“You wrote all the essay rants. I wasted quite a small amount of time.”

You wasted MY time, which is far more valuable to me.

“I didn’t say I went to school to become a writer, by the way.”

Therein lies your problem; you say you went to school to study COMMUNICATIONS. One would think that learning how to PROPERLY COMMUNICATE–in writing or otherwise–would be one of the requisite accomplishments of earning a degree in that field. You seem to think, however, that “studying communications” doesn’t mean you should have learned how to COMMUNICATE simply and clearly–including in the written form.

A) I couldn’t care less what your opinion of me is. You think I’m an ass, fine. I, in turn, think you’re a total dick and have convinced yourself that you know a great deal more than you actually do—which is typical of the sort of nasty little pseudo-intellectual I think you obviously are.

B) Regardless of what, exactly, your degree is in, you bring it up in order to profess yourself knowledgeable on the subject of “communicating.” In that regard, I suggest you re-read your original post that was directed at me, in this thread. It was awkwardly and confusingly written and made little sense. Your posts since then haven’t been a great improvement. I can only assume that the degree-granting institution which you “attended” was made known to you from an advertisement on the back of a matchbook cover.

C) All this was nothing more than a colossal waste of time, since you challenged me on nothing, proved nothing, disputed nothing, and accomplished nothing in your repeated snipes at me. You’ve failed, indeed, to even make a decent point.

In short Kazorek, thinking me an “ass” is very much an illustration of the classic cliche of the pot calling the kettle black.

I just love it when people don’t really read what I said, and just jump to their own conclusions. And apparently in your case, pianopassion, your steamroll-over-it-anyway attitude comes from, in part, a religious point of view. Nice. Yes, stumping for Aristotle as the old Christian Church did, no matter what the guy said.

The fact is that I never dismissed Aristotle entirely. That would be nutty. If you read back to what I ACTUALLY said, I indicated that many of his conclusions of a scientific nature were wrong–and this was based on his conviction that to do actual experimentation in order to confirm a hypothesis was low-class and unnecessary. This led Aristotle to make many silly mistakes that could have easily been corrected if only he’d been willing to perform a trial or two. So while many of his works on ethics, art, etc. are still valuable pieces of philosophy, much of his hard science is not to be trusted.

I think the three Greek classical philosophers (Socrates, Plato, Aristotle) along with Stoicism, Paul and some early Christian Fathers should be taught to each and every western school as they are the originators of the western though and -really- the basis on which we take many things for granted today.

About Aristotle i think you make a big mistake.
He wrote on many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology, zoology and the ONE GOD…