tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post5451649713213996831..comments2016-04-22T17:27:06.580+01:00Jeremy[email protected]Blogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-69806283426226967572008-04-10T13:01:00.000+01:002008-04-10T13:01:00.000+01:00The concentrated study of philosophy is a solipsistic aversion to real work; it's <I>almost</I> useless, especially when carried on for that long, J. ;-) Love you, too.Fredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14147714446076460699[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-18814014813391525902008-04-10T10:12:00.000+01:002008-04-10T10:12:00.000+01:0010 years hard slog to determine that a large proportion of people are morons? Wow...Anonymous[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-80714408142247481012008-04-10T08:40:00.000+01:002008-04-10T08:40:00.000+01:00From anon @ 3.55pm.<BR/><BR/>Patrice, thanks. I'm humbled and honestly bothered that I gave some credence to the view, mad as it seemed. I'm really bothered actually... it was a major UK paper. No fact checking done? And why was I more prepared to 'believe' it there than if it was written in This Day. <BR/><BR/>Again, thanks Patrice. I want to crawl under a table and hide myself from embarrassment. And sorry, Havard and Yale.<BR/><BR/>Unless I missed the point of the article completely, which remains a possibility.<BR/><BR/>Sigh.Anonymous[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-42700066382108457642008-04-09T20:41:00.000+01:002008-04-09T20:41:00.000+01:00is Big Bhudda a real or imaginary link? the bhuddist equivalent of "God told me"?Anonymous[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-52184255311076749892008-04-09T18:45:00.000+01:002008-04-09T18:45:00.000+01:00<I>Perhaps if philosophy were taken more seriously . . . nor would there need to be an argument made for abortion - it would simply be law.</I><BR/><BR/>Jeremy, are you saying that philosophy puts an end to the abortion debate? I think it contributes to it.<BR/><BR/>@anonymous 3:55 PM<BR/><BR/>Both <A HREF="http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~nelc/arab_islam.html" REL="nofollow">Harvard</A> and <A HREF="http://www.yale.edu/nelc/" REL="nofollow">Yale</A> have Islamic and Near Eastern studies departments/programmes, which include Arabic studies.Patrice[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-63094607935994054202008-04-09T16:05:00.000+01:002008-04-09T16:05:00.000+01:00I don't know if thoughtlessness is an especially Nigerian trait at the moment. Americans too have lost their everloving minds...<BR/><BR/>See Jacoby's book:<BR/><BR/>http://www.susanjacoby.com/excerpt.htmlGorimapa[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-74151461260409944452008-04-09T15:55:00.000+01:002008-04-09T15:55:00.000+01:00Aww... <BR/>Glad to see young people turning to thought in times of existential crisis, (rather than violence).<BR/><BR/>On the topic of things young people study... read an article in a London paper recently stating that not enough US students are studying Arabic and Arabic related courses and there are not enough US with proper Arabic departemnts (1 or 2; nothing at Harvard, Yale etc.)Anonymous[email protected]