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 Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 11:41 am
I'm curious, has anyone else here gotten that headache when they first started philosophy? The kind that almost feels as if the brain itself is expanding? Particularly when you first seriously picked up philosophy when you'd barely touched it before.
I remember I had one of those when I first started philosophy from reading Descarte too much. That existance stuff takes some serious thinking. xd
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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 6:49 pm
I feel your pain, brother. I started looking at philosophy as a way to make new arguments and eventually learn a small bit of truth. Hopefully you can see the humor in that last statement. Eventually I became so frustrated after too long, that I actually considered ending all philosophic thinking and pick a religion (knowing full well the logical flaws in all religions). There is actually a thread where I expressed my grief:
http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/morality-and-religion/philosopher-no-longer-i-want-a-religion/t.10360737/
Anyway, my fellow Gaians eventually calmed me down and I went back to philosophy. Fortunately for me, I found that I actually had a lot of options in the philosophy of uncertainty: I started with agnosticism, then solipsism, until I found myself very comfortable with postmoderism.
Now I just need to figure out what kind of postmodernist to be sweatdrop (there's a lot of interpretations).
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Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 9:21 pm
whynaut I feel your pain, brother. I started looking at philosophy as a way to make new arguments and eventually learn a small bit of truth. Hopefully you can see the humor in that last statement. Eventually I became so frustrated after too long, that I actually considered ending all philosophic thinking and pick a religion (knowing full well the logical flaws in all religions). There is actually a thread where I expressed my grief: http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/morality-and-religion/philosopher-no-longer-i-want-a-religion/t.10360737/ Anyway, my fellow Gaians eventually calmed me down and I went back to philosophy. Fortunately for me, I found that I actually had a lot of options in the philosophy of uncertainty: I started with agnosticism, then solipsism, until I found myself very comfortable with postmoderism. Now I just need to figure out what kind of postmodernist to be sweatdrop (there's a lot of interpretations). I am one of the opinion that a man who ascribes to someone else's ideas fully by adopting their name is counted a fool for accepting it's claim to truth knowing full well it's flaws. Then again....what philosophy has no flaws one cannot find.
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Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 4:51 pm
Niniva whynaut I feel your pain, brother. I started looking at philosophy as a way to make new arguments and eventually learn a small bit of truth. Hopefully you can see the humor in that last statement. Eventually I became so frustrated after too long, that I actually considered ending all philosophic thinking and pick a religion (knowing full well the logical flaws in all religions). There is actually a thread where I expressed my grief: http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/morality-and-religion/philosopher-no-longer-i-want-a-religion/t.10360737/ Anyway, my fellow Gaians eventually calmed me down and I went back to philosophy. Fortunately for me, I found that I actually had a lot of options in the philosophy of uncertainty: I started with agnosticism, then solipsism, until I found myself very comfortable with postmoderism. Now I just need to figure out what kind of postmodernist to be sweatdrop (there's a lot of interpretations). I am one of the opinion that a man who ascribes to someone else's ideas fully by adopting their name is counted a fool for accepting it's claim to truth knowing full well it's flaws. Then again....what philosophy has no flaws one cannot find. I chuckled a little when I read that.
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Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 9:32 am
Blaise Pascal, one of my favourite thinkers, was a genius, in mathemathics, physics, philosophy... he had a permanent headache. Pain helps us understand, but only if it comes to us. Like enlightment. cool
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