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How's Everyone Feeling Right Meow?
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Feeling more optimistic than earlier.
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan
I'm feeling fine.
A little bit sore, but not as sore as I thought I was going to be today.
Made eye contact with a couple of projects in and around the house, trying to pick one to work on later: Play piano, do some machine embroidery on the hood of a not-quite-finished robe, clamber up a ladder in the living room and finish repairing the wall so that I can put the architrave back up over the front window (took the window trim off so that I could add some more insulation, but had to wreck a lot of the old plaster to do it). But mostly I'm trying to get psyched up to get out of the house for a while. Inertia. I haz it. 
Fat. I feel fat and lazy. Being out of school means the gym is an hour away. Haven't worked out other than some calisthenics for a couple of weeks.
Eating like I have in the last couple of days hasn't helped.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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Pretty good day today. Emotional, but very productive, and I got on with people pretty well.
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan
 
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Home  RE: How's Everyone Feeling Right Meow?
December 29, 2016 at 7:31 am
(This post was last modified: December 29, 2016 at 7:33 am by emjay.)
Seriously thinking of doing an open study A Level in Philosophy. Over two years it covers four key subject areas: epistemology (so I can actually learn what that bloody word means
 ), Ethics... including Aristotle and Kant, philosophy of religion, and philosophy of mind. As a general rule I'm not very good at exam based courses because the pressure always gets to me and my mind goes blank... so I do much better at coursework based courses... but in this case I think I'd stand a chance of getting a fairly good grade because the latter subject is already second nature to me, the penultimate one is perhaps very well prepared for just by being on this site for the last couple of years, the second is what Nestor/Mudhammam has got me interested in reading about with Plato etc, and the first... who knows... pot luck on that So doing this course not only looks like a great way to test what I already do know, but also to learn in directions I'm already interested in and hopefully get a qualification out of it. If the exams are about the ideas then I should be okay, but if it just turns into a general knowledge quiz about names and dates, that's when I'm going to have a problem because I never remember stuff like that, even when not under pressure. But nonetheless it does sound like a generally win win thing to do, that should be a lot of fun. Worth £429 for a two year course I think.
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