Posted by Damos on May 16, 2005, at 18:08:48
In reply to Re: I'm afraid » Damos, posted by alexandra_k on May 16, 2005, at 1:59:36
> Heh heh. No. The rest of you do too... :-)
> But THIS IS ALL ABOUT ME MWAH!
> :-)Cheeky bugger :-)
> Yeah. It does. But it doesn't say one has to LIVE there all the time. But to be fair... I suppose most of us do. Generally it doesn't worry me too much. But I do think it alienates me from people a lot of the time...I think most of us develop a style based on a lot of things and tend to revert to type more often than not. I'm affectionately know as Mr Tact and Diplomacy around here, hmmm I wonder why?????
> I guess ever since I was little I demanded to know
> WHY???The first rule of organisational survival - never ask the boss why :-)
> Why did my life suck so much?
> Why was I so unhappy all the time?
> What the hell was wrong with my mother?
> What the hell was wrong with me?
> What did I even have to exist for in the first place?Hmmm, those questions have a ring of familiarity about them. But I was asking what was wrong with my whole extended family.
> I think philosophy is what tends to happen when you ask 'why?' a few too many times...
That's make sense.
> But then I guess I am a bit strange with it...
> I remember in High School when they were trying to teach us Biology in the 5th form. I figured out that biological systems were just complex arrangements of chemicals. We couldn't do chemistry till the 6th form. I figured I didn't need to worry about what they were teaching us in Biology - because when we learned about chemistry the biological truths would just 'fall out' of that. And then when I went to do chemistry I figured that the same thing was true with physics. Then I found out physics was math and thought 'well sh*t, I've stuffed it up now - I wish someone had told me that in the third form!!!' Then when I got to uni I learned all about how 'reductionism' (the idea that the truths of one science completely hang on the truths of another) was probably false and I was really really hacked off. Whopsie. I wish someone had told me that a little earlier...Aw I can imagine, don't ya hate that. I only passed 1 physics exam in all of high school, my HSC the final big exam used for uni entrance etc.
Ah, just because something doesn't make much sense in and of itself, doesn't mean you don't do a good job of explaining it.
> I worry that we create our own problems by making the distinctions we make in the first place.
> Of course we only create them to solve some problem or other.
> But then they tend to create a whole lot more problems...
> So it is hard to see whether we are digging ourselves in or out...I can't argue with you on this because you're absolutely right. Personally, I know I tend to analyse everything I say and do 'till the cows come home'. Even analysing the analysis. Getting better though, don't do it nearly so much now. Just mostly when I'm not doing so good.
Our mind needs to create opposites and distinctions to sustain itself. If all was one, things would just be, and then what would the mind do - fall silent?
Thanks for the recommendations. Like they say 'better late than never.' I tend to be analytical too. Did read some Descartes way back in my teens and Kant too, even some Seneca but it's all a long time ago.
> Hey now, don't blame me for your internet habits!!
> <joke>I asked for that didn't I? What's the emoticon for a big rassberry?
> Aw. Now I'm blushing...WOW!!!! I don't think I've ever made a woman blush before =0)
I guess I am the way I am because I am somewhat driven... One track mind... There is something that drives me and that sort of is narrow and may well alienate me but it is my life and I CHOSE for it to me by life and I WANT it to be my life so FTW I am alright. I don't care.
> :-)Boy it's taken me ages to work out FTW, gettin' slow in my old age :-). You know what, there is nothing wrong with anything you've said, except the bit about not caring. Because you do care and that's what gives you the drive and the focus. Apathetic *sses like me don't care. It's not that you don't care what people think and whether you alienate them. It's that you choose not to let it worry you and distract you from your goal. Way different things. If you didn't consider the possibility of this and the impacts - that'd be not caring.
> Well...
> Funnily enough I'd actually like to be working on my thesis at the moment...
> Really.
> :-)Well...GET BACK TO WORK!!!!!!!!!
You're more than welcome, anytime.
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