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So that's three different suggestions.
Naming myself, someone with 0 musical talent, after a composer would be an insult to said composer.
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Also here is a picture of my degus.
Wait degus is Canadian for dog, right?
You're thinking of Pikey.
Lucky you. This paper is really beginning to scare me. Because once you get to the nitty-gritty of the rationalists, things get fucking weird. Like Descartes says that all matter is simple extension. Ok, I got that. But it's extension simpliciter -- it is all mere extension. Then Leibniz is all fuck no man, extension is just the mind as it interacts with the force that it exerts upon substantial phenomena which are symbols of the monads.
This is, however, what happens in philosophy. You study somebody, and if you approach them without innate skepticism you end up thinking they're right. Then when you really start to understand their language and critic their arguments you begin to understand that all philosophical systems create strange and foreign worlds, in which you feel alien and lost.
God damn it
It how we make gravy.
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Are there any Philosophers what don't get all fuckweird after a while? Or did Plato just lay down the science so hard anyone who claims the name just has to go for the insane plans for a better tomorrow (tm).
Unless you're high. Then it all makes perfect sense, but is way less broadly applicable than it claims to be and in numerous plausible contexts it's actually pretty stupid. Except metaphysics. That's the one where after the other guy goes, he passes the bowl and you say "well, maybe, but what if..." and so on until everyone reaches a position they are satisfied with. For example, birds = treefish.
Drunks Against Mad Mothers
What kind of dog is that?
Duuuuuuuuuude. You just
blew
my
mind.
It would be safe to say that, to me, MGMT is the anti-Coldplay.
I don't know. I know Descartes philosophy the best, because I've been studying him for two semesters. When you first study him, he uses quite strange terminology. However, when you start to understand it and then think in it, his positions seem incredibly fruitful and accurate. But when you really, really narrow down (for instance, I'm working on substantial space in Descartes right now), you realize how incredibly strange the construction must be. And you think it might be just him, but when you begin to study other philosophers, they create equally as strange worlds. And the same thing happens in logic. Logic is seemingly perfect until you get down to modal logic and all those other things (I'm simply reiterating some books and stuff I've read here; I'm not yet well versed in the deeper levels of logic) the foundation is completely paradoxical and fractured.
It's both frustrating and exciting, I find.
What is mgmt like I have never heard it
The basis of both bands is arpeggiated hooks a la Philip Glass/Kraftwerk and melodic bass a la New Order. MGMT is just quirky and less processed, while Coldplay is more polished.
Psychedelic synth rock, basically.
For some reason I just read your sig to the tune of the theme from Black Adder II. eg:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjFB1FZdKU8
Personality is like this for me.
Since psych grew out of philosophy before making a serious attempt to split of and try its best to be scientific, a lot of the early theories are holistic ones.
Trouble is they're also mostly unfalsifiable. Like Freud, he still sticks around because people keep "finding" things that support him. But Freudian theory has an answer for everything, it's all fucking circular.
So wether or not he's right, it's impossible to tell. In effect, it's useless in a practical sense to try to derive more clinical interventions for peoples problems from him.
I haven't learnt application yet, but my lecturer told me that freud only works for about 4 good applications, out of everything Freud said it could fix.
Perhaps one day all the disparate psychological fields will learn enough that they arrive at some kind of structure that resembles what Freud thought. Then again, maybe you can throw anything into Freud and still come up the the right answers.
So I kind of find those kinds of theories, in psychology, to be a bit of a waste of time. You can't work out if they are true or not, so you should be dropping them and moving on to other things, and just remember them in case it turns out that something is similar.
That makes a lot of sense when you describe it that way.
Congratulations, you've done metaphysics.
Drunks Against Mad Mothers
It's Royksopp at the moment.
Corgi.
So it is like Radiohead's synthey stuff then?
Much. much poppier.