Monday, January 24, 2005

"Turn the Page" - original band, no, I don't know exactly who they were, just know it's not Metallica. Gotta love it.

The week ended well. Got a lot of crap to do before Friday. Need to finish up my lab, download my next lab, write an anthropology paper, rewrite two English essays. Fun stuff.

*smile* But it would be three, except for the fact that the last essay I did I got a 100! *whoo-hoo* My teacher liked my last part. It was an essay about assumption versus fact, and the last sentence (well, two sentences really) was: "Fact: the author of this paper is a Homo sapien sapien. Assumption: the author of this paper is a legally sane Homo sapien sapien." *snicker*

24 was telling me something about a person not being legally sane if they stayed up for twenty-four hours or more. Considering that I've done that more than once (once I got up at seven and didn't go to sleep until...*calculates*...about forty-two or forty-three hours later, give or take a hour or so) what does that stay about my mental state? Or does it only apply while you're awake within that time period?

Philosophy is cool. Finished up our discussions on Heraclitus today. Heraclitus is interesting to say the least. Check out these fragements:

Frag. 1: "This logos holds always but humans always prove unable to understand it, both before hearing it and when they have first heard it. For though all things come to be [or, happen] in accordance with this logos, humans are like the inexperienced when they experience such words and deed as I set out, distinguishing each in accordance with its nature and saying how it is. But other people fail to notice what they do when awak, just as they forget what they do while asleep." (Sextus Empiricus, Against the Mathematicians 7.132 = 22B1
Frag. 2: "For this reason it is necessary to follow what is common. But although the logos is common, most people live as if they had their own private understanding." (Sextus Empiricus, Against the Mathematicians 7.133 = 22B2)
Frag. 20: "Uncomprehendingwhen they have heard, they are like the deaf. The saying describes them: thoughpresentthey are absent." (Clement, Miscellanies 5.115.3 = 22B34)
Frag. 30: "I searched myself." (Plutarch, Against Colotes 118c = 22B101)
and, the last one
Frag. 115: "It is difficult to fight against anger, for whatever it wants it buys at the price of soul." (Plutarch, Coriolanus 22.2 = 22B85)

Neat, aye? I get to spend about an hour listening to lecture and discussion about this! *bright smile, shining eyes* Makes me happy! ^_^ Oh, and the explaination on the authors after the fragments: all we have by Heraclitus is fragments and witnesses. If he wrote a book it has since been lost to antiquity. Makes decifering exactly what he was talking about a wee bit hard.

Well, Mom wants me off so she can do work. I'll talk to y'all the next chance I get. 'Til then, stay safe and God-be-with-you (sooth: "Good-bye" is the shortened form of "God-be-with-you").
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