philosophy Q All philosophy is to try to explain pain. All creativity is to relieve it. 011010 ... silentbob i got my philosophy keeps my feet on the ground 011010 ... ben ...you were laughing at my helmet hat. laughing at my torch. go ahead, you can laugh all you want. I got my philosophy, keeps my feet on the ground. and I trust it like the ground. that's why my philosphy keeps me walking when I'm falling down. I see that there is evil and I know that there is good, and the in betweens I never understood. would you look at me I'm crazy, but I get the job done. yeah I'm crazy but I get the job done. 011010 ... tsunamisunrise the closing paragraphs of my philosophy final. _____________________________ "i entered this class hoping to come to terms with the world at large, but instead, all i learned whas how one person believes that knowledge can only be derived from the senes, while another believes through reason alone, these ideas don't strike me as very philosophical, but trite, and insignificant, i did however learn one thing, that i know enough about the world, right now, to know that what ever fun that i can have, what ever enjoyment i can derive, is the most logical thing in existance. philosophy isn't about knowlege, or wit. it isn't about understanding the world, it's about living, i've discovered this without my senses, and without reason, a solution of human insight." 021205 ... your mom please don't tell me they let you pass that class, you stupid piece of shit 021205 ... nocturnal in not so harsh terms, I must agree. please take more philosophy classes, because you obviously either had a bad professor or didn't really give 100% to the class, because you got it all wrong. there is so much more to philosophy than just knowledge or understanding the world, but you can't expect to get even a minimally decent grasp on any of it from just one class...and the professor makes all the difference. I think a lot of people give up on philosophical studies prematurely because they had a negative or simply unsatisfactory encounter with it. if you abandon it now, you'll never know how much you're missing or all that you could gain from it. 021205 ... jane i learn bullshit six classes a day i will forget it before i graduate that semester of philosophy class i will take with me forever 021206 ... Cicero our philosophies are polar; mine being the colder end I think, though she thinks herself the bottown hemisphere of our globe, when truly she sits atop, acropolis for aphrodite (perhaps i'm confusing my ancients). her world is mythological anyway, who cares if she calls Him Mars or something less Roman? 021207 ... IKC 56-80 i am sure that there is more under the sky than i have yet dreamed of in mine feeling shakespearean 021207 ... tsunamisunrise I know that it was a professor-error. When someone blows off more than three quaters of your questions, it's a bit hard to place the blame anywhere else. My final was a personal note to my professor, on what I had learned in his class, not a case against philosophy in general. I was expecting a lot more than i got. 021209 ... belly fire adam you think it's all about questions well your games are boring don't try to be such a mystic you don't have the hands for slight besides, the stars gave away your secrets 021209 ... anonymous Wow! your mom, you could quite possibly be the most philosophical, idealistic, and poetic person in existance!! 021210 ... yenaldlosi Hmm. I'm just wondering how anyone can manage to be "wrong" in a philosophy class. In the end, isn't it all really just a game of ideas 021210 ... misstree nocturnal, i'm interested, as someone who has never formally studdied philosophy... what else *is* there, besides knowledge and understanding the world? 021210 ... Black Argonaut i think, therefore i am. i am, therefore i must believe in myself. what i do not believe cannot exist. that goes against a lot of fundamental beliefs...... i blather, therefore i am 030226 ... Fido I walk alone Whistling into the dark 030418 ... Jarec building one keep things simple forgive, never forget love keep perspective do what's right regret is ok, it shows you remember people change, but stay much the same remember what you love never give up enough is never enough in matters of the heart nobody is perfect, yet we all try to be? (still working on this...) happiness is relative love is happiness honesty hurts, but everyone wants it... (more as it occurs to me) 030915 ... straw man if only the rules were built upon philosophy. but they aren't. yeah- a study of philosophy generally doesn't give you any kind of satisfactory answers. you see answers that other people have come up with throughout history. and there is always a criticism to be made. always an unstated premise that can be deconstructed out of the text. so you probably won't find an answer. however, it isn't about the "answer." it is about method. and here is the value of it: you learn the methods of the philosophers and can see what methods work. you learn the limitations of Reason. reason that has been enthroned since the enlightenment turns out to be impotent when it comes to the search for truth. well, impotent by itself. once it is dethroned, you can use it as a tool- realizing that by itself it leaves you with solipsism (if you're lucky). realize this, and you can escape the systematic doubt and live your life. and you can love. and you can have faith in God. and you can understand the difference between a philospher of knowledge and a philosopher of wisdom. "It is quite true what philosophy says: that life must be understood backwards. But then one forgets the other principle: that it must be lived forwards." -- Kierkegaard, Journals. well, this has been what i have found anyway. 031216 ... nocturnal I can't believe I only have one more semester. I'm afraid (and quite sure) I'll come to forget it all and get absorbed in the "real world" devoid of all things I currently find to be worth while in my world. 031216 ... Riddle Me Not Philosophy has infinite meanings, and can be described by none. It holds a torch to the sky, where there can be seen, none. It is dry when looked upon, and mask wearers cry. The past is what enlightens, the answer is within the eye. 031223 ... remembered reality is such a disappointment after years of contemplating it. 041120 ... flux i admit that i engage in an awful lot of philosophy for thinking it's nearly all useless crap. 140821 ... raze "what does it mean to be a featherless, two-legged, linguistically conscious creature born between urine and feces, whose body will soon be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms? that's what philosophy's all about." — cornel_west 230903 ... epitome of incomprehensibility It was so hot on Wednesday, I sought relief by the most desperate means possible - sitting through six philosophy talks in an air-conditioned conference room. OK, I joke, but it was embarrassing that the one I had to yawn in was my partner's talk. That was because I was tired, not because it was boring - it was about Collingwood's aesthetic philosophy not being quite like the idealists', and it was well presented - but the two I was most drawn to were about the unexpected appeal of Spartan poetry (unexpected, at least, to the generally anti-war professor) and why Shakespeare's The Tempest has Miranda acting so optimistic all of a sudden (the theory is that the authorial voice supersedes hers there). 240623 what's it to you? who go blather from