I'll start out by saying that I hate,
hate,
hate philosophy. I hated it in college, and I've hated every conversation about philosophy I've had before or since (not philosophical conversations, mind you, but actually talking about philosophy and belief systems themselves,) and I've found almost every philosophy book I've ever read to be pompous and, more to the point, completely useless as far as our everyday lives go. I'm very pragmatic. The closest I ever came to finding philosophy interesting was utilitarianism and a little bit of existentialism, but even then my next thought was, "That's nice. I wonder who supported Sartre's lazy ass?"
That said, I actually read through your whole set of posts without stabbing my eyes out (yet
), because it feels like you're actually going somewhere that applies to how real people behave in the real world, which I might be interested in. So you have at least one captive audience member for now, but I make no promises.
