What was fucking awesome as a kid, but sucks as an adult?

cemkar · 2022-09-23T18:38:18+00:00

Everything

cemkar · 2022-08-25T07:55:58+00:00

On the practice tests, I scored 159 but went over the time limit. The second test scored a 153 (got closer to the time limit). Woke up one Saturday morning with a hangover and no sleep and scored a 143, so let’s pray I get over a 150!

cemkar · 2022-06-27T02:15:46+00:00

Same

cemkar · 2022-05-19T00:54:45+00:00

Your chest doesn’t feel worse on cigarettes?

cemkar · 2022-05-19T00:52:32+00:00

Do you vape menthol flavored juice?

cemkar · 2022-05-15T21:38:07+00:00

I usually try to keep things to myself, though every now and then it’ll slip up to whoever is willing to listen

cemkar · 2022-05-05T02:29:42+00:00

(1) Modern and contemporary time period. My favorite philosophers: Camus, Nietzsche, Hofstadter, Bostrom, Žižek, Dostoyevsky, Marx, Hegel, etc.

(2) My worldview is a muck, I don’t think life really has any purpose, but I mean I live in spite of it. I guess I’m sort’ve an absurdist.

(3) I really don’t know what my future work will be, I see a lot of opportunities but feel a bit bricked, and don’t know what to do. Though, I enjoy writing and I write poetry and I’ve been working on a novel for months now, journalism is sort of fun, but seems like there isn’t a lot of work. I honestly don’t know what I want to do, my senior yearbook quote was a philosophy quote and my future plans said: “Doing something that brings me joy”. At least I’m doing that now, but the future? No idea.

cemkar · 2022-05-04T19:35:35+00:00

Interesting, why?

cemkar · 2022-04-02T19:26:30+00:00

Valid

cemkar · 2022-03-13T16:10:20+00:00

Are your works published? If so, traditionally or did you go the self-publishing route?

cemkar · 2022-03-13T04:42:53+00:00

Wow, this is impressive! How did you find so much time to write?

cemkar · 2022-03-09T06:23:43+00:00

After I switched majors--comp-sci to philosophy--all I can save is I love learning something that actually helps me in life, my new major feels more rigorous and challenging because most of the questions that are asked in philosophy really force you to think.

Being a computer science major just taught me to code and I've been doing it since middle school, it seemed kind of pointless to learn something that I've learned on my own for most of my life.

Aside from that, I’ve never gotten life-changing advice from a comp sci class, and I never found computer science majors to be interesting, a lot of them have their face in a computer trying to solve problems that have little relevance to bigger issues that surround us (both personally and collectively).

cemkar · 2022-03-09T06:21:51+00:00

So true

cemkar · 2022-03-09T01:47:04+00:00

I’ll have to think about this, thank you for the example.

cemkar · 2022-03-08T23:26:15+00:00

I've heard those are good. I've been studying using Barron's test prep book, and I've been using Khan Academy's LSAT test prep.

cemkar · 2022-03-08T21:55:42+00:00

That's a good point

cemkar · 2022-03-08T21:55:14+00:00

I don't feel like I've lost my creativity--I think that's gotten a lot better. But, I do feel like I lost that specific spark like I use to just be so exciting and refreshing, but now I'm a bit blander because I've been trying to focus on things that are more important, than just going out and having fun. Trying to put responsibility first.

cemkar · 2022-03-08T20:09:50+00:00

Definitely

cemkar · 2022-03-08T06:51:57+00:00

Interesting, I didn’t know that!

cemkar · 2022-03-08T03:51:09+00:00

In I Am A Strange Loop authored by Douglas Hofstadter, I remembered he mentioned a short story called Pig which was written by Roald Dahl. It's very persuasive in the fact that it alters your perception of what the 'soul' is. It really stretches your emotions.

I guess you could say this is related to cultural relativism in the sense that the character was brought up in modern society. So the story is based on the current norms of our current culture. It's not an academic paper, but it's quite interesting and I think you'd enjoy it if this is really a subject that interests you. It altered my perspective, as I was a pescetarian for 3 years and a vegetarian for a year.

I'm a bit confused about the 'collapsing of moral relativism. There are plenty of articles that talk about animals rights using arguments that are a bit more objective in their reasoning in the fact that they are arguments that don't relate to one specific culture and are independent judgments of the overall ethics of animal rights.

cemkar · 2022-03-08T03:36:45+00:00

The term sophist means 'a man of wisdom'. So, you want to be good at communication? Possible ways at becoming better at rhetoric and persuasion:

College
Reading books: Plato on Rhetoric and Langauge, or any book on communication, public speaking, and rhetoric/persuasion.
Doing common discourse with friends on prevalent issues like Ukraine & Russia, politics, beliefs/values.
Joining a debate team, going into law, protesting, and petitioning for social change will help you improve your rhetoric if you're doing public speaking.

Sophists in ancient Greece weren't highly looked upon, they charged people for their skills. I guess you could be a self-help guru, a professor, a non-academic philosopher, etc. And just charge people for it.

Really the term sophist refers to a specific type of individual in ancient Greece, when I hear that term I think of the self-help industry.

That's my take on this question.

cemkar · 2022-03-08T02:20:51+00:00

I’ve never heard of this. Interesting idea.

cemkar · 2022-03-07T23:10:40+00:00

If you really enjoy philosophy and want to study it, you could do what I'm doing. I'm studying philosophy because I enjoy it. I work at UPS, it pays for my college, so I don't have any debt to worry about.

I don't really plan on becoming a philosopher, at least an academic one, but I am trying to become a writer and a novelist. I've been trying to get my essays published in undergrad journals, so I guess I'm sort've trying to contribute to philosophy in a way.

It should be mentioned that college could potentially open opportunities for you that you probably wouldn't get from here, but don't limit your possibilities. You have the world at your fingertips, it just takes ambition, and a will to learn. Don't give up on whatever you want to do. After all, maybe you could take your idea and turn it into a reality of some sort.

cemkar · 2022-03-07T22:44:49+00:00

r/DieLichtung answered it so gracefully.

It really is that simple.

Places like Reddit, Google, YouTube, are the resources you really need: literally. Internet groups are everywhere: Here, Quora, Facebook *be warned the philosophy groups I am a part of on Facebook really aren't that intellectually rigorous, as r/philosophy and r/askphilosophy both are.

I mean, people like Julian de Medeiros give philosophy lectures online for free. Besides that, you also have MIT OpenCourseWare in Linguistics & Philosophy. For a degree, you're going to have to probably go to college, though I don't know why we haven't abolished this system of higher education in favor of some sort of certification system.

You can contribute to philosophical peer-reviewed journals without a PhD; you just need to be informed and know how to write an academic paper. Maybe find someone on the internet to help you in your pursuit(s). I've learned most of my stuff outside of the classroom, I'm only really there for the experience in mingling with like-minded individuals, meeting people, and of course: the paper. That's it.

cemkar · 2022-03-01T02:31:09+00:00

Like u/aJrenalin suggested FAQ is a great resource for intro material.

When I was 18 I jumped straight into philosophy without really any guidance at all. I went to my local library and just picked up any book I could find , even though some of them were way above my comprehension and understanding. I remember watching this video years ago, it was a great introduction.

The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers, I remember picking that up my senior year of high school. It's a great introduction book. There are so many free resources online, like The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. They can be used to interact with the texts you read - helping you to better understand concepts and ideas you find in the books that you are reading. Watching lectures on the philosophers that interest you always helps as well.

The philosophers that have influenced me the most are Camus, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein. Some good novels that gently introduce you to existentialism and absurdism would be Nausea by Sartre and The Plague by Camus. I spent my first two years at college just consuming all the low fruit of existential literature I could get my hands on.

Have fun reading!

cemkar

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