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shape1369

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  1. I try to go to the Rothko Chapel as much as I can when I'm at home. It's amazing. I have always really dug H R Giger. Dude was nuts. The sketches he did along with a lot of his more off beat biomechanical sculpture stuff, amazing. For a long time I couldn't get into this one permanent gallery in houston of a guy named Cy Twombli, but over the last couple years I have really come to enjoy his large color panel work. Chuck Close, if you dont know who he is. Find out. dude used brushes with one hair on them...
  2. looks like the head of a bear on the right.
  3. I see what you guys are saying, and believe me I've given a considerable amount of thought to the way this is gonna impact the near and far future. And it really isn't that big of a difference of what I was already planning. Grad school and then probably teaching afterwards. I'm ok with the idea of doing that. However, should I not go to grad school or pursue some other higher education. I have a couple other ideas that I can fall back upon. Anywho, Thanks for yall's input. It is interesting to hear what people have to think of the choice. Xero- I definitely understand that philosophy doesnt really yeild progress. Again, I'm cool with that. I just wanna think. And who honestly is to say that we can't help refine techniques in normal science through examination of method and discourse from a philosophical perspective. I think reflection upon Structure alone shows that one can help streamline the scientific process through a philosophical means. It wasn't a particularly easy idea to accept. I have been studying physics for so long, and I will always keep it as an academic interest. Just not the central one.
  4. Xeroshoes- It's not a copout. Its a decision long in the making. Over the last year or so I have been moving more in the direction of philosophy. I realized I was always more concerned with the questions of philosophy but looked at those questions through the perspective of physics. Believe me, I whole heartedly believe in an intrinsic connection between philosophy and science. I just have really gotten into the philosophy of science. I think that the problems I had on the test were more so a reflection of that choice. I understood the concepts on the test. I got back to my apt. and did like two problems that were on the test, just for some reason couldnt translate it to the test while I was taking it. Call it an awkward moment of clarity if you will. Either way, I will always be concerned with issues of science and its relation to truth.
  5. In an unexpected twist of fate as I stared blankely at my electrodynamics exam tonight, I realized that I'd much rather study philosophy... Awesome... So... I'm gonna have to completely restructure the next two years of my study... Almost two decades of knowing what I want to do only to have the manifestation of doubt come through in the form of not remember how to apply shit of the concepts I have been learning. I was able to do the work for the last couple weeks, but come test time... noooo. I guess that is also evident of the fact that I haven't been required to take a test in the last two years but have written an intense amount. I still wanna focus on physics and mathematics but purely the philosophy of such I suppose... hmmm odd night. edit for continuity in capitalization...
  6. ^Symbols- I was at a lecture last year about the limits of knowledge and this professor was using very simple logical proofs to elucidate his idea to the group, but this one girl kept attacking the validity of his method. While seemingly disjointed from the current conversation... What you were saying about asian languages preparing people better...right on. The girl couldn't concieve of one of his figures because she was so stuck on the meaning of it. I have been thinking about the problem of logic in english vs. other languages for a bit now. I think the difference lies in the implications of the language. Ideographic languages such as japanese use singular symbols(ha) to convey whole concepts while english is forced into a reductionist circle because of the nature of our language is expressed visually. Singular symbols put together in different configurations to express singular uncontextualized concepts. I have a meeting to go to about drinking... so ill finish this when i come back... but yeah, there are a couple people on this board im really interested in discussing this stuff in depth with.
  7. Ive got a test in my electrodynamics class tomorrow. Between that and my advanced calc class, I have about as much math as I can handle in my life right now. I spent an hour today listening to a professor derive the prime gradient of a normal vector to a cloud of charge exhibiting dipolar behavior yada yada yada. Only to find out (four pages of notes later) that I can treat the entire situation like a surface charge distribution issue (much easier). The only reprieve I have from this life of math is philosophy of science classes... this semester is intense... edit for punctuation...
  8. good luck on that sabe. its a chimp by the way. I had been reading an article about Intelligent Design, and I got pissed off. So in one fell ironic swoop i did my own version of creation. Thats why the two blocks are there, not only for composition but to allude to the connection of god and man through a chimp. I thought it was funny. Made my day at work better.
  9. ^i just realized that myself.
  10. new idea. ill repost when colored. (bad lighting on pic. sorry)
  11. shape1369

    throwups

    new stuff ive been tryin. bad pic (phone cam only).
  12. not quite a figure, but all your(sabe) animal posts made me wanna put this up. just a pencil drawing. edit:sorry for the bad pic. cam phone only.
  13. i leave it alone. ill stick with tequila thank you.
  14. he was out at a friend's ranch and was trying to jump saddle the thing. got behind it to jump, and then got kicked.
  15. i had a friend who jumped out of a car doing 30 cus he drank a bottle of everclear himself... the same kid was also once kicked by a bull in the face.
  16. impulse momentem theorum. F=ma is derived from that, if ya wanna get a good sense of force.
  17. most of a big bottle of tequila later... day of rest.
  18. milton or heavylox, have either of you read much about logical positivism, or weittgenstein? I am in a philosophy of science class right now and we are focusing mostly around that stuff. I have been understanding a lot more of post modernism now because of reading this stuff. Lox is right about reading about the modern period stuff first. A lot ofo the main ideas in P.M. can be seen starting to be formed in positivist writings. From what I have been understanding of things, the positivists hit a wall in philosophy, trying to decide what could ultimately be figured out by using it. Eventually they decided that there are only certain ways one can say a truth. Through examination of meaning one can figure out the limits of truth. Also that most of what we say is meaningless gibberish. The positivists died a bad death once people realized that by virtue of their own philosophy, it was pointless. But, you can see where some of the nhilistic concepts of post modernism emerge from. Also a lot of it was started by the realization of the disparity between observation, observational language and regular language. The implications for empericism is pretty interesting though. Regardless of what truth one might find through emperical data, making sense of it becomes a moot point once you try to transfer it from the observational language into regular language. As a physics student, this goes to the heart of me. As far as your original question about whether or not anyone ascribes to Post modernist ideals, I'd say I sorta do. I've been moving more towards it though from all these readings from class. I need to take a logic class, but I heard a really good lecture last year about the limits of knowledge from this visiting proffesor. edit cus to say I just realized most of what I said was covered in some form or another. But either way, any of you guys do any philosophy of science stuff?
  19. went with the sauza again... if i cant be on a beach i might as well be drunk like i am.
  20. close for sure. im waitin to see wets, before i make my call.
  21. I was actually thinkin of tryin to make the drink Rummy always talks about. wonder if i can find that bitters out here...
  22. im taking votes on today's beverage of choice.
  23. ^^thats tha plan for the day. Cash- wasnt quervo, but wasnt exactly 1800 either.
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