Random Practicality

[Helm]

Your perception will be what when you ask people if they want fries with that?

Clarify for the inept greek, please. I'm not sure I understand.

Who says anything about philosophy being happy? If anything it's miserable b/c you are constantly searching for an answer which isn't there, nor will it ever be.

That wasn't supposed to be taken seriously. If anything, philosophers are the most miserable people in the world. Ignorance is indeed bliss. I am not happy. But being happy in overrated. Being aware of what you are is more important. That's what I'm trying.


Les Waste: good point. I was being half serious anyway.

Only the real basic modus ponens and tollens. My "metatheory of symbolic logic" doesn't do shit.

The basics of a formal philosophical debate should be taught in school at the ninth grade, in my oppinion. Would make this a saner place. As to metatheory of symbolic logic(is there such a thing? I thought you were making a hyperbolized point on general post-modernistic philosophy) I agree there doesn't seem to be much in terms of practical application, but I think there is. No philosophical system is completely devoid of it's utilitarian approach, not even solipsism(the belief that nothing else can be proven than one's existance, and that thus everything else besides that is a figment of one's imagination).

It has nothing to do with throwing it away at all. It has to do w/it not being useful in any other way than "enjoying being enlightened" which doesn't put food on the table.

I'm not going to judge the way you live. But if it was me, I'd wonder more about what's the life I'm trying to support with putting food on the table, than actually doing the latter. I have no desire to live a life based on ambition instilled in me by my social enviroment and genetic makeup, without questioning it's every aspect. This is essentially philosophical seeking, and thus, the more important aspect of living. But what do I know? My father pays my bills.