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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
MidnightRambler Ich bin nicht schuld! 's ist Gottes Plan! from Germania Inferior Since: Mar, 2011
Ich bin nicht schuld! 's ist Gottes Plan!
#4477: Feb 4th 2013 at 7:17:42 AM

Writers engineer buildings and worlds without the silly confines of math.

No having to deal with angles or physics or any of that.

Please. You're just saying that because you can't figure out 'angles or physics or any of that.'

Also, try getting anything to work in the real world if you ignore the 'silly confines' of mathematics. Good luck.

As for who makes history, allow me to quote Willem Frederik Hermans, one of our greatest writers, on the subject. This is from a short story called De elektriseermachine van Wimshurst (1967), about a schoolboy who finds an old Wimshurst machine and plans to demonstrate it in class. Translation mine.

'Had it been up to Socrates, Jesus, Buddha or Mohammed, people would still be living in trees and caves, stark naked. Talk - that's something the Neanderthalers could do just as well as Thomas Aquinas, Calvin or Hitler. But me, I'll be standing there as a missionary of Huygens, Boerhaave, Edison and Einstein, as a prophet of the only human activity which allows people to actually change their lives!'

Give up, foolish writer! Even your own kind are turning against you! tongue

Oh, and @Loose Cannon: you're not going to college as an engineer, you're going to college to become an engineer. Don't get ahead of yourself.

Mache dich, mein Herze, rein...
phantom1 Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#4478: Feb 4th 2013 at 8:05:37 AM

@Midnight Rambler Aren't like Neanderthals an off branch, that died out, and were fairly intelligent if less social? Though I guess your guy didn't know that. Also I think Thomas Aquinas was also a scientist, if I have the right guy.

Also who are you quoting from? tongue

edited 4th Feb '13 8:06:14 AM by phantom1

MidnightRambler Ich bin nicht schuld! 's ist Gottes Plan! from Germania Inferior Since: Mar, 2011
Ich bin nicht schuld! 's ist Gottes Plan!
#4479: Feb 4th 2013 at 8:19:15 AM

Dude, I've pretty clearly named the writer, the story and even the year. Read before you post. xD

Thomas Aquinas was a theologian, though he may also have been a scientist (or whatever passed for a scientist at the time) - I don't know this. As for the Neanderthalers, he probably just used them to stand for 'primitive man'. Bear in mind that in-story, this is the internal monologue of a boy aged around 10, so not all the natural-historical details may be correct. tongue

Mache dich, mein Herze, rein...
OrangeSpider Must Keep The Web Intact from Ursalia Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: On the prowl
Must Keep The Web Intact
#4480: Feb 4th 2013 at 8:24:15 AM

Engineers don't need no rousing speeches.

The Great Northern Threadkill.
MidnightRambler Ich bin nicht schuld! 's ist Gottes Plan! from Germania Inferior Since: Mar, 2011
Ich bin nicht schuld! 's ist Gottes Plan!
#4481: Feb 4th 2013 at 8:25:45 AM

True, we're already awesome enough without 'em. But a little extra from time to time can't hurt.

Mache dich, mein Herze, rein...
Trivialis Since: Oct, 2011
#4482: Feb 4th 2013 at 8:43:49 AM

This is why I value a broad and interdisciplinary education if done correctly. I've liked my English courses, business course, and geography course.

phoenixdaughterAM Since: Jan, 2010
#4483: Feb 4th 2013 at 9:04:11 AM

I like History and English (minus the research) Somehow these two should be combined.

LooseCannon The Groose Is Loose from Everywhere and Nowhere Since: Jun, 2012
The Groose Is Loose
#4484: Feb 4th 2013 at 9:19:52 AM

History of English. tongue

Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me.
Blackmoon Since: May, 2009
#4485: Feb 4th 2013 at 9:21:07 AM

I will just contribute to this discussion by saying that I'm a foreign language major who minored in another foreign language instead of something useful, so I am essentially the lowest rung of academic society, right next to journalism. [lol]

Trivialis Since: Oct, 2011
#4486: Feb 4th 2013 at 9:22:38 AM

[up]That's not too bad. You should study linguistics in general.

phantom1 Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#4487: Feb 4th 2013 at 9:44:38 AM

@Midnight Rambler I read the name and the date, I just worded it poorly, it should have been I guess they didn't know that at the time. Yes I'm aware of the irony, of the writer wording their writing poorly.

Yeah theologian and some science stuff, I can't remember at the moment, at least I think.

I'm taking general arts, I took my mandatory science course. When I transfer to University (I think I'll take a year out though), I'll apply either for Social Science, or Creative Writing.

edited 4th Feb '13 9:47:26 AM by phantom1

dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar
#4488: Feb 4th 2013 at 11:13:30 AM

Well. I snuck behind my Poetry's in-class paper's back and went for the stab in the neck. Then the paper elbowed me in the stomach, grabbed my arm and threw me down to the ground like something out of a judo tournament. I barely rolled out of my way before it disarmed my knife and tried to slit my throat. Still on the floor, when it lunged at me to finish the job, I kicked it in the face. In that split seconds of distraction, I grabbed a nearby electric cord and, moved behind it and started to strangle it. In its frantic struggle, it managed to slash and stab me a few times but eventually the struggle stopped.

I didn't get to murder its children, all right.

Continuously reading, studying, and (hopefully) growing.
phantom1 Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#4489: Feb 4th 2013 at 11:19:21 AM

@d Roy Sounds like you were lucky it didn't murder you tongue. Speaking of murdering papers, and their children I need to decide my topic for my English essay.

phoenixdaughterAM Since: Jan, 2010
#4490: Feb 4th 2013 at 12:08:29 PM

Here's my problem with this Acting teacher we have.

Friday: "Please memorize these monologues and get a rough draft of your resume done and we'll work on it Monday."

Today: GAB GAB GAB GAB GAB (about stories unrelated to class)

These days are when I take the class less seriously and focus my efforts on the tests ahead. (And debating on whether I should get Fire Emblem Awakening for download onto the 3DS now)

edited 4th Feb '13 12:08:45 PM by phoenixdaughterAM

terlwyth Since: Oct, 2010
#4491: Feb 4th 2013 at 12:29:04 PM

Looks like this week is gonna be a long one

40 % in Politics

A huge project in Math I didn't know about

Large Enlightenment assignment,to which I failed all the quizzes except one (which might not count).

edited 4th Feb '13 12:29:37 PM by terlwyth

dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar
#4492: Feb 4th 2013 at 3:57:18 PM

My roommate moved out to be with his close(r) friend. Yay?

Continuously reading, studying, and (hopefully) growing.
phantom1 Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#4493: Feb 4th 2013 at 4:14:36 PM

@d Roy Well did you like your roommate or do you prefer having the space to yourself?

dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar
#4494: Feb 4th 2013 at 4:16:01 PM

I think it's a yes for both of them.

Continuously reading, studying, and (hopefully) growing.
phantom1 Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#4495: Feb 4th 2013 at 4:16:59 PM

@D Roy Ah I see why you would have mixed feelings about that.

dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar
#4496: Feb 4th 2013 at 4:18:31 PM

Mixed feeling, yeah, that's the appropriate term.

Continuously reading, studying, and (hopefully) growing.
phantom1 Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#4497: Feb 4th 2013 at 4:21:31 PM

@D Roy Yeah, so I guess just tell them that you'll miss them, and enjoy the room. But people tend not to work that way. So oh well.

GearLeader from Dota Hell Since: Mar, 2011 Relationship Status: Married to the job
#4498: Feb 4th 2013 at 4:33:36 PM

So I had gotten a dnd thing set up for my friends, and they where playing with us, when the Dean walked in to the rec room.

I thought we where screwed, then he got all cheers and even gave us some of his old character sheets to use that he had on file.

Huh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXkI1sTDoEg
phantom1 Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#4499: Feb 4th 2013 at 4:49:36 PM

@Gear Leader Oh that's good, lucky he was into the game I guess :).

#4500: Feb 4th 2013 at 7:10:51 PM

Is dnd normally frowned upon at your school or something?

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