dfindley

metaphysics........... of furniture......

the chair at MIT advertises an interest in 'Metaphysics of Color'. I applied there and they ignored me and I was offended so I sent him an email detailing my interest in 'metaphysics of sweet and sour'. why is it as good on chicken as it is on a gumdrop? Why is it better than salty? What is the spiritual/existential significance of sweet and sour? ..etc. ..maybe I kind of wasted my application money. .......... or maybe there is some kind of correlation between sweet and sour and orange and yellow, and the MIT chair might be interested in pursuing that further................... maybe red, too... or is red..... spicy.... I mean metaphysically?

eh whatever I don't like to pay attention to his 'work in philosophy'.

fuck leiter. for his lists and rankings and de facto authority with which he writes and opines. it would be forgivable if he made SERIOUS contributions to the history of philosophy .. but he didn't. he is famous for being famous. so fuck him. maybe forgivable if he headed an organization that came together to make these lists and he did.nt call it a 'leiter report' . but he calls it the leiter report. I hold him in quite a bit of contempt for being a voice of authority for no other reason than his being a voice of authority . and I really wish people wouldn't perpetuate his lists or rankings or opinions as standards.

...or am I being rough? you make a good point.

:OP you're skewing the context and misinterpreting the point. do I need to add a few words to make it comprehensible to you lol

that's what my prof said. frankly I don't give a damn. I'm muscular so as long as I can afford a car and an apartment I can always get laid . thlose are the only things money is good for. sex and philosophy. am I right???

one problem about raking out loans for an ma, and then if you're LUCKY going for your phd, and then if you're LUCKY to get a decent job, is being able .ro pay off your loans before you're... what... 35-40??? ....

Iran tell you that the quality of education for undergrad at university of Memphis was awful poor. the only decent courses I took were from my ancient Greek professor. (2). I seriously want a refund for half my courses. even my existenilism class spent a third of the semester reading kafka. Pfft. we took little quizzes to see if we read the last few pages. pffffffffft. my modern wasn't any better than if I had read wikipedia. maybe masters are important. if I didn't do a few private reading and research, I would have graduated even more retarded in philosophy. . I might not have even known better. ....but isn't the writing sample more important than an ma? I remember nyu implied an ma is only important if you can write a better paper for it.

if acceptance rates are 5-8% ... maybe the more, the merrier. I just used the same SOP for every school. whatever, I feel -- you'll do most of your reading research outside of the formal curriculum anyways (which, in my mind, will be mostly supplementary. at least from my undergrad experience at a continental school.)

O_O. Omg maybe a psych ward isn't such a bad idea

I thought about prison once. In Hawaii the system isn't so bad. (No gangs). I decided it wasn't worth the risk...

....so anyone have any idea hoping methods? I think I'll also simultaneously apply to study in China again as a secondary route. They give everybody scholarships. ...you can say you're going to study Chinese and just secretly ...don't. The programs in Beijing are horrible -- nobody would even notice.. !! Plus I have my qeoo/month pension, I'd be practically .. middle class.

...most top schools probably already have a good idea who they're accepting.. just need a formal review to make final decisions.... Just hopefully there are a million 3.9s with mediocre papers and only a few with genuinely innovative work and promise in philosophy.... ...

HmMmMm I think in terms of philosophical significance. maybe kant and Aristotle are on par. Aristotle did develop a formal logic. Plato no way...

>··< I am enraged by his arrogance after his utterly stupid comment of my paper . And I am a base prole, so what PS driving me crazy phenomenon are you-concepts- subject to the transcendental self-consciousness (ie schemata and dialectical and analytical syntheses implicit the understanding) so how do you corroborate the phenomenal as substantial (as illustrated in the first analogy) ...isn't he sort of qualifying the thing in itself or...what I don't think I totally understand...

Like I said before, I read around kant, (a very short introduction for example) and was even taught a little kant (apparently by two imbecile phds) But I never read the critique of pure reason in itself. YOU HAVE TO READ THE CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON FOR YOURSELF. especially if you're analytical and especially if you're into philosophy of mind. You will quickly discover kant >>>> everybody else given historical circumstance. Human you arrogant twerp (who would comment on my paper without having understood it in the least NO I didn't illustrate spacetime as internal inrtuitions like kant did you idiot ) But maybe you can help me -- in the first analogy of the transcendental doctrine of the faculty of judgement or, analytic principles, Kant asserts that in order for time to be successive (and not coexistent) that phenomena must be a substance (''the principle of permanence of substance) But how can this assertion of phenomenal substance be, when phenomena are concepts derived from the intuition and an essentially transcendental selfconsciousness? (Or are you just an arrogant little cocksucker , 'human'?)

.........seriously I'll just be lurking until someone has something to say about the work itself......... It is the beginning of an outline of an outline-ontological substructure- . E=ST. Quantum entanglement. ......gravity is just the beginning........ .....anyone.....

I'll just .bw lurking until anyone has something decent to say Ie of philosophical value or significance

Gradschool. My phone autocompletes a lot of my words -- incorrectly.

Gradschool. My phone autocompletes a lot of my words -- incorrectly.

Hmmm... Well, I suppose at bottom I just think I think I want to go to preschool. IF I get in, then I'll probably teach academically while I edit my own journal in metaphysics O:-) I'll have a nice wife... be looking forward to raising a hero of a son.. and just sit back and appreciate a modest lifestyle. Or I could be in Thailand, reading and writing. I don't know.

That's awfully personal information to share with 'quackademic' ; O) Maybe if you shared with me the basis of your curiosity?

Ps I meant Nietzsche suffered a deep loneliness and therefore need for belonging. Remember zarathustra?

??? If you don't agree with or see the rationale in my metaphysics, I would like to know specifically why.