--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "salyavin808" wrote: > > > > I hope that's not an argument from authority, probably > > the least convincing way of winning an argument. All > > of the ID crowd were "highly respected" PHDs, just not > > any more, chortle. > > Isn't it fascinating that to some people who couldn't be > considered philosophers in a million years, being *called* > one confers some kind of noble and exalted status on the > person being so named? As I see it, being a "philosopher" > is kinda synonymous with "stuck in one's head." > > It can also be a cover for much darker shit:
You Kant be serious? http://www.salon.com/2013/08/15/philosophy_has_a_sexual_harassment_probl\ > em/ That's actually quite interesting, looks like some "highly respected" people need to do some thinking about social awareness and moral responsibility. Probably a paper or two in there somewhere. It's interesting why there are so few female philosophers, same reason there are so few top women chess players perhaps. A simplistic view would be the old Mars/Venus thing. But I think it's less a "women are more touchy-feely" than that men are more prone to excessive nerdiness, and sometimes to the exclusion of successful relationships or career. Women are maybe more likely to be responsible about their future and more successfully goal directed because of the possibility of having children, there is a nerve in the female brain that judges everything for long term value, whereas a lot of guys can wander about completely clueless except for a top degree in physics or philosophy. I know quite a few of them and a lot of *very* focussed women. Look at the TMO, it always seemed to be the blokes that get *really* serious and drop everything to run off to an academy and spend the rest of their lives doing pranyama. The women generally just integrate it with their careers and don't get too carried away. I remember when Marshy announced the purusha programme a guy put up his hand and said "But my problem is I have children" And Marshy replied "That's not your problem, that's your joy!" Which is a rare properly wise remark I think. So maybe the answer is that women are generally long-term smart and men use their smarts to chase rainbows if there's even a microscopic possibility there is a crock of gold at the end. Or maybe that says more about me...
