Anyway it's been a three day weekend of slacking at a level I never thought possible until now. Have stuffed self with dozens of forum posts, including a debate of philosophy vs. science where people (teenagers?) from all over the world test their intellects against each other. I sit back, feeling slightly smug that I recognize about 1% of the terms being thrown around from studying KI. This is where people much more educated&intelligent than I am list out every single component of the scientific method and proceed to criticize and analyze it. It's debate we don't really get in class by sheer virtue of the fact that none of us are well-read enough to critique what gets fed down our throats. Sure we can question the bareboned logic, but we don't have enough content knowledge to refute some of the claims made... then again who am I to talk, since I never contribute in KI lessons :(

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'"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." - Some awesome fucker.' --> something I got off the profile of one of the intelligent gay musically talented guys that frequents above-mentioned forum.

Quote kind of opens the door to dogmatism and close-mindedness, but essentially the message is learn to trust yourself.

In addition, I don't really like this thing they call 'connecting with old friends' because there's all that pointless arbitary bullshit smalltalk to get out of the way, before you realize that there's nothing left to talk about and you wonder why you even bothered. But sometimes it's really awesome.