Philosophic viewpoint/lifestyle.

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How long have you been studying philosophy classes 370Z Purist?

I've taken 8 classes myself at the college level and 6 religion classes. I also took 4 PHL classes in High school. Fun stuff.

Its interesting how Philosophy, Theology, sociology, and anthropology intertwine themselves together.

The Makeup of man I suppose.

Most all philosophers have interesting questions to consider, but one guy I can't stand is Singer. He is such a hypocrite. That and I'm not the biggest Rand fan, but to each his(or her) own.

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370Z Purist

This one is not in college yet. This one is soon to be an 11th grader. This one fears retribution for not having a stable "foundation" of knowledge (as per, the taking of philosophy in the educational system).

Sorry if I underwhelm people with that fact.

In fact, my interest in such things became a huge thing a few years ago for me, it's just that I "found" myself a lot earlier than most did or even bothered to do. Since then I have spent countless hours rambling on to myself (I've scared some people) about these kinds of things. I spend time on Wikipedia at 1 or 2 in the morning just reading philosophy, then undertaking interesting topics by rolling the thought around in my head, and if further interest is still apparent, I buy some works by this person. I'm still reading Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil, and I've also been told to read some modern literature (Tolstoy, Dostoyevski, etc.). I'm currently reading Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science and Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande (excellent contemporary works, both, but not "philosophy," rather a study of contemporary medicine).

I find that there is a general branching of those four things, that the way man handles himself and others in an age of realism, and how man reacts with theological dilemma and his own history of existence (so hence, anthropology) is what determines "society." To me, those four things, plus things like how man perceives reality (psychology), and possibly more facets, make up one large whole.

So no, I have not taken any philosophy courses... although I plan to in college for my humanities.
So while I am no "closet expert" on philosophy and associated topics, I still like to "dabble" in them.

Hmm, bad wording on my part. It is to my awareness that agnosticism is simply that one acknowledges there is some type of omniscient Creator or Origin, and also an acknowledgment of possible afterlife, but understands or gives in to the fact there is no definite proof or evidence or even existence of these things.

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I just rehashed what you said completely... sorry about that.

EDIT: Agnosticism: "a-" meaning without, "gno" meaning knowledge... so yes, he doesn't know at all... and so my rehash is a rehash of my incorrect previous statement.

I am some weird postmodern/contemporary Christian... so I don't even know if I can be properly categorized as Christian at all.

"Dead men don't talk," is the best explanation ... you can't ask your deceased friend if there is an afterlife, after all.

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