Dreams: Jungle guerrilla witches, and departmental children

[wolven7]

I dreamed of being in Peru or Panama, somewhere with a dense jungle, with Dr. Cox, and the interns from Scrubs. Doing raids on small enemy complexes, ruins of cities and temples, and we were attacked by a small band of guerrilla witches, where were going to kill us, or trade with us. I traded them my old silver ceremonial knife, for a new one of the same kind. I asked the one with whom I traded if we could touch the blades, together, first, and sheaagreed. She went on to lecture me about how my knife was bound, and being used, and there were Japanese characters hidden in the handle and I knew she was right. Dr. Cox refused to trade, just sitting against the wall, waiting. Someone saw the large spindle of CDs I had in my backpack, broken when they ambushed us, and told me to hide it, if I wanted to keep the CDs.

Next section, discussion of the Peru trip, back in the departments, with Dr. Ruprecht havinga kid, and scamort being the godfather/uncle, playing with the kid to keep him from crying.

I've been thinking about the fact the philosophy department is shifting away from the ideals that made me interested in philosophy in the first place, that everyone is seeking to privilege scientific explanations, seeking to make them exclusive and inviolate, and I think there are a great number of attendant fallacies, involved in the reasoning for doing so. Not least of which being the naturalistic fallacy attendant in the use of reason to determine our course, and our methods.

Every system eill contain a contradiction. Every. Single. One. Something within the system that, when compared to the rest of the system, seems not to make any damned sense, but is there, and is a fact of observation and reasoning, anyway. That's just the way of it. All I want is for the proponents of various systems to recognise this fact, stop seeking to claim exclusive privilege for their system, and accept that their system is clear and correct insofar as it concerns their experience of the world. Why is that hard?

Bah.

My leg seems to be an effective radio frequency blocker.

Comments

[freya-chris.livejournal.com]

I think you just touched on my entire problem with philosophy, so to speak, and more precisely, religion as a whole, when you said "All I want is for the proponents of various systems to recognise this fact, stop seeking to claim exclusive privilege for their system, and accept that their system is clear and correct insofar as it concerns their experience of the world." Why is that hard? I don't know, but I would think the answer that lies within that conundrum probably also holds the keys to global peace and a lot of other things. Heaven knows, more wars and massacres have taken place in the name of "God" (whatever the popular interpretation of him/her/it is at whatever given moment) than in any other name, Awesome train of thought you are on!

[wolven.livejournal.com]

It is a pervasive issue, becoming more and more prevalent.

[bakeneko.livejournal.com]

My program advisor pointed me at toward this guy the other day, and looking over his research interests I thought of you and mechangel: http://www.bu.edu/religion/faculty/bios/lehrich.html

[wolven.livejournal.com]

You know what's really funny? kitsuchan pointed me at this guy a while ago, and he's even on one of the email lists I'm on. He and I don't really see eye-to-eye, but he's a great resource, as he's done a lot of work that overlaps my areas of interest.

Thank you, for the thought. More importantly, how have you been?

[bakeneko.livejournal.com]

Not bad. Trying desperately to keep up, as usual :p You?

[wolven.livejournal.com]

About the same. I feel like I'm still being given the runaround, only in a much more intricate pattern. Feels very uncomfortable, indeed.

Been kind of a hard week, car troubles, job troubles. Just trying to keep my head above water...

[scamort.livejournal.com]

Heh. I haven't even seen you in a couple weeks, and I'm in your dreams? strange. I feel sorry for the dream kid, though. :-P

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Yeah, very weird...