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jacquelinew

the meaning of life (and why I love Stanford)

Nov 18, 2004 13:53

I cried after IHUM discussion today. I just felt like the conversation that I had just taken part in was the most beautiful thing, and that this is the purpose of a college eduction, or of education in general ( Read more... )

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The meaning of life (and why I love Swarthmore) shoyer November 19 2004, 01:40:09 UTC

My life is meaningful if and only if it is good for me ( ... )

jacquelinew November 19 2004, 03:07:07 UTC

I loved your fifth paragraph. I think that said essentially what I wanted to say, but very eloquently.

As for the math thing, I mean that the z-axis (output) would be an arbitrary representation of amount of "meaning", and at the origin this would be greatest, for we do, after all, have a large amount of meaning to ourselves (especially lincoln/stanford students, who take their lives very seriously).

There were some great things about Lincoln, I wouldn't diss it too much.

In my Intro to Humanities class "Visions of Mortality" we are reading Lucretius, Tolstoy, Nietzsche (who I love, though he shocks me), and various other philosophers.

shoyer November 19 2004, 04:13:11 UTC

I don't know if that was very eloquent, but I'm glad you enjoyed it ( ... )

jacquelinew November 19 2004, 05:50:01 UTC

Yeah, Nietzsche is really offensive, but once you realize that he offends pretty much everyone, you can get past that and listen to what he's saying.

Yeah, we read Ivan Ilych, and also exerpts from Tolstoy's confession.

you know what's awesome? ericl234 November 19 2004, 06:08:28 UTC

you guys are having a deep philosophical converastion about the meaning of life on livejournal.

that's actually really cool.

Re: you know what's awesome? shoyer November 19 2004, 08:19:38 UTC

I'm glad you're impressed.

Feel free to jump right in.

(I mean, that was the point of Jackie's post. If someone posts something actually interesting on livejournal, I'm certainly not going to simply let it lie fallow and void of meaningful commentary as is too often the case.)

Re: you know what's awesome? ericl234 November 19 2004, 11:22:59 UTC

i would jump in, but i'm kind of lazy at the moment. sorry to disappoint. maybe some other time when it's not almost 3:30 in the morning and i don't still have homework to do that i'm avoiding by reading livejournal.

Re: you know what's awesome? shoyer November 19 2004, 18:23:11 UTC

Hey, what do you think I was doing last night? :)