mmoa_writes

Oh yeah, and the philosophy students at our school really get to me. It's like, how can you know so much, and yet nothing! Fuck it, I'm only talking about stuff I had to teach myself. You're taking exams in this thing, and you don't know squat.


Example. Talking to one such student and she mentioned one of the moral issues was why would God perform certain miracles at one time, but never any time later to help people in every day life. Fair enough, I thought, but then I replied, "true, but then there's the idea espoused by one theological viewpoint that miracles were never actually meant to help people (and let's be fair, healing a few beggars and raising one man - a relative, btw - from the dead, does not constitute to almighty saving the world action) but to point to Jesus' identity as the Messiah (which brings up a new debate on why certain Christians believe in a more interventionistic God and so on and so forth...)."

She's like, "oh, I never heard of that."

WTF?

Then on life after death, I bring up how some cults and religious '-isms' don't technically have an afterlife - certain offshoots of Judaism came to mind - and again, she was all 'well, I don't know about that' in a really dismissive sort of way like, 'if it's not in my textbooks...'

Dude, why the hell would you make an argument about something without knowing as much about it as possible? It's so bollocks! I was like, 'Well, what the hell do you do during those goddamn philosophy lessons of yours?'

Not the first time either. During last years course, one of them got really excited about the idea that we would never be able to prove that we weren't a computer programme or hibernating beings with our brains hardwired or something similar. I was like, "so?" I mean, come on! That's the big news? I was debating that shit in year seven with philosophy grads online, for goodness' sake. Six years later and some retard comes allong like it's the hidden gospel of reality or something. Bullshit. God, I hate being an auto-dictat.