Comments | spiderstars: aristotle should've had more scribes

spiderstars

aristotle should've had more scribes

May 07, 2009 08:42

I go to write about gay marriage and I end up talking about capitalism. How absolutely typical.

Our ethics text also has, possibly, the most painful translation of Aristotle in existence. Though, having said that, I'm sure there are worse. This? This is what I would do if I had a time machine -- I'd go back and get some proper manuscripts from ( Read more... )

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soujiokita May 7 2009, 13:11:10 UTC

If you lived on Lost Island, you could time travel. Yes, forget about polar bears... they're stuck in 1977 now...

spiderstars May 7 2009, 15:28:11 UTC

Do I even want to know what the hell is going on with Lost? I don't, do I?

I can't decide if your comment about the polar bears is serious or not. Please tell me it's not.

koemiko May 7 2009, 16:45:14 UTC

Do I even want to know what the hell is going on with Lost? I don't, do I?

I remember a bit about that on MadTv. Something about the show's title being descriptive of both the series and the viewer.

soujiokita May 7 2009, 17:20:00 UTC

Well, even if you did want to know, I don't think I could explain it.

Also, it was 53% serious. One of the biggest WTFs about the show was that there were polar bears on the island. Now half the main characters are stuck in 1977. Some of them think that, by detonating a hydrogen bomb that was buried beneath the island, they can make it so that their plane never crashes...

Basically, why do I even bother with this show?

aeirol May 7 2009, 13:48:18 UTC

If we invent the time machine, could we also use it to go forward in time to when they invent the teleporter and get one of those?

spiderstars May 7 2009, 15:28:39 UTC

Yes'm. Yes, we can.

lystellion May 7 2009, 14:55:41 UTC

Apparently his actual texts had wonderful style, much admired.
Why the hell it is that his lecture notes come down to us instead of any of them is really bizarre.

spiderstars May 7 2009, 15:30:56 UTC

I should put that in my paper "clearly, Aristotle was wrong. See, we only got his lecture notes, which are really kind of totally shit. It's basically nature's way of telling us to avoid him at all costs."

... see, and that sounded really clever in my head, but I'm pretty sure when you read it it'll sound pretty much cringe-worthy. Fourteen hours of sleep over the span of six days. That's my excuse.

ashlultum May 7 2009, 21:01:35 UTC

I go to write about gay marriage and I end up talking about capitalism.

Well... the way I'm seeing it in my head, that actually makes a decent amount of sense, because marriage (gay or straight) does relate directly to several aspects of the economy, but I'm guessing from your own phrasing here that the connection you made was more head-tilt-inducing than the ones I'm thinking of. Feel like sharing? I'd be interested.