The "What Are You Doing This Moment" Thread

[Zephyrus]

Faith in the authority of those who propagate the illusion, the puppeteers before the fire of the Cave.

 

[Jimmy... Dead.]

Y U NO SPEAK NORMAL?

 

[Zephyrus]

 

[monoxide_child]

waiting for tmrw
tmrw i will (in this order) re-aquire my phone, (that's been in Irving for the last 2 weeks) my recently fired friend will collect his last paycheck, i will get back the money for the apt that i "put on hold" by teling the complex that i no longer wish to live there, spend my re-aquired money renting a room at the Carousel for 1 week, then, after getting December's money, move into a cheeply-priced apt prolly in the "gayborhood" http://www.google.com/#hl=en&tbo=d&...c8868a73da6ee0e&bpcl=38897761&biw=792&bih=425

 

[Zephyrus]

Y U NO SPEAK NORMAL?

I got a paper returned to me from a professor the other day. It got an A+ but next to the grade was a comment criticizing my "purple prose" and its tendency "to go off into hyperspace." In other words, the bullshit I write here is typical of my writing in general, yet so far it's gotten me gold stars left and right.

 

[monoxide_child]

the bullshit I write here is typical of my writing in general

i actually realized this a long time ago

 

[Zephyrus]

Yet you haven't seen any of my academic writing (though you may have read my blog, which is still informal for the most part).

 

[Dak]

Faith in the authority of those who propagate the illusion, the puppeteers before the fire of the Cave.

I understand, but how can you think that is useful? It's a crutch and a restriction.

 

[Vimana]

I got a paper returned to me from a professor the other day. It got an A+ but next to the grade was a comment criticizing my "purple prose" and its tendency "to go off into hyperspace." In other words, the bullshit I write here is typical of my writing in general, yet so far it's gotten me gold stars left and right.

It sounds like the hallmark of an ordinary intellectual to me. The tendency to take something and turn it into a contemplation about a greater matter out loud.

 

[Dak]

It sounds like the hallmark of an ordinary intellectual to me. The tendency to take something and turn it into a contemplation about a greater matter out loud.

Concerning the abstract, nothing is simply itself, but dependent and attached to many other things.

 

[Vimana]

A big part of intelligence is imagination. Recombining what we know in ways that we can test to figure out things about the world is how we make machines. When the imagination of someone flows out when they speak, I think it's pretty cool.

That's why I'll never get anti-intellectualism. Besides any personal feelings I attach to an idea, I find contemplating and imagining far too exhilarating an experience to deprive anyone of. I think that's why children are always so jubilant. They're constantly learning and it's awesome.

 

[Onder]

Drinking beer. Listening to the Battle Hymn of US and about to cook goulash. I also asked that cutie out tonight.

 

[Zephyrus]

That's why I'll never get anti-intellectualism. Besides any personal feelings I attach to an idea, I find contemplating and imagining far too exhilarating an experience to deprive anyone of. I think that's why children are always so jubilant. They're constantly learning and it's awesome.

Read Plato's Apology if you want to understand anti-intellectualism.

 

[damnromulans]

Wishing I could poo

 

[Jimmy... Dead.]

Socrates was a dick.

 

[Dak]

Socrates was a dick.

 

[Zephyrus]

Socrates was a dick.

You prove his point marvelously.

 

[Jimmy... Dead.]

I'm an excellent student.

 

[monoxide_child]

waiting for tmrw
tmrw i will (in this order) re-aquire my phone, (that's been in Irving for the last 2 weeks) my recently fired friend will collect his last paycheck, i will get back the money for the apt that i "put on hold" by teling the complex that i no longer wish to live there, spend my re-aquired money renting a room at the Carousel for 1 week, then, after getting December's money, move into a cheeply-priced apt prolly in the "gayborhood" http://www.google.com/#hl=en&tbo=d&...c8868a73da6ee0e&bpcl=38897761&biw=792&bih=425

won't go into Irving till 2 or 3 PM

 

[Onder]

Quick coffee then probably pub if I gain enough energy.