JColumbia

I'm reaching this point where I want to exercise the logic I've learned over the past couple years in practical scenerios and discussions. Are institutions covered in philosophy?

Thanks

I've been following Stefan Molyneux for a few years on YouTube.

It's always my first reaction. Good thing I don't compulsively speak the first thing that comes to mind.

Absolutely. I think I finished his intro to Philosophy, which is what modivated me to want more. I am hoping to find a 'good' interpretation of Aristotle. I figure there's nothing but interpretations and I don't speak ancient Greek. I am looking forward to reading one of Stefan's books. As soon as I can get some quiet time, I'm looking forward to checking this out. Thanks My college experience with philosophy was enough to shun me away up until just a few years ago. I've been paying attention to Stefan on YouTube since. I've come to respect what the man has to say on just about everything. Thanks for the links, I'll be sure to check them out when I can break away from all loudness from work.

Thank you for these responses. The way I am, I get into something and do what I can to know all that I can make time for. I have so much to learn and feel broken with inconsistent logic in philosophy and science.

It's extremely difficult to reach out and talk to people. I feel so unwelcome in the neighborhood where I bought my house and at work where I've been for several years. There's like high school type drama at work and it's real cliquish, it's just really awful. I can't get in and change my profile- but I'm a forty year old guy. The name can be deceiving. I live in the most corrupt in the union next to California. I want to say more about what I do for employment, but for some reason, I decided to use my actual name. Suffice to say, I work on and around 200 ton equipment in a union job where the pay is just too good to just pack up and leave. I wish I could. I want to move to New Hampshire. I am mentally and physically (I love the cold) ready to move to Alaska. I love dogs, more specifically, chows. I have a year and a half old blue chow male. I obsess over Rock n' Roll, like The New York Dolls, Johnny Thunders, Slaughter And The Dogs, The Saints, Roxy Music, The Gun Club, and Bowie. This stuff is so important to me. I like renaissance music and find myself tuning in on the hurdy gurdy. Someday, I plan on figuring out how to play it. I like ancient European and early American history. I've always shunned away from norms and rejected fitting in to society since I can remember. I guess it's just something I do. I didn't have any idea why I did it when I was a kid. I flat out rejected school my entire k-12 experience. I went to college for a bit, but I had no direction. All of my teenage years and some of my twenties were all about punk rock until I was so desperate to get out of it, that I thought by joining the military, I could start over and have a decent life and some kind of occupational skill. Funny, because I've never been good with authority. I guess I found some way to just swallow my need to rebel because it meant my life was gonna be awesome when I was done. I always thought that if I could figure out what it is I wanted, I wouldn't have had to dabble in everything and ended up with something more akin to happiness. I used to read a lot of fantasy books. Done with that. I read a lot of William S. Burroughs, Charles Bukowski, a little James Joyce, some Yeats as young man. I like to write poetry to women- it's how I met all the women I dated when I was younger. I guess by never figuring out what I wanted in life, I am here, now looking for philosophy. I love it when information hits me like a revelation. I love it when things make sense and they connect. What little I know of philosophy, like what Stefan Molyneux has discussed on his intro to Philosophy, has changed my life. I want more of that.

Here to talk voluntarism and philosophy, in which I'm a complete novice

I kind of wish that I posted this in the philosophy forum. Still getting my bearing here. Not surprised that I'm not getting a bite. There looks to be quite a few indepth conversations and asserting myself in one would feel kind of ridiculous at this point. I don't know where to start. This is like the pain of going to a new high school with its own drama to boot. I hate experiencing newness, but I guess I asked for it.

Hi everybody! This my second time coming here. My previous visit, I was fairly new to things libertarian, felt that with this, so much to know as it was a wide spread philosophy that many people shared and something I could agree with through and through. I'm an introvert (I've always been) and was conflicted about things like having the mindset that doesn't let go when you get out of the military after having spent 13 years of your life there. Since then, I've done some looking in to things and I am convinced we would be so much better off without any form of government in our lives. Not going waste a lot of time talking about me because if you want to know, you'll ask and I'll tell you what I can. Too much to say. Real excited, can't wait to chat with y'all.

Hi. I'm new here (again) and I am excited about philosophy. I'm currently reading Hayek- Constitution Of Liberty. It's been on and off. Finally made it to chapter 5. I just have to stop everything I'm doing when I pick it up. I get pretty engrossed in it and need an absolute sterile environment when I read it (no background noise, people talking, whatever) which is difficult because I'm a heavy equipment mechanic and find myself always surrounded by big loud machines. I want to read Aristotle. I've downloaded some free stuff from Amazon.com to include Ethics. Maybe it's the translation or interpretation, but it's fairly difficult reading for me. So, I'm here looking for some suggestions- perhaps a good translation or interpretation or something to read to help me graduate to the next level as far philosophy.