I said I would never get a blogspot. When I got a blogspot I said I would never be philosophical. My brother Matt (mbnovak.blogspot.com) is the philosophical one of the family and I feel way inferior when I even attempt to be philosophical. However, I am going to be philosophical for one blog.
I am writing as gina andersland. However, gina andersland does not exist yet. Therefore do these blogs exist?
I have come to realize that the only thing that makes a philosopher a philosopher is the fact that they end all paragraphs with unanswered questions. So now that I ended my paragraphs with quesitons do I feel like a philospher?
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What's in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, or something like that.
Actually, if we were going to talk philosophy here we're maybe getting into some phenomenology - what exists is only what exists to us, etc. Thus, if it is in our realm of circumspection it exists to us. I don't really remember much about this, so I guess phenomenology is really only in the margins of my being. Though I guess really you're wondering more about what exists, which is ontology apparently (this is a word that really isn't in my normal vocabulary). But it's the same as metaphysics, which I understand somewhat. I should go back to school for this stuff. It's amazing how much of it I don't know after 4 years of studying it.
Actually, I just went and read a review of phenomenology on a web page and it just blew my mind all over again. It did at the time I first learned some of it, and it is right now. Holy crap.
Anyways, I just wanted to say that some of us REAL philosophers don't just end sentences with question-marks. Real philosophers perfer elipses... Where we make a statement, take a position, but don't end it there, knowing that there's always a further investigation... But yeah, philosophy does answer questions. Asking is key, but there's always the end goal of answering...
No, no, no. You've got it all wrong. Sometimes it's enough just to ask the question and be satisfied in knowing there can never be an answer, but that you've stirred people up to contemplate another possibility. Now THAT'S philosophy.
Yes, contemplating uncertain possibilities is good, and an important part of philosophy. But REAL philosophers propose answers too. Aristotle. Thomas Aquinas. Neitzsche. Descartes. All of them started with questions, but also had philosophies - answers of some form or another.
so the whole reason i didn't want to write anything philosophical is because of the response i would get from matt.... and who the heck is Cal??? I'm not doing that whole debating thing back and forth. BIOLOGY not PHILOSOPHY. Dragon! Dragon! I don't do that tongue thing. (mulan)
One more thing, sarcasm.
o, it's mom
I love mulan!
I wasn't being hard on Gina. I was just trying to say that she landed on a solid, traditional philosophical question - such a good question that there are entire fields devoted to answer it and derrivative questions. And I wanted to defend philosophers a little.
And my science isn't all unfounded. I'm just asking questions, normally by posing hypotheses like good scientists. "How do we explain some species having more chromosomes than others?" and "Are/How are heat and speed related?" are terrific questions, even if a bit simple. So there.
Well now I feel good for asking a real philosophical question. I am such a genius.
Mulan was a good flick. Speaking of which, I watched Aladin last night.
YOU PEOPLE MAKE ME SICK, WITH YOUR HORSES AND MULAN AND IT'S ALWYA THE SAME NO MATTER WHOSE BLOG I'M ON. AAHHHHH! GET A LIFE YOU SICKOS!(WHY IS NOT ONE COMENTING ON MINE UGH)
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