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Originally posted by Stealth Moose
Corrected.

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Originally posted by Lord Lucien
So that means you're based out of Spokane? Hahaha! B*tch I'mma commin' for you!

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Originally posted by RagingBoner
I read Twilight and I am Touchy-Feely. But that does not contradict what I say!

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Originally posted by Stealth Moose
Lolz. I think I still have that picture of you and what's his face.

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Originally posted by RagingBoner
I'm not averse to Kun retaining his amulets in combat. I just think it's silly that Nephthyspeople are b1tching and moaning that it's "unfair" if he doesn't have them.

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TJ.
i mean, i don't consider anyone i meet on the internet to be an actual friend, but to each there own.

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Originally posted by Zampanó
[grumbling about 1st year philosophy students]

I'm convinced that it is because of how the classes are taught. First, a concept is introduced. The students are expected to understand the arguments. The thing is, the old style philosophers were so paranoid that they make their arguments like fortresses. If you give them ground (i.e. accept their assumptions) then they literally cannot be proven wrong.

The next class period, the students are all excited to find such a smart, well thought out worldview and they are convinced that if everyone would just learn [utilitarianism or whatever 1st year text they've been assigned] then the entire world can get straightened out. They're excited to find out what more the class can possibly teach them.

The professor then proceeds to thoroughly debunk the philosophy, starting with the assumptions and then moving into various contradictions that may arise. The students' worldview is shattered. A new topic is introduced, usually one that was a response to the flawed initial topic. (Old style philosophers also liked to call each other stupid.) Now the 1st year philosophy majors have a brand new concept to latch onto, and the cycle continues.




It's a bit like econ-majors. The intro classes are pretty interesting, and convince students that they know everything about the topic. Why, they ask, have unions been allowed to survive when pure competition is obviously the best thing ever conceived?! Then they take 312 and find out about Monopsony and/or collective bargaining...etc. The problem is that people are way overconfident in what they know, even when there is obviously a body of knowledge they do not yet have.

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It's a bit like econ-majors. The intro classes are pretty interesting, and convince students that they know everything about the topic. Why, they ask, have unions been allowed to survive when pure competition is obviously the best thing ever conceived?! Then they take 312 and find out about Monopsony and/or collective bargaining...etc. The problem is that people are way overconfident in what they know, even when there is obviously a body of knowledge they do not yet have.

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Originally posted by Lucius
I have taken 20 credits worth of Econ classes and I still have no idea what the f*ck is going on.

All those neat little models and thought experiements kind of fall apart.

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Originally posted by Dr McBeefington
Not really, it's all pretty simple if you learn it yourself and not the way they teach it to you. To be fair, I'm more of a financial/macro guy and I wouldn't know dick about micro.

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Originally posted by Dr McBeefington
I didn't find econ classes to be anything special. I learned more from reading books and journals than I ever got out of 30+ hours of econ classes.. Except econometrics. That stuff made my head explode.

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Originally posted by Zampanó
I LOVE micro.


And I agree that the class itself is worthless. I slept through half of the classes and still pulled a 97% average (the class was graded on a curve and I was both the highest scoring and youngest student).

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Originally posted by Nephthys
GLOAT GLOAT GLOAT GLOAT!



j/k

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Originally posted by Zampanó
(The thread is closed. It would be unwise to try to "gloat" about anything in any thread that you do not want judiciously closed, like the social thread spanning 1000+ pages.)