Comments on: “Who’s Been Deeply In Love?”

By: Terry

Terry — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 07:03:23 +0000

I do realize the point of the story is about college life and the (sometimes) fascinating interaction between students and teachers. But surely the particular point expressed by the good profession as described in the post really has no legs: how is it that you become free after falling in love?

Could it be that one was never “not free” in either cases? Young men choose to ogle at other girls out of freewill and then
cease to do so after falling in love (also out of freewill). The change in behaviour is simply due to the fact that the object of desire has
changed.

Of course, this can also be argued from the opposite angle: men are not free either before or after falling in love, since it is just a
matter of swapping one type of bondage (the untamed desire for the opposite sex) for another (namely, the blind devotion for one’s chosen lover).

You either acknowledge we can freely choose what to decide or you don’t. To have it both ways is… well, does not compute.

By: Eugene

Eugene — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:42:24 +0000

Poor Augustine and his many relationships (I rather sympathize with his longsuffering first wife, though they did have a rather sweet ending.)

I bet modern psychiatrists will diagnose Augustine with a case of Borderline Personality Disorder, maybe combined with a bit of depression.

By: Maynard Handley

Maynard Handley — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:52:04 +0000

Is Cornel West worth reading?
I mean he gets all this good press, so I assume he has something to say. But damn, every time I have listened to him speak, and this is a considerable number of different talks, maybe five or six, I just cannot stand the way he talks.

The whole “I’m just a homey from the streets thing”, the way he throws out a comment to a women introducing him that, under normal circumstances would result in a sexual harassment lawsuit, it just makes me want to throw up. He comes across as the most extreme version of a used car salesman; you know, the guy who is immediately your best friend, who throws out something about “the game” on the assumption that, as a man, you obviously like sports and he can use that to bond, the guy who hears your accent and says hello in French (or Afrikaans or Mandarin) and once again assumes you are going to give a damn.

Obviously this kind of vibe works — both as a sales tactic, and in West’s case — but I just cannot get past it. So, as I say, is he more tolerable in print?

By: Carl Brannen

Carl Brannen — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:51:46 +0000

I’m kind of surprised that this blog didn’t get more comment. Being able to get college students to pay attention to an instructor isn’t easy. Very few professors are really good at it.

I think physics should be taught with reference to love. And war, and sex and violence. It’s all a matter of seeing the things that are not always obvious, of seeing things from a different point of view.

For example, consider life insurance. It is a financial instrument that most people consider boring. But it is about how a person protects those that they love even after the grave. It is about love and death. And time. And exponential functions.

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By: Joseph Smidt

Joseph Smidt — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 04:08:15 +0000

It’s definitely good to get different schools of thought working together. This is a funny piece on that:

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/03/23/stewart-v-bolton-post-game-analysis/