It Feels Good and Weird To Be Back

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FerrumIntellectus
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It Feels Good and Weird To Be Back

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Wow, it feels surreal to be posting on here after all of these years. I'm shocked I remembered my login info and my last post on this site was in October of 2016. This place seems to have grown so much with a lot of new faces. That makes me REALLY happy to see. I owe so much to this place. This club was the first philosophy community I ever had. The first place I ever really explored my love of philosophy and honed my debate skills against minds far sharper than mine. I've been going through some personal stuff lately, and am focusing on my mental health. I can't even tell you why I've come back. Call it nostalgia, call it seeking provocation of some kind, but it's surreal to be posting in one of these forums again.

My name is John Altmann. I've been an autodidact/independent scholar in philosophy for nine years this year. I fell hard in love with philosophy when I was 20 years old. It has helped me through so much: a heroin addict father, a suicidal grandmother, inspiring me to work out and all but cut meat out of my diet, the ethics of Levinas inspired me to work 200+ hours on a crisis line, get setup with a therapist (will currently be waiting a year for a new one), and made me into someone capable of reconnecting with my once estranged mother, who was also once a drug addict. Philosophy is the love of my life, my passion, my vocation.

On the professional side of things, I've contributed to nine Popular Culture and Philosophy books, and published multiple essays. Here are some you can read for yourself if you're interested:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/opin ... angzi.html

https://blog.apaonline.org/2018/01/25/p ... ttesville/

https://www.cckp.space/single-post/2018 ... Disability

My favorite philosophers presently are Deleuze, Epicurus, Zhuangzi, and Gadamer. I also owe a considerable debt to Sartre for inculcating in me the desire to live a philosophic life. Given my issues I'm off the grid as far as social media goes for the time being, so I'm looking forward to being more active on here after all these years. Excited to see the personalities frolicking in this place.
"The philosopher that does not take part in discussions, is like a boxer that never goes into the ring."

Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Re: It Feels Good and Weird To Be Back

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FerrumIntellectus wrote: April 1st, 2021, 3:00 am Wow, it feels surreal to be posting on here after all of these years. I'm shocked I remembered my login info and my last post on this site was in October of 2016. This place seems to have grown so much with a lot of new faces. That makes me REALLY happy to see. I owe so much to this place. This club was the first philosophy community I ever had. The first place I ever really explored my love of philosophy and honed my debate skills against minds far sharper than mine. I've been going through some personal stuff lately, and am focusing on my mental health. I can't even tell you why I've come back. Call it nostalgia, call it seeking provocation of some kind, but it's surreal to be posting in one of these forums again.

My name is John Altmann. I've been an autodidact/independent scholar in philosophy for nine years this year. I fell hard in love with philosophy when I was 20 years old. It has helped me through so much: a heroin addict father, a suicidal grandmother, inspiring me to work out and all but cut meat out of my diet, the ethics of Levinas inspired me to work 200+ hours on a crisis line, get setup with a therapist (will currently be waiting a year for a new one), and made me into someone capable of reconnecting with my once estranged mother, who was also once a drug addict. Philosophy is the love of my life, my passion, my vocation.

On the professional side of things, I've contributed to nine Popular Culture and Philosophy books, and published multiple essays. Here are some you can read for yourself if you're interested:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/opin ... angzi.html

https://blog.apaonline.org/2018/01/25/p ... ttesville/

https://www.cckp.space/single-post/2018 ... Disability

My favorite philosophers presently are Deleuze, Epicurus, Zhuangzi, and Gadamer. I also owe a considerable debt to Sartre for inculcating in me the desire to live a philosophic life. Given my issues I'm off the grid as far as social media goes for the time being, so I'm looking forward to being more active on here after all these years. Excited to see the personalities frolicking in this place.
Interesting list. I dig Epicurus, but would prefer Camus to Satre. Never heard of Zhanhgzi, and find myslef disillusioned with the Delueze/Gadamer/Derrida crowd mostly because of the like of Adorno - I know that are not the same, but their PM appraoch ends up in a obsucurantist windbaggery competition sometimes, which makes me wonder why they are doing what they are doing.
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