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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: BIG ACH on May 15, 2010, 04:48:08 PM
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i am sitting at my masters graduation Bored out of my mind and about to get my degree.
$whats happening in the world of bodybuilding?¢
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congrats!!! whats the degree in?
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masters of engineering management
I could use a cheeseburger right now
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Might wanna go visit Roelly...
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So lame they forgot to put my name in the program
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So lame they forgot to put my name in the program
When you walk across the stage, be sure to hit some quarter turns and then finish with a most muscular.
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I shoulda worn my posing suit and shoulda brought a protein bar. im hungry
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I shoulda worn my posing suit and shoulda brought a protein bar. im hungry
You went without your thongs!?! Please tell me you at least put on some protan...
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1. log onto "getbig's best photos" thread
2. leave computer open for everyone to see while you go across the stage
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i am sitting at my masters graduation Bored out of my mind and about to get my degree.
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Congrats ! that's awesome.
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cant seem to put up the photo from my phone. some dude next to me is fast asleep
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cant seem to put up the photo from my phone. some dude next to me is fast asleep
Thats Goodrum asleep beside you.
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i am sitting at my masters graduation Bored out of my mind and about to get my degree.
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congrats mang! 8)
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Ok i got it. now they gotta let us go before i eat someone lol
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good stuff man
congratulations buddy
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Congrats, I envy you. Great job!
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Congratulations brother. May this be the start of your engineering supremacy! I would come to congratulate you personally but I've lost my passport :'(
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Good job bro!!! I am sitting enjoying eating a 2000k meal for ya lol....
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Congrats!
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Thanks guys for all the props, I just got back from my graduation dinner with the wife and some friends, downed some serious cake, was huuuuuge!
Here are some pics from the graduation:
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Here's another one I took with my phone as I sat there bored and waiting!
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Here's another one I took with my phone as I sat there bored and waiting!
nice shot and congratulations!
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nice shot and congratulations!
thanks a lot man, if it wan't for getbig I dunno what I would've done ahhahaha I missed all the speeches cause I was zoned out on GETBIG.COM !
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congrats. I skipped both mine. They'll send it in the mail, you know.
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Classic nerd chick staring dreamily at you in the 2nd pic. Educated and huge. Nothing can stop you now!
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Here's one of me and the cake, and my boy who also graduated! (This is a bad pic LOL check out my gut god damn!)
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Here's one of me and the cake, and my boy who also graduated! (This is a bad pic LOL check out my gut god damn!)
water looks good
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Geting a Masters is good, becaue these days a Bachelors isn't really worth shit.
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water looks good
Yeah I had:
Lobster Bisque
A MASSIVE Chicken Parmagiana and a side of home fries
And that huge cake (had to take the rest of it home, could barely finish it)
But yeah the water was pretty good too, so was the diet coke LOL
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Geting a Masters is good, becaue these days a Bachelors isn't really worth shit.
Whew. Good thing I don't have one.
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congrats. I skipped both mine. They'll send it in the mail, you know.
X2 :D
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Whew. Good thing I don't have one.
HAHAHAHAH nice!
I wouldn't say a bacherlor's is really worth shit, I had read some statistics like, only 25% of Americans have a bachelor's degree, so its more rare than you think!
I think I can honestly say I thought Undergrad was harder than the masters.... maybe it was the work experience that really helped me prepare for the masters! Whatever I'm so glad to be done, I was so over it these last few weeks!
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Timforgatay, I finished undergrad back in 2005 at the same school I did my Masters (GWU), also in Engineering, and at my undergrad graduation they actually gave us our authentic diplomas that day on stage.
I thought it was gonna be the same way tonight, but guess they really will mail it to us!
Tomorrow they are having a big graduation for the entire University (tonight was just for the individual departments) at the National Mall here in DC, and the guest speaker is Michelle Obama... but I'm too lazy to go to that, you gotta be there at 7:30 am, LOL that ain't happening!
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Congrats on your Masters. I finished my Masters up about 2 years ago. I am currently in a doctoral program. Long freaking road. Epic student for life :( :(
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HAHAHAHAH nice!
I wouldn't say a bacherlor's is really worth shit, I had read some statistics like, only 25% of Americans have a bachelor's degree, so its more rare than you think!
I think I can honestly say I thought Undergrad was harder than the masters.... maybe it was the work experience that really helped me prepare for the masters! Whatever I'm so glad to be done, I was so over it these last few weeks!
Undergrad was more difficult because you had to take other classes besides your major. Undergrad was more difficult for me. I had to take four foreign languages, certain math and history classes. Blah.
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Congrats on your Masters. I finished my Masters up about 2 years ago. I am currently in a doctoral program. Long freaking road. Epic student for life :( :(
That is a BRUTAL road.... good luck to you my man, how much longer do you have?
I debated going the PHD route next, but I'm burnt out man really dunno if I'm ready to put myself through that! And I much prefer working full time than being in school! So I think i'm done LOL
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Undergrad was more difficult because you had to take other classes besides your major. Undergrad was more difficult for me. I had to take four foreign languages, certain math and history classes. Blah.
Oh thats so true too! I had to take Fucking Roman Arts and Archealogy, Chemistry...... and ummmm.... Human Sexuality (that was a blast LOL - the hardest course to get into at GWU because it fills up so fast, and I made it in hahahaha)
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That is a BRUTAL road.... good luck to you my man, how much longer do you have?
I debated going the PHD route next, but I'm burnt out man really dunno if I'm ready to put myself through that! And I much prefer working full time than being in school! So I think i'm done LOL
4 years of classes (about 125 credits), 1 year predoc internship and 1 year postdoc internships before i can sit for my licensing exam. So a total of 6 years before I am licensed lol. Just finished my first year. 5 more to go, WOOHOO!!
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brutal gum. monster obese man that never went in a gym ready to eat that piece of cake picture. epic fake rolex. remarkable dumbo ears.
;D congrats to you, one of the few last great muslims. work hard and lift heavy man!
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Oh thats so true too! I had to take Fucking Roman Arts and Archealogy, Chemistry...... and ummmm.... Human Sexuality (that was a blast LOL - the hardest course to get into at GWU because it fills up so fast, and I made it in hahahaha)
Yeah, undergrad was brutal. In undergrad I had about a 3.4 GPA, which is about a B+ or something. In my Masters I had a 3.9 which is an A. I just found the MA to be more enjoyable, and I was allowed to take classes that I WANTED!
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4 years of classes (about 125 credits), 1 year predoc internship and 1 year postdoc internships before i can sit for my licensing exam. So a total of 6 years before I am licensed lol. Just finished my first year. 5 more to go, WOOHOO!!
So is a cigar sometimes really just a cigar?
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So is a cigar sometimes really just a cigar?
Depends what perspective you take :D
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Depends what perspective you take :D
Relativist. >:(
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brutal gum. monster obese man that never went in a gym ready to eat that piece of cake picture. epic fake rolex. remarkable dumbo ears.
;D congrats to you, one of the few last great muslims. work hard and lift heavy man!
TRUE on EVERYTHING LOLLLL but I have to call you out on the watch, thats an authentic Tag Heuer Indy 500 - don't be dissing my baby now!!! 8)
Thanks for the props though, and glad you approve of me as an Arab LOL ;D
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Relativist. >:(
I'm a Nietzschean.
"There are no facts only interpretations." Nietzsche :D
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I'm a Nietzschean.
"There are no facts only interpretations." Nietzsche :D
Epic aphorism.
(http://eakenwrites.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/pinocchio-paradox.jpg)
Still more of a Confusionist myself. Confusion say: I'm confus.
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Epic aphorism.
(http://eakenwrites.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/pinocchio-paradox.jpg)
Still more of a Confusionist myself. Confusion say: I'm confus.
Social constructionism always made the most sense to me. Everyone's reality is dependent upon their subjective experiences and truths they attach to the external world. I don't see how it can be any other way. Hmmmm..............
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TRUE on EVERYTHING LOLLLL but I have to call you out on the watch, thats an authentic Tag Heuer Indy 500 - don't be dissing my baby now!!! 8)
Thanks for the props though, and glad you approve of me as an Arab LOL ;D
hahaha, well you guys can do your shit and beat down 'infidels' 'in the name of allah' in your country, but here, just dont even fucking talk about your religion. forget the watches, spend those bucks on some gear and protein instead ;D
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Social constructionism always made the most sense to me. Everyone's reality is dependent upon their subjective experiences and truths they attach to the external world. I don't see how it can be any other way. Hmmmm..............
Ok you're over my head there. But is there no common ground? I'd be more inclined to say people's interpretations are colored by their life experience, but surely we can agree that the external world is commonly experienced and independent of individual interpretation.
My principal objection to Neitzche's thought (about which I know very little) is his villification of the so-called Apolonian. Strikes me that posessing reason is part of being human, and is even presupposed by any analysis of how cool Dionysian behavior supposedly is.
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Ok you're over my head there. But is there no common ground? I'd be more inclined to say people's interpretations are colored by their life experience, but surely we can agree that the external world is commonly experienced and independent of individual interpretation.
My principal objection to Neitzche's thought (about which I know very little) is his villification of the so-called Apolonian. Strikes me that posessing reason is part of being human, and is even presupposed by any analysis of how cool Dionysian behavior supposedly is.
Ok you're over my head there. But is there no common ground? I'd be more inclined to say people's interpretations are colored by their life experience, but surely we can agree that the external world is commonly experienced and independent of individual interpretation.
Yes, I agree. When I stated that "everyone reality is dependent upon..." I didn't mean that we literally experience reality differently, unless you suffer from delusions or hallucinations. For most people, their senses experience the same external world; that is, if one person sees a tree outside, there is a good chance another person will see the same tree. So, yeah, that is the common ground. However, the interpretation that is attached to that tree or any other object in the external world is dependent on interpretation, which is often colored by life experiences.
Hope I am making sense. :-X
I think we're on the same page.
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Ok you're over my head there. But is there no common ground? I'd be more inclined to say people's interpretations are colored by their life experience, but surely we can agree that the external world is commonly experienced and independent of individual interpretation.
Yes, I agree. When I stated that "everyone reality is dependent upon..." I didn't mean that we literally experience reality differently, unless you suffer from delusions or hallucinations. For most people, their senses experience the same external world; that is, if one person sees a tree outside, there is a good chance another person will see the same tree. So, yeah, that is the common ground. However, the interpretation that is attached to that tree or any other object in the external world is dependent on interpretation, which is often colored by life experiences.
Hope I am making sense. :-X
I think we're on the same page.
Yep. Just making sure we didn't have a hardcore old school skeptic on board here. ;D
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Ok you're over my head there. But is there no common ground? I'd be more inclined to say people's interpretations are colored by their life experience, but surely we can agree that the external world is commonly experienced and independent of individual interpretation.
My principal objection to Neitzche's thought (about which I know very little) is his villification of the so-called Apolonian. Strikes me that posessing reason is part of being human, and is even presupposed by any analysis of how cool Dionysian behavior supposedly is.
My principal objection to Neitzche's thought (about which I know very little) is his villification of the so-called Apolonian. Strikes me that posessing reason is part of being human, and is even presupposed by any analysis of how cool Dionysian behavior supposedly is.
I am nowhere near an expert on Nietzsche. However, I often wonder how much of his work is taken out of context. Sort of like when the Nazis used his ideas to promote hatred of other races, etc. Personally, I don't see someone like Nietzsche totally opposing Apollonian ideas. I just think he didn't want people to lose the Dionysian side. Perhaps he thought people were going to lose that part of themselves.
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smart thread..........no dobut about it.
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Yep. Just making sure we didn't have a hardcore old school skeptic on board here. ;D
Nah, definitely not that.
Next question:
Man, inherently good, inherently evil, or blank slate?
Jean Jacque Rosseau - inherently good
Thomas Hobbes - inherently evil
John Locke - inherently a blank slate
Hmm.............
I am going with a blank slate, however, current thinking sort of disproves that notion. Steven Pinker, an evolutionary psychologist at Harvard, believes that we are all born with the innate drive to form in-and-out groups and to have language capabilities. Noam Chomsky also talks about the Language Acquisition Device which is an innate structure that governs language. His argument: it is no coincidence that most infants begin to talk around the same age. Thus, there must be some inherent device that is triggered around the same age.
Though, for the most part, I still think people are a blank slate.
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My principal objection to Neitzche's thought (about which I know very little) is his villification of the so-called Apolonian. Strikes me that posessing reason is part of being human, and is even presupposed by any analysis of how cool Dionysian behavior supposedly is.
I am nowhere near an expert on Nietzsche. However, I often wonder how much of his work is taken out of context. Sort of like when the Nazis used his ideas to promote hatred of other races, etc. Personally, I don't see someone like Nietzsche totally opposing Apollonian ideas. I just think he didn't want people to lose the Dionysian side. Perhaps he thought people were going to lose that part of themselves.
Even more tho, I wonder if these A & D 'halves' have any meaning outside of his own philosophy, and if they are entirely his own construction. I'm reminded of the scene in Donnie Darko where he objects to the reduction of the range of human emotion to either Fear or Love. I admit it seems natural to contrast reason to passion, but I view them more as interwoven threads in the fabric of my being than as polar opposites. At least, I like to think that I'm an integrated being rather than an unfortunate amalgam of irreconcilable extremes. It gets me through the night.
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Inherently Evil - yeah I took Ethics in undergrad baby!!!! And the true test came when the professor wrote me at the end of the semester and asked what I got on the mid term exam because she lost the grades! ;D
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Even more tho, I wonder if these A & D 'halves' have any meaning outside of his own philosophy, and if they are entirely his own construction. I'm reminded of the scene in Donnie Darko where he objects to the reduction of the range of human emotion to either Fear or Love. I admit it seems natural to contrast reason to passion, but I view them more as interwoven threads in the fabric of my being than as polar opposites. At least, I like to think that I'm an integrated being rather than an unfortunate amalgam of irreconcilable extremes. It gets me through the night.
Well, I agree. I mean, I don't think you can have one without the other. But Nietzsche sort of contradicted himself by delineating between "A" & "D"
"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."
Madness = emotion
Reason = rationality, skepticism, etc.
For Nietzsche, there is always some reason in madness.
Seems like he had no problem mixing emotion and reason together, especially when it came to love.
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Inherently Evil - yeah I took Ethics in undergrad baby!!!! And the true test came when the professor wrote me at the end of the semester and asked what I got on the mid term exam because she lost the grades! ;D
:D
Hmm, inherently evil. I don't know! For one, that would be almost impossible to prove. So, why do you think inherently evil?
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Nah, definitely not that.
Next question:
Man, inherently good, inherently evil, or blank slate?
Jean Jacque Rosseau - inherently good
Thomas Hobbes - inherently evil
John Locke - inherently a blank slate
Hmm.............
I am going with a blank slate, however, current thinking sort of disproves that notion. Steven Pinker, an evolutionary psychologist at Harvard, believes that we are all born with the innate drive to form in-and-out groups and to have language capabilities. Noam Chomsky also talks about the Language Acquisition Device which is an innate structure that governs language. His argument: it is no coincidence that most infants begin to talk around the same age. Thus, there must be some inherent device that is triggered around the same age.
Though, for the most part, I still think people are a blank slate.
Hey now, with your can 'o worms. Define the terms, criteria for determination, etc. In brief tho, I reckon we're both.
I don't DARE disagree with the biggies like Chomsky but I confess I have yet to be convinced of the foundational nature of language as shaping thought. I would have thought we form 'unlanguaged' concepts before 'languaging' them, like I use pots and pans to make a meal but it's understood the meat and potatoes are the substance upon which the tools operate.
Good discussion. Hate to split but have to run out for a little while. Check back in later tho!
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heres one of my favorite qoute, from william james..
"slowly gathering yonder twilight.."
its taken out of context, but its in a critique of locke and others.. where he is speaking on the mistakes in breaking down experience into single simple perceptions, as he explains that experience is a whole.. not a collection of individual parts...
humans as a blank slate, inherently good, or inherently evil.... hmmm... none of those.. this is a question with a spiritual answer :)
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congrats man
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You are the man Big Arch. Great role model. Hope to be just like you if or when I ever grow up.