[QUOTE=Laihoistheman]i know im gonna sound like a moron but on that kenya thing what are the stars whitey?[/QUOTE]

I'm not sure I follow ya, there... :confused:

There's a deleted post in that thread too, that reads "I'm 1/4 Italian, does that count?"

:-/

NP Danny Elfman - Nightmare Before Christmas OST

NR Hobbes - Leviathan. It's long.

[QUOTE=Laihoistheman]i know im gonna sound like a moron but on that kenya thing is the censored thing? "whitey?"[/QUOTE]

Actually, I'm pretty sure it's ******.

EDIT: hey, I was right :cool:

///

And, another edit to below:

You're silly, too. You don't get jokes very well.

[QUOTE=Jom]Actually, I'm pretty sure it's ******.

EDIT: hey, I was right :cool:[/QUOTE]
....thanks that ansewered my questin fully

Edit to the edit above me: i know i was just playing too being sick is boring.

[QUOTE=Laihoistheman]....thanks that ansewered my questin fully[/QUOTE]

I believe the word is "******".

:/

NP: Children of Bodom- Taste My Scythe

EDIT to above the above: Jokes on the internet are hard for some people to get

[QUOTE=ICB]EDIT to above the above: Jokes on the internet are hard for some people to get[/QUOTE]

Tell me about it. You would think that people would learn by now.

In other news, we have some new critters around our townhouse: a humongous slug (rough estimate: four inches in length - he's huge), and a wolf spider.

In a different vein, we have been enduring a bizarre case of "Who the hell is knocking on our doorwall and running away?" as of late at night. Fortunately, we were able to see who's been responsible all this time, and surely some slingshot water balloons will be a-flyin' come this weekend.

All the lights are out in my building's elevator. It's pretty cool.

Also, I just saw some guy walking across the courtyard carrying a rather large bong-like apparatus. He looked quite pleased with himself.

[QUOTE=Bartender]All the lights are out in my building's elevator. I like it.

Also, I just saw some guy walking across the courtyard carrying a rather large bong-like apparatus. He looked quite pleased with himself.[/QUOTE]

a bong like apparatus? :lol:
I guess he will be happy indeed.
(soft)drugs is overrated IMO

MX is quiet all of the sudden

Well I've got through the introduction and chapters 1-6 today. I've now got to miss out chapters 7-10, and then read 11-21, before the start of next week (when I need to be ready to read Locke instead). So much reading. I had lot of set reading last year, but it's annoying because this year I have to actually do it.

Luckily I think I've understood the majority of it so far.

I need to read Leviathan this year. Good God, I have a lot of reading for my Imaging War Lit lecture. :(

I had to read all of the Iliad in just a week. Luckily I already know the basics of how it goes, since my girlfriend loves the Iliad.

EDIT: We're also reading the Aeneid simultaneously: Iliad for group conference, Aeneid for class. Too much old Greek stuff...I want to get to the Keegan history books. :cool:

Leviathan? I've heard the name, but I'm drawing a blank.

EDIT: I still want to read the Illiad. I haven't gotten around to it.

NP: Jotun - In Flames

[QUOTE=Taste_My_Scythe]Leviathan? I've heard the name, but I'm drawing a blank. [/QUOTE]

Thomas Hobbes big ol' piece of work (book).

[QUOTE=SOP]
I have Machiavelli, Locke, Hobbes and Rousseau all to study for Christmas, including reading full texts. Luckily I did the two latter last year, or else I'd be :-\[/QUOTE]

I have Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and Marx to read for Political Philosophy this year. My only slight stroke of luck is that I've done a lot of the supplementary reading on my own already (Nietzsche, Machiavelli, Wolff, and commentaries on/extracts from Hobbes and Locke), either in earlier study or for fun.

Same goes for Epistemology, incidentally. I haven't touched the main texts before, but I've read Descartes' Meditations and Plato's Meno and stuff already. Hopefully it'll help.

No, I'll admit it's the Nietzsche and Machiavelli that was for fun :)

I'm just doing a straight single honours Philosophy course, though since it's my second year I had more of a say (i.e. I had some say) in what modules I'm taking, rather than the blanket introductory stuff of last year. How about you?

I'm not really big on Philosophical literature
I've read some Blake.

but anyways, Nietzsche writes existentialist philosophy, not?
do you have any particular work to recommend, or any other existentialist philosophy.
or .wait....... am I confusing him with Sartre?

Sartre's the big existentialist, I think. One of my modules this year is entitled simply "Sartre and Nietzsche", so I assume I'll know more about the two of them in a few weeks.

[QUOTE=Spat Out Plath]History & Politics. I had Philosophy aswell last year, but I got to drop a subject after a year. As much fun as Philosophy was, it was always third place to those two. What do you hope to do after you're done?[/QUOTE]

I've no idea :)

Just chose Philosophy because it looked interesting. I'm not even sure if it leads into any particular jobs.

[QUOTE=Bartender]Sartre's the big existentialist, I think. One of my modules this year is entitled simply "Sartre and Nietzsche", so I assume I'll know more about the two of them in a few weeks.
[/QUOTE]

thanks, if you can post some more stuff on this in a few weeks, I'dd be thankfull :)

[QUOTE=Jom]Tell me about it. You would think that people would learn by now.

In other news, we have some new critters around our townhouse: a humongous [b]slug[/b] (rough estimate: four inches in length - he's huge), and a wolf spider.

[/QUOTE]

o_O

It must be one of my relatives or something.

Nietzsche's most famous book is [i]Thus Spoke Zarathrusa[/i], but I like [i]Beyond Good and Evil[/i]. I actually noticed a few days back that the quote inside Death's [i]The Sound Of Perseverance[/i] is taken from [I]Beyond Good and Evil[/i]. ("He who fights monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster, and when you gaze deep into the abyss the abyss gazes deep into you".)

[QUOTE=Spat Out Plath]Sartre and Nietzsche were both existentialists, but Nietzsche is the big one. His most accessible work, I think, is [i]The Gay Science[/i], though [i]Beyond Good & Evil[/i] is very interesting too. Go talk to Das Ubermensch (yeah, he's hardcore) in PNWI, he'll tell you all you need to know at N. Sartre was a Marxist philosopher in the same tradition, concerned primarily with being. I'm not as familiar with him, but one piece of his I came across last year was his short story [i]The Wall[/i], which is an excellent read. I posted it one time, [url=http://www.musicianforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=333527]here[/url].


Haha, I'm in the same boat. Journalism seems to be my most likely outlet, but I'm really not thinking about careers right now.[/QUOTE]


thanks for your input.
and Ad Absurdum too :)

/has a lot of reading to do

[i]Leviathan[/i] was definitely one of the most painstaking reads I had to do, even though you try so hard to think you came away with something after reading it. I can't say that I did, save for a headache.

I thought that my Greek classes were going to be boring texts, but they definitely pale in comparison. Thucydides, as great of a historiographer as he was for his time, was irritating to read just because my professors at the time insisted that we read his entire history. The [i]Iliad[/i] and [i]The Odyssey[/i] were good books, and what I came away with after that class was a little more worthwhile. The [i]Aeneid[/i] was also decent, I didn't find too much trouble with that.

Socrates wasn't too bad, either, and neither was Aristophanes' [i]Clouds[/i] and the other book we read, the name escapes me now. Anyway, I just hated the extraordinary amount of papers we had to write for that class to compliment the extraordinary amount of reading I had to do. I'm just glad that that class is over and done with, heh.

I had to read a little bit of [i]The Two Treatises of Government[/i] by Locke - man, talk about another bored-like-wood reading.

[quote=Slug]o_O

It must be one of my relatives or something.[/quote]

This thing is HUMONGOUS. It may be even longer than four inches. I'll take a picture of the slimey behemoth next time I see it.

[QUOTE=Jom]This thing is HUMONGOUS. It may be even longer than four inches. I'll take a picture of the slimey behemoth next time I see it.[/QUOTE]
:eek: Please do. I would love to see pictures of abnormally large outdoor creatures. Not the wolf spiders though. I'm deathly afraid of spiders. :upset:

/is arachniphobic

How's it going being a king Jom?


NP: Hot Cross - Fortune Teller

But wolf spiders are awesome.

[QUOTE=ShadowsFallen]:eek: Please do. I would love to see pictures of abnormally large outdoor creatures. Not the wolf spiders though. I'm deathly afraid of spiders. :upset:

/is arachniphobic[/QUOTE]
Same here man, as Dr. Jake Destructo and Bartender (I think these two) would know.

[quote=ShadowsFallen]/is afraid of spiders[/quote]

Wolf spiders are harmless... they (when I say 'they,' I mean the females) look very strange because they carry their eggs on their back in a pouch made from their silk. It's kind of freaky when you watch the eggs hatch. If you're truly morbid, you can smush the spider for a strange effect.

[url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v607/frozeninshadows/Photos/hummer1refl.jpg]Have you seen my hummingbird photograph?[/url]

I'm quite proud of it, just because it sat still for as long as it did :)

[quote=Six Foot Revolver]How's it going being a king Jom?[/quote]

Everything's in place, so much brighter from today.

It's good to be the King.

[insert any other random cliché here]

I'm afraid of all spiders, harmless or not. They just scare the living hell out of me for some indescribable reason.

I love that hummingbird. It also reminded me of when I came home from school today only to find a stray cat laying on my front lawn. It looked friendly, so I didn't disturb it. As I walked up the steps, I noticed it had a dead bird in its mouth! That was one strnge scene.

Well i just went to get several litre bottles on Stella, and i'm kicking back with them now and listening to Arsis.

Good times.

I learned from Jelle what a hooiwagen is today. Won't you join me?

///

[11:00] Caligula (l) Hannie -- White Trash: Spiders scare me
[11:00] Jom /// Let the current carry me away: Daddy long-legs are fun creatures, since they are not really spiders :)
[11:01] Caligula (l) Hannie -- White Trash: they're not? and that's the first time I heard their name, but I think I know what you mean
[11:01] Jom /// Let the current carry me away: Haha, good.

[11:02] Caligula (l) Hannie -- White Trash: we call them hay wagons for some reason
[11:02] Jom /// Let the current carry me away: What a strange name... I shall Google it to see if you and I are on the same wavelength.

[11:03] Caligula (l) Hannie -- White Trash: well we don't call them hay wagons, but hooiewagens, but you know
[11:03] Jom /// Let the current carry me away: Pfft, all I get are wagons :(
[11:03] Jom /// Let the current carry me away: oic
[11:03] Jom /// Let the current carry me away: Well
[11:03] Jom /// Let the current carry me away: I shall Google this new strange name.
[11:03] * Jom /// Let the current carry me away Googles

[11:03] Jom /// Let the current carry me away: hooiwagen?
[11:03] Caligula (l) Hannie -- White Trash: yeah, sorry
[11:03] Jom /// Let the current carry me away: It's all good.

[11:04] Jom /// Let the current carry me away: Yes, yes, some of these look exactly like them.
[11:04] Jom /// Let the current carry me away: Others are way too large and scary looking.
[11:04] Jom /// Let the current carry me away: [url=http://www.kulak.ac.be/facult/wet/biologie/pb/kulakbiocampus/insecten-ongewervelden/spinachtigen/hooiwagen4.jpg]link[/url]
[11:04] Jom /// Let the current carry me away: That is an extremely long Daddy Long-legs, Jelle.

[11:04] Caligula (l) Hannie -- White Trash: yeah :\
[11:04] Caligula (l) Hannie -- White Trash: never seen one like that, luckily
[11:04] Jom /// Let the current carry me away: The smaller ones are more playful.
[11:04] Caligula (l) Hannie -- White Trash: hold on, hanne arrived
[11:06] Caligula (l) Hannie -- White Trash: well, she's here, and I have to leave, because she doesn't like me sitting at the computer 8-|
[11:07] Caligula (l) Hannie -- White Trash: so we'll continue our spider disccusion later
[11:07] Jom /// Let the current carry me away: Bye bye beautiful, don't bother to write.
[11:07] Caligula (l) Hannie -- White Trash: :- *

Moral of the story: Jelle's girlfriend hates technology.

[QUOTE=Arucard]listening to Arsis.

Good times.[/QUOTE]
D[SIZE=2]a[/SIZE]mn straight. :cool:

I can't belive people are actually voting for me for RMOTM!

[QUOTE=ShadowsFallen]D[SIZE=2]a[/SIZE]mn straight. :cool:

I can't belive people are actually voting for me for RMOTM![/QUOTE]
if you win do you like become a mod?