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I'm wondering, if I don't get in, about taking my stipend and moving to China, Thailand, the Philippines -- 1300/month will go a long ways there and I can concentrate full-time on my research. Maybe I should do it anyways...?

I planted a dating ad on okcupId so that if you Google my email you can find it on the bottom of the results page under my 'spacetime dialectics'. It shows me without a shirt. Do you think that will be bonus points <3

I did a lot of my reading -around- kant. Class articles and books like 'a very short introduction'. I guess I was eager to jump into the work of thinkers much more alluring to me as an undergrad. Perhaps it works out for the better -- I am considerably more fascinated with kant now than I had ever been before.

(Somewhere in Germany) Omg .wtf is going on !!! Bewildered stares,. Shock. Babies crying. Broken dishes. Barking dogs. (Some little asshole philosophy student who doesn't know Nietzsche from his elbow won't switch avatars )

I certainly don't read philosophical treatise like fiction novels. Gambler, what book was it where Nietzsche talked about reading and readers? Do you remember? I think he hates your guts. You should probably change avatars. He's probably starting little earthquakes wherever his corpse is buried.

I certainly don't read philosophical treatise like fiction novels. Gambler, what book was it where Nietzsche talked about reading and readers? Do you remember? I think he hates your guts. You should probably change avatars. He's probably starting little earthquakes wherever his corpse is buried.

... Earlier this week I was awarded a 1300/month stipend to, basically, continue to think for myself. This is actually regardless I go to grad school . This means I suddenly have more money to apply to schools -- which is in part publicizing my work. A lot of professors will be reading it. You know I started reading kant critique of pure reason last weekend? I'm only several pages in -- just going through his ideas about space. Which are interesting. I read slow because I actually think about what he's saying. I read him as an equal, less an idol (ahem) and so think about what he's saying and if I agree with it or not and why or why not. I relate his work to my own and compare and discern and synthesize. It's a slow process but very profound. I admire kant as maybe history's greatest. Maybe I'm guilty of being a day dreamer, as much as my passion and loyalty for Truth. If you could get a phd indaydreaming I'd have an honorary one by now. Slow reading has its benefits. I don't just understand, maybe, but internalize. There can also be a long period of 'digestion' that can last long after your finished a piece. I read Nietzsche 'corpus' my first semester but I don't think I began to understand for years later. Especially not before I began studying shelling and hegel.

Why don you give a brief synopsis on the historical significance in de lose. We can do philosophy. Would you like that?

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I don't hear the things I need to hear from you. Whom among you genuinely seek Truth. to read and write and think that you might come to Truth. To love philosophy not as an end but as a means. None of you. At most such motivation has been forgotten -- for prestige, or maybe a cool career? Hear me tower in greatness over you, that I love not philosophy but Truth !

You find it interesting because it seems exotic to you, and because you see it as 'advanced' curriculum. Not because you are interested in him as he might prove historically relevant -- which would be quite a compliment for him.

Deleuze is not a 'great philosopher'. You only think so because he is famous. Not because you think for yourself.

Have you considered doing philosophy for yourself? Your -own- philosophy? To be you own Nietzsche, your own heiddegrr, your own camus?

So many schools emphasize the writing sample as the most important factor in the application, but it is too late to write another. ..you could focus on a statement od intent and discuss a specific philosophical project you would like to research through the years. ..hinting at a dissertation maybe. I think that is better than ' going in with an open mind' or being 'open to new things' 'broadening ones horizons' Which to me imply you are aimless and haven't developed any serious passions in philosophy. Or who knows? Maybe all different type of faculty will project their own values and expectations into the evaluations process. So standards may always be somewhat different.

You're all so pathetic.

Nietzsche says use your own damn face lol

"I wonder what piper or leiter would have to say" Pfft why don't you think for yourself. You're so lame. I can't believe you use his portrait as your avatar, after all the things you've said and all the values you portray. You are an underman }=-O

Pfft you wouldn't know since you haven't read it :0p I want to see your paper.

..! SOCRATES and Confucius O_O

Are you worried that they may not be interested in a master's paper comparing Jesus with Confucius? ;0)

(That is a devil face)

At least skimmed?... Looks like you have one more to compete with at uc. >:-I

Oh...

First they rank you by quality of your writing sample, and then when they have their piles together they refer to your stats as tie-breakers So you have great tie-breaking stats, but what dies your writing sample look like? Do you have an abstract?

Thank you so much for the constructive advice. Yes, you are right. I should, a long time ago, have been working on developing a journal submission. I guess u have Ben over reliant on the idea that some of my core concepts would speak for themselves. For example, in the cover letter I explain my approach to coming to terms with the noumenal by utilizing a simple A / -A logical dynamism. Schelling developed this approach, originally, but he used it ti determine the phenomenal / noumenal divide in terms object / subject. Apparently this particular approach had been forgotten. I took it and simplified, improved, the dynamism to illustrate the divide in terms being and nothingness, using eleatic metaphysics to illustrate it in specific terms. I suppose the other fellows reading through this patent sufficiently schooled in metaphysics to realize the significance in this movement. It is the most logical approach to kants noumena to date. And hence my belief that my treatise earns historical significance. I just desperately need in graduate school so I can study and research full time. For years..! Frankly I don't give a damn if it be nyu or... Arizona. As long as it would give me the opportunity to do what I need to do. If I don't get in, I will be publishing academically for next year. Thanks for the advice, actually.