philosophers pete there's a thing about philosophers and philosophy that makes me want to stay in bed all day. i just don't care if there is a human nature enough to debate with them or engage in their works. i end up with the "yes, but..." or "no, because..." objections clouding every attempt to see clearly what is before me. i reject extreme rationalism out of hand because it is as childish as extreme emotivism. both are genuine human experiences and they are not dichotomous. philosophers also twist history to suit their needs, complain when historical critiques of their work miss the bigger universal picture, a picture that relies on their historical knowledge being sound, or the supremacy of reason, or the bible. these men and women fail to explain anything by discounting all that fits and then claiming that they are beyond critique. i am well within the bounds of critique-able-ness, i know that certainly, but i also know that they are all wrong, wasting their time, and dragging us into a pit of negative nihilism (i am a firm believer that nihilism can be the most beautiful thing in the world. it grants humanity the greatest powers, pitfalls, and creative voice). i was supremely disappointed when a course that included "politics" and "history" in its title ended up being a philosophy credit. and also sad when i realised i needed this course to graduate. "boo-fucking-hoo" you may say, and yes its true, i should cry you a river (the sky's been doing a pretty good job of that for the past few weeks), but for fucks sake deal with reality, lived experience, a supreme Rational Being that is Beyond All Possible Empirical Knowing is not real but the very definition of the word "real". Cut the shit, don't toy with the words, and give us some substance to chew on, not this sporadic bullshit that streams out when the valve hits a certain level. that said i need to do some plato-ing, mostly because if i dont i fail, and if i fail i dont graduate, and if i dont graduate, well why work my ass off to pay for tuition if i'm not going to succeed? (and then just barely make tuition.) i must go check the forces assembled to battle the student loan people, see if i'll win (i'm on a losing streak). maybe i'll pick up a second job. or maybe i'll go tell the philosophers to tell me something real and the listen to the bullshit stream in. maybe i just want to see the sun. maybe i just don't want to go to class. maybe the conjunction of no sun, unpaid tuition, a looming strike, a general dislike of abstract philosophy, and a year that seems pieced together as an after-thought are joining together to make me sad. just maybe. frack you philosophers. pete out. 061113 ... Christ without the cross You have an interesting and beautiful spirit. You do not like abstracts. You think philosophers are idiots. You think they have a tendency to only take from history and life what fits their ideology. You seem to have passion and an individual voice. I do not share your shame thoughts, or i guess in some ways i do, but i get what you are saying. I just erased a whole paragraph of me telling you that i would fight back the urge to tell you my thoughts because of some retarded reason i was trying to reason in my head but i will refrain from such leaps of thoughts because it requires to much effort to actually be natural. I believe that God exists. But i suffer no delusions about why i choose to believe this. To some extent i see it all around me. For some extent i see it in myself. But i adapt this reasoning because it is comforting and i believe that with faith all things are possible. So if there isn't one as so many have reasoned, i have created one for myself and i call him Everything. He is Everything that is in existance and will be brought into existance and he is the spirit of every being. This may be abstract and i may be saying this because i think it will be your fist thought on what i have just said but does it really matter. To get caught up in all of these abstracts and frames of thinking (you have one too) and live lives of unwanted circumstances and experience, to feel like so much is out of your control. I hope you are following. If i choose to believe something it is towards the actualization of my ideal self and not to turned or formed into a universal truth. If everything in this world is meaningless i will create meaning for it, for myself and i alone. Yeah philosophers breath out bullshit. And theologian call ancient texts fact. This may or may not be what is really going on but it is a small part. My best advice is to try to be as objective as possible and in this pulsating mass of garbage you may find something of real value. God is love. 061113 ... Christ without the cross I have an awful habit of rereading what i have wrote after i have sent it. I hope you understand everything 061113 ... pete i grasped it and my first thought was "neoplatonist, at least the twisted form of neoplatonism breft of meaning and infused with intuition, emotion, and vitality that i think exists, and leaves us be, independent, free to create our own meaning in a positive nihilism." i may respond more later. i may not. but that'll have to wait til i'm not in this quasipublic space 061113 ... Christ without the cross i was going to ask you what this was but i decided to look it up instead to get a better understanding. It sounds kind of like me, even though i have never read about it before or even knew that a term such as neoplatonism existed. 061113 ... () ( philosophy is it's own reward. ) 061113 ... pete philosophy is its own reward but it should not take precedence over "politics" "history" or "modernity" in a class that goes by those three words. philosophy is also its own jail cell. 061113 ... Wasandru I reacted to this but I accidentally put my response under the "philosophy" blathe. Please don't read it, though. It's a secret. 061114 ... pete i read it and i loved it. we find truth in love, and call that truth what we may. my rant against philosophy lasted until just after one yesterday afternoon when it was transformed into a lust for a deeper understanding of the world that is only knowable through other "disciplines": sociology, history, anthropology, psychology (esp. social psych), theology, and, most important, life lived itself. put down the books, friends, and pick up your life. 061114 ... Cheering Crowds "Yes yes! Put down your books and pick up your life! Long live The Pete!" 061114 ... pete *senses sarcasm* 061114 ... flowerbed on a cloud I love them. I would like to study all of them, but that would mean a lot of reading. Too lazy to read everything. Oh, but how I love their view on life! 061114 ... Floptolemy Actually, I really meant that, Pete. I liked "put down the books and pick up your life" a lot. I was not being sarcastic at all. I guess I can see how it might sound sarcastic, but that's not how I meant it. 061114 ... pete cool. i've been a bit cynical as of late, and got a huge boost of it last night. its permeating everything and will probably continue to do so for a little while *steps into "heartbroken blatherskite" category* 061115 ... Wasandru Many of them seem to have been philognosers rather than philoSOPHErs. Or are we casting aside any need for distinction? Aren't philosophers usually those most insistent upon such distinctions? Why has no one mentioned this? They, of all people, are content with erroneous nomenclatural designations? 061115 what's it to you? who go blather from