Camping Season just started...

Launched the camping season with a trip to Algonquin...

There are so many things to talk about. Things like questions on responsibility, not in the sense of being responsible for something, but instead in being responsible as someone...like when a person is responsible as a parent, or as a friend, or as a free man for a group of tasks, things, attitudes and what not. I have thought about art, and authenticity of experience, as you touch a leaf, or look at fire, or feel the cold Spring ice/water. I have thought about the answers people give to questions on gender differences and equality. I have answers (I think) to why newer experiences seem more original despite their apparent discomfort to the physique, and sometimes to the vulgar (vulgar in the Humean sense) mind. I have noticed things on sameness (or continuity) of person-hood and consistency of character as people like Hume and Locke recall them and people like Ainslie explicate them...so many thoughts, and it's hard to think of any of them in the details that they deserve being thought about. There are questions with speculative answers in my mind about nature of 'Calculative or Deductive thinking' vs. 'just thinking' (or what Heideggerians may like to call Meditative thinking which is different from meditation.)

ok... enumerated these since I'd like to get back to them soon. How soon? I don't know...specially considering that I haven't updated the pages on this weblog for a while now.

Anywayz...what you see in the picture is a 'tarp' and it's something that you hang on your tent when camping to protect your camping site/ camping experience from rain. When I wanted to set up a tarp, I by default decided to attach the four corners of the tarp to four trees with the rope I had. Obviously that seemed the most logical thing to do at the moment, with four ropes, four corners of the tarp and I just had to find four trees...but there are numerous other ways to look at this problem...because my tarp just like the when in the picture had small holes protected by metal rings where I could have tied something that still managed to keep it stretched. Unfortunately, I didn't think like that until it was time to untie the ropes from trees when packing up. I was amazed however at how my ignorance acted out here...This is something that people are thought in Engineering Design courses...to think outside of the box for new solutions, people are thought about this in many Art courses, and some science courses too. In Philosophy...overcoming this ignorance to notice your prejudices and mistakes in your thinking is THE key element to learning philosophy...I did study engineering...where the circuits, the programs, and the prototypes we designed were all mixed with boring lectures on how this should be a priority...I see the same train of thought happening as an economist, and business dude. Unfortunately though nowhere this is actually practiced in real life...and people forget about it after class...our prejudices on every concept from 'our happiness' to 'tying a knot' keep haunting us, making us more and more miserable. And it only seems that as we grow older and older we keep getting more and more attached and addicted to them...