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This was quite a difficult meme to get around to - I had four subjects, and just picked this as the first simply because it's the easiest. Which doesn't make any sense to any normal person, but I ain't normal - I'm a philosophical ignoramus.
I once got dumped by a guy I casually dated for about two weeks because he wanted conversations on "philosophy and stuff". In short, because [he thought] I was boring. I took this moderately to heart for a while, and tried to study philosophy. I got really bored really quickly - I couldn't find a philosopher whose writings actually engaged me. They are certainly all great thinkers, but not really that good writers. The only one I ever really liked was Alain do Boutain (sp?) who's actually slated by "real" philosophers, but covers a wide range of ideas under one umbrella with plenty of good references. For example, I liked "the Art of Travel" a lot. Nothing I couldn't have worked out for myself, but saved me a bit of time.
More specifically to philosophical conundrums, I think I have problems in the area because I perceive it as one that involves a lot of talking. And those of you who know me reasonably well will know that I don't really do a lot of talking. I'm a do-er rather than a say-er. In fact, you could say that my own personal philosophy is that we may only have a certain number of breaths before we die, and we don't want to waste them in pointless chit-chat. In short, I'm a taciturn bitch. I should have been born in Yorkshire so I could keep my own counsel with a granite jaw.
I'm also not very good with abstract concepts. I find them by definition, slippery and elusive. If people (even ones I like) start debating the number of angels dancing on a pin-head, I get boggled or bored, and tend to just slip away. It is awfully tedious in my mind, and I cheerfully admit these days that it is simply because I just don't get it.
I'm not disinterested in issues, or morals, or whatever you want to call practical problems of living. I have quite clear ideas on how I want to live my life, and even how I think the world could be better. Is that philosophy? I'll even talk about them, although I often think they're quite personal and therefore not worth bickering about. Same with politics. I guess that's another crux of the philsophical matter - what isn't pointless is often subjective, and therefore not worth debate. Discussion, maybe, but not argument.
Never talk about politics, religion or philosophical conundrums, that's my motto.
Except here. I'd actually be quite interested in what people had to say - whether they were turned onto certain philosophers, something they found interesting, what the point is?
nyarbaggytep.This was quite a difficult meme to get around to - I had four subjects, and just picked this as the first simply because it's the easiest. Which doesn't make any sense to any normal person, but I ain't normal - I'm a philosophical ignoramus.
I once got dumped by a guy I casually dated for about two weeks because he wanted conversations on "philosophy and stuff". In short, because [he thought] I was boring. I took this moderately to heart for a while, and tried to study philosophy. I got really bored really quickly - I couldn't find a philosopher whose writings actually engaged me. They are certainly all great thinkers, but not really that good writers. The only one I ever really liked was Alain do Boutain (sp?) who's actually slated by "real" philosophers, but covers a wide range of ideas under one umbrella with plenty of good references. For example, I liked "the Art of Travel" a lot. Nothing I couldn't have worked out for myself, but saved me a bit of time.
More specifically to philosophical conundrums, I think I have problems in the area because I perceive it as one that involves a lot of talking. And those of you who know me reasonably well will know that I don't really do a lot of talking. I'm a do-er rather than a say-er. In fact, you could say that my own personal philosophy is that we may only have a certain number of breaths before we die, and we don't want to waste them in pointless chit-chat. In short, I'm a taciturn bitch. I should have been born in Yorkshire so I could keep my own counsel with a granite jaw.
I'm also not very good with abstract concepts. I find them by definition, slippery and elusive. If people (even ones I like) start debating the number of angels dancing on a pin-head, I get boggled or bored, and tend to just slip away. It is awfully tedious in my mind, and I cheerfully admit these days that it is simply because I just don't get it.
I'm not disinterested in issues, or morals, or whatever you want to call practical problems of living. I have quite clear ideas on how I want to live my life, and even how I think the world could be better. Is that philosophy? I'll even talk about them, although I often think they're quite personal and therefore not worth bickering about. Same with politics. I guess that's another crux of the philsophical matter - what isn't pointless is often subjective, and therefore not worth debate. Discussion, maybe, but not argument.
Never talk about politics, religion or philosophical conundrums, that's my motto.
Except here. I'd actually be quite interested in what people had to say - whether they were turned onto certain philosophers, something they found interesting, what the point is?
