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lemonjelly

lostinrates wrote: »

Rather obviously, I would have thought!, not. I do know a lot of philosophers though..I'd rather not expand on this on the open forum though.

edit: going back to uni/doing something academic..has been another recent suggestion made. I don't really fancy it tbh....I'm just not ''there'' emotionally to do an undergrad degree full time, nor am I intellectually/with memory there to progress in my old or a related subject.

I might OU, or audit a course somewhere when we move. Not going to do it unless my heart is in it.

Having done a university degree does not make one a philosopher.

I am reminded that a lot of people have a view that philosophy is done by old men, with long beards, sitting around in a library, in silence stroking their beards.

Actually, a lot of what goes on via this forum is philosophy - critical analysis, looking at themes, perceptions, arguements & debates, perceptions, presuppositions, logical arguements etc etc.

Philosophy in itself is a dynamic and interactive pursuit.

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

Having done a university degree does not make one a philosopher.......

deleted: unneccessary

edit: most I know shave.

lemonjelly

lostinrates wrote: »

does writing books, making tv about it, hosting a forum on it and lecturing people like sir H make you one?;);)

edit: most I know shave.

:rotfl:at the edit!

Being able to think, question & debate. That is all.
I have seen many examples of you asking pertinent questions many times. That is philosophy.
I have also seen you challenge flawed arguements, that too is philosophy.

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

:rotfl:at the edit!

Being able to think, question & debate. That is all.
I have seen many examples of you asking pertinent questions many times. That is philosophy.
I have also seen you challenge flawed arguements, that too is philosophy.

lol read back it looked trite so I removed. I pmed you any way....

btw did you ever look further at the link of a suggestion I made to you? I'm still dead keen to do it myself...

lemonjelly

lostinrates wrote: »

lol read back it looked trite so I removed. I pmed you any way....

btw did you ever look further at the link of a suggestion I made to you? I'm still dead keen to do it myself...

I did - very interesting. May very well pursue it should I actually make my london venture.

BTW do you want me to edit my post/quote?

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

I did - very interesting. May very well pursue it should I actually make my london venture.

BTW do you want me to edit my post/quote?

Absolutely not. It saves my making myself a tshirt with self depricating comments...

see, following first instinct of response & all that....

edit: i see the spelling, I just can't make it right now...my head hurts from thinking today...:)

lostinrates

Anyway, on safer ground for my head (LJ I'll reply soon, I just need to think) I thin its true thinking back that the more intelligent and more intellectual of the men I have ''known'' have in general been the least sexually promiscuous. I've always put that down to them being, um....more nerdy in their youths though.

edit: looking back I think there are other things that are common to the ''brains'' I've bedded, but my sharing stops here. Its just something that never occurred to me before...

nickmason

lemonjelly wrote: »

Ninky, if this thread is interesting, can I suggest an interesting read as being The Minds I by Hofstadter & Dennett http://www.amazon.co.uk/Minds-Fantasies-Reflections-Penguin-Science/dp/014006253X

I thoroughly enjoyed this collection of essays etc & return to it a lot.

Hofstadter also wrote "Godel, Escher, Bach" - which I wholeheartedly recommend - probably my favourite pseudo-philosophy book. It's the "written in the style of Lewis Carroll" that I like....

It really is a work of absolute genius.

(And as another PPE-ist, I agree, a philosophy degree does not a philosopher make! Famously at Oxford, PPE is laughed at as "general studies", or the taught ability to b*lls**t. Probably why so many politicians studied it.)

Mr.Brown_4

lemonjelly wrote: »

Actually, a lot of what goes on via this forum is philosophy - critical analysis, looking at themes, perceptions, arguements & debates, perceptions, presuppositions, logical arguements etc etc.

House Prices, Economy, Recession and Philosophy. That is going to blow the mods minds.

"Martin, where shall I put this thread on Descartes and whether RICS buy the theory of corporeal substance?"
"How should I know? Try the new section, Moneysavers University".

edit: I googled Descartes because I remember him from that Monty Python song, and found the corporeal substance thing in Wiki. Means nothing to me.

ninky_2

nickmason wrote: »

the taught ability to b*lls**t. Probably why so many politicians studied it.)

i don't have to be taught that. it's a natural aptitude!