Wikipedia: "One must be careful to differentiate between 'stuff' monism and 'thing' monism."

Me:

Gee, thanks. That clears everything up.

So iTunes continues to astound me. Normally it's shuffle function is fairly intelligent, or at least I find it to be so, but it just went from this:

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to THIS:

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( What is Knowledge? )

I like Descartes. You might remember him from my last year's philosophy class, in which I doodled him eating Play-Doh to signify the influence he took from Plato's ideas.


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I've been looking at (read: obsessing over) probability problems all evening, and all I can say is that holy shit, no wonder I was confused on the difference between nCr and nPr.

Here is the problem I understand:  The Boy Or Girl Paradox
( My Thoughts )

So last night I was thinking, and I kind of realized that numbers have no meaning unless in relation to each other, and that they're also man-made concepts, and that they are measuring ratios, and it gave me that punch in the gut that I haven't gotten since I figured out that words are actually meaningless and that time is also a man-made concept ( Read more... )

I don't like when people are incompetent. I don't like stressing myself out. I don't like missing class. I don't like all the rules about how you go to school till you can make money and then you make money until you're about to die and then you die. I don't like all these expectations and I don't like being looked down upon. And I really, really ( Read more... )

(Bodyworlds, you might not know, is an exhibition of posed, preserved cadavers (minus the skin). They are meant to raise awareness about our bodies and health, as well as expemplify what goes on beneath the skin. The bodies have been posed doing many things, such as sports, and even riding animals that have also been preserved ( Read more... )

*has no idea how to write a philosophic dialogue ( Read more... )

Sometimes it's like I've sucked back so many pills and chemicals and hormones that they've pushed everything that was ever 'me' out of my head, which is dumb because I WAS getting better. I AM getting better. I thought I'd beaten this thing. But people are complicated and it's easier being a keychain person anyways, whoever they want you to be, but ( Read more... )