You may be wondering... - Page 3

skcin · #31 07-19-2006, 11:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DavidMn

Uh-Oh!! I smell a catfight! MEEOOWWWWW

Huh?

DavidMn · #32 07-19-2006, 11:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by skcin

Huh?

I was talking about Irishgrl and GOLDSTWMN competing against each other to post political threads. Just trying to make a funny.

David · #33 07-19-2006, 01:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by skcin

Why didn't David even mention that there was a tsunami - he loves that stuff!

I knew something was (pardon the pun) fishy when I saw the prelim mag of 7.2. Quakes that size rarely if ever generate tsunams ... The revised mag of 7.7 made a bit more sense.

I didn't post about it here because Kelly & Vanessa have been making fun of me for always talking about that, so that's why I didn't start a thread. They make fun of me & they hurt me & I don't want to experience that.

amber · #34 07-19-2006, 02:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by trackaghost

I didn't think anyone cared about the Band Face Off threads anymore to tell the truth. They had become kinda boring. I only started them and the favourite albums by decade threads to stop Gerald from leaving. He's AWOL at the moment I notice.
I don't really have anything interesting to contribute at the moment. Unless someone wants to discuss the new Sonic Youth and Golden Smog albums? Didn't think so...

What about Neitzche's theories?

amber · #35 07-19-2006, 03:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by trackaghost

You mean Hitler's favourite philosopher? Nietzsche also believed in eternal recurrence which means your life and everything you've done and are going to do has happened before and will eventually happen again, which I always found a depressing concept. He was also a complete misogynist, but then most of the great philosophers were.

My favourite philosophers (which I'm listing like my favourite actors!) are: Leibniz, Hume and Russell. I always loved reading Bertrand Russell!

I only saw the one show on him, and I liked what they said he said on the show. About happiness being work, and to expect happiness without it is delusional. Eternal recurrence is fine, except that it's not like reincarnation in that, from what you say here, he thought your life would be exactly the same every time? That's pretty interesting for me to think about, though. I mean, I've often thought things like that. It would suck if it was exactly the same.
I don't know anything about those philosophers, or very little. A bit of Bertrand Russell I've come across. I was thinking of buying the "philosophers" series, which is much easier than reading all the books, woudln't you say?

Why do you like those? What were their themes? Ideas?

David · #36 07-19-2006, 03:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by trackaghost

My favourite philosophers (which I'm listing like my favourite actors!) are: Leibniz, Hume and Russell. I always loved reading Bertrand Russell!

I started reading Russell in junior high school. I read the tome on the Great Philosophers in high school, & in later years I enjoyed reading Russell's shorter tracts & essays. My favorites are:

"Why I Am Not a Christian"

and

"Nice People"

amber · #37 07-19-2006, 04:18 PM

Ah. I was confused, because I thought Russell was a humorist, not a philosopher. Yes, I swear I've been to school.

I'd probably read him first.

SuzeQuze · #38 07-19-2006, 04:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by amber

Ah. I was confused, because I thought Russell was a humorist, not a philosopher. Yes, I swear I've been to school.

I'd probably read him first.

Why I am not a Christian http://users.drew.edu/~jlenz/whynot.html

WelshWitchPMD · #39 07-19-2006, 09:07 PM

It is summertime and it goes by way too fast. When I am not working about 50-60 hours a week I try to get out of the house and do something on the weekends.
I have taken the Providence to Newport ferry twice by myself this summer. I went to Boston last Saturday and I bought a friend of mine a sunset cruise around Boston Harbor.
I think that I will start a new thread called 'What are your summer plans?" It can be things that you have done already or things that you plan on doing.
See Paula, you made me have an idea for a new thread.