October 22, 2004

i’m listening to franz ferdinand…

Filed under: Entries — arglor @ 10:47 am

And it is groovy… i blew my ego to astronomical proportions today… i tutored philosophy… just a few minutes ago.. i tutored one of my friends in ancient philosophy…

Thrice divided line… Analogy of the Cave… Third Man Argument… World is in constant change… war breeds new things…the perfect number is 10… pythagoras… zeno of paradoxes… on and on…

it was great… then she told me she is dropping out of college… i wanted to slap her… her argument is that it is getting in the way of her studying… i think she is rebelling against the interpretations… which is good.. but you can’t get the information unless you put up with the proffessor’s interpretations.. they are human they approach information from one position or if it is a good professor from several diffferent positions… but still they get filtered through their own perceptions… there is no objective view of the world…. there is just a consensus of subjective views…

oh well we talked about this.. i hope she doesn’t drop out for that reason.. i’ve seen too many of my friends drop because of stupid reasons…
*taps foot and sings “this fire is out of control.. we are gonna burn this city burn this city….”
but then again who am i to judge reasons as smart and stupid… my criteria is that if the reason isn’t life-threatening then it is stupid…the university is a great institution for acquring information… if you drop that your effectively saying you can’t handle the load of information…

7 Responses to “i’m listening to franz ferdinand…”

  1. mayfly Says:

    not exactly that assumes you want the information

  2. arglor Says:

    i…. am….. wrong….. there could be a host of other reasons also…

  3. dramke Says:

    I thought I would never see you guys stating that people see things through different perspectives. Hurray!!!

  4. mayfly Says:

    [quote:6304af5276]i…. am….. wrong….. there could be a host of other reasons also… [/quote:6304af5276] awww, man… look at the pauses between those words… 😳 to david’s credit, he was upset when he wrote that post. he had had a very bad day. 🙁 on the phone a little while ago he told me that that girl he was tutoring wants to teach philosophy at the college level eventually, so it really is a bad idea for her to drop out of college… never mind how crazy or corrupt the rules, you can’t get into academia without playing the game… hope tomorrow goes better for you d.

  5. wduluoz Says:

    I just wanted to remind you that sometimes people need to take time away from the established hierarchy of knowledge and learn about themselves. plus the University is not the end all be all of knowledge

  6. arglor Says:

    like vultures on the corpse of a dead rabbit… I said i was wrong… everyone wants to kick a man after he makes a bad argument… i’m just angry because it seems like all my friends are dropping out of college… and that pisses me off… i appologize if i offended anyone with this post.. i’m not retracting it though… i felt it at the time and stand behind it with the reasoning i was angry…

  7. mayfly Says:

    it was a ferocious beast?