very boring. Sometimes I think I'd rather be carrying boxes around for work.

>>16772952
>Sometimes I think I'd rather be carrying boxes around for work.

>>16772952
Carrying boxes level of work is genuine hell long term for someone with even a moderate IQ. It's probably fun for a week. Within a month your brain will begin to liquefy.

>>16770017
>t. depraved retard

>>16770017
This is why America needs to end, you fucking cartoon evil scientist

>>16775579
There are always profits and prophets, you must simply pick the right group of losers to dump whatever onto.
No worries though, they need crypto-math and language guize too.

>>16769977 (OP)
No.

>>16771042
Saved.

>>16775579
Pax Americana ending would start an era of unfathomable bloodshed.