h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

can i be 100% sure that this computer i'm typing on is really here? no.... i could be dreaming... or something....
i dont know that i'll like that section....

and anthropology is the study of clutures... not just ancient. and i dont /have/ to take it... i chose to. apparently its very helpful, and i think that finding out about other peoples cultures could be very interesting.
although i wish at the moment that i could drop the course. i want to get into it, but we're still on the introduction.... and i have a page of homework in it ew homework..... but i'll stick with the class.

'can i be 100% sure that this computer i'm typing on is really here? no.... i could be dreaming'
...or perhaps halucinating as you float across the sea in a purple dingy.
Hey, you never know.

Sometimes it does take a while to get into a subject, hopefully you'll enjoy it more as you get into it.

Cogito Ergo Sum. And if everyone cogito ergo sums and everyone cogito ergo sums that your typing then you are typing.

wow job...you've totally and completely lost me...

can anyone translate?

(Would it help if I said Cogito Ergo Sum means I think therefore I am?)

Yes, it would.

totally. thanks job, thats a great help

as yes philosopy.... unfortunately only wednesdays and fridays....
"do i consider suicide a way out?" do they expect me to answer that honestly? i mean if i say i do consider it a way out will i be sent to a councillor? honestly.... such personal questions to ask studednts in random surveys to be handed in.

i'm doing my homework
playing on hootoo is balancing out the waves of nausia that come from my anthropology homework......

Say i consider suicide a way out for many people but not an option I would usually choose to take.

Then ask a way out of what?

I don't usually post to your journal threads, but when it comes to philosophy of suicide... I endured two lectures of that in my first year at Uni; the subject was somehow made extremely boring. (Though quite a few people opted for it as an essay topic because it was seen as a bit of a soft option.) About the only interesting moment came when the lecturer informed us of her fears that about a third of us (and I have no idea why 1/3) would be tempted to use our Amazing Powers of Philosophical Argument to talk depressed people _into_ killing themselves instead of talking them out of it. This led, via a thread on the University's Anime Soc. fora (where suicide has become something of an in-joke), to F19585?thread=536020 and A3336554.

The moral of which is, er, that philosophers have some very strange conversations.

Good luck with the anthropology work.

Anthropology!! Did a little of that stuff in one module I did at uni. Wasn't as interesting as it might have been. But then it could've been the hard seats and the dull lecturer.

Its in axiology I think.... Anyway, I dont do it until next year anyway.

at the moment I'm doing Inductive and deductive arguments...

If I ever become a vegetable, I wish to be killed.

ok job. i'll keep that in mind. and just for the record i wish the same thing.

nice to see you RFJS
thanks for the links, i'll to read them as soon as i wade through this pile of homework that seems to have accumulated...

CRAP! HOMEWORK * away to do homework....*

I hope you weren't expecting those links to be of any practical use, since they won't be unless for some reason you need to know about U.K. suicide law. If you were expecting anything philsophically useful then, well, you've probably found these already:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/suicide (In my experience the Stanford Encyclopaedia is a good starting point for most stuff -- except Nietzsche. They really don't get Nietzsche.)
http://comp.uark.edu/~mpianal/suicide.htm

Isn't this jolly?

thanks RFJS. thats great

mmmmhomework. my eyes are glazing over already just thinking of it all... i guess i better get started so that i can go grocery shopping tonight. lately i havent been eating lunch, and its not good for me.... so definately time to go and get food for lunches.

i learned something new about me today... apparently vegetarian lasagna is my favorite food.
its not really.
i got home and i'm so hungry and my mom told me she made me my favorite thing... i was thinking of all kinds of foods that i love and then she proudly announced that she'd made vegetarian lasagna.... i confess to being very dissapointed, but she seemed so happy about it i didnt want to be rude or mean by telling her that i really dont like that at all....

well it cant always be

Too right, it can't always be cheesecake lasagna. You need sone vegetables, after all.

cheesecake lasagna.
something about that idea alarms me.... i wonder what it would taste like, then again...maybe i dont want to know.

just for the record it wasnt really that bad. i think it needed to be cooked a little longer though. the carrots were still kind of hard and the lasagna was a little wattery....but all in all not bad.

ew vegatables.... some are good. but all i had for lunch was a small bag of carrots so i'm not feeling to inclined to eat any for a while.

Man why does everyone eat carrots for lunch. Eat a chocolate sunday dammit (is a song by blink 182 for the sake of not being yikesed).

'i confess to being very dissapointed, but she seemed so happy about it i didnt want to be rude or mean by telling her that i really dont like that at all....'

Been there.

I used to eat carrot sticks with my lunch almost every day at one point..but then I did get a bit bored of them after a while..and I like spinach and celery so I guess I'm just odd like that.

I didnt have lunch today....