Well I'm gonna try finish it either tonight or tomorrow to hand it in on Thursday...would you mind proofing it?
I'd like to commemorate this day as the first time anyone thought it was a good idea to ask me to proof something.
In all honesty, your opinions are your own, and there is nothing I could do that F7 can't. I know you're joking, but good luck with that paper. The Allegory of the Cave may be my favourite part out of that book. Also, the Matrix and the 13th Floor did a good job of trying to make that idea into a movie but sucking out loud with it.
I have a list that I keep updating throughout the years that contains about 40 halloween costume ideas that I would like to use. As it stands right now, I have no idea what I'm going to be this year.
Location: In a land without pants, or war, or want. But mostly we care about the pants.
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Yup. The Allegory of the Cave and I'm comparing it with St. Augustine's City of God...looking specifically at freedom and slavery.
That is an interesting subject - it practically writes itself! I must admit my Augustine is somewhat shaky as I've only really read summaries of his works (a long time ago), and not the originals, but I would think that the Orwellian idea of "slavery is freedom" might be a good starting point, as Augustine was arguing that submission to the will of God through faith was of central importance and the necessary precursor to joining the City of God over the City of Man. Subjugation to another's will (albeit a god's) - slavery - was touted as a positive step, and not a negative.
Plato's Cave was much more of a negatively charged realm, and the reverse-Orwellian "freedom is slavery" is much more appropriate to his purpose - the viewers in the cave *think* they are free to move and act in the realm of reality, but are actually bound by their fundamental inability to perceive the puppeteers who are dazzling them with shadows. I'd contrast the two approaches and go from there; but obviously there are numerous ways to go at it, some of them undoubtedly more insightful than that.
As an aside, and although I know this won't help you in this particular assignment, Neal Stephenson's Anathem includes a considerable amount of neo-Platonic discussions amongst the characters, although more in the vein of a concept of multiple worlds linked together in a sort of chain of perfection where each world is the Platonic realm of another, less perfect world, and so on down the line until you presumably end up at one end in utter chaos and at the other in conceptual nirvana.
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I had such a topsy turvy day. On the way home, I saw one of the most exotic looking women I've ever seen. Brown hair, great smile, cute face, awesome style and electric eyes. I couldn't stop staring. I was on the phone and was looking at her for most of the convo. She must have thought I was a perv.
(How come these situations seem to usually happen when you have a significant other?)
Then tonight, I really got a wakeup call on my living situation. The Landlord just came down and asked if it was cool of they show the place off tomorrow night. So if I get a roommate before the end of the month, then I get to stay (desired solution), and if not, I'm out. All because of the goddamn French wench... Damn her.
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I want a .gif of any number of the South Park clips where a character blows their brains out. The mayor did it, the queen, the dad in the Pinewood Derby episode.
I really just want to post it in a thread every time someone says something stupid.
I want a .gif of any number of the South Park clips where a character blows their brains out. The mayor did it, the queen, the dad in the Pinewood Derby episode.
I really just want to post it in a thread every time someone says something stupid.
Why would you want to reply to your own posts?
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I hope it is taller than what it looks like in the picture haha.
But that's awesome, I wish I could do something crazy like that.
Haha I spent the last hour going through and picking out my routes. Yeah most of them are 60-80 ft, there are a few 200's in there too. I used up like 150 sticky notes trying to pick which ones I want to do. Beautiful rock, beautiful features.
I did these 2 weeks ago, Cathedral Peak (600 ft? I think)
(route on the right, the walk off is on the left)
and Tenaya Peak (1200 ft)
in the Tuelomene Medows in Yosemite. Really fun. My partner wanted to free solo (i.e. climb without a rope) the first 700 ft of Tenaya Peak... I was scared less, but I did it.
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The two things that piss me off the most? (1) Judging events through an ethical lense that could not be applied to the event as it took place. (2) When my mind fails to work at the speed I'm use to it working / need it to be working.
No matter what 4x4 or evilcougar say, "Rockin' in the Free World" is the best song ever. Ever!
we've got a thousand points of light
for the homeless man we've got a kinder gentler machine gun hand
Take that, ya philistines!
It's even better when it's not Neil Young singing it...
I had such a topsy turvy day. On the way home, I saw one of the most exotic looking women I've ever seen. Brown hair, great smile, cute face, awesome style and electric eyes. I couldn't stop staring. I was on the phone and was looking at her for most of the convo. She must have thought I was a perv.
(How come these situations seem to usually happen when you have a significant other?)
Then tonight, I really got a wakeup call on my living situation. The Landlord just came down and asked if it was cool of they show the place off tomorrow night. So if I get a roommate before the end of the month, then I get to stay (desired solution), and if not, I'm out. All because of the goddamn French wench... Damn her.
The exotic girl and the french wench hate you because you use the phrase 'topsy turvy'.
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I'm working with one of the biggest idiots of all time today, it's all I can do from getting all stabby and face punchy on him and others today.
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