Thankful for A Classmate

It's hard to believe that this year is almost 1/4 over already.  In that time, I think this Philosophy class has really opened my eyes to some ways of seeing the world, and from points of view I would have never even thought of before. In our class, I am thankful for both Johns. John Vitzileos always has something to say in our discussions, and the points he makes always spark more debate; the debates being something in our class that I find very insightful, and really like participating in.  John has some good ideas and is a good debater, which I think is essential to dissect what we do in our class and be a good philosopher. John Cetnicar too has some good discussion ideas, and isn't afraid to interject them. Also, whenever I don't know if we have homework John C is always a reliable guy to check what we have to do and he knows whats going on. Thanks Johns!

How the Class is going

I really like the direction our class is moving in and what we do in class.  I'm a fan of the books we have read so far, and the discussions that come out of them. I think we should have more "circle" discussions where as a class we really debate what we think about certain things.  I don't really have a problem with the groupworks, as I had a class last year where group works were pretty crazy and extremely long and in my opinion sometimes unneccessary. I guess we could always have less groupworks, that would be nice. Another thing I would like to add is I really like how you incorporate music to a lot of what we learn and do in class. Music is a passion of mine and it's really fun to learn about new music and relating certain songs to what we are learning. For my English class last year, we would watch a movie after we finished a certain book, whether it is the film version of that book, or a movie that didn't seem to have to do with the book itself, but had very similar underlying themes and related to what we just read in a very interesting way.  So, watching a movie that related to what we read would be interesting, and I'm not just trying to waste time or anything, this was just something that I thought was really cool with my other English class, and a suggestion that you may incorporate it into our class. Otherwise, awesome class!

Voltaire and Camus are voting for....

Nobody. At least Camus isn't voting for anyone. In his mind whats the point in voting? Life and existence is meaningless and absurd so no matter who is in office, that person will have no point or use.   Besides, everyone is going to die anyways so voting would just be a waste of our short, minuscule, pointless lives that already have no purpose or impact on the universe.  So just sit at home and do nothing, because you can't commit suicide to end your pointless and meaningless life. That would be cheating (which then gives living a purpose, and creates a paradox loop that will never end) Camus needs to chill a little about how pointless we are, just have some fun and try not to think. Heck he should go vote and prove his life has meaning by having an impact on a country's new leader.

Voltaire is voting for Candide.  He is a naive person who doesn't have any corruption of the outside world and hopes for the best.  No matter what comes in Candide's way, he could only be living in the best world there is, so just forget about it and push ahead.  Candide could bring some real change and positivity to the political spectrum. As long as the skeletons in his closet of killing people don't get out, he should have a pretty good chance against that Nothing candidate.