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last day of classes before finals tomorrow, pretty stoked on that. However, im more stoked for winter break starting next week and it is a whole month long. I'm exited to get many days of skiing, to say the least
haha, tack för feeelsen! We are (going to be) leading the 3D-printing revolution in Sweden! Problem is, nobody that doesn't spend most of their hours online understands what the fuck we're on about.
I had a professor who constantly raved about Wittgenstein. He tried to trap me in these debates when I started bring up Foucault, Lacan, or Derrida (the dudez I get the biggest boner for in Western philosophy) and he would always use Wittgenstein to try and refute whatever point I was making...everyone else just had to sit there and listen which, according to my girlfriend at the time who was in the class with me, was really fucking annoying.
Therefore I hated Wittgenstein but don't really know any of his main concepts or arguments. Enlighten me?
ugh this. we had a restaurant with completely authentic food where i'm from it was oh so good until it got shut down because it was raided for illegal aliens. Turned out only two people who worked there were actual citizens. it sucks that they were shut down because it was a situation where illegal immigrants were helping the economy.
I'm still in the beginning of studying him in my early analytic class, but basically it seems as though he just tells Russell and Frege that they've been wasting their time trying to understand language and representation in their logical forms. Something along the lines of: in order to put propositions into their logical form you must already understand what it says, so it is in a way redundant/unnecessary, or something along those lines.
The whole thing, and especially the last bit, is written in a really cool way. his last line/claim is: "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof must one be silent."
I have a big paper on it due in a week, I'll know more details then
Just had a really weird "small world" moment. Called up a guy selling a 2008 R32 with only 11,000 miles on it in basically perfect condition that I found on AutoTrader. Turns out the number provided was his business number, which is a watch repair shop in a town like 10 minutes from where I live...where I got my watch fixed 2 weeks ago. The guy selling the car was the one who personally fixed my watch and remembered me. Going out later to drive the car around and possibly make a purchase. Weird...
Oh that definitely reminds me of a lot of things he would say. He argued a lot about cognition and language and how, basically there is no such thing as a thought without language. In other words if you haven't put words to an idea it really doesn't exist as an idea. It's a pretty simple point but runs contrary to what a lot of people believe. Actually it's pretty consistent with the French post-structuralists so I don't know why it got under my skin that he always brought that up.
I think the reason we were arguing was because I do think that there is a part of human intelligence that exists sans discursive thought or language, but I guess that comes more from my Eastern philosophical influences.
so on saturday there's a day long ski instructor clinic. I don't know what we'd do during it, but they say you'll know if you get the job or not by the end of the day.
I really need the job. Wish me luck, and any tips? If that is possible?
This is literally one of the worst things you can go through. I don't think anyone really does...this question is really scary but I think if you accept it into yourself and just follow whatever seems right at the moment than you are brave and will do alright.
"this thread has 100 pages. heres a song about the number 100. its actually very entertaining, actually as im typing this im lolling harder and harder hahaha wtf is this shit omg hahaha"
this song is what's on my mind. the sound, the lyrics, the emotion and the meaning.
the song is based on a Christian belief that when you die, you search your entire life for the moment when you were the happiest. then in heaven you relive that moment over and over again like a videotape on repeat forever. it also incorporates a German legend of a man named Faust. Faust is so dissatisfied by his life that he makes a deal with the devil. in exchange for unlimited knowledge and incredible wealth, he sells his soul to the devil. however, if Faust ever admits that he is truly happy, the devil will come for him.
so the song is about a man who made a similar deal. and has just experienced that moment when he was truly happy while with his significant other.. hence the line "you are my center when I spin away". now he is faced with saying goodbye to her, and at the very end he says "i know today has been the most perfect day I've ever seen"... essentially admitting to experiencing true happiness, and therefore succumbing to his fate.
i cannot begin to fathom the amount of emotion that Thom York puts into this song. how he is able to perform it without crying amazes me. the sadness is overbearing, but within it is one of the most accurate and perfect accounts of love that i've ever witnessed. this song is one of the most beautiful things i've ever experienced.
