Observation 1:
People ask questions in lectures:
- Some are unintelligent.
- A lot are irrelevant to the purpose of the lecture.
- Where the lecturer obliges these questions, ideas are considered arbitrarily, haphazardly, without structure and altogether time-wastedly.
Observation 2:
“You can’t be the stone or the dog.”
Lecturer, in response to a student question on existence when in a darkened room.
Stranger, but no less funny taken obviously out of context.
Lecturer, in response to a student question on existence when in a darkened room.
Stranger, but no less funny taken obviously out of context.
Observation 3:
People betray themselves by asking questions. They expose their foolishness. But if not for their self-betrayal, they would only become greater fools. Thankfully, sometimes their questions expose ideas which I’ve not yet considered to the extent of coming to a defensible standpoint.
Observation 4:
People use their knowledge from prior reading of theorists mistakenly to try to build connections where building a connection is not required and is, in fact, unhelpful for understanding.
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Is somebody unhappy with his contemporaries? The question I put to you is; are these questions foolish or do you not understand there significance?
A little disappointed in contemporaries but mostly surprised. I think I understand their immediate significance for the asker as well as the degree to which they detract from the learning experience of everyone else where the lecturer obliges their inanities.