{"id":683,"date":"2004-08-18T22:16:05","date_gmt":"2004-08-18T20:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/word\/archives\/683"},"modified":"2004-08-18T22:16:05","modified_gmt":"2004-08-18T20:16:05","slug":"topics-of-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/archives\/683","title":{"rendered":"Topics of Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In every question of social interaction, the answer depends on the circumstances surrounding that question.  When someone asks what to do about something, one must know more details in order to give an opinion.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps that is my problem with philosophy.  I&#8217;ve taken philosophy classes (for fun), and I always got in huge discussions with my professors and TAs about whatever it was we were talking about.  I guess things were so abstract that it seemed quite pointless to me sometimes.<\/p>\n<p>Also, it always seemed that belief in God was seen as a weakness.  Always found that quite funny.  It&#8217;s like there is a campaign out there<i>&#8230;&#8221;Being an Atheist is COOL.  Join Now!&#8221;<\/i>  Come on now&#8230;it doesn&#8217;t matter!  hehe.  In any case, I enjoy reflecting on those experiences, and it has taught me to not get so frustrated at sheer stupidity.  Well&#8230;sometimes.  \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to go clean now.  And eat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In every question of social interaction, the answer depends on the circumstances surrounding that question. When someone asks what to do about something, one must know more details in order to give an opinion. Perhaps that is my problem with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}