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The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad

The Virtues, Personality Correlates, & Measurement of Intellectual Humility (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_515)

The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad

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Science, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 25 February 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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0:00.0

Hi everybody this is Gad's had some of you may remember in the parasitic mind in chapter

0:08.5

one I talk about a conversation I had had with a family member that had been very galling to me in

0:19.5

reference to intellectual dishonesty in contra to my pursuit of truth.

0:27.0

The story goes that I was having a conversation with a family member and the person in question was saying, oh, you know, those

0:35.4

ancient Greeks, those Christians were very anti-Semitic, to which I had answered, well, the ancient Greeks were not Christians. As a matter of fact, the time period

0:47.6

is defined as BC before Christ, before common era, And so it is literally marked historically

0:55.9

as it being before or after Christ.

0:58.6

And this was before Christ.

1:00.4

When the person in question saw that there was incontrovertible proof that their position was incorrect,

1:08.0

they did the ultimate mind fuck, which is, while looking straight into my eyes and said yeah yeah that that's

1:16.6

exactly what I said I said that they weren't Christian and you said that they were

1:20.0

Christian so imagine the level of intellectual dishonesty and lack of

1:26.2

intellectual humility, which is the topic of the current sad truth clip, where

1:32.3

you're unable to be an honest interlocutor.

1:37.0

You're unable to say you know my position was A, your position was B and it's been

1:41.8

proven that you're correct and I'm sorry thank you

1:44.0

for teaching me something new.

1:46.1

This is exactly one of the reasons why I found the Malibu meditators's positions very galling because he's supposed to be a public intellectual

2:00.0

and therefore he should be operating within the landscape of ideas in a truthful manner.

2:06.7

And when he comes out and says, well, you know, had everything I had said about COVID not been wrong and had a few variables been changed

2:17.1

so that I would have been right, then I would have been right therefore I am right.

2:21.2

And to which I had released a clip saying if my grandmother had balls we would have called her my grandfather.

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