Re: [CH] vic's rice balls and other questions...

VoodooChile (rael64@qwest.net)
Tue, 15 Oct 2002 10:59:52 -0600

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>Rael, did you finish your thesis?
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Was a mere 10 page paper.  Existentialism.  Ended up being entitled 
"Paradox of Despair in the Works of Søren Kierkegaard". B+.  I'm 
quite satisfied, especially from this instructor (he was a teenaged 
existentialist and trekked around Europe with nothing but 
Kierkegaard...which is better than Nietzsche, I suppose or, gawd, 
Heidegger; of course, he ended up in India, so go figure...).

I couldn't quite get the right angle for the paper I *really* wanted 
to do though.  The thesis (generally and tentatively) was: "Despair 
in Regards to the Inevitability of my Crying Like a Child because Too 
Much HotLuck Food has My Arse Spewing Flames and Screaming For Mercy 

Obvious problems with that title alone, yes.  Wasn't sure if I could 
wank out (damn that Python site) 10 pages on the Despair alone and 
not have to bring in the question(s) of gods/divinity/El Grande, 
which would of course lead to far more than 10 pages cuz I'd have to 
quote from the Book Of El Grande, yes, and...

well, you understand.

-- 
Peace...
Rael64

"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand 
by the president."   -Theodore Roosevelt-

oops...

<ahem>

Football Commentator:

Archimedes out to Socrates, Socrates back to Archimedes, Archimedes 
out to Heraclitus, he beats Hegel [who, like all the Germans, is 
still thinking].  Heraclitus a little flick, here he comes on the far 
post, Socrates is there, Socrates heads it in!  Socrates has scored! 
The Greeks are going mad, the Greeks are going mad.  Socrates scores, 
got a beautiful cross from Archimedes.  The Germans are disputing it. 
Hegel is arguing that the reality is merely an a priori adjunct of 
non-naturalistic ethics, Kant via the categorical imperative is 
holding that ontologically it exists only in the imagination, and 
Marx is claiming it was offside.  But Confucius has answered them 
with the final whistle!  It's all over!  Germany, having trounced 
England's famous midfield trio of Bentham, Locke and Hobbes in the 
semi-final, have been beaten by the odd goal, and let's see it again.

[Replay viewed from behind the goal.]

There it is, Socrates, Socrates heads in and Leibnitz doesn't have a 
chance.  And just look at those delighted Greeks.  [The Greeks jog 
delightedly, holding a cup aloft.]  There they are, "Chopper" 
Sophocles, Empedocles of Acragus, what a game he had.  And Epicurus 
is there, and Socrates the captain who scored what was probably the 
most important goal of his career.