tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130421352415377273.post197060392234857661..comments2024-03-26T03:46:04.937-07:00Comments on Books in Northport: You probably don't want to read this.P. J. Grathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12693462910472164289noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130421352415377273.post-23633857086729245702021-06-05T09:07:18.842-07:002021-06-05T09:07:18.842-07:00Phew! Thank you SO MUCH for persevering, BB! Not m...Phew! Thank you SO MUCH for persevering, BB! Not many would do so. <br /><br />Of my graduate school cohort, two I know are working in academic philosophy. Two are in the IT field. One went back to the ministry, one is a vintner, another a lawyer. I am a bookseller but do not regret my time in philosophy.But then, I still think of education as exploration rather than job training.<br /><br />As for the hard science/humanities divide and ironclad opinions, I knew a woman years ago, a lesbian, who felt that her graduate committee rejected her work in biology because it had to do with earthworms being hermaphroditic. Who knows?<br /><br />Thanks again for your unflagging efforts to post a comment!!!P. J. Grathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12693462910472164289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130421352415377273.post-91335687305165957262021-06-04T16:03:28.247-07:002021-06-04T16:03:28.247-07:00OK. Good advice. It seems my neanderthal Windows ...OK. Good advice. It seems my neanderthal Windows 7 google is fast becoming a stone age fossil.<br />We suspect panic attacks are fairly common, perhaps morso in grad school, but the Nietzshe Crisis is a new one to me! (I had a brief attack trying to spell Neet-she, by the way). As a philosophy neophyte,<br />I never finished a book, but sampled Kant, Kierkegaard, Hume, Schopenaur, Decartes etc and came away numb and befuddled, except that Nietzshe criticized Descartes' Cogito Ergo sum' and probably rightly so, but golly Descartes invented analytical geometry and Friederich only taught philology. <br />With those disqualifications though, I had three kids in grad school. The two girls were in the physical and biological sciences, which tend objective- not only that but they had excellent major profs (who<br />dutifully, along with their parents, attended their dissertations). The first still has daily panic attacks<br />involving car keys and missing volleyball games, the second cannot fly commericial without some pills<br />her physician provides (see- panic attacks are fairly common).<br /> I also followed the career of a bright kid who went to U of Minn to study for doctorate in molecular<br />biology. His crisis occurred when he 'came out' and his major prof abandoned him and was unable to finish. I suspect the humanities, being on the subjective side, may have more profs with opinions which must be adhered to. My son set off to grad school in medieval history, was a teaching assistant and had a major prof who was fluent in 9-10 dead languages. His grad career crisis involved a coed<br />who was a bipolar mathematics wunderkind/exotic dancer- ran off with his savings.<br /> So we ponder that the course of individual lives are like the metal ball in an arcade pinball machine:<br />We proceed along with or without goals, bouncing off pins sideways and sometimes backwards. That is why I am not the cowboy I dreamed of all through grade school..that and a fear of horses! Along those lines we note the PhDs who for whatever reason do not work in their field. A microbiologist I<br />know decided to move to suburban Denver and produce microbeer, a couple others work for fish and game etc...and the talented Myam Bialik, PhD Neuroscience, became an actress on 'Big Bang Theory'.<br /> So rather than face a bunch of freshmen philosophy students, with their tattoos and smartphones, you<br />use your education in the world of books and literature. No crisis there!<br /> My grades in college poetry were considerably unstellar, so my choice in quotes is plebian, but a line that I always liked was- <br /> 'You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.<br />And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.' <br /> From the Desiderata. Written by Max Ehrmann, trained not in poetry, but a lawyer- I like the statement..more poetic than my life pinball machine, no? I sympathize with your crisis. Hopefully just a one day 'I hate Nietzsche to Pieces' pandemic fomented episode. <br /><br />BB-Idahohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01388509941702241290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130421352415377273.post-54239037920655506152021-06-04T14:43:15.626-07:002021-06-04T14:43:15.626-07:00Thanks for sympathy and advice. "You probably...Thanks for sympathy and advice. "You probably don't want to read this' was almost a command to thoroughly read the Nietzsche Crisis. Since my comment<br />was all of those things, I will use 'organic' recall, and write in a processor and paste. My Neanderthal Windows 7 Google has apparently become a buried relic.BB-Idahohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01388509941702241290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130421352415377273.post-11016412568634899512021-06-04T13:04:27.391-07:002021-06-04T13:04:27.391-07:00Oh, NO! I know your comment would have been intere...Oh, NO! I know your comment would have been interesting, whether observation, argument, or reminiscence. So sorry you couldn't leave it! One thing I do when I want to leave a long comment is to compose it first in Word or in my Mail program, then copy and paste it in the comment section. That way, if it doesn't "stick," it is not completely lost, and I can try again. Although you did try again. Five times! What a revoltin' development this is!P. J. Grathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12693462910472164289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130421352415377273.post-29723736450952973652021-06-04T12:24:38.951-07:002021-06-04T12:24:38.951-07:00Fifth comment try, browser support problem
..worse...Fifth comment try, browser support problem<br />..worse than Nietzcshe..Google Crisis!!BB-Idahohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01388509941702241290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130421352415377273.post-72289082266970985122021-06-04T12:09:36.879-07:002021-06-04T12:09:36.879-07:00Read the article, pondered, wrote a long reply.
Bu...Read the article, pondered, wrote a long reply.<br />But Google is apparently at war with me, now<br />the 4th attempt.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130421352415377273.post-80864724267200768352021-06-02T08:22:53.356-07:002021-06-02T08:22:53.356-07:00Well, Barbara, philosophy isn't medicine, so n...Well, Barbara, philosophy isn't medicine, so no lives were at stake, only my potential for an academic career -- which, as it turned out, I never pursued full-time. For those seriously committed to and desirous of full-time academic careers, the stakes were much higher.P. J. Grathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12693462910472164289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130421352415377273.post-14945732860730071292021-06-02T04:54:13.254-07:002021-06-02T04:54:13.254-07:00Intellectual integrity isn't always easy, but ...Intellectual integrity isn't always easy, but necessary and important!Barbara Stark-Nemonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13017787052118941061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130421352415377273.post-21642206087345782662021-06-01T12:38:19.814-07:002021-06-01T12:38:19.814-07:00I don't know the answer, Deborah. Over the yea...I don't know the answer, Deborah. Over the years, though, I have come to think of my extreme moods and reactions (not that all of them are extreme, mind you) as weather. I'm engulfed by a storm for a while, and then it recedes -- because, I guess, life goes on, and there are things that need doing....P. J. Grathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12693462910472164289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130421352415377273.post-47688913590536264002021-06-01T12:32:11.210-07:002021-06-01T12:32:11.210-07:00Does the crisis really blow itself out, like the h...Does the crisis really blow itself out, like the hurricane, or rather is the person who has the crisis - the survivor then - blowing it out or at least partially responsible?<br /><br />Very thoughtful, interesting reading today!Deborahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02101133608076884449noreply@blogger.com