So, I have decided to take this show on the road, and have begun a livejournal.
The primary virtues of this alternate format being that a) I can putz on it at work without getting in trouble, and b) I have a website that I mostly use as a photo album for friends and family and general file junk drawer, but I've been meaning to spruce it up, and this will be something I can link to there without forcing the aforementioned friends and family to get an SG membership.
Not that I don't want to support SG, I'm just not sure I'm ready to run into my Mom hanging out in the poly group.
Anyway, I'll still be unable to resist the temptation to involve myself in ill-conceived arguments in the groups here, and I'll still be reading other friends' journals (and occasionally ogling). But I probably won't be updating this journal proper all that much anymore.
Also, I have no idea how to make friends on LJ (my first foray into the secular humanism group has been... tense). So if any of you reading this are on there - befriend me! I'm the life of the party and I don't eat much.
OK, both of those are false. But I'll make you look good by comparison.
The primary virtues of this alternate format being that a) I can putz on it at work without getting in trouble, and b) I have a website that I mostly use as a photo album for friends and family and general file junk drawer, but I've been meaning to spruce it up, and this will be something I can link to there without forcing the aforementioned friends and family to get an SG membership.
Not that I don't want to support SG, I'm just not sure I'm ready to run into my Mom hanging out in the poly group.
Anyway, I'll still be unable to resist the temptation to involve myself in ill-conceived arguments in the groups here, and I'll still be reading other friends' journals (and occasionally ogling). But I probably won't be updating this journal proper all that much anymore.
Also, I have no idea how to make friends on LJ (my first foray into the secular humanism group has been... tense). So if any of you reading this are on there - befriend me! I'm the life of the party and I don't eat much.
OK, both of those are false. But I'll make you look good by comparison.
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I still don't really understand what you mean by saying the world isn't "out there" while I'm "in here"... I think that's the way things are (at least when I'm in a "Western" mindset)... but I can see that your argument against extreme skepticism holds perfectly well even if I am "in here", so it is perhaps a non-issue.
My rationalist self (what's left of it) still longs for certainty, though. When I disagree with somebody... when somebody says, "This is obviously the right choice" while I'm thinking, "What pathological asshole could possibly think that??"... I want a Reason to give him: to ground our disagreement in something solid, then work forward to an Answer. But I guess it's fruitless.
Maybe it's just that I'm tired of discussion. I've been debating this issue, that issue, and the other issue for 25 years, give or take a few. I want to Resolve them, once and for all... but I can't. Not even for myself, never mind others. Alas.
Anyway, enough angst. Should you ever happen to be in my neck of the world, I'd be honoured to buy you a pitcher or two of your beer of choice.
Cheers... Zork
hope your grading goes well. when i was working on master's degree, before starting my ph.d work, i was a TA. god how i hated grading. the worst, for me, was the essay question at the end of a multiple choice test. i think i was being punished for all the terribly illegible tests i'd handed in all these academic years.
hope the grading goes well!