Philosophy Society Weekly Discussion Group drinking rules

from the scrolls of the Philosophy Society at the University of Edinburgh:

S must drink iff they are accused of…
- Talking continuously for more than three minutes
- Claiming that the other person can’t understand what you are saying because they have no access to your internal mental states
- Using the word ‘surely’
- Begging the question (one drink)
- Refusing to acknowledge you are begging the question (two drinks)
- Lying about what texts you have read (down your entire drink)
- Saying ‘Well everything is subjective anyway’
- Taking the existence of physical reality for granted
- If you defend utilitarianism you must divide the beer in your glass with the rest of the people at the table
- If you talk about the Hard Problem of Consciousness, or are arrogant enough to propose a solution, you must face the Hard Problem of Remaining Conscious by drinking hard spirits

Shamelessly made public, but with much reverence for PhilSoc. Sláinte my friends.

“…just give yourself directly to life, without reasoning; don’t worry—it will carry you straight to shore and set you on your feet…You’re not going to miss your comforts, are you, with a heart like yours?…Become a sun and everyone will see you shine” (460).

Wisdom from Crime and Punishment; spoken by Porfiry Petrovich.

Overview of All Quiet on the Western Front

The following is an overview I wrote of All Quiet on the Western Front for my AP English class. Honestly, I don’t think it’s bad considering I was a high school Senior at the time. The theme section is the best. Your welcome high school slackers–you could at least cite me.

Collin Pointon

May 1, 2007

AP English

All Quiet on the Western Front

Author: Erich Maria Remarque

First Published: 1929

Background: Novel is based on real events during WWI on the German western front. Notorious for its almost unchanged boundary from 1917-1918 and the area with highest casualty rate until WWII. Written post WWI.

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Where iPhones Really Come From

This is a fascinating look at what the label “Made in China” really means. Hats off to This American Life for letting Mike Daisey give his whole story, in his own words. And find more hats to take off for them, for fact-checking everything.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/454/mr-daisey-and-the-apple-factory

What Ever Happened to Internet Radio?

Collin Pointon

Class: Communications-Chapman Radio

12/1/2010

This essay is a response to the question: “In your opinion, what will the future of radio be? How will this affect the future of Chapman Radio?”

I happen to know precisely the future of radio. I’ll begin with arguments for why internet radio isn’t as popular as it should have been. I’ll then speak at the end about Chapman Radio in this world and its future.

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Do not travel to find yourself. Travel to make yourself.

“The labor that matter resists puts to profit the resistance of materials”

-Emmanuel Levinas

Any object that is valuable, is valuable precisely because it is difficult to get or create.

We should remember that if cancer is cured tomorrow, how many millions in Medicine will lose their jobs.

One thing that differentiates humans from animals is that animals have an intense will for survival.

In life, as important as what you are doing, is what you are not.

Behind all logic, there is a prejudice.