galvagin

Man...I got out of school and entered the corporate world. I can't claw my way back fast enough. I'm working on some study guides for the GRE...any advice on that?

You said:

Despite my crazy rants, this is what I'm getting at. I understand that it's too simple to say we're just taking it. But I still think our goals in "democratizing" this place have to do with making it a friendly oil supplier, and not with helping the Iraqis, or even with stopping terrorism. I mean, Bush's whole campaign is based on the fear of terrorism! He doesn't want us to think it's gone

So, does that offer of a couch still stand? It's looking more and more like I am going to need a place to crash for one night at least. I've got some good solid leads on apartments, but all want to meet before anything official is done. I will likley be moving up early Friday morning, which would put me in town midafternoon, but I am flexible of course.

Thanks a bunch!

Whoops! I accidently deleted your message. I got the point though. Thanks for help! No, I do not have your cell number. E-mail it to me anytime.

Yes! Thank you. And I believe you are correct, I am talking philosophy of science. Thanks again, I really appreciate it.

hey there -
thanks for the friend offer. i feel all flattered & what not

and i understand the tension/pain between "socially conscious" and "academic" -- i know i've been through it & most of my friends have been. some of us come down one way, some the other. it's a rough choice .... and i have heard from my NGO type friends that things are a bit lean right now. really, best of luck!!! i'm sure you'll get something ..

you've heard of idealist.org i'm sure right?

the new site looks great! - but glad to see you're still hanging round these parts too

indeed - the wife has recovered. thanks for the kind thoughts. she needed the karma

crank calls at 4am are never fun. i think we used to have a number that was close to a pizza place in a previous apartment - so yea. we got lots of random calls there. maybe it's just a "me" thing?

and yer welcome about the site

I think I have a better idea what you mean now. When you talked about a "shared, non-external" worldview, I thought you were making some kind of grand claim about the nature of the world... but your most recent comment puts it in better perspective. I agree that the common-sense interpretation of the world is more likely than the evil demon (or any of a variety of less venerable alternatives).

I still don't really understand what you mean by saying the world isn't "out there" while I'm "in here"... I think that's the way things are (at least when I'm in a "Western" mindset)... but I can see that your argument against extreme skepticism holds perfectly well even if I am "in here", so it is perhaps a non-issue.

My rationalist self (what's left of it) still longs for certainty, though. When I disagree with somebody... when somebody says, "This is obviously the right choice" while I'm thinking, "What pathological asshole could possibly think that??"... I want a Reason to give him: to ground our disagreement in something solid, then work forward to an Answer. But I guess it's fruitless.

Maybe it's just that I'm tired of discussion. I've been debating this issue, that issue, and the other issue for 25 years, give or take a few. I want to Resolve them, once and for all... but I can't. Not even for myself, never mind others. Alas.

Anyway, enough angst. Should you ever happen to be in my neck of the world, I'd be honoured to buy you a pitcher or two of your beer of choice.

Cheers... Zork

sorry to see you won't be updating this journal regular like. i might have to seek you out on livejournal eh?

hope your grading goes well. when i was working on master's degree, before starting my ph.d work, i was a TA. god how i hated grading. the worst, for me, was the essay question at the end of a multiple choice test. i think i was being punished for all the terribly illegible tests i'd handed in all these academic years.

hope the grading goes well!

hah. unique and beautiful. what a charmer.

Good to hear from you!

And, by the way, the Philosophy club is practically grounded on your pedantry. Come back to us!

I'll let you know about work when I do!

Hey man, good to meet you this weekend. Thanks for showing me around. I had a good time!

hey, long time no SG...

Dude I'm starting to feel really pathetic about this site. At first I was amped on how it seemed so non exploitive and all that stuff but I'm starting to really feel like this site is nothing but a big disgusting symptom of a sub culture that uses cynical aesthetics in place of an actual personality. I can't even look at the pictures without feeling like a total sucker for a half assed marketting scheme... and I question missy's abilities as an erotic photographer. Anyway I guess what I'm asking is... how do you justify it to yourself?

My condolances. I understand completely.

And sorry, that must have been a typo, I actually meant "Give a rocker to that old madman Galvagin."

I guess bars would be acceptable

I really appreciate the offer, but I actually am allergic to snarly grad students, er, I mean cats.

I might have to take you up on it on the second night, but I'm actullay looking forward to hostelling again. I haven't done it since Europe. Go ahead and send me your contact info through my "contact" tab on my profile. Oh, and if you wanted to bring some young, nubile, co-eds to help guide me around our nation's capitol, I wouldn't be opposed.

I completely understand, and thanks for the offer!