Friday, October 24, 2003

You have to love those tests where half the points gets a B- Like my philosophy of language exam.  According to the professor, that was the median score as well.  Of course, it helps when the extra credit question is the easiest question on the test.  My professor for that class is an "academic philosopher" in the classic sense of the term.  Not a lot of flair or dynamics there.  I've been lucky to avoid those types for the most part so far.  My professor for topics in theory of knowledge, for example, is a lot more structured in his approach, and there's a lot more interaction in the class, which makes concepts and arguments easier to grasp.  Speaking of that class, I copped a B on the first paper, without the aid of the course pack, even.  Sophia and I are an item again.  For the time being.  7:08:20 PM    comment [] Dispensing wise counsel I was having a conversation with myself over dinner about why I don't sprinkle as many of my own thoughts in here as I have before.  I think part of that stems from my becoming more aware that I don't really know as much about the world as I once thought I did.  As someone once wrote, the more you become engrossed in something and exposed to it, the more you realize how little you really know.  Perhaps I've become more guarded against spouting off an ignorant and poorly supported thesis, not that caution is a bad thing,  (Should probably do it more often, you might say.)  Of course, it's also worth nothing that blogging and MB'ing exist as a means and method of correcting, editing, and elaborating discourse.  So perhaps it is that I am afraid of others seeing me incorrect and would rather keep my veneer of rightness and coherency.  Or perhaps I'm intellectually lazy. It also concerns me that I haven't equipped myself enough as a source of good counsel.  It's hard to be a functioning part of a community where there is a give and take between the members when one of them (me) doesn't have much to offer in the way of spiritual support.  Which is itself quite shameful considering the amount of time I've spent in the past few years supposedly preparing myself for this.  I think it reiterates the point that this is where you can end up if you don't engage in certain disciplines regularly.  Or perhaps I was just never gifted in that area in the first place, though I think it is the responsibility of everyone in their relationships with others to be a support to the necessary extent.  7:03:28 PM    comment []

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