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there arent really a lot of women publishing decent philosophy because the smartest ones are housewives.

nyu or hong kong. but id be happy just to go. anywhere.

hi happydays, i hope you put something like that in your SOP. lessen the cmpetition a little bit. yours is an honorable ambition -- im quite the neoHegelian myself -- have you considered teaching highschool? (muwahahahahahhahah) what is our WS topic? (muhahahhah)

i like loric more than i like you

he didnt. but to be fair, i looked at his two-volume book on 'philosophy of color' and there wasnt any allusion to metaphysics. it was said they were mainly psychological and scientific . so if he doesnt have a sense of humor about it (it really is inappropriate to call it metaphysics) then ill just count the loss as a gain.

do they ever do 'background' or internet checks? ...ive beeb pretty obnoxious on these forums. i doubt theyll go browsing gradcafe... ya?

hi selfhating why dont you steal my ideas? youd never add up just by yourself. what were you working on anywaya?

i still quack at my thesis advisor. he just listens -- i love him so much. just today i talked about breaking a taboo in academia and arguing for psychic connection between people. i said i can feel attenrion. like at the gym when i work out -- even if theyre not looking at me i can often feel it when theyre paying attention to me. you just feel it -- and you know ypure veing watched and you sort of 'put on a little show'. ...its like when you lok at someone fron across the room and they turn to look back at you i said fuck academia i want to explore this. i think the daoists explored the significance of the 'attention'. it is like a non-localized loci. very aignificant in itself . im reading the critique of pure reason now and kant hasnt talked about it. maybe husserl or aome other phenomenologist? the attention, per se, is non-trivial aspect of consciousness obviously somewhat taken for granted. anyways i love philosophy you guys blow

how brave are you with your philosophy, by the way?

hmmm i want that . do you feel as though their comments are genuinely intelligent and worth consideration, or do you just kind of kiss ass and say thankyou sir ill be certain to do that? i remember my professors, excepting one, didnt help me at all. one was an idiot, one was an arrogant hack, the other didnt give a damn, and the last, while proficient in his teaching, was sort ...lacking in judgement. so never anywhere did i get (let alone decent,) help. maybe it was in large part i was crazed stoner undergraduate and they just didnt realize where i was going with my work? ..i remember one time, stoned as usual, i wrote one and explained how if you took a powerful beam of light and shot it through space, that objects travelling in it would accelerate at increased speeda (a conclusion i drew from my 'metaphysics/physics' when it was still in an early research and development phase) ...i mean in retrospect it sounds a little far out ... but it was forward thinking and had some quality rationale to it!!! ..constructive criticism would have gone a long way.... ...ir maybe it was best that i be left to figure it out for myself.... ...which i did.....

philosophy is a spiritial occupation not s 'job' or 'career' and the 'professionalization' of philosophy is a corrupt tendency for people who dont belong. when they establish status quo it is a corruption.

do you think that a, (even self-published) treatise of philosophy -- which is original, innovative, and potentially historical in significance -- will survive an initial gpa/gre cut? hmmm some department sites do mention that they hace accepted students with lower scores... i think i have a good chance. 3.4 isnt low enough to dismiss the merit of my book...

billy -- ya thanks de lose wrote books about others and then turned around to be a hack case in point, thanks. ps i dont think a chapter dedicated to a response in a historical discussion can be considered a book and the only reason dr lose is idolized is because he is famous -- not because his 'deontology' ever went anywhere. im so sick and ashamed of this community

they certainly do deserve respect, but you should read them as equals to yourself, (as opposed to authorities) on the same path towards truth. and if you find yourself quarrelling pver some trivial matter in a jpurnal dedicated to nietzsche or writing a book about de leuze or derrida (i do believe they wrote their own books) then you are a failure. you are also perpetuating idolatry and poisoning the community. (ps 'selfhatingphilosopher': blow me)

youd be doing me a favor. these people are awful. its terrible that philosophy attracts such awful personality types. im looking forward to studying and publishing on my own. me alone im better than fancy-pants faggot earning his funded MA PS blow me

by the way i post here while i read kant all morning. (and i mean really read it , BSG) so you can be as petty as a militant feminist im the one enjoying coffee and tea in leisure reading kant . in fact i dont even NEED graduate school like you people do. i have a life of leisure and philosophy ahead of me, regardless. juat to put things in perspective for you people

READ MY PAPER 'ONTOLOGY OF THE ELEMENTS; A TRANSCENDENTAL DIALECTIC' IN MY 'LAST PAPER' TOPIC AND REMEMBER YOUR PLACE !!!!!! I OWN

thanks philhopeful. I disagree -- idolatry is rampant. otherwise I'm not interested in entering into conversation with most of these people anyways. you are especially welcome, catwoman.

....I guess I'm going to Thailand if review committees read any of this ...

hi selfhating philosopher, you know I do think I meant to have said 'mostsuccessful academics' not 'the most successful,'. do you think I need to change it again to 'many'? do you think my conclusion is unstable?

is idolatry. I suppose I have had an implicit understanding for sometime, and feel as though it has finally surfaced into something explicit. thestudy of philosophy (love od wisdom, ya) is a historical movement towards truth. but what do we find it has become instead? primarily idolatry. what do we find the most successful academics doing? research and commentary on historical and contemporary figures. there is value in this, but as a means to an end -- not as an end in itself. at worst we elevate our favorite idols as authorities in philosophy.there are no authorities in philosophy. only gifted contributors in this historical movement. but we idolize them and put them on a pedestal and, implicitly, understand that we are not their equals. we idolize them andforget that we have the capacity to think for ourselves. and when one is courageous enough to think for himself, we are contemptuous and hold him in disdain. and so we stifle originality and innovation. for our cowardice and our idolatry.

was I the only one who thought metaphysics of furniture was funny...?

I don't think of it is insulting... I am just having fun. I must have giggled for the better part of an hour :OP

To : Alex Byrne Subject: Metaphysics of Furniture It just came to me, but I think it might have some philosophical value. Maybe somewhat immature, but I am confident that it might take me somewhere. It is an intuition -- some sort of spiritual connection between myself and my furniture. I will have to do some research but I think that furniture is a common address in the history of philosophy, even if it isn't frequently addressed in itself. I am certain their is opportunity for innovation. Also... I would rather sit on a yellow couch than a red couch -- but I would rather sit on a red chair than a yellow chair. I don't know if you might find that interesting? I am on a quest for truth I must know why O_O

oooooooh!!! I better let him know...!! metaphysics of furniture.... why is a sofa a sofa... and not a chair? a table can be used as a chair, but and a chair as a table.... how do we not just constantly confuse the two... is it just me or is there a spiritual significance in beds...?