The 10 Most Worthless College Majors Options

[Seeker]

what type of function would you have a philosopher serve?

expanding the consciousness of humanity, pondering our roots and where we're headed, perhaps bringing us all closer together and ending the hate... basically, educating us all so we don't turn out like you where everything is in black/white terms

[Dogmeat]

expanding the consciousness of humanity, pondering our roots and where we're headed, perhaps bringing us all closer together and ending the hate... basically, educating us all so we don't turn out like you where everything is in black/white terms

That's fucking retarded. Why don't we all just smoke dope and do lots of acid and then we can ALL be philosophers, but we won't have to fork over money to the fascist educational-industrial complex

[impala454]

expanding the consciousness of humanity, pondering our roots and where we're headed, perhaps bringing us all closer together and ending the hate... basically, educating us all so we don't turn out like you where everything is in black/white terms

Maybe stop being an asshole for a few minutes and think for a second that I'm asking you a serious question.

"expanding the consciousness of humanity" - ok sounds great, what will the philosopher do in order to accomplish this?

[Seeker]

Maybe stop being an asshole for a few minutes and think for a second that I'm asking you a serious question.

"expanding the consciousness of humanity" - ok sounds great, what will the philosopher do in order to accomplish this?

make you think

[Dogmeat]

"Philosophy" leads to liberalist stupidity about life and reality that ultimatley leads to fascism.

[impala454]

make you think

how though? I mean, I'm all for expanding the mind of people in our country, but what is the method the philosopher uses to make people think?

[FORSAKENR320]

how though? I mean, I'm all for expanding the mind of people

explosives accomplish this nicely

[woody]

how about thinking rationally, thinking "outside the box", thinking logically.

I can name numerous reasons how a philosophy helped me during meetings about on how something should be handled that seem pretty simple but people who are the developers or engineers or program managers stump on.

[Epic]

Actually there's a lot I like about Vernal .... it's just that the one thing I don't like about it is really important

If I was married i'd probably be absolutley thrilled about living here.

So, let me ask you this: Do you think you'd be where you are right now had you _ONLY_ the philosophy degree?

This is what i'm saying. You don't HAVE to take your basic degree then "OMG I NEED A JOB THAT APPLIES THIS." I have multiple degrees yes, and my philosophy degree proved its worth in my graduate studies. That is worth to me. And i'm not getting upset about my degrees being on the list, i'm was getting heated about people who ignorantly assumed called was a gigantic technical school and all other majors were pointless electives.

[Psykopath]

"Philosophy" leads to liberalist stupidity about life and reality that ultimatley leads to fascism.

*golf clap*

This sentence made me spit water just past my screen....laughing so damn hard.


"Philosophy" also led to the discovery of DEMOCRACY....

...But since it wasn't taught during the coursework for an ME bachelor's degree, it can't be right!
THINKING didn't create Democracy! OMG I've been so wrong all these years. Thank you for opening my eyes, Dogmeat.

Praise Oil-Engineering-NeoCon-Jesus



















P.S. Don't rape me in the Rockies, plz k thx.

This post has been edited by Psykopath: Jun 6 2008, 06:59 PM

[Dogmeat]

*golf clap*

This sentence made me spit water just past my screen....laughing so damn hard.
"Philosophy" also led to the discovery of DEMOCRACY....

...But since it wasn't taught during the coursework for an ME bachelor's degree, it can't be right!
THINKING didn't create Democracy! OMG I've been so wrong all these years. Thank you for opening my eyes, Dogmeat.

Praise Oil-Engineering-NeoCon-Jesus
P.S. Don't rape me in the Rockies, plz k thx.

That was basically the goal I had in writing that hahahahaha

[Psykopath]

That was basically the goal I had in writing that hahahahaha

LOL
Well...you win.

Man I'm glad I didn't get my screen wet, though I did get my printer.
Should be alright though, heh.

[Dogmeat]

Ok, I'll clarify my thoughts on the whole philosophy thing.

Basically everything I've ever talked to a philosophy major about in life, thought about, lied awake at night trying to figure out, etc .... whatever .... I thought of when I was between the ages of 14 and 20.

There was absolutley nothing left for philosophy to teach me in college. I seriously was laughing my ass off at all the people going "OMG! I've never thought like this before!" when my professor was likening the reason Socrates believed there was a god to why mankind built chairs. I mean I was literally like "uhhhh ... what? You've never questioned the existance of god before? life, nothing? Wow you live in a damp paper bag."

Egotistically, I freely admit ... I thought this all was far beneath the level of thought I was on.

If you want to talk about thinking outside the box ... That's usually the first place I think, because quite frankly, boxes are boring. However, most of the time, there's a reason that there are boxes. Boxes work. Deluding yourself into thinking that quasi-boxes, round boxes, slightly discolored boxes, whatever, work better than the regular old box ... well, statistically speaking is rare. There is a reason there are boxes and not oddly shaped quasiboxes.

See, when you're thinking outside the box, eventually you run out of boxes to think outside of, so you invent new boxes entirley. Then you think outside of them. I invented this new theory called the 'Puking Seed' theory when i was back in highschool, but that's a time for another discussion.

Anyways .... I guess I pretty much felt like if a dipshit like me was already on a plane of thought far beyond what this philosophy crap was supposed to be about I had no use for it whatsoever for it in life and it was pretty much just a load of hooey.

heh

But what's really interesting is, if I go back to school to get a PhD in engineering I don't get an actual PhD in engineering, I get a "Doctorate of Philosophy".

Fascinating ...

[impala454]

I agree w/dogmeat. The material that was presented in the philosophy elective class I took just seemed like obvious stuff everyone should know.

[Seeker]

Ok, I'll clarify my thoughts on the whole philosophy thing.

Basically everything I've ever talked to a philosophy major about in life, thought about, lied awake at night trying to figure out, etc .... whatever .... I thought of when I was between the ages of 14 and 20.

There was absolutley nothing left for philosophy to teach me in college. I seriously was laughing my ass off at all the people going "OMG! I've never thought like this before!" when my professor was likening the reason Socrates believed there was a god to why mankind built chairs. I mean I was literally like "uhhhh ... what? You've never questioned the existance of god before? life, nothing? Wow you live in a damp paper bag."

Egotistically, I freely admit ... I thought this all was far beneath the level of thought I was on.

If you want to talk about thinking outside the box ... That's usually the first place I think, because quite frankly, boxes are boring. However, most of the time, there's a reason that there are boxes. Boxes work. Deluding yourself into thinking that quasi-boxes, round boxes, slightly discolored boxes, whatever, work better than the regular old box ... well, statistically speaking is rare. There is a reason there are boxes and not oddly shaped quasiboxes.

See, when you're thinking outside the box, eventually you run out of boxes to think outside of, so you invent new boxes entirley. Then you think outside of them. I invented this new theory called the 'Puking Seed' theory when i was back in highschool, but that's a time for another discussion.

Anyways .... I guess I pretty much felt like if a dipshit like me was already on a plane of thought far beyond what this philosophy crap was supposed to be about I had no use for it whatsoever for it in life and it was pretty much just a load of hooey.

heh

But what's really interesting is, if I go back to school to get a PhD in engineering I don't get an actual PhD in engineering, I get a "Doctorate of Philosophy".

Fascinating ...

you're still in the box because as soon as you got out of the box you built up another box around you