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Nov. 2nd, 2005 10:43 am
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I don't possess a logical mind.

I know because I was trying to read Hume last night and I was slip-sliding all over the place like it was my first outing on the ice.

Ailz says Hume is easy.

Ailz has a logical mind.

The two essays we're studying for her course are the ones on The Immortality of the Soul and Suicide. As far as I can make out Hume is saying, in both of them, that human beings suffer from an inflated idea of their own importance. Also he gets in some sly digs at the clergy.

I enjoyed the sly digs.

Neither essay was published in Hume's lifetime. They were considered too inflammatory. Too dangerous to their author. When they finally saw the light of day (at the end of the 18th century) the editor surrounded them with dark matter of his own "intended as an antidote to the poison contained in these performances".

A little clear thinking and Authority throws a hissy fit.

Date: 2005-11-02 09:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com
Spooky stuff is good -

and even though I'm not a Michael Jackson fan, I still love 'Thriller'. I've seen the video a million times and I could watch it a million times more.

Date: 2005-11-02 09:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com
Thriller is fun.

I like vintage Jackson. For a few years, back in the '80s, he really was "the King of Pop".

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