“Pardon me, is that your ivory tower over there?”

[metalcrowe]

Today, in the philosophy lecture I TA for, the professor told a story about one of his philosophy professors, which I found telling. And in more ways I think than was intended.

My professor's professor was teaching at Pitt, and every day he would drive by the Cathedral of Learning, the tallest university building in the western hemisphere. And

Comments

[tdapenguin]

but did they ever *find* why the light was on? was it on at all times? or was it reflected light? garrrrah! don't leave me hanging!

[robynjade13]

my conclusion is that this story is a great way to infuriate tunas and occupy their attention for at least short bits of time ;)

[metalcrowe]

No, once they decided that the way to find out would be to go check, they lost interest.

[i_knowkungfu]

And that's why they are philosophers and not scientists. ;)

[fiveseconddelay]

...thus Prometheus decided maybe mankind shouldn't be given Free Energy, and so the Eternal Light was forever extinguished.

That said, the untechnologists were more interested in how you extinguish an Eternal Light rather than create one in the first place.