Interview with GoshisDead

My name is a jab at people who are afraid to commit to an ideal. A Nietzstchean reference but afraid to take the Lord's name in vain.

Avatar is so classy, its a Southpark reference condemning the hairy death of giant guinnea pigs.

It would be obvious if you were a member of team obvious.

Given the constant banter about free will on the forum either I chose to join the forum or a confluence of events stemming from the big bang and beyond forced me to join all the while making me think it was my choice. Oh and it seemed like the only forum around where the worst types of trolls are not pandered to, that much.

I am a selective poster, I tend not to care about a lot of the issues on the forum and don't feel that my adding two cents would be worth the 5 cents of time it takes to add it. So my post and thanks counts are lower than one might expect from an active forum member of two years.

I am not easily agitated and have bad spelling.

Judo, Fishing, Linguistics, Art, Writing, and since I spend so much time at it anyway I decided to make it a hobby, disciplining children.

Everything coincides with philosophy, as I have an unpopular working defenition of philosophy. Philosophy is a meta-doscussion. This meta-discussion can be about anything, and thus everything can be related to philosophy. However my hobbies do tend to be directly influenced by philosophy. I paint and it tends to be abstract post modernism. I write and it tends to be idealistic mysticism. I practice martial arts which has its own set of cultural and life changing philosophies. etc...

My main interests other than making sure a family is successful and provided for are linguisitcs and cultural studies, which is the reason why most of my posts have an angle that at least borders on these subjects.

I enjoy the ethics forum, although it always seems to come down to cultural ethical relativism. I enjoy the aesthetics forum although I am woefully uneducated in the theory. I enjoy the social and language forums, although the philosophy of language often has no real connection with linguistics proper. I also enjoy metaphysics and religious forums, as I am a religious sort of guy.

I have not blogged in a while, I normally blog when a book I'm reading stimulates some sort of thought string that I think needs to be written in order for me to process it better. Lately I have been trying to write fiction and the books I've read do not lend themselves well to bloggin in this venue.

Pretentious?

I spent a lot of years writing linguistic analysis for people with little to no education past middle school. My posts tend to be pedantic because of it. I normally use a style that paints a broad picture then isolates the exceptions or anecdotes that make my point. Because in descriptive linguistics one writes about the rule then the exceptions to the rule under which conditions. Sometimes its effective, often times it blows up in my face, or my point is lost in the generalization.

Become more interesting myself.

I enjoyed Hume's discussion on causation in a 101 class ages ago and was hooked ever since.

I enjoy philosophy because it forces my mind to adjust to the openly non-applicable.

Its connection with history, watching the ideal become part of the cultural model of an era, then change.

If we were meant to be our own prime moving agent, we would not have language or culture.

Philosophy benefits the world by providing a venue in which to non-judegmentally examine the human condition and its relationship with the universe.

Philosophy is horribly non-applicable. Often what comes from philosophy takes a generation or two to distill into some applicable form that could influence huamnity

Language

Math

I am in love with Henri Bergson. Mainly because he wrote Laughter and I truely do enjoy laughing.

Bertrand Russell. I really do dislike people that are so ridgid that they will not even entertain the possibility of the non-empirical real. And he's boring about saying it too.

Armegeddon

Libertarian-ish

uniformal

ignorant

PC!

Phenom