Current mood: good
Current music: Toshiro Masuda - Need to be Strong (3:06)
Party last night was uber-sweet. We filled five rooms and the huge adjoining bathroom with people and dancing and such and the decorations were awesome (7 deadly sins theme) and nearly everyone dressed up. If I get the pictures up on the web anywhere I'll make sure to post a link. And pretty much everyone I hoped would be there showed up. Even Jared and Zach stopped by for a little while, and later on Jesse and Katherine. I'm not sure any of the details would be interesting, but you get the jist of its awesomeness.
So my first Phil paper of the semester is coming up. I'm taking a break back in 154 with a fairly large group of people who aren't familiar with Phil so it shouldn't be all that straining. Still, like any Philosophy class, it tends to be the experience of the person debating that makes it deep philosophy, not the topic itself. So while Life and Death is a 100 course, I'm hoping to make an argument worthy of a higher class.
There are a couple questions, but I think I'm going to do the one about abortion, which is interesting because all through highschool I refused to get on either side of that and largely didn't think about it. Now that I have to make a stand here's, my basic idea: Abotion is only wrong if it violates a human's right to live. I am assigning human rights to a person at the stage at which they become cognitive. I'm defining cognitive as the point at which they can: a) Percieve the world in some way. b) Reason onclusions about the world they percieve. c) Use this prosses to gain experience and level u-I mean grow as a person. Therefore abortion is not morally incorrect because a fetus does not exibit these qualities. Comments? Questions? Think I'm a monster?
Speaking of Philosophy, people should leave me comments asking about philosophical/religious/whatever issues for me to post on. Anyway, I'm going to finish cleaning my room, which as it happened was the bar.
Oh wait! First I want to mention that my phone tag with Shakti finally ended and Laura and I talked to her for a bit during the party and that was cool. Hopefully she'll be calling from somewhere nearby soon and I can go find her and show her my almost-clean room.
Current music: Toshiro Masuda - Need to be Strong (3:06)
Party last night was uber-sweet. We filled five rooms and the huge adjoining bathroom with people and dancing and such and the decorations were awesome (7 deadly sins theme) and nearly everyone dressed up. If I get the pictures up on the web anywhere I'll make sure to post a link. And pretty much everyone I hoped would be there showed up. Even Jared and Zach stopped by for a little while, and later on Jesse and Katherine. I'm not sure any of the details would be interesting, but you get the jist of its awesomeness.
So my first Phil paper of the semester is coming up. I'm taking a break back in 154 with a fairly large group of people who aren't familiar with Phil so it shouldn't be all that straining. Still, like any Philosophy class, it tends to be the experience of the person debating that makes it deep philosophy, not the topic itself. So while Life and Death is a 100 course, I'm hoping to make an argument worthy of a higher class.
There are a couple questions, but I think I'm going to do the one about abortion, which is interesting because all through highschool I refused to get on either side of that and largely didn't think about it. Now that I have to make a stand here's, my basic idea: Abotion is only wrong if it violates a human's right to live. I am assigning human rights to a person at the stage at which they become cognitive. I'm defining cognitive as the point at which they can: a) Percieve the world in some way. b) Reason onclusions about the world they percieve. c) Use this prosses to gain experience and level u-I mean grow as a person. Therefore abortion is not morally incorrect because a fetus does not exibit these qualities. Comments? Questions? Think I'm a monster?
Speaking of Philosophy, people should leave me comments asking about philosophical/religious/whatever issues for me to post on. Anyway, I'm going to finish cleaning my room, which as it happened was the bar.
Oh wait! First I want to mention that my phone tag with Shakti finally ended and Laura and I talked to her for a bit during the party and that was cool. Hopefully she'll be calling from somewhere nearby soon and I can go find her and show her my almost-clean room.
aubli:
hey, you! *smoooooooooooooooosh*