So I'm Taking a Philosophy Class...

[RCMerchant]

I've noticed I am more than likely the most undereducated person on this board. I'm surrounded by folks who went to collage-go to collage-lawyers,dam scientists. Sometimes I get an inferioty complex talking to you guys.
I wish I was smarter. I KNOW about movies...but otherwise I'm a hick.

RC, education does not make a person smart. Education provides information and techniques to get more information. What a person does with those techniques and information determine how smart he is. I'd rather discuss almost any subject with an uneducated smart person than with an educated person who just took a lot of information and never figured out what to do with it. In other words, I'd much rather sit and talk philosophy with you than with someone who could only sit and quote what this philosopher or that philosopher said. Philosophy used to be about pondering the unsolvable mysteries of life. Now it seems to be just regurgitating what someone else said about them (all information, no processing of that information).

Thanks. I really feel very insecure sometimes when you guys start getting deep into technical stuff. I feel like an idiot. It's like-"Dam-what am I doing here? Im in way over my head." But I learn stuff here. You teach me. This board is important to me.It teaches me. And I need that.

[dean]

Why? [said while gestures hand in the air]


My girlfriend gave me a silly comic book called 'Action Philosophers' once, not that I'm particularly into philosophy as a subject for learning, and it was quite good.  It essentially distills the life and theories of main philosophers in comic book form.

http://www.eviltwincomics.com/ap_jung.php   That link is an example of the Carl Jung story.



I wonder if it can be used as a reference when studying?  Me thinks not. 

[RCMerchant]

I dont believe inthe Ayn Rand bulls**t-nothing is cut an dry-evil and good is not a cake you can cut up. Life-and all it's emotional baggae-is grey. Their can be no evil without good. What is the sound of one hand clapping?
None-one hand needs the other-good-evil-yin-yang.You can't define one without the other. Called Balance.
I wish I could practice what I preach. 






















You can make anything out of anything..Manson based his beliefs on the Bible. So did David Koresh,Jim Jones and many self serving a***oles. The source of there beliefs is not the problem-twisting it to fit your f**ked up sense of "right and wrong" is. So what is 'right' and what is "wrong'?
Has nothing to do with some God given Commandments. It should be common sense.Unfourtantly-that seems to be the exception to the rule.
I don't need a wise man to tell me whats right-whats wrong. If I dont feel it-in my heart-you can talk s**t all day. I am of my own mind.
I may be wrong-but I'll have to figure that out on my own.