That's because reasoning is a faculty weilded only by choice, as opposed to apparatuses like sight and speech. Words are nature's medium for exchanging ideas between people, and as such are driven by compulsions and instinct. Pure thoughts are never visible except by percolating down through our rudimentary symbolic expression.
Lol. You're beautifully cynical chung. Too much Locke and Descartes reading makes us think Nonsense, but it's far more interesting to debate ideas which undermine everything and everyone. It puts perspective on the petty campus issues like university housing policies, and meal plans. Why do you audit a radiohead course and not simply take it? You know tons of background about radio head right?
cos I don't have time! Not sure if I'll be able to do all the homework (and yes, there are homework and group project as well)
10/17/2004 2:45 PM
Well, I audited this Radiohead decal course last semester, and I'm doing it again this semester. You can never get enough Radiohead.
But the people this semester are far more interesting. Last semester, the class constantly seemed like a crickets exhibit. This time, people talk and discuss and actually offer a lot of insight and trivia. Hell, even I was moved enough to offer some thoughts. And that doesn't happen much.
Everyone asks, what does that man say at the end of the Just video? Some of my favorites are "There's a really cool sound underground" or "I've never seen the city from this angle". But why do we insist on knowing? Once something is spoken -- once it is put into words -- once it is mortalized -- it becomes weak, debatable. It becomes just another claim, just another assertion, and invites arguments and other opinions. It loses a lot of power. And obviously, there's nothing Radiohead can put into the mouth of that man that would justify everyone lying down; yet by not doing exactly that, Radiohead hints at a deeper something that we're all missing. And that's powerful.
Similar with other things. For example, Radiohead songs like Pyramid Song, How To Disappear, etc., all move me deeply. But if someone asks me why, I wouldn't be able to say. I know why; I feel why. But I also know that once I say it out loud, it's going to sound cheesy, silly and melodramatic, and all the power will be gone.
"Go Radiohead Decal!"
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That's because reasoning is a faculty weilded only by choice, as opposed to apparatuses like sight and speech. Words are nature's medium for exchanging ideas between people, and as such are driven by compulsions and instinct. Pure thoughts are never visible except by percolating down through our rudimentary symbolic expression.
10/13/2004 1:30 PM
How dare you copy a passage from your philosophy textbook.
10/13/2004 8:42 PM
Lol. You're beautifully cynical chung. Too much Locke and Descartes reading makes us think Nonsense, but it's far more interesting to debate ideas which undermine everything and everyone. It puts perspective on the petty campus issues like university housing policies, and meal plans. Why do you audit a radiohead course and not simply take it? You know tons of background about radio head right?
10/15/2004 10:41 AM
cos I don't have time! Not sure if I'll be able to do all the homework (and yes, there are homework and group project as well)
10/17/2004 2:45 PM