Philisophical Conversation
I just want to put this out there and I don't know where else I'd do it.
Tonight I went on to that old children's site, Neopets, for old time's sake. Ok, it's changed a lot and I think I killed my pets from neglect. *evil laughter* But anyway, I ended up in this chat room thing and I wasn't expecting much to be going on. It's a children's site after all. For the most part, my expectations were accurate: just a bunch of bored hateful kids looking to pick a fight.
But there was this one topic. It started out as something stupid like "I hate you all" or something, but it turned into a deep, philosophical conversation about human nature and the impact that words have on our actions and emotions. We took the word "hate" and tore it apart. One girl said that humans were inherently bad. I said that I disagreed; humans are inherently selfish. Selfishness does not always have to be a bad thing. On and on it went. Twenty pages.
In contrast: my Human Existence class. It consists entirely of the professor giving us all too much background information and one girl who thinks she knows everything asking unprovocative, bland questions. Well, that's a bit harsh. We did have that one good discussion that one time...
I had a more insightful debate on a CHILDREN'S SITE than I did in a Chico State college course on philosophy of human existence.
That is all.
Tonight I went on to that old children's site, Neopets, for old time's sake. Ok, it's changed a lot and I think I killed my pets from neglect. *evil laughter* But anyway, I ended up in this chat room thing and I wasn't expecting much to be going on. It's a children's site after all. For the most part, my expectations were accurate: just a bunch of bored hateful kids looking to pick a fight.
But there was this one topic. It started out as something stupid like "I hate you all" or something, but it turned into a deep, philosophical conversation about human nature and the impact that words have on our actions and emotions. We took the word "hate" and tore it apart. One girl said that humans were inherently bad. I said that I disagreed; humans are inherently selfish. Selfishness does not always have to be a bad thing. On and on it went. Twenty pages.
In contrast: my Human Existence class. It consists entirely of the professor giving us all too much background information and one girl who thinks she knows everything asking unprovocative, bland questions. Well, that's a bit harsh. We did have that one good discussion that one time...
I had a more insightful debate on a CHILDREN'S SITE than I did in a Chico State college course on philosophy of human existence.
That is all.