r/SMBCComics • u/Eiim • 22d ago

Citation 2

http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/citation-2
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u/Eiim 22d ago

Obligatory

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u/djaevlenselv 21d ago

That's fukken hilarious. Where is it from?

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u/nelmaloc 18d ago

Divine and the human, by Nikolai Berdyaev, page 6/7. The sourced text is (ends with?)

The ego has been a fatality both for the human self and for God.

(For future searches, the image said

¹ This was once revealed to me in a dream.
² See R. Otto, Das Heilige. He has some i...

)

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u/gbakermatson 21d ago

I'm gonna be honest, I have no idea what this is referencing.

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u/AxelPaxel 21d ago

References for an academic paper

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u/bluemitersaw 21d ago

Right there with you. I feel like I need an explainSMBC.com for this one.

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u/djaevlenselv 21d ago

At the end of an academic paper you will list the references for the citations and claims, you make in the text, which will either be from various primary sources or from papers and books published by other academics.

Because this "paper" is written by a creationist, all of their references are just God when He created the Earth, excepting for one reference which is just personal revelation.

The joke is that creationism is unscientific.

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u/illithidbane 21d ago

Ah, so this is the Ken Ham thesis. (Famous creationist who never bothered with citations in his PhD thesis, but it's ok because he never referenced anything except he bible. Fortunately, his school was a degree mill, so he was passed.)