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innit
c'mon, little life giver
kabbes
First intersubjective, then internalised
Heh. If you have that little imagination about what you can do with a maths degree, you shouldn't really attempt any higher education at all.
Here's a hint: everything that generates any money in this world is built on statistics. Numbers make the money go round, George, and money makes the world go round.
But if you don't fancy that, you could always do one of the many careers that depends on a numerical degree, or even just the ability to construct a logical argument given to you by a maths degree. Like, well, any job worth having.
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high intelligence - or low?
kabbes
First intersubjective, then internalised
Funnily enough, actually, there is a lot of value in discovering new prime numbers. All of cryptogrophy is based around big prime numbers. If you have that kind of knowledge, you could work for the government code breakers, GCHQ, or create security systems for banks or other large industrial sectors.
I did fine art. I got top marks in all of my GCSEs and A levels and - not being funny - could basically do anything I wanted.
However, I decided that if I was ever going to make an impact on this world it would be through my art so I went down that route. Now I work at wetherspoons and have been too stressed with the whole business of trying to survive in london on minimum wage jobs that I haven't made any work in a year
However, I decided that if I was ever going to make an impact on this world it would be through my art so I went down that route. Now I work at wetherspoons and have been too stressed with the whole business of trying to survive in london on minimum wage jobs that I haven't made any work in a year
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I did fine art. I got top marks in all of my GCSEs and A levels and - not being funny - could basically do anything I wanted.
However, I decided that if I was ever going to make an impact on this world it would be through my art so I went down that route. Now I work at wetherspoons and have been too stressed with the whole business of trying to survive in london on minimum wage jobs that I haven't made any work in a year
in the world of art, producing nothing is itself a statement
innit
c'mon, little life giver
I rex you'll need to progress from "so there" as a retort first.
It's not a statement but I know that the next piece of work I make is going to be my best ever, because I've just gone and lived the whole premise of my work.
I'll show you! I'LL SHOW YOU!
my tutors telling the class about how the terminally ill curl up in to the foetal position before they die didnt exactly help..
i didnt mean to cause sniffles to come from the muslim table..
he was talking about how he thinks theres no such thing as mind and i decided to argue that there was because i think there is so argued that the mind exists as a different thing to the body in the same way that the information on on computer hard drive exists as eletronic information and eletronic information is a different thing to the hard drive. we agreed that the mind is generated by the physical brain and cant exist without it..
one of my other tutors belived that, on acoount of how we no longer use some parts of our brains that we were all once telepathic until i pointed out that if we'd been telepathic we wouldent have evolved language. she muttred something about how humans come up with un nescesary stuff in an annoyed voice
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ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
a class member actually said ''why is everything war with you?''
i kept mentioning war see. like when i was destroying all the pineal gland rubbish during the debate about parts of brain using a sword blow to the head as an example of a death where the brain wouldent have time to be flooded with anything.
also during my ''disposability of man'' speech i used war as an example of how natural selection happens among the males and how it really dosent matter if half of us die in war cos the next generation would still be as numerous and stronger than they would have otherwise been
i kept mentioning war see. like when i was destroying all the pineal gland rubbish during the debate about parts of brain using a sword blow to the head as an example of a death where the brain wouldent have time to be flooded with anything.
also during my ''disposability of man'' speech i used war as an example of how natural selection happens among the males and how it really dosent matter if half of us die in war cos the next generation would still be as numerous and stronger than they would have otherwise been
Well, they're tutors in a college, aren't they? Easily impressed and all that...
yes well when you can debate with me without resorting to taking nonsensical positions youll have room to talk wont you
Maurice Picarda
Actually, might as well flounce.
What kind of institution (and I choose the word carefully) are these people teaching in?
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
First year philosophy tutorials were always bloody awful IIRC, though it wasn't usually the tutor's fault too.
awful in what way?
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
Full of people who think they're terribly deep and original trying to show off to each other, loudly. Particularly moral philosophy. The worst offenders have mostly dropped out by the second year though.
Maurice Picarda
Actually, might as well flounce.
Thye're just as bad in epistemology and metaphysics. Only formal logic shuts the buggers up.
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
Well, apart from when they whinge about how "this looks like maths, I'm not doing a maths degree".
if i do philosophy and anyone tries that ill annihilate them
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given the poor quality of your posts here, i'd be mightily surprised if you could argue your way out of a wet paper bag
i have a degree in philosophy. don't fucking bother if you ever want to be employable.
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on second thoughts, _george, move heaven and earth to get a philosophy degree
well obviusly..
