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steve_hamster

Reflections

Jul 11, 2005 18:19

So I was thinking about my blog. It seems like I spend a lot of time posting about music and movies. I like music and movies, but is that all I think about? Of course not, but I seem to have painted my blog into that corner. In an effort to resist that, and since this is what I was thinking about this afternoon while I mowed, here is a post ( Read more... )

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neilvanders July 12 2005, 02:45:07 UTC

I just spent 2 hours listening to a brief lecture on 2000 years of philosophy. Needless to say, your timing sucks. I can't even think about reading this now.

spearofsolomon July 12 2005, 03:38:22 UTC

I think there's possibly a couple misconceptions involved in Nietzche's criticism, as you lay it out ( ... )

sartre is smartre liznitch July 12 2005, 04:52:12 UTC

I'll weigh in once more to quibble over semantics, as I am wont to do ( ... )

Re: sartre is smartre spearofsolomon July 13 2005, 04:31:32 UTC

"The benefit and bane of organized religion (and chaotic religion, for that matter) is this: the interpretation of meaning ( ... )

shop smartre. shop s-martre. liznitch July 13 2005, 05:19:26 UTC

"I recognize and identify with your criticisms and observations. However, I don't think they prohibit this discussion from having meaning and context."

Nor do I. I just think we all tend to allow ourselves to fall prey to flowery language sometimes, which by virtue of being seductively scholarly in nature actually betrays our eloquence in communicating. In other words, we three do talk like this sometimes, but I think in our writing even in blogs we tend to overcompensate with $10 words.

Heh... so did the gospels, though, in some ways. To go back to Greg's original line though, what struck me personally about the internal argument I feel he is alluding to is the "do I believe because I believe or because I haven't questioned enough to change my mind?" Forgive me if I'm off, there, Greg ( ... )

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neilvanders July 15 2005, 19:54:35 UTC

What were the three reasons why competing interpretations were bad that we used on last years T blocks?

1. Wrong Forum steve_hamster July 16 2005, 02:43:30 UTC

You know, you could just ask me via email, unless there's some reason not to. That's where my reply will go, though. Also, it's a bit of a non-sequitor here in this discussion.