Help me with my learnings!

[ishyface]

Questions for... well, everyone, I guess:

1) How big is the gap between Asperger's Syndrome and high-functioning autism? (From what I understand the two overlap a lot. Please correct me if I'm wrong.)

2) What is the Baptist Church's official stance re:stigmata? (Any info about the Baptist Church would be useful, actually- I know very little about it.)

3) What does it feel like to have a nosebleed? (I've never had one.)

4) How do you know when "coffee" is not just coffee but coffee? (Because I just made plans to go for coffee with a friend, but I think said friend may be under the impression that these plans are for coffee instead of coffee. And, um, that could be problematic!)

5) How much does Thomas Hobbes suck? (Like, a lot, right?)

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ETA: From the essay I am currently writing on Hobbes' theory of the state of nature:

"Hobbes would have us believe that people tend not to murder their children because of the power of law and the state, but this is nonsense: anyone who has ever been in the same room with a fussy baby for more than ten minutes is sure to wonder why its parents do not simply drop it into the nearest lake and tell the authorities that dingoes ate it."

I don't even care if I am grossly misrepresenting Hobbes here,* I am not cutting that sentence.

* I am, but only because I don't like him.

Comments

[ishyface.livejournal.com]

DEFRIENDING THE HELL OUTTA YOU :(

(except, you know, not)

I think Hobbes is kind of arguing against the idea of people as a collective sucking big hairy donkey balls, though. What I got out Leviathan was that he thought people as individuals were donkey teabaggees, which was why they needed to be controlled by the state, which makes them a social collective and therefore gives rise to morality by way of law and punishment. I'm pretty much the worst philosophy student of all time, though, so I could def. be wrong.

Also, I very rarely pay attention to what we're actually learning in class because my prof has such an interesting accent. He's a Ukranian-Canadian who's spent a lot of time in London and Prague, and the result is so fantastic it makes what he's actually saying way less important to me than the way he's saying it.

[flukycoda.livejournal.com]

ukranian-canadian-london-prague! that is so much cooler than hobbes could ever hope to be. i will take your word on hobbey's hostile little imaginings about society. it's been aaaaaaaages since i read leviathan and well, i was never a philosophy student. i was history. (random aside: my sister was a philosophy major and they had a seminar for first-year recently declared philosophy majors on how to break that news to your parents *mirth*)

OH AND

[flukycoda.livejournal.com]

dude, so i've decided that i want to read some tamora pierce but she's all prolific and shit so i don't know where to start. i vaguely remember you being A Big Fan. so tell me. where should i start?