I know how you feel about coding Neil. I have done very little since starting with the O.U. When I am doing maths I feel I should be coding and when coding I feel I should be doing maths. Consequently neither gets done properly.
All these O.U maths courses just reinforce the feeling that I am not half as clever as I think I am.
Hope it's not the end of your blogging though . I love the honesty of your posts and the way you tell things as they are for you. Your posts have really helped me and loads of others I'm sure..
Cor you really beat yourself up mate don't you. Given that M208 is probably one of the most conceptually demanding courses that any one will have to place any pass is a real achievement. Enjoy your coding you deserve it.
As a side issue what Plato are you reading ? I think the Euthyphro dialogue is really perceptive 2300 years before Nietszche Socrates poses the key dilemma for those who claim that God is necessary for morality. Namely are moral values good because God commands them. Or are they good in themselves. If the second then God is not necessary for morality. If the latter what guarantee do we have that God's commands are Good in themselves. The person Socrates engages in the discussion has no answer and makes his excuses. Would that religious busybodies today do likewise.
That made me laugh! It is in fact it is a computing language, [you might like this one] but I was reading the Republic again.
The Republic always worries me; by seemingly reasonable steps we build a state which we don't want to live in.
I've always suspected that the real Socrates would have asked some hard questions of his pupil.
Anyway, you take care, I plan to spend my free time being an idiot. [You can read about that elsewhere.] then we have topology, groups and geometry fun!
arb
neil
ps
It was really nice to see Duncan, I wish that I didn't have to rush off to work, I'd have enjoyed a chat.
Yeah the Republic really worries me as well. OK I'm not as biased against it when I first came across it when I read Karl Popper's Open Society and it'e Enemies and I can see some of the basic problems that have bedeviled philosophy ever since it was written stem from the republic. I agree Socrates would probably have a lot to say about his pupil. Seems to me Socrates had his feet grounded he could see through all the lies that people make to justify their position.
Duncan and I try and meet up about once a month for a drink it would be good if you could join in as well I'll let you know when the next date is going to be
All the best mate play as much as you can, this is the time when we rediscover why we are doing this, before the inevitable grind of churning out half understood TMA's and regurgitating it all in exams begins again in Feb.
Comments
New comment
Neil,
Sometimes reading your posts is really bizarre, like looking into my own world through another's eyes.
Thinking of you too,
Rosie
New comment
Thanks Rosie
neil
hey,
Your posts, a bit haphazard as they are sometimes, do make sense! Hoping you soon get out of this place that you've found yourself in.New comment
I know how you feel about coding Neil. I have done very little since starting with the O.U. When I am doing maths I feel I should be coding and when coding I feel I should be doing maths. Consequently neither gets done properly.
All these O.U maths courses just reinforce the feeling that I am not half as clever as I think I am.
Best of luck what ever you decide.
- Charles
New comment
Neil
Hope it's not the end of your blogging though
. I love the honesty of your posts and the way you tell things as they are for you. Your posts have really helped me and loads of others I'm sure..
Take care Neil,
Sue
New comment
Cor you really beat yourself up mate don't you. Given that M208 is probably one of the most conceptually demanding courses that any one will have to place any pass is a real achievement. Enjoy your coding you deserve it.
As a side issue what Plato are you reading ? I think the Euthyphro dialogue is really perceptive 2300 years before Nietszche Socrates poses the key dilemma for those who claim that God is necessary for morality. Namely are moral values good because God commands them. Or are they good in themselves. If the second then God is not necessary for morality. If the latter what guarantee do we have that God's commands are Good in themselves. The person Socrates engages in the discussion has no answer and makes his excuses. Would that religious busybodies today do likewise.
All the best mate Keep blogging and enjoy life
Chris
New comment
Hi Neil is Plato another computing language Great minds don't think alike
If so forget the meat of my last post. Hope you get some chance to do your coding.
New comment
@Chris
That made me laugh! It is in fact it is a computing language, [you might like this one] but I was reading the Republic again.
The Republic always worries me; by seemingly reasonable steps we build a state which we don't want to live in.
I've always suspected that the real Socrates would have asked some hard questions of his pupil.
Anyway, you take care, I plan to spend my free time being an idiot. [You can read about that elsewhere.] then we have topology, groups and geometry fun!
arb
neil
ps
It was really nice to see Duncan, I wish that I didn't have to rush off to work, I'd have enjoyed a chat.
New comment
Yeah the Republic really worries me as well. OK I'm not as biased against it when I first came across it when I read Karl Popper's Open Society and it'e Enemies and I can see some of the basic problems that have bedeviled philosophy ever since it was written stem from the republic. I agree Socrates would probably have a lot to say about his pupil. Seems to me Socrates had his feet grounded he could see through all the lies that people make to justify their position.
Duncan and I try and meet up about once a month for a drink it would be good if you could join in as well I'll let you know when the next date is going to be
All the best mate play as much as you can, this is the time when we rediscover why we are doing this, before the inevitable grind of churning out half understood TMA's and regurgitating it all in exams begins again in Feb.
Chris