Just watched 'Miller's Crossing' for the third time this week. It's just a good movie, in my opinion.
I am becoming an advocate of the CLEP testing process. The local university seems to be about 500 times more supportive of the idea than the local community college, which perhaps doesn't surprise me. At least the university gets my $25 out of the arrangement.
Coliwali has this theory that I'm trying to work my way to a degree without actually having to go to any classes. Really, though, the self-study approach has thus far been about 70 times more satisfying and motivating for me, personally. I would be interested to know why that is.
On the religion front, i talked to an old friend of mine from my former church. He's a good guy, runs a plumbing business, really into communication theory. I told him my situation, and he basically said there wasn't much he could say to me. Since we no longer share a common context for philosophical discussion, he said the references he would use in his communication would be meaningless to me, and vice versa. Which, pretty much, is accurate. Nonetheless, I insisted, and i basically gathered that he's sympathetic to existentialist thought, but chooses christianity because he needs purpose.
I think i've painted myself into a corner. If i've rejected truth as a concept, I can't forsee reverting to ideological thought. Before, my religious leanings were centered around the task of interpreting phenomena; now, i've developed a metabelief regarding phenomena that forbids concrete interpretation.
I used to have a lot of trouble understanding the existentialist maxim that humanity's primary problem is her own existance. Existance seems like such a vague and meaningless term, compared to, for instance, happiness, or legitimation. But happiness isn't necessarily an end in itself; the supremacy of happiness, as an ideological fact, requires some pretty hefty assumptions.
More and more, i'm beginning to think i'm just a playing field for competing memes. Is it pretentious to say i'm not sure I want, anymore?
I am becoming an advocate of the CLEP testing process. The local university seems to be about 500 times more supportive of the idea than the local community college, which perhaps doesn't surprise me. At least the university gets my $25 out of the arrangement.
Coliwali has this theory that I'm trying to work my way to a degree without actually having to go to any classes. Really, though, the self-study approach has thus far been about 70 times more satisfying and motivating for me, personally. I would be interested to know why that is.
On the religion front, i talked to an old friend of mine from my former church. He's a good guy, runs a plumbing business, really into communication theory. I told him my situation, and he basically said there wasn't much he could say to me. Since we no longer share a common context for philosophical discussion, he said the references he would use in his communication would be meaningless to me, and vice versa. Which, pretty much, is accurate. Nonetheless, I insisted, and i basically gathered that he's sympathetic to existentialist thought, but chooses christianity because he needs purpose.
I think i've painted myself into a corner. If i've rejected truth as a concept, I can't forsee reverting to ideological thought. Before, my religious leanings were centered around the task of interpreting phenomena; now, i've developed a metabelief regarding phenomena that forbids concrete interpretation.
I used to have a lot of trouble understanding the existentialist maxim that humanity's primary problem is her own existance. Existance seems like such a vague and meaningless term, compared to, for instance, happiness, or legitimation. But happiness isn't necessarily an end in itself; the supremacy of happiness, as an ideological fact, requires some pretty hefty assumptions.
More and more, i'm beginning to think i'm just a playing field for competing memes. Is it pretentious to say i'm not sure I want, anymore?