Re: Club Tshirt

George J Wright (gjwright@nospam.socs.uts.edu.au)
Thu, 14 Sep 1995 13:29:21 +1000 (EST)

On Thu, 14 Sep 1995, Skeletal Family wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Sep 1995, George J Wright wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 14 Sep 1995, Skeletal Family wrote:
> >
> > > No, no. It's the pedantic science list.
> > > Philosphy : If you throw the t-shirt at a turtle and the distance between
> > > the t-shirt and the turtle halves as it approaches, will the t-shirt ever
> > > hit the turtle?
> >
> > More so - does it move through space or is that an illusion.
>
> Pedantic scientist. Philosophers care not for space. You speak like a
> theoretical physicist.

Interesting.. you discount MetaPhysics which is a branch of philosophy.
MetaPhysics is (unless it has changed since I last dabbled in it) that
part of philosophy which looks at space and time and how these things fit
in to the universe and our understanding. I would recommend Zenos as good
reading regarding the theory about dividing distance in half.

>
> I once did a philosophy course in which we examined the concept of
> plants having feelings; the stereotyping of gender and education; the
> impact of pornography (lots of glossy colour examples to see how much it
> affected ourselves); different standards for the depiction of men and
> women in pornography (why is it more acceptable to have pictures of women
> being sexually aroused - erect nipples, moisture, etc. - than it is for
> men - erections (evidence: Playboy vs. Cosmo). Hardcore was a different
> consideration because it is restricted for sale here, we were discussing
> community values in general, so had to consider mainstream media; and
> modern morality.
>

Where did you do philosophy? My friends do philosophy I will tell them to
change course. They study people like Plato, Marx, MetaPhysics,
Aesthetics (sp?) and modern philosphy. I am sure that they will find
pornography more interesting :)

> Arts was a lot more interesting...

No comment.

>
> shiny shiny/ bad times behind me / shiny shiny sha na na - Haysi Fantazee
> Piers

George

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