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May. 25th, 2003 02:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
electriclandJust in the interest of balance, I should mention that good things have happened since I got back, too:
- I found the copy of Plan B that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
crankygrrl bought me at the bottom of my knapsack. I'd completely forgotten it was there. Read it. Loved it. Hee. Have to wait until August for the next one. Aaaargh.
- There was a card from my cousin Jen waiting in my mailbox, which said "I thought you'd like to have some real mail waiting for you when you got back..." She was right. It made me smile. Still does.
- I've been pigging out on shortbread.
- I've been sleeping a LOT. Last night I dozed and listened to the rain. Lovely.
(Aside: the CBC is discussing barefaced lies. Apparently Kant felt that if a murderer comes to the door and asks whether his intended victim is in the house, you should tell him the truth, because it would be morally wrong to tell a barefaced lie, AND if the murderer then acts on this belief but kills your friend anyway because your friend has escaped from the house in the meantime, part of the blame is now yours. This to me is the sort of maddening black-and-white case that gets me so steamed up with philosophers. Even given that it might be wrong to tell said lie, who says you have to answer at all? Who says you can't ask why they want to know? Grr.)
- I found the copy of Plan B that
crankygrrl bought me at the bottom of my knapsack. I'd completely forgotten it was there. Read it. Loved it. Hee. Have to wait until August for the next one. Aaaargh.- There was a card from my cousin Jen waiting in my mailbox, which said "I thought you'd like to have some real mail waiting for you when you got back..." She was right. It made me smile. Still does.
- I've been pigging out on shortbread.
- I've been sleeping a LOT. Last night I dozed and listened to the rain. Lovely.
(Aside: the CBC is discussing barefaced lies. Apparently Kant felt that if a murderer comes to the door and asks whether his intended victim is in the house, you should tell him the truth, because it would be morally wrong to tell a barefaced lie, AND if the murderer then acts on this belief but kills your friend anyway because your friend has escaped from the house in the meantime, part of the blame is now yours. This to me is the sort of maddening black-and-white case that gets me so steamed up with philosophers. Even given that it might be wrong to tell said lie, who says you have to answer at all? Who says you can't ask why they want to know? Grr.)
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Date: 2003-05-25 05:40 pm (UTC)Philosophy is all about making one very simply question into many many more questions all of which make your brain hurt all the way down to your toes. Well that and dirty old men getting laid because they are on book signing tours with their new "ground-breaking" book of philosophy.
After a while I'm tend towards the "and then I hit them with a brick" answer category when reading such little scenarios. Which is kind of a sad commentary upon our culture that intellectualism is incapable of swaying anyone due to its very frame of reference... now science on the other hand... oh yeah, that's always right. Why does that one fish in the lead have a band-aid on his head? .... and if you don't know this story already somebody should really tell it to you :P
quantify "old" please
Date: 2003-05-26 10:41 am (UTC)May I add you as a friend?
Date: 2003-05-26 10:43 am (UTC)Re: May I add you as a friend?
Date: 2003-05-26 01:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-05-26 03:34 pm (UTC)Re: quantify "old" please
Date: 2003-05-26 08:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-05-28 08:52 am (UTC)Hobbes was fond of his dram
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart
'I drink therefore I am!'"