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Title: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by FourTwoOh on Nov 12th, 2002, 11:53am I humble myself before [smiley=zenmaster.gif] so as to someday be able to snatch the pebbles from your hand. :) |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by Philly on Nov 12th, 2002, 3:43pm Ok Grasshopper... enough with the Karate Kid cliches. [smiley=rollinwithlaughter.gif] If you mock Steggie-San too much, he'll have you waxing his car. |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by ugley on Nov 12th, 2002, 7:28pm I started to ask wtf then decided I did not want to know. Never mind. [smiley=doseofreality.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Nov 12th, 2002, 9:04pm on 11/12/02 at 15:43:21, Philly wrote:
Waxin' something! [smiley=rollinwithlaughter.gif] Anyway, in all seriousness, the way we employ the word "karma" causes real Buddhist monks, and scholars for that matter (it is a VERY philosophical religion, especially vis-a-vis the American brand of Bible-bangin' Christianity), to lose their lunch. Hippies and such (mis)construed "karma" as just a kind of "energy," which can be either bad or good and from which you will reap punishment or rewards accordingly. This is a misnomer. But, the circumstances through which it came into being was "understand-able." At any rate, "karma" specifically deals with cessation from/our ability to pull ourselves out of "Dukkha" or the "Wheel of Existence" and achieve enlightenment or "Nirvana," i.e., it deals with the ultimate goal of Buddhism, which is the quelling of desire, specifically, of that to continue to exist (as we are). "Karma" deals with following and fulfilling a very specific path, i.e. the "Noble Eightfold Path", which includes such things as "Right Mind" (the "meditation" stuff), "Right Action", "Right Thought/Reason", and five other things I cannot recall at this very moment (I am not a Buddhist, just a Philosophy scholar working on melding Eastern and Western Schools of Philosophy... oh, yea, and an occassional Catholic... do like the Pope's written works, though, very much). Make no mistakes, though! This is in no way similar to the current, en vogue (perceived) Islamic belief which seems to degrade life (at least to serve certain purposes). "Life"/"This life" is still VERY important to Buddhists. It is of the utmost importance to (try to) achieve "Nirvana" during it and then spread the experience thereof throughout the world. This then culminates in one's "Paranirvana" like it did for the historical Buddha, Siddhartha or Shakyamuni. There you have it, whether you wanted it or not! ;) |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by FourTwoOh on Nov 12th, 2002, 10:33pm Interesting indeed. I cheated and looked up some stuff after you mentioned having used it incorrectly. I guess I'll have to fall back on to "what goes around, comes around". Last night I needed some comes around, but got nothing but goes. I'm afraid I've built up quite a reserve of both. :eek: |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by Brian Griese,s Dog on Nov 12th, 2002, 10:39pm I envy the opportunity you have there Steg-man. Make the best of it. [smiley=bow.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by Philly on Nov 12th, 2002, 10:43pm I dunno... it all sounds like a great big pile of Dukkha if you ask me. [smiley=caughtonthecan.gif] [smiley=downthetubes.gif] [smiley=caughtonthecan.gif] [smiley=hellyeafunny.gif] Sorry man, couldn't let that one slide by... |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by Philly on Nov 12th, 2002, 10:46pm Now how does this chameleon fit in with the karma issue? ??? ??? Karma karma karma chameleon... |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by FourTwoOh on Nov 12th, 2002, 10:55pm on 11/12/02 at 22:46:28, Philly wrote:
lmao [smiley=rollinwithlaughter.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Nov 13th, 2002, 1:07am on 11/12/02 at 22:33:33, FourTwoOh wrote:
That second line of yours there, FourTwoOh, now that sounds philosophic, real dense and shit. Though I am a fairly astute Philosophy scholar (me thinks) [smiley=awwgee.gif] , I am not good with quoting shit (that's a Bible-banger thing anyway). But, I do know this one by heart and it is worth quoting now. Voltaire once said, "When he who hears doesn't know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks doesn't know what he himself means... that is philosophy." [smiley=rollinwithlaughter.gif] B. G.'s [smiley=dog.gif] , regarding your comment, thanks for the supportive words, BUT, trust me my position is not one to be envied. Further explanation requires [smiley=bonghit.gif]and/or [smiley=alcoholic.gif] / [smiley=cheers.gif] ! Funny, I just made the comment on that thread quite flippantly with no intention of causing such a stir. [smiley=awwgee.gif] Anyway, while we are on the topic, for those sincerely interested in picking up a little philosophy but have not been down that road since Intro. to Philosophy/Philosophy 101, if at all, a couple of GREAT books I would recommend to beginners: For a general overview of Western Philosophy/Philosophies - Philosophy for Dummies by Tom Morris For philosophy for lay men, but by a historically and academically relevant (i.e. famous) philosopher - The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell For a good book on the real basics of Buddhism by a/the leader in the field - What the Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by ugley on Nov 13th, 2002, 7:14am Steg, riddle me this. Buddist: Harm no living thing. Daoist: Respect all living things. [smiley=silence.gif] and for once I have to agree with that flea bitten mongrel [smiley=dog.gif] I would like to face the challenge you have. |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by ugley on Nov 13th, 2002, 7:20am on 11/12/02 at 22:46:28, Philly wrote:
last I heard she cums and goes. don't they all if we are lucky? [smiley=gettinridden.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by bgsgfan on Nov 13th, 2002, 1:19pm I don't pretend to be able to mind-duel with anyone on philosophy, HOWEVER, this particular statement makes me want to puke: Quote:
Of course, I consider myself an Objectivist. If you want to deal with philosophy that deals with life and existence as it IS ... not a bunch of psuedo-intellectual hogwash, check out Ayn Rand. |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by WeinkeMaster on Nov 13th, 2002, 1:31pm ooh! Excuse me, I walked into the wrong room. I thought this was a football message board and not the Oprah web site. :-[ Steg, are you going to be providing your favorite choice of book on a monthly basis. ;) I look forward to it. ::) |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by paulinstl on Nov 13th, 2002, 2:19pm MY KARMA JUST RAN OVER YOUR DOGMA :-X |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Nov 13th, 2002, 5:14pm on 11/13/02 at 13:31:45, WeinkeMaster wrote:
This goes under the topic getting to know your fellow Gridiron members, which is totally apropos for "the Sidelines". :) |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Nov 13th, 2002, 11:08pm on 11/13/02 at 13:19:38, bgsgfan wrote:
Oh, my friend, woe is me... :'( Read that there sentence again. There is absolutely nothing about it about which to be hostile or that should cause you to puke. Just think it through! Try to find the "spirit" of it! If you can't, I am going to have to just [smiley=silence.gif] , responding in strict Buddhist [smiley=zenmaster.gif] fashion. And, please remember this is not coming from a Buddhist. I am "not an anything-ist". That would reduce (the explanation of) my being to that of an "-ism", which is insufficient. That stands for most, actually. Just remember I have no stake in promoting Buddhism. I am just an "objective" observer (to the degree that any individual can be)... which is a perfect segue to my final area of curiosity here. I find it ironic that you claim to be an "Objectivist." What exactly do you mean by that? Again, this is not a hostile question... I just want to "hear you out" and "let you hear yourself out." Remember I know what "Objectivism" is in the field of Philosophy. I just want to hear you describe what it is that you mean. How do you derive so much "strength" from Ayn Rand? I can see this much: when it comes to topics such as the one at hand (as per some of your other posts), religion I guess that would be, you do not seem to be (small "o") "objective" in the least. So, how is it that you are an "Objectivist"? |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by bgsgfan on Nov 17th, 2002, 5:28am I am really not good at this, but here goes :) (If you have read Atlas Shrugged - I consider myself an Eddie Willers type of guy - definitely not John Galt.) 1. What does it mean to quell desire? To me this is death, pure and simple. Perhaps we still breathe and eat after we have lost the desire to do so; but at that point, why? Any philosophy that asks one to quell all desires is evil. You can make any kind of deep sounding argument you want about that statement, it still ends in death. 2. When I say that I am an Objectivist, I am referring to Rand's philosophy. What does it mean to me? 1. I try to make all my decisions for me and in pursuit of my own values. 2. I value the good, the strong, the right; not the bad, the weak, and the wrong. 3. I value life and growth. I could go on and on, but I really do not have it all formulated into a concise theory that I could sit down and type in 15 minutes - it would all come out as gabled statements :-/. I have read the Bible, the Koran, the Bagavad Gita (I know I butchered that). I have studied Ghandi. I consider myself to have a decent background in many schools of thought - a background that I pursued for my own purposes, not due to schooling. In everything I have studied, nothing comes close to being as RIGHT as Rand. A totally different subject you brought up - I also try to be as objective as possible (for me this is a bad trait of mine because I undermine my own position at times). Of course I realize that nearly everything I have opinions regarding is subjective to the extent of my knowledge and point-of-view... but by the same token, that realization allows me to be as objective as possible. In college I could have excelled at anything - but stuck mostly to the objective ( this sounds arrogant, but I deserve to be - I graduated with a 4.0). I had 2 comp profs - 1 thought I was God's gift - the other hated me. I majored in Accounting rather than Management due to the objective nature of Accounting. Even in FF, I tend to give more weight to stats and numerical analysis than most people do. |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by bgsgfan on Nov 17th, 2002, 5:43am When you say, Quote:
Steg, my friend, you can tell me till you are blue in the face that the sun rises in the West - I will still disagree with you, and I will disagree with those who try to take a middle of the road stance as well. If something is wrong, it is wrong. |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Dec 1st, 2002, 6:13am Well, tomorrow I am headed with my wonderful wife to Hwa-gye-sa (Buddhist) Temple in Seoul to attend their special one-day, three-hour Sunday class in English on meditation and Buddhism. I am sure the "experience" will add nicely to my understanding of... of... things. on 11/17/02 at 05:28:32, bgsgfan wrote:
I have not. Quote:
Where is that "off the mark" smiley when I need it? Right after you wrote "To me", the point got lost. Quote:
Something I need remember, friend!? Quote:
Just a question now... together or separately? Quote:
Kudos, ya' got me, Mr. Philosopher himself, on this front. I have read the Bagavad Gita (no butchery at all), one "book" of the Mahabarata, and a modest amount of related materials both for school and on my own; I have had to deal with bits and pieces of the Koran for school; as for the Bible, as a former church-going Catholic hearing readings from it in the First and Second Readings and the Gospel of a mass as well as in CCD class and, of course, as a Philosophy major, I have a perty good understanding of what is going on in it. That having been said, I have not dealt with, i.e. read, thought through and confronted, (the issues of) the Koran or the Bible, or the Mahabarata or Talmud for that matter, in their totalities. As such, you are up two "whole" books on me there. Quote:
I must admit that a lot of my studies are directly related to my schooling. Of course, that schooling was up to me. I think I know whence you are coming. But, is schooling not a good source of understanding and knowledge? Quote:
"RIGHT", and all the meanings it conveys, would be [smiley=bulls-eye.gif] ... and this is coming from a guy who identifies (himself) more with (as) the Republicans (a Republican). Quote:
[smiley=hmmmm.gif] This kind of went in a direction that I did not intend. It kind of has the feeling of a "pissing contest," which I hate. Moving right along, the following is a great page from which to "get" the basic "principles" of Ayn Rand's (brand of) "Objectivism," also known as "Egoism" or "Ethical Egoism": http://www.aynrand.org/objectivism/essentials.html. Some of the "sticky" parts... or should I say "loose ends"... With the "desire" (which I am permitted to have even according to strict Buddhists) to present this as entertainingly as possible, let me open by saying this... Things really "begin" to unravel in this accurate, albeit short and generalized, presentation of "Objectivism" in the section headed "Human Nature" especially vis-a-vis what is stated in the prior section labeled "Metaphysics". Point being, something ain't jivin' there. Objectivism would work better/be more cohesive with more of a dose of Existentialism. The section on "Human Nature" has some problems in and of itself, too. Though I HATE to say to do this, because I find the field generally distasteful, "think" Relativism... just for a second or two AND THEN STOP! Relativists have their "point" and this would be one of the few good times to reference it. That muddy water created by the "contrasting" of the "Metaphysics" and "Human Nature" sections calls for due scrutiny regarding what is stated in the section (incorrectly labeled) "Politics" (should have been labeled "Economics" or maybe "Socio-economics"), which in turn would lead one definitely to scrutinize the section labeled "Ethics". That aside, on their own "merit," the "Politics" section can definitely be said to contain holes and, moreover, the "Ethics" section promotes a, well, questionable, uncompassionate philosophy. Lastly, the "Epistemology" section, the section, by the way, most appropriately labeled, is definitely, well, "debatable." I do not even "know" what I "think" of "epistemology!" ;) (A Steggie original) I have no take either way on the "Esthetics" section. Ultimately, since you have decided to employ words such as "hogwash" herein, there is something I would like to make known. In the field of Philosophy, "Objectivism" is seen as a "pop" philosophy, at best, along the lines of a "Dianetics". You will rarely, if ever, see reference made to it in any "serious" works in the field. It has its fans because its tenets (quite predictably) are, or at least appear to be, very in line with those of American (secular) society, particularly our ideal of "manifest destiny"/(rugged) individualism (which is still going strong... and for the good, I might add), our capitalist corporate, material culture (let's say the less attractive side) and our mainstream rejection of Bible-bangin'. In short, it appeals to our simple "Tony Robins Empower Yourself" side. Given the liking you have taken to/your identifying with Ayn Rand, I would really recommend taking your mind another further step by checking out Bertrand Russell, starting with the piece mentioned above "The Conquest of Happiness". |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by bgsgfan on Dec 10th, 2002, 1:19am There are many potentially negative angles to this discussion that I wish to quell right off the bat. I do not want a pissing contest and apologize for any of my remarks that may have seemed as if I did. I value your friendship above any philosophical discussion we may have and will not let it interfere - if anything I value our friendship more if you force me to think. I believe we are of like mind on these things, yet they still need to be mentioned. Quote:
This was my initial point on this thread, and I am kind of disappointed that you dismissed it so cavalierly. I am very troubled by philosophies/religions that follow that type of reasoning (quelling of desires). Quote:
Many people miunderstand me when I say this. I would willingly trade my life for any of my sons, the decision would be mine and would be made for me. HOWEVER, do not ask me to give my sons away for your friend's daughters - I will not suspend my reasoning for yours. I have no hidden agenda. When I do things, it is of my free will. I trust there will never be a time when you expected me to do things out of my self-interests. If I agreed to build a building for you - and it is known that there would be no payment of currency - the value for me must take other means than the currency. Perhaps it is that I want to see the building built for the building's sake or my own experience. There could be many reasons - which I would be glad to tell you. Quote:
Not sure what you mean. If you mean both for me and for my values, the answer is yes. I value your friendship - perhaps that helps alleviate some of your concerns. ;D Quote:
God (pun intended), I sound braggadocious. I did this before high school - I am slightly obsessive compulsive and I went on a religious kick right after my cousin died - I read about 20 scientific books on "Life after Life" at the time also. It gives me a base, but not as good of a base as someone who studied those same works later in life (as opposed to just reading them earlier). I also am hummbled to admit I skipped all the begats. Quote:
My only point was meant to be that my studies were probably less complete than yours in that they were non-regimented. It could be argued that non-regimented studies are more objective - yet I could argue the opposite position also. Quote:
Even worse than that, I am politically closest to being a Libertarian (talk about RIGHT). 8) Quote:
I need to do about a month's worth of research to give any kind of opinion here. This stuff takes me long amounts of time to get through. I will make the effort and come back to it, but don't expect anything soon. :) Quote:
I think Ayn Rand was given exactly one sentence in my introductory philosophy classbook out of approx. 400 pages (taken 11 years ago), so yes I am aware. It does relate well to the "spirit" of America, however not all that well with its practice. And particularly not well with the so-called intellectuals - perhaps that is why it is looked on so disparagingly? I am not up on Tony Robbins so I cannot respond to that. Everything is extremely logical though, so perhaps that is what you are getting at. On a lighter note - I hope you enjoy the holidays, I probably will not be around much until next year as I am moving. |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by bgsgfan on Dec 10th, 2002, 1:22am Oops, I forgot one thing... Quote:
Will do - thanks. |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Aug 21st, 2003, 9:38am I have been in an epiphanous mood lately and something just struck me last night/this morning and for so many reasons this just seemed like a good time to bring this thread back up (like yesterday's dinner ;) ). Here is what I was "epiphanizing" about (fire up those calligraphy pens)... To be clueless is to know: to not know you know; to not know others know. To be confused is to know: to not know you know; to not know others do not know. To be idiotic is to know: to not know you know; to know others do not know. To be ignorant is to know: to know you know; to not know others do not know. To be gullible is to know: to know you do not know; to not know others know. To be wary is to know: to not know you do not know; to know others know. To be insecure is to know: to not know you know; to know others know. To be deluded is to know: to know you know; to not know others know. To be cynical is to know: to not know you do not know; to know others do not know. To be humble is to know: to know you do not know; to not know others do not know. To be smart is to know: to know you do not know; to know others know. To be arrogant is to know: to know you know; to know others do not know. To be prudent is to know: to know you know; to know others know. To be empty, the basest of virtues, is to not know. To be wise, the most ultimate virtue, is to know: to know you do not know; to know others do not know. ... [smiley=uh.gif] ... [smiley=whatever.gif] ... [smiley=thinking.gif] (There is a way to think this through,... I think!) [smiley=horse.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by PrimeTime on Aug 21st, 2003, 8:42pm All I can say is.... I am confused: i wonder if others are confused, do others know I'm confused, are confused others aware that I too am confused? [smiley=shrug.gif] [smiley=shrug.gif] [smiley=shrug.gif] I get it now... "I drink therefore I am" [smiley=ragin.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Sep 29th, 2006, 5:43am Guys, I thought I'd upchuck this oldie-but-a-goodie to let yous all know about a great personal and professional triumph I've had as of late. I'm going to give yous the very short of it, but this is one of those goose-bump stories. I wish I could just call [smiley=phone.gif] all of you and tell you the story. It really is unbelievable to hear A through Z, but here I'm just going to give yous the A, B, C's of it because it's just TOO MUCH to be writing (ab)out. Yous see... I have a wonderful, I like to think wondrous, BUT VERY unorthodox and unusual project/dissertation topic. I've alluded to it and my philosophical interests here and there throughout the site. Anyway, my one-line title thingy goes something like this: "The Acting Person Practicing Wisdom - A Common Thread: Resonances of a Philosophy of Self-cultivation and Person-making between Catholic Personalism, Tibetan Buddhism and Chinese Thought". Grandiose title thingy aside, this is more directly and simply put as a comparative study of the philosophies of Karol Wojtyla a.k.a. Pope John Paul II, Tenzen Gyatso a.k.a. The Dalai Lama, and Confucius, Mencius, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, and the Yi-jing. Anyway, I was "whispering from the rooftops" at Catholic U. because there they didn't care about, know about or care to know about Chinese and Buddhist thought, and I've been "whispering from the rooftops" again here at UH because here they don't care about, know about or care to know about the philosophy, the personalism, of Pope John Paul II,... though that IS changing! So, anyway, as I come to (yet) a(nother) crossroads at the end of this academic year in May as I will be completing my Master's, I have to start planning for the future and where the pages of the next chapter of my life will be turned. In doing this, I have been speaking to various people to get advice and guidance, mainly people here or back at CUA. Well, to make a VERY LOOOOONG story short, in a meeting and phone conversation respectively with two key people, Dr. Roger Ames and Msgr. Dr. Robert Sokolowski, my project got poo-pooed. From Dr. Ames, that wasn't a big surprise. From MSGR. Sokolowski, it somewhat was. But, again, truth be said, my deal is quite a bit off the beaten track. But, I know I am onto something,... though if I told yous that these two responses weren't at all discouraging, I'd be lying. Well, my day (to break the ice and get my validation) was two weeks ago to the day (Thursday, that is). Right now, I'm taking this class Confucianism. We have to do these biweekly short papers. Based on our readings at the time, I was in a position to defend the existentialism of philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre as having better resonance with Chinese philosophy than it was being credited with and for in general not being entirely adequately depicted. The paper, moreover, provided me the perfect segue to the personalism of Karol Wojtyla as, ultimately, I don't think Sartre is the ideal guy to do a Confucian comparison with. Understand, personalism is directly related to existentialism. In fact, it is also known as Christian existentialism. Anyway, I got that paper back two Thursdays ago and did glance down at it and saw the positive commentary and good grade. The professor, Dr. Ni, explicitly states that in light of my paper, he would like to take the first half of the seminar to break away from the syllabus and have a discussion about where we find resonances with Chinese philosophy in the western philosophic tradition. ALL the usual suspects get mentioned and debated: Hegel, Heidegger, Dewey, Whitehead, Emerson, Leibniz, and on and on,... all to no conclusion. I stayed quiet, but as the debate raged on and got nowhere, my heart started to pound, and I started to realize this was my opportunity to present my "deal", which students, having observed my passion for over a year now, have started to become ever so slightly curious about. I raised my hand and asked Dr. Ni if I could read just a little bit from my paper. He urged me to. Here's the preceding paragraph to the one I read which you need to situate yourselves: They (the writers of the book, Dr. Hall and the aforementioned Dr. Ames of the University of Hawaii) claim that to be compared with Confucianism the social context "must be grounded in deferential relations within interdependent contexts" (not independent, mutual contexts), and that (there must be a recognition that) "the principles of order and value are themselves dependent upon and emerge out of the contexts to which they have intrinsic relevance," and that "laws, rules, principles, or norms have their source in the human, social contexts which they serve." Hall and Ames say that "the Confucian is more concerned with an explication of the activities of specific persons in particular contexts," and that "characterizing a person in terms of events precludes the consideration of either agency or act in isolation from one another." In this light they say that "the fatal disadvantage of existentialism is its individualistic presupposition, which make of society a derivative, and therefore abstract, notion," and make their move to American pragmatism, especially that of John Dewey, as a better, albeit still flawed alternative. And, here is what I read: While I do not see Sartre as necessarily inconsistent with any of that, I, in any event, think they have not given the wider scope of existentialism its due, that is, namely that of personalism, i.e. Christian existentialism, and particularly that of Karol Wojtyla, Pope John Paul II, all of their anti-Christian rhetoric aside. In Wojtyla's The Acting Person, along the lines of Ames and Hall's definition of the person, Wojtyla writes that "the human being is a specific field of experiences and understandings," and that "Being and acting 'together with others' does not constitute a new subject of acting but only introduces new relations among the persons who are the real and actual subjects of acting," and that "to be and to act 'together with others' places man within the range of diverse relations." In dispelling the notion of the person in terms of pure consciousness, the micro-perspective, he too warns of the macro-perspective, the abstraction of society, and the interchangeability of the terms society and community, society "being" the abstraction while community "acts" as the realm of participating individuals. He views: "It (participation) (first of all) as a property of the person, a property that expresses itself in the ability of human beings to endow their own existence and activity with a personal (personalistic) dimension when they exist and act together with others... (and) conceive(s) participation ... as a positive relation to the humanity of others, understanding humanity here not as the abstract idea of the human being, but-in keeping with the whole vision of the human being ...-as the personal self, in each instance unique and unrepeatable. Humanity is not an abstraction or generality, but has in each human being the particular 'specific gravity' of a personal being." He concludes (therein in section 2.1 of chapter 16 of Person and Community) "That people fulfill themselves in and through community with others seems beyond doubt." In The Acting Person, he writes that "The human community is strictly related to the experience of the person," and that "contrary to the implications manifest in the individualistic and anti-individualistic thinking about man they (person and community) are neither alien nor mutually opposed to each other." He asserts that a person "is capable of not only partaking in the life of a community, to be and to act together with others; he is also capable of participating in the very humanness of others," and that "Only then can we claim that participation serves not just the fulfillment of some individual being, but that it also serves the fulfillment of every person in the community." Mind you, interspersed throughout that "academic" reading was a bunch of Steggie-style "Who'd a thunk he'd say 'thats'" [smiley=laugh.gif] and "elbow jabs" to the dude sitting next to me. Throughout, students knodded their heads and were shocked by the fact that it sounded awfully a lot like words Mr. Atheist himself Dr. Roger Ames could have written. In any event, at the end of my reading, which, again, came after an hour-and-a-half-or-so-long discussion/debate about all the usual Western philsophers we try to plug into Eastern thought, Dr. Ni smiles and simply says, "THAT'S CONFUCIANISM!" And, we took our halftime break. AWESOME!!! What an endorsement! What timing given the poo-pooing I had been enduring! Victory!!! [smiley=booya.gif] Every since, I've had all kinds of students as well as Amesian scholar Dr. Ni himself "much more" curious to hear out what this "Pope guy" has to say here... :D ... [smiley=zenmaster.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Oct 3rd, 2006, 9:40pm on 09/29/06 at 05:43:02, StegRock wrote:
Restatement... worth making given my "efforts" here... My one-line dissertation/project title thingy goes something like this (edited part in italics): "The Acting Person Practicing Wisdom - A Common Thread: Resonances of a Philosophy of Self-cultivation and Person-making between Catholic Personalism, Tibetan Buddhism and Chinese Thought". |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Oct 6th, 2006, 6:01am Pulled a REALLY hot move in a recent paper worth sharing with you guys. It's not a move you necessarily have to be a philosopher "proper" to appreciate. In Plato's Apology, Socrates is quoted as saying, "the unexamined life is not worth living." (You all may know that one.) That lays the foundation for philosophical discourse (over the practice of philosophy) as primary (to the discipline of philosophy). In the very first line of the Analects, Confucius is quoted as saying, "Having studied, to then repeatedly apply what you have learned-is this not a source of pleasure?" It seems like the suggestion of the latter (and of the philosophy of Confucius in general, at least vis-a-vis what Socrates is saying above) is that "the unlived life is not worth examining." [smiley=bow.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Oct 9th, 2006, 4:02am Yous who have been around here for a while know my relentless persistence like that that went into, e.g., my fighting my way into UH. [smiley=tough.gif] I don't have a whole lot of quit in me, and, as per my original "vision" with this site back in 2002, as we have just this past August passed the halfway point toward what I see as the imminent future of this site, I thought my most recent entry in my "Journal of Thoughts" was worth sharing with you all... 10/8/04 - Person A's questioning and critiques of Person B and what Person B does are valuable and useful to Person B only to the degree that Person A questions and critiques himself and his own actions and behavior. Reflection is the pathway to good character. |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Nov 14th, 2006, 4:45am Steggie-san, coming to a city near you!?!? This just in,... well, kind of, I had to wait out approval of funding from the Graduate Student Organization here, which came through last Thursday,... [smiley=greedy.gif] old philosopher [smiley=wiseman.gif] Steggie will be attending a conference on "The Phenomenology of John Paul II" (web site: http://www.duq.edu/phenomenologycenter/JPIIconference/) at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA on Friday and Saturday, December 1st and 2nd. I will arrive in Pittsburgh late the night of November 30th as I will actually be flying into Newark and driving out to Pittsburgh. At the conclusion of the conference at 5:00 on the 2nd, with Mrs. Steg at my side, I will, alas, head back to Ocean, NJ to see mom [smiley=smitten.gif] after 15 months apart and enjoy some [smiley=hungry.gif] home cookin' [smiley=lickinmychops.gif] for a couple days... and, in a less hectic environment, football. [smiley=footballsmiley.gif] I anticipate our arriving around midnight Saturday night/Sunday morning. We will be staying through Tuesday early morning. Don't have much time to get around, but if you want to converge on the old Steggie residence on Sunday for some ball games, mark your calendars and let me know. Callie, I should surely bump into you over at the Gardens. ;) |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by Callie on Nov 23rd, 2006, 6:14pm We'll definately get together! I'm anxious to see Gino again, too! I'll have my famous Christmas lights up before that, and if you want to get together for the games - sounds great! Either come over to our place or tell me what I can bring to yours. |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by Callie on Nov 27th, 2006, 12:35pm on 11/23/06 at 18:14:22, Callie wrote:
Oops. I just found out that Sunday is the date of a business Christmas party (a daytime thing that will probably go on for quite a while) that I cannot duck out of. Sorry. No football for me that day. :( |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Jan 15th, 2007, 3:43am Well, boyz and galz,... how time changes... You, old-timers at least, can probably recall the devil of a time I had getting into the program here at UH, spending one year at CUA having to prove myself. Well, here's the deal... This could give yous "added" reason for taking a late-winter trip to Hawaii (as if yous need "additional" reasons to come to Hawaii) in March. ;) In March, we have our annual East-West comparative philosophy conference, "Cross Currents", which is now in its second year of funding by some Uechiro foundation out of Japan. I, for the heck of it, as I've, alas, got people buzzing here about the western philosophical resonances with Chinese philosophy I find, especially that of Wojtyla's/JPII's Personalism, submitted the paper I did for and got an exceptional grade on in my Confucianism class last semester (partial/crux of story above). I also had, in a not-well-thought-through hectic moment, signed on to be a reader and evaluator for papers submitted for the conference. Point being, given my anally-retentive sensibility, I contacted the committee and expressed to them whether or not I should be concerned about any "conflict of interest". I was told that that didn't matter. A large portion of the students submit papers, and, in any event, the (obvious) focus is on choosing papers coming from outside. We only look to have a couple people represent us, the host school. In fact, we only had three UH-ers present last year, and all three were Ph.D. students. I am just a Master's student. So, all in all, it was unlikely that my paper would be selected, anyway. ... So, get to reading and evaluating. Well,... you can probably already guess where this is going,... a story of triumph. [smiley=whistle.gif] Only two UH-ers are scheduled to present this year, in fact, both Master's students. One of them is you all's truly. [smiley=awwgee.gif] From rejected by the program twice to being one of two students representing the program alongside presenters we have coming from the likes of Harvard, Columbia, Duke and abroad from, off the top of my head, Germany and Japan. I canNOT believe it!!! In any event, I'd love to share this not-all-too-dense, fairly lay-readable work with my Gridiron family here. In your quiet time, you may just enjoy it, and further come to understand the engineer of this train we got rolling along here, but that was a bit derailed in '06. A better and better understanding of the heart-and-mind of the old bossman here can only work to heighten the appreciation of "the Gridiron project" and what I am trying to accomplish here, but cannot do alone (though, after successfully "pushing the 'envelope'" here last summer, NEVER again want to endure another '06, which was at the end of the day brutal on me). Anyway, for those interested, which, as just intimated, should not just include those curious about philosophy, I've posted the paper at one of my domains. Here is a link to the paper; note, I will be on a four-presenter panel entitled "Metaphysics, Religion and Post-modernism": [smiley=idontknow.gif] http://www.internetstitute.com/Ni-paper.pdf. I will continue to keep you all abreast (or two) [smiley=boobies.gif] ... ;) of the conference. Brochures and what-not will probably be coming out at the beginning of February. I hope those of you who decide to dive in enjoy. If you have any questions, feel free to ask away right here on this thread. And, furthermore, if you find any typos, misspellings or grammatical mistakes, let me know,... but not on this thread. Pop me a private message or e-mail or something. Over and out... |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by Callie on Jan 15th, 2007, 2:00pm The link requires a password. |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Jan 15th, 2007, 3:17pm No,... it shouldn't. The page doesn't automatically open up in your browser window because it is a Microsoft Word document ".doc", not a web/HTML page. You have to choose to either "Open" it or "Save" it to disk. That's what the IE "File download" box that comes up is indicating. Give it another whack... |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by Callie on Jan 15th, 2007, 3:48pm OK, got it! It still asked for a password. But I just ignored that, left it chugging, and waited till it showed up. :) Can't read it right now, but I will. |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Jan 15th, 2007, 8:44pm Just a note to those of you actually givin' this thing a shot, I did (finally figure out how to) make that all-important footnote #4 that, how it had been set-up, started on page 3 and went on into page 4 more readable by having it display in its entirety on one page, page 4. So, if you are not just taking a look-see on-line and you actually downloaded the paper so as to peruse it later on, you may want to download it again... as that footnote is very important and it is easier to read all in one lump as opposed to at the bottom of two pages. :) |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by MordecaiCourage on Jan 16th, 2007, 12:36am If I may Steve, apologetically, take liberty (albeit MUCH liberty is being taken) with your paper here. I'd like to try to sum up in a short paragraph or so, as to how I personally see "The Issues of Transcendence and the Insistent Particular" as it pertains to The Gridiron "Community". I do realize that your thought covers (in immense fashion) life actions in reaching out and beyond all subject matter presented to us, but my intentions are solely to scratch the surface within this community. First of all.... I like the way Schmitz relates transcendence as "our going out to the things around us, in coming to know them, in interacting with them and being affected by them." Also the way he simplifies vertical transcendence as "a call to us to progress toward the highest realization of values, which in turn would provoke genuine change within us so as to surrender the self that we presently are to the self that we might become." Secondly, I like how JP II defined intersubjectivity as the dimension that is "reducible to treating and really experiencing 'the other as oneself'". Taking these quotes, along with my own "learned" experiences through my upbringing and in my day-to-day life, I'd like to define "community" as I think it should pertain to the Gridiron. Without diving into and/or quoting your past posts on "participation" to the Gridiron, I think it's common knowledge and reasonable to say that your intent for this community is to bring a "brotherhood" vibe to it. Not merely a vibe, but a closeness that would make the Gridiron more personable and cause each individual to feel "ownership", and pride in that ownership. Our interactions here should be well thought out, courteous and thought-provoking. We should be taking into consideration other's values, thoughts, and ideas. Basically, we should treat others as we would want to be treated ourselves. Participation is the key to transcendence and will keep the Gridiron fresh and fun for all of us and will attract new-comers and assure future growth. It is in that actus personae that I could see the magazine come to a reality. Anyway, as I said I am only touching the surface of your paper Stegger. I want to encourage everybody to get involved in what is going on here and participate. Don't just tell us who you'd start or trade for on any given Sunday. Add the main ingredient..."you".... and allow others to learn about you. If you are not participating in any of the "Get to know" forums here, then I encourage you to do so. Especially with the off-season looming around the corner. Don't be a stranger! |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Jan 16th, 2007, 2:48pm VERY well done, MC! [smiley=bow.gif] Well thought-about and well written! I like what you decided to highlight, most notably the idea of "participation". Your last paragraph seems to be dead-on [smiley=bullseye.gif] as well. I do, however, furrow my brow at your choice of the word ownership. For onlookers, I do want it to be clear: it is not a word that appears anywhere in the paper. It is a word that has "come up" before. It is a word I am rather uncomfortable with. My sensibility is that it is fundamentally anathema to the notion of "co-op" I try to forward here. It is surely not possession, nor even universal ownership, that defines the co-op as I see it. It is rather universal non-ownership that provides the right groundwork for a healthy co-op. However, I just do not think ownership is the right word to even be thinking in terms of. I am not going to say that there is absolutely no way to navigate around the term, that there is not some sense in which it is applicable. But, that would be a VERY refined sense. Again, in general, it is probably not the word for folks to be thinking in terms of. There are other better ones, namely brotherhood, which you also mention. I think the following quote from the paper from JPII's The Acting Person captures quite better the sensibility I think you are trying to get at: "The notion of neighbor has ... a deeper application ... to interhuman relations, and it is thus more fundamental than the notion of membership in a community. Membership of any community presupposes the fact that men are neighbors, but it neither constitutes nor may abolish this fact. People are or become members of different communities; in these they either establish close relations or they remain strangers - the latter reflects a lack of the communal spirit - but they are all neighbors and never cease to be neighbors." One other thing, in your third sentence, MC, I think you may be missing a word, a verb or something, that is making the sentence difficult to understand. I think you are trying to communicate something very nice to me. [smiley=awwgee.gif] It is just that I do not know exactly what it is. In any case, thank you so much, MC, for taking this time out of your busy life to actually read through this thing and post your thoughtful commentary. It is not light reading, and you surely displayed a reasonable understanding of it, which surely took patience and due diligence on your part. :) |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by MordecaiCourage on Jan 16th, 2007, 3:22pm Yeah......I paused when I wrote "ownership" but I just couldn't think of the proper word/words to say. The way in which it was rolling around in my head was self-termed as taking ownership in the sense of treating The Gridiron as if you owned it by putting 100% of yourself into what is going on here so as "to get it" and hopefully let others "get it". If that makes sense. Any how in my third sentence, I was basically trying to say that I know your paper is speaking about much greater life philosophies than just Gridiron stuff and I was trying to let you know that I "get that". It can be frustrating to put your view out there and then have someone relate to just the tip of the iceberg while not understanding that there is so much more under the water's surface than what you can see visually. I just wanted to ensure that you knew I was only scratching the surface of what you wrote and not trying to minimize it by saying that I could sum up the whole thing in a paragraph. ;D also..I never read anything JP II ever wrote until now. I didn't realize he was such a "heavy hitter". It stands to reason that he would be philosophically sound though! Just never thought of him that way. Eye opener for this Protestant! |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Jan 19th, 2007, 8:30pm Just sharin'... Nothing's been updated at the site yet. I'll let yous know when there is. But, here is the initial postcard thingy that was sent out... Incidentally, I have made a couple important revisions to the paper, one is around the area where I discuss the vulnerability of Ames and Hall's position to the "opposite" critique of the one leveled against Descartes, the other is around the area where I discuss "Chuang Tzu's fish". |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Jan 22nd, 2007, 11:27pm This is almost more me thinking aloud than anything... But, for those following along,... content has been added and tweaks have been made to the following area of the paper: between the paragraph that starts at the bottom of page 22 and the paragraph that ends at the top of page 25. Moving right along,... [smiley=howtoput.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Jan 28th, 2007, 6:40am FYI, FTI, footnote 16 on page 8, quote from Wojtyla's/JPII's Person and Community added. [smiley=howtoput.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Jan 31st, 2007, 3:06am Subsequent to some in-depth discussion with some colleagues of mine here who have read the paper, I have done some significant reworking and further augmentation. Bottom line, I'm now going for the jugular... kind of. I mean I am ultimately very supportive of the Amesian person-making project and vision. That's clear. But, heretofore, the paper beat around the bush of the bottom-line problem with his model, its inability to even just allow for an account of consciousness. That is really where... [smiley=shitfan.gif] Before, my paper was leaving the proverbial "elephant in the room" alone and permitting him the easy semantic move of just opting out of the term "intersubjectivity" as a specific response to my paper, but ultimately leaving the crucial substantive issue of consciousness unsolved. Making the point about consciousness explict really ups the ante and, moreover, ties the paper together. In the draft that is now up, the sections that have been reworked and augmented are in blue font: http://www.internetstitute.com/Ni-paper.pdf. Enjoy! [smiley=bow.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Feb 8th, 2007, 3:23am on 01/15/07 at 03:43:11, StegRock wrote:
Ahhh... How times, they do change... from fighting my way in to... I was recently requested to do a book review for the University of Hawaii's Journal China Review International. Due June 1st and probably published a few months thereafter will be my first very own professional publication in Philosophy, a review of Kim-chong Chong's Early Confucian Ethics. Yous know... When I was first asked, I was like, "Are you kidding me? I'm not worthy." But, then, I flipped through the book and realized, "Holy shit! I actually know what this is talking about. This is what I do!" It was a wonderful feeling and experience. Anyway, unbelievable... I'm building that resume, getting a nice opportunity to get a little ahead of that "publish or perish" curve. :) Furthermore, (what amounts to a precursor to my paper presentation at the conference) I will be doing a graduate student colloquium tomorrow (Thursday) on "Alternatives for East-West Comparativists: The Personalism of Karol Wojtyla". And, the turnout at my secular home school here looks like its gonna be BIG! [smiley=swollenhead.gif] Here's the flyer that went up: http://www.internetstitute.com/JPIIcoll.jpg Tomorrow I will just be pitching the strong resonances between Wojtyla's Personalism and the person-making project of (the Amesian) Confucius. I really won't be getting into the thesis of the paper, the problem(s) with the Amesian Confucian vision and my proposed "Wojtylian" solution(s). That [smiley=ohshit.gif] will come at the conference (remember Dr. Roger Ames, with whom I have an exceptional relationship, is the HEAVY hitter faculty member here in UH's Philosophy Department). So, if you are interested, the version of the paper as it is now available to yous, is further "color-coordinated", so to speak: what's in blue font is what I will be presenting at the colloquium (tomorrow/Thursday), what's in orange is what I will emphasize at the conference (in March), and what remains in black font is, in short, the mortar, so to speak. Anyway, patience and persistance surely are virtues... [smiley=zenmaster.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by DirkDiggler on Feb 9th, 2007, 8:24am Steg-- Congrats man. Seems you are on quite a roll!!! Book reviews and everything! Pretty funny how things worked out in the end. Hell of a battle to get to where you are at, but look at you now...... So....how did your colloquium go? |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by MordecaiCourage on Feb 9th, 2007, 9:49am [smiley=clap.gif] [smiley=clap.gif] [smiley=clap.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by Tony_O on Feb 9th, 2007, 4:10pm Congratulations on your hard work and dedication......oh I mean the fruits of your labor.....oh I meant your recent success! |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by Callie on Feb 9th, 2007, 8:02pm Ditto! But not surprising. |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Feb 16th, 2007, 2:39am The colloquium went well. Frankly speaking, though, too much of a "home-field" crowd for my liking,... all those who are already pretty much sold on what I'm pitching. Point being, I'd rather have dudes who the material challenges and who can challenge me on the material coming so that a rich dialogue can ensue. With others seeing clearly whence I am coming and in general agreement, the conversation would not have to be between just the questioner and me. Others could weigh in... and not just on the audience's side, so to speak. But, alas, at a secular, public school, people aren't nearly as open-minded as you'd expect. Though UH has grown on me and I'm getting the HUGE dose of Eastern [smiley=zenmaster.gif] Philosophy I sought, the truth is an irony: CUA was a more open-minded milieu. If only Dr. Cua were still there,... :-/ Anyway, update on the conference and the paper (especially for those who have not read the paper yet or at least since like the first time I posted it),... we received our first notice from the conference coordinators. Our papers in their "final form" for the purposes of the conference are due on March 5th for posting on the conference web site and general distribution. So, if you want to give it a(nother) read, at this point you might as well just wait until that date. I must admit it's still "surging". By March 5th, this thing is going to be... [smiley=tough.gif] I've already made the problem of consciousness explicit. I've already been told by the likes of Dr. Rev. Frances X. Clooney of Harvard University that this thing could surely be published after the conference... [smiley=swollenhead.gif] Here we go...!!! |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Mar 8th, 2007, 4:16am Just two weeks out... [smiley=yikes.gif] The goods have gone live... Check out your first to bat on the "Religion, Science and Postmodernism" panel... [smiley=whistle.gif] http://www.hawaii.edu/phil/gradconf/!!! [smiley=woohoo.gif] The paper posted there (as well as the one I have been maintaining via the link above) is the FINAL version, at least, as far as the conference goes... Personally, I think it's basically ready to go to print... ;D |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Mar 13th, 2007, 6:56pm For those interested,... conference web site has been updated... http://www.hawaii.edu/phil/gradconf/!!! Getting just a little bit nervous... [smiley=nervous.gif] Remember, besides having that feeling just "in general", I will be presenting this thing in front of Dr. Roger Ames... [smiley=scared.gif] I mean... he's cool and all,... but... critique is critique... [smiley=yikes.gif] ... ;) ... [smiley=shrug.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Mar 22nd, 2007, 9:48am [smiley=howtoput.gif] Well, boyz and galz, this'll probably be the last time I will be "en communicado" until after I present, roughly seven hours from now. I'm just now heading into the shower and hoping to be in bed by 4:15 to get me all of about three hours of... [smiley=sleepers.gif] Ultimately, though, I'm "philosophically" sharper, a little tired... Anyway,... send the old Stegger the good vibes, everybody... [smiley=hippy.gif] ... [smiley=bow.gif] ... [smiley=fingerscrossed.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by Drew Rosenhaus on Mar 22nd, 2007, 11:33am Steve - Enjoy yourself and kick some philosophical butt! Look forward to hearing the positive news. |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by DirkDiggler on Mar 22nd, 2007, 8:41pm We are waiting to hear how it went!!!! [smiley=bow.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by Tony_O on Mar 22nd, 2007, 9:05pm Good Luck! |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by Callie on Mar 22nd, 2007, 11:17pm You'll be great. |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Mar 30th, 2007, 7:01pm Hey, all... Just makin' a quick drive-by,... [smiley=cruisin.gif] quite literally. :P I want to thank all of you who wished me well. [smiley=bow.gif] Stevo did give me a buzz [smiley=phone.gif] and actually caught me the other day. He was eager to know how I made out. It went swimmingly... as in... [smiley=drown.gif] ... ;D Really, it went great! I definitely raised a few eyebrows and furrowed not a few. ;) Whether heads were knodding or quizzical faces glared at me, people were in shock... and awe. [smiley=ohshit.gif] ... :-X Mind you, they were so not just because my shit was the FUNNIEST presentation to probably ever be presented at an "academic" conference,... [smiley=joker.gif] IT WAS (EVERYBODY, profs not excluded were like... BLAHAHAHAHA... [smiley=laugh.gif] [smiley=hellyeafunny.gif] [smiley=LMFAO.gif] [smiley=sinister.gif] [smiley=rollinwithlaughter.gif]),... but because JPII [smiley=priest.gif] does provide and shocking source of resonance with Confucius [smiley=zenmaster.gif], one that cannot be denied, and, moreover, the results/residual ripple effects of this echoing, like it or lump it, just flat-out rings true. Mine was definitely the presentation to cause some fireworks... as was expected. However, none of the questions critically addressed the critical and foundational content of my paper. Basically, I had my home-teamers again and, then, people who (ironically) cannot put aside their extreme biases. Dr. Ames, who, cool 8-) cucumber that he is, took everything in stride, and, as my wife put it, actually looked on and sounded like a proud father, asked a good question, but it still dealt with the peripheral issue of the biography of JPII. My response then was "eh". I now have a GREAT one. I guess that's part (and parcel) of what participating at these conferences is about, improving your position and making for a better center of gravity to your stance that is. I also got a fluff question about Whitehead, which is not in my wheelhouse, though (I mean,... come on,... take the UNIQUE opportunity to inquire about Wojtyla, not Whitehead, a bastardized version of whom we are already inundated with here at UH). Then, finally, the lambasting came. A professor, who obviously had not read my paper and obviously has "issues" with his Christian, Lutheran, upbringing (and, don't get me wrong, I think justifiable issues; it's just that they were misplaced here), freaked out on me about the "Christian Distinction" (in short, the belief in a radically transcendent creator God vis-a-vis a pantheistic immanental God). This is NOT AT ALL important to my paper or my project. He just got hung up on my using this term, which, mind you, appears only ONCE in the 37 PAGES of my paper and even then in the context of the ideas Ames eschews and wants to distance himself and the Chinese tradition from, "a la," and I quote, "the Platonic Forms, Aristotelian Prime Mover, Neoplatonic One, Christian Distinction, etc." I only used it there to knock it down, for goodness sake (again, not that I think it needs to be knocked down; I'm just speaking in terms of this paper and the audience here). Point being, I used it in the paper in a way so as to "play to the crowd". [smiley=gimmeabreak.gif] At the conference, our panel was asked about points of tension between our papers. I brought it up with respect to that, period. This not about my proclamation of who is rightfully or wrongfully dubbed a "Christian". I could give a rat's ass. However, these two parenthetically aforementioned interpretations of a "Christian" God is SURELY a source of tension! Bottom line, he was unfamiliar with the phrase, which is thrown around at CUA like we throw around the phrase "Process Philosophy" here at UH. I definitely learned not to assume common nomenclature across venues, at least. Defining terms is part and parcel of the job of the philosopher, in any case. Anyway, much did come out of discussions with folks afterwards. I must say... [smiley=whistle.gif] the phrase "suspension of Metaphysics" was on the tip of many a tongue for the remainder of the conference and, I am sure, will remain so in the mind of many a scholar henceforth. :) As people came "out of the closet" one-on-one with me (get your heads out of the gutters, Gridironers ;)), it became immensely clear to me that people were by and large very happy to see JPII's being brought to the table of East-West philosophic conversation. [smiley=yes.gif] Anyway, I may have some footage for yous. My wife only got 12 minutes and change before the battery on the camera that was lent her ran out, and, perfectionist that I am, I don't know if that's all I want seen. I do know that others were taping as well. If I can get my hands on anything that covers my presentation in full (the Q-n-A session isn't necessary) and it's not TOO HUGE of a file (that's kind of problem even with the one my wife taped), I will definitely be posting it. If not, I'll think about posting the one Gino did. |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Apr 12th, 2007, 11:31pm Still trying to get the video stuff together... But, anyway, I'm getting ready to step up to the plate again tonight, and this time it's my show. I actually thought I told you guys about this, but from reading through the thread I guess I didn't. The good folks over at the Newman Center on campus (the Catholic chapel and ministry dudes) have welcomed me to do my Confucius-Wojtyla thing there tonight at 7:30. Theatrics and comic relief aside, it will be a "watered down" version of what I did at the conference, more like what I did at/had planned for the colloquium I did back on February 8th. In short, the agenda will run a little something like this: 1) How I came to be interested in Wojtyla and Confucius (mainly JPII), 2) Short biographies of the two (mainly some fun ditties about the young, pre-papacy Wojtyla), 3) Hermeneutical concerns - Jesuit/Christian misinterpretations of Chinese text and how to approach the four kinds of writings Wojtyla produced, 4) Comparison between Wojtyla and an "Amesian" Confucius, 5) Comparison between Wojtyla and a more "traditional, conservative" Confucius (like that of Wing-tsit Chan), and 6) Main comparison (my thing) - the "Suspension of Metaphysics". Here's a link to the flyer for it: http://www.internetstitute.com/Wojtyla-Confucius%20Flyer.doc. I actually made it myself. It's not just a flyer. It's a piece of artwork. [smiley=awwgee.gif] And, here's the outline/summary/agenda for tonight: http://www.internetstitute.com/Wojtyla-Confucius.doc. Anyway, here we go!!! [smiley=fingerscrossed.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on May 1st, 2007, 6:39am First off, real fast, the presentation at the Newman Center went AWESOMELY!!! There were about 30 people in attendance (only four from the Philosophy Dept., though). ::) Anyway, everybody walked away enriched... One fella in the audience pointed to a new door of exploration for me that was, in fact, inherent in my outline, and another person in the audience (a fellow philosopher, actually) helped me get to a new plateau in my thinking. [smiley=twothumbsup.gif] The folks there were very into it, it was apparent to me that they definitely walked away with something. IN ANY EVENT,... tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 (Hawaii time) I have my Master's Culmination Exam... [smiley=nervous.gif] Them during -> [smiley=Uwent2far.gif][smiley=no.gif][smiley=nono.gif][smiley=gimmeabreak.gif] Me during -> [smiley=gonecrazy.gif] Them after -> [smiley=laugh.gif][smiley=hellyeafunny.gif][smiley=LMFAO.gif][smiley=rollinwithlaughter.gif] Me after -> [smiley=stars.gif] ... Me between now and then -> [smiley=pray.gif] ... Wish me... [smiley=shamrock.gif], guys... |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by Philly on May 2nd, 2007, 3:41pm Good luck with everything, Steg. Should be a piece of cake for ya! |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on May 5th, 2007, 9:08am Thanks for the well wishes, Philster, anybody else who sent me some good vibage... [smiley=hippy.gif] I did pass... ;D So, pending the completion of one more paper and a Japanese exam, I am... [smiley=graduate.gif] MASTA!!! [smiley=jammaster.gif] Only thing, though, is they are holding us over a barrel until Monday to let us know who has been admitted into the Ph.D. program. [smiley=getoff.gif] Mind you, the decision has been made. The decisions were made during this afternoon's faculty meeting. I, us all, with the exception of two, one who knows he's outta here and onto Thailand and another who knows she is so good to go, are sweatin' it out. I mean... I should be fine... [smiley=fingerscrossed.gif] BUT, truth be said, I was flat during the culmination exam. I just wasn't really "on". :-/ At this point, I've just got to wait and see,... get work done while in the back of mind I wonder about the status of my future... until 11 o'clock Monday morning. [smiley=nervous.gif] ... [smiley=pray.gif] ... [smiley=zenmaster.gif] ... [smiley=gonecrazy.gif] Incidentally, what a nightmare the exam was... You hand in three revised and beefed-up papers and are tested on any one of them or all three. I'm the Chinese Philosophy, Phenomenology, Catholic Personalism, Tibetan Buddhism guy... Two of the papers were along those lines (one was the Confucius/JPII one I presented at the conference), 40 pages each, 80 pages in all. My third was off-the-beaten-track for me, an "okay" 21-pager. Just an afterthought, throw-in, really... What do you all think was the paper they chose to exclusively test me on? You guessed it... The third one, my far-and-away third choice. What was that paper on? ... NIETZSCHE!!! THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA!!! F'n NIGHTMARE!!! [smiley=Freddie.gif] Unbelievable! [smiley=no.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by captainpurple on May 8th, 2007, 10:14am 21 pager vs. 2 40-pagers. suppose it was just tester laziness that made them gravitate to that one? Anyway, good luck! I hope you did as well as you deserve! Let us know! [smiley=laugh.gif] P.S. I hope you did as well as you deserve!I realized this quote could be misconstrued as a double entendre (or more!). and as a philosophy guy, that wouldn't be lost on you [smiley=laugh.gif] Rest assured, just good vibes there...L8R! |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on May 10th, 2007, 12:42am Actually, fellas,... the news is BAAAAAAD!!! Only 2 of the 6 of us were passed on to the Ph.D. program. Despite a 3.8 GPA and already having been awarded money weeks ago for next year,... I, shockingly, was NOT one of them. Furthermore, applications did not go well as, because I was basically content with staying here (as we LOVE Hawaii), I shot VERY high with apps to other programs, assuming (never do that) that I was a shoe in here. Things are a mess right now. Somehow, though, over the last 48 or so hours since the announcement was made, I had to muster up the strength to write a 20-pager (22 pages) and prep for a Japanese exam, which I can't fluff off on because I, unlike almost all my colleagues, take the language class for a grade and not just pass-fail. I literally wrote this paper over the weekend with a bad premonition and since the announcement on Monday with a half a heart, a lump in my throat, a clenched fist, and an apprehension about a now uncertain future. To be frank with yous, I am hearing word that my philosophical pursuits (see above... if you follow) and the success I was having (remember I wrote that paper for a professor who was visiting here for just one semester) ended up coming back to bite me. In any event, needless to say, I, along with my ever faithful wife, are picking up the pieces. :'( |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by captainpurple on May 10th, 2007, 12:48pm [smiley=dejected.gif] Man, I wish there were something I could say to help you guys. I know the "...God opens a window" cliches are overdone, but hopefully you can find the next step in your journey is revealed to you more clearly. Whether that be to continue pursuing this dream or set your sites on another. God be with you, as are my prayers. All the best. |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by MordecaiCourage on May 10th, 2007, 3:15pm Sorry Stegger, :( things will work out for you in the end. The education you've already received is an amazing accomplishment in itself!! Be proud of what you've already accomplished and keep persuing the Ph.D. It will all fall into place for you...I'm sure of it!! [smiley=thumbsup.gif] Adversity is like lightning, if you can harness it it becomes usable electricity. Harness this adversity Steg, and ride it to bigger and better things!! |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by Philly on May 12th, 2007, 12:04am Hey Steg... sorry to hear about your circumstances. I thought for sure that you were automatic. If it's any consolation, I hear this fantasy football thing is a burgeoning industry. ;) |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by Oakland4life on May 12th, 2007, 10:49pm Man Sorry to here that Stegrock [smiley=alcoholic.gif] [smiley=bs.gif] [smiley=gimmeabreak.gif] What a shitty thing to have happen. Especially after all the hard work you have done. Well, I know its not very consoling (sp) for a bunch of "sorry mans" but sorry man, that really blows. :-[ |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by Callie on May 13th, 2007, 4:23pm Just saw this, Steve. Sorry things didn't work out the way you wanted them to. But in the years that I've known you, you've always managed to turn apparent disappointments into something even better. This one will be the same. If you haven't talked to your mom yet today, tell her I said Happy Mother's Day. And give my love to Gino, too! |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by steelkings on May 16th, 2007, 8:01am http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f2/Belushi_in_Animal_House.jpg/170px- Its not over till we say its over! Was it over when the Germans bombed pearl harbor? |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by steelkings on May 16th, 2007, 4:54pm http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n26/steelkings/050816_animalhouse_vlg_3p_widec.jpg What do we do now? Toga.......Toga......Toga |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by BarnabyWilde on May 23rd, 2007, 5:05am Keep your chin up Stegger!!!!!! |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on May 25th, 2007, 11:47pm Hey, all! Thanks for the kind words... I wanted to let yous know that the reason for my extended absence over the last two weeks does not have anything to do with my going in the tank or anything like that. I had flown my mom in for the graduation. She was here a couple weeks and just left last night. So, I've been busy enjoying time with her as well as having family powwows about the future. To be honest, we went around and saw more stuff on Oahu over these last two weeks with my mom than we have over the almost two years we've lived here. At any rate, with my mom's departure last night, I am now in the process of picking myself up, brushing myself off and moving forward... in earnest. I digress... Make no mistakes. This experience has been surreal. If you remember from above, I was selected to do this book review for China Review International. That still stands. So, here I am, the guy given the heave-ho, working on this. It's a significant resume item, so I press ahead. But, the overall situation remains... [smiley=stars.gif] ...weird, to put it mildly. Anyway, some general decisions have been made,... and,... word is,... the old Stegger may be coming to a town near you. One or two of you in particular (at least that I know of) is, at least according to preliminary determinations, "in the lead" to get the Stegger as a neighbor, perhaps as soon as this August-September. Hmmmm... [smiley=hmmmm.gif] Who could it be? [smiley=thinking.gif] The truth, though, is that the window of possibilities remains wide-open, and, in fact, if any of you would like to have the Steg up-close and personal, Steg is listening. I.e., if any of you come across any jobs, most likely community college teaching jobs, that minimally require a Master of Arts, preferably teaching Philosophy (but whatever), or would, at least, just like to point me in the direction of community colleges near you (as looking up community colleges nationwide is a time-CONSUMING nightmare, to say the least), please feel free to give me a hand and get the info to me. I am, at present, a free-agent, and, as yous know, geography is not an issue for the Stegemans. "Have bags. Will travel." That's my motto! In fact and in short, the ideas thus far in the books range from everything from my returning to school this fall to the one school that still accepts applications for this fall that I would (even) consider attending (believe it or not, there are a few, only a couple of which am I even remotely interested in and only one of which would I be willing to even try to pick up and get to this August-September) to packing it in and moving on from the pursuit of a doctorate in Philosophy and making a career move right now,... and then there are all kinds of possibilities, actually probabilities, in between that you all can probably imagine. I.e., the aforementioned two possibilities represent the two ends of the spectrum of possibilities, but something in between is what's more likely to happen. However, if I do take the first of those aforementioned roads, "some one or two of you" stand to have little old me... ;D as your neighbor!!! ;) In any event, this is a case where your input could very well "make a difference", a very real one in a person's life, that person being me. So, if you have any (specifically applicable) ideas, lay 'em on me (please remember, though, that I don't really need general advice; I need apropos job listings and/or lists of community colleges)!!! Moving right along to a fairly closely-related issue to all this, at least as regards my heavy heart these days, but, in any case, one that is of direct interest to you all,... there is some sobering :-/ news regarding "the Gridiron" I'll be delivering soon. It is not catastrophic, but it is a reality check. [smiley=doseofreality.gif] Expect a post over the next few days or so... I'll leave it at that for now. I am... ...Sincerely, Steve Stegeman |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Jun 13th, 2007, 5:44pm Okay,... guys and gals,... I'm starting to find my footing again. I finally finished up that book review for CRI last Friday and turned it in yesterday. Doing it definitely dripped with SO MUCH irony that, at first, it really was holding me back,... literally, from all else that I need to get goin' on (like WORK), and psychologically. But, after a day with a colleague and friend here,* during which he talked some sense into me about forgetting the "irony" and focusing on the opportunity and the fact that I deserve it. From that point, my attitude changed... I began regaining my confidence... [smiley=pumpedup.gif] I got philosophical about it... I started to "play" loose and not tight with it. It went from being something that was dragging me down and hindering me from getting on to the next chapter to something that gave me strength to overcome these circumstances, look ahead... at far horizons and closer destinations, and press on. At this point, the short-term moves and the long-term vision are beginning to take form, and I'm excited. [smiley=pumped.gif] As for the short run, after finishing the writing of the book review on Friday, I began the job search in earnest on Monday. On that very first day, I procured myself a really nice interview for next Monday, and it's been generally promising overall. So, let the... [smiley=fingerscrossed.gif] [smiley=pray.gif] and [smiley=woohoo.gif] begin... in earnest. ;) As for the long run,... believe it or not,... I, once again, (think I) have a school I am VERY passionate about attending. [smiley=smitten.gif] ... [smiley=havinablast.gif] Remember that my original plan was only to come to UH for my Master's and, then, go elsewhere for the Ph.D. "Conventionality", though, was starting to rule the day. But, that does not change the fact that my staying here at UH beyond the Master's would have meant that I was... we were "settling" (in both senses of the word). Truth is they did me a favor (though that does not justify their decision), allowing me to get "back to the future". I unfortunately must admit that I won't push it as hard with this school as I did with UH. As such, I have in line a safety school that (I believe) I wouldn't mind going to as well, as well as a bunch in between. That said, I now have a top school that I am ABSOLUTELY... [smiley=booya.gif] about. Furthermore, both that top school and the safety school have programs that are as close to exactly what I want as I can expect, especially that top school. So, I'm in a comfortable place. Most of the schools on my short list (of 12 or so) I cannot return to studying at until fall of '08 with the exception of two, one of which, the safety school, I still could, believe it or not, possibly be enrolled at this fall. But, (barring unforeseeable circumstances and an unfathomable windfall) I won't do that. ... That said, who might get Steg as a neighbor??? [smiley=wiseguy.gif] So, all in all, things are lookin' up... because that's the way my chin is now, again, pointed. [smiley=thumbsup.gif] To boot, I'm lookin' at enjoying the '07 [smiley=footballsmiley.gif] football season [smiley=helmethead.gif] without [smiley=RIF.gif] graduate schoolwork [smiley=howtoput.gif] hanging over my head. [smiley=twothumbsup.gif] I still have a few loose ends... like securing a job... to tie up. Hopefully that will happen soon, so I can start devoting a little more time to "the Gridiron". I must admit, though, I, emotionally and psychologically (and financially), am having a hard time getting it back up for this place this year. I'm hoping that once things normalize in my life and I start getting (back) into gridiron goings-on, that'll change. I, nevertheless, hope to see "encouraging signs"... from you all... *(Funny, crazy note... Understand that I am good swimmer and have done my share of boogieboarding in my time having grown up on the Jersey shore. But, to my ever-increasing chagrin, I never surfed. I have been determined to here in Hawaii. [smiley=surfing.gif] Well, to make a very long story short, I finally did that aforesaid day with that aforementioned "friend" ;) of mine here. My first day out surfing ever, where do we go? The infamous North Shore of Oahu. I was like... [smiley=drown.gif] The "fing" in surfing quickly turned into "viving". He went surfing. I went surviving. My first day really was almost my last. [smiley=RIP.gif] ... [smiley=yikes.gif] ... [smiley=laugh.gif] Really, paddling a longboard is a NIGHTMARE!!! :P I was spent before we even got going... and I was getting pummeled by 10 footers and almost thrown into the rocks that the current had swept us over near. [smiley=scared.gif]) Anyway, amidst all this, once I got my philosophical mojo back on, I came up with a pretty cool aphorism... It's more appropriate for another thread. That's where I'll post it. Out! |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Aug 21st, 2007, 4:30am Well,... frankly speaking,... things have been going so-so in Steggie's World... :-/ I've gotten interviews, but no full-time job. I am, however, cobbling together a living by way of two part-time gigs, classes at Kaplan and, of all things, a job as a building manager (how this happened is a looooong story,... but, believe it or not, it does "fit" the grand [smiley=jammaster.gif] master plan... on multiple fronts, including this one). All in all, it does allow me to pour a good portion of my energies back into this place... like back in the old days of "the Gridiron". However, I digress... Today was the first day of classes for fall semeter at UH, and as I was driving home this afternoon from part-time job #2 toward where we still live up near UH. It was tough... :'( Seeing all the students and the hubbub and the building which houses the Philosophy Department and in which I would have been, either in class or in an office, probably at that very moment,... my heart sunk. I mean... it's all for the best, I'm sure. But, the intersection of the two worlds, what would have been and what is, was,... well,... poignant. ALL of that having been said, the reason why I'm making this post right now,... I had something said to me that I'll never forget and always cherish, especially in light of what happened to me and the fact that today was the first day of fall semester at UH. An old guy in this building I manage came down to my office. He knows of my educational background. He himself is (was) a bit of a scholar (in his day), having an Ed.D. He came to break up the monotony and share something "philosophical" with me. But, at any rate, he prefaced his conversation with this: "It shows that you are a true man of Philosophy. You don't say 'Plato' or 'Aristotle', but you speak it, and, just from my observations of you a couple days here, it is obvious that you live it." [smiley=touching.gif] The timing couldn't have been more right, and the sentiment,... well,... it resonates... I remember about a year ago, standing around with a bunch of my Philosophy colleagues between classes, wrappin' "Phil-o-sophy", Zhuangzi in particular. And, I remember saying that though I like Zhuangzi, he isn't really my cup of tea (I'm more of a, as yous know, Confucius/Laozi guy), during which one of my colleagues cut me off, saying, "Yea,... whatever,... that's because you already 'get it'. You don't need to read it. You live it. You are Zhuangzi." It was an immensely flattering thing to say, no less in front of a group of our colleagues. In any event, point being, it all gives me strength to press on... It affirms the genuineness of my effort, that I am on the right track... and that there are others who can see it and "get it". Again, where I am right now can surely be termed an "uneasy" place. However, because of what that old gentleman deemed worthy to come down and say to me today (as well as my colleague back a year ago), where I am is just a "not easy" place, but one of inner peace [smiley=zenmaster.gif] and personal satisfaction [smiley=wiseman.gif]. |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Aug 31st, 2007, 4:17am Hey, everybody,... T-Rave, my fellow philosopher! [smiley=wiseman.gif] I have been admitted for spring (or, if I want to defer it, fall) semester enrollment into the Ph.D. program of my "safety" school. But, this is a program one of my primary mentors from the University of Denver, Dr. Frank Seeburger, thinks is PERFECT for me, and I don't disagree. In terms of being "what I want", it is indubitably in the top 2 to 5 (of the 12 or so schools on my list). In any event, with other applications in the works, I'll probably go in the spring and find out for myself. It is the Asian & Comparative Studies department of the Philosophy and Religion program (the Ph.D. is actually in "Philosophy and Religion", which does have pros and cons,... BWTFE) at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. SO, now the dudes that I was alluding to earlier in this thread that might get me [smiley=zenmaster.gif] as a neighbor should now know who they are. [smiley=wave.gif] Anyway, bottom line,... Steg's got a pulse and "officially" back in the game!!! [smiley=booya.gif] Ain't nobody gonna get me down... or, at least,... keep me down!!! [smiley=tough.gif] ... [smiley=havinablast.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by T-Rave on Aug 31st, 2007, 4:47am That is awesome news, Steg. Congrats. Back in business! |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by MordecaiCourage on Aug 31st, 2007, 6:53am [smiley=thumbsup.gif] Allright Stegger....... keep on chuggin' [smiley=bow.gif] (Don't know if I could leave the isle!!!) |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Aug 31st, 2007, 4:43pm Thanks for the well wishes, T-Rave, MC! That you guys give a damn about me as a person (and not just your [smiley=builder.gif] fantasy football slave [smiley=steg.gif]) means a lot to me... [smiley=yes.gif] on 08/31/07 at 06:53:03, MordecaiCourage wrote:
But,... ya know,... that's (at least, part of) what got me in trouble the first time around... :-[ ... That having been said, incidentally, the Mrs. and I do have a plan that we're going to try to pull off that would allow us to keep one foot back here... [smiley=sunny.gif] [smiley=palmtree.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by MordecaiCourage on Aug 31st, 2007, 6:00pm on 08/31/07 at 16:43:03, StegRock wrote:
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Aug 31st, 2007, 7:41pm One thing at a time, brother... For now, I just want to relish this victory, which is oh, so "right", [smiley=victory.gif] given how what happened to me was oh, so wrong,... [smiley=no.gif] AND I DEFINITELY don't want to jinx anything else... [smiley=wiseguy.gif] ... Suffice it to say, though, that... I'd love to base the FantasyFootballer.com home offices in Hawaii (combined with a professorship over at Chaminade University or something). [smiley=fingerscrossed.gif] I'm hoping my planning along with the bounties of FantasyFootballer.com get us there (here ;)) someday. But, I'm gonna need help making it all happen. Those who are generous and help make it happen will have put themselves in position to reap those bounties. ... It is what it is... "You reap what you sow" is NOT just a pejorative adage. [smiley=yinandyang.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by Philly on Aug 31st, 2007, 10:47pm Congrats on the acceptance, Steg. Hope the program is what you need and that Cali is a good fit for you. [smiley=twothumbsup.gif] I guess Jim knew you were eventually heading out to his old stomping grounds and got out before you arrived, eh? [smiley=hellyeafunny.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by Drew Rosenhaus on Sep 1st, 2007, 2:09am Wonderful news Steve! All my clan passes along big "ups" to you! You deserve to sit back and enjoy this moment - this should have already happened. On a completely "inside information" note, I turned on the radio last Sunday night around 8 ish. I think I was looking for a score from the baseball game. Anyway, the big AM station here in CO was on and some guy was talking about... [smiley=drummer.gif] Transgender bathrooms and what people thought about their implementation. I kid you not. Plus, he had probably been on since at least 7 p.m. so he had been yammering about it for an hour. Now, if he can make it... [smiley=thinking.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by Callie on Sep 13th, 2007, 3:01pm Just saw this. Congrats, Steve! |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Mar 24th, 2008, 2:30am on 08/31/07 at 04:17:46, StegRock wrote:
Well, fellas, the verdicts [smiley=coolit.gif] are all in... [smiley=drummer.gif] But, first, I briefly digress... One of the main reasons you all haven't been seeing too much of me lately around here is because over the past three or so weeks I've been setting "things" in motion... [smiley=rollin.gif] I'm headed this fall to CIIS. Actually, after making targeted contacts, I ended up applying to only one other program. Only two (Philosophy/Philosophy & Religion programs, but not Religious Studies programs as I figured out that that was not the right academic environment for me) ended up being welcoming to my line of work (Classical Chinese Philosophy, Roman Catholic Personalist Phenomenology, and Tibetan Mahayana Prasangika-Madhyamaka Buddhism). In the end, all things considered, I am headed to the best place for me in terms of content and scholarly support. There are also a couple details of my going to CIIS that could be good for here. They are going to take a couple classes worth of transfer credit from Catholic U. That means that instead of having to take four classes all four semesters (to complete the Ph.D. classroom requirements) I will be able to take just three classes two of those semesters, presumably the two fall semesters, which would free me up a little bit during the football season. [smiley=cheerleader.gif] So, once the BIG move from Oahu to the Bay area is over, the next couple falls should be markedly easier on me than the last three. Finally, it is now official that I will be becoming the neighbor of, at least, Tony O. I also know that Jim has connections to the area, and O4l is not too far away. Any help and/or info that would help us with this, yet again, BIG move would be MUCH APPRECIATED. Steg will soon be back running "the Gridiron" from a reasonable time-zone. ;) ... [smiley=woohoo.gif] We'll see how this Jersey guy makes out over on the left coast, no less right in the libbo gauntlet of San Francisco, [smiley=hippy.gif] no less at the ultra-liberal California Institute of Integral Studies. [smiley=yikes.gif] ... [smiley=graduate.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by steelkings on Mar 24th, 2008, 12:23pm Quote:
Aww, you will be all right! Just stick an Obama sticker on the back of the steg-ride and you will blend right in. [offtopic]How does that work? Do you and Mrs Steg load up the back seat of the ride [smiley=cruisin.gif] and Chitty- Chitty bang bang the car to the bay? If you do Chitty it, make sure you change the oil first or you might find your selves [smiley=parachute.gif] and then [smiley=drown.gif]. But....after that you could just [smiley=surfing.gif] the rest of the way to the Bay!!![/offtopic] Anyway...Congrats... I think.[smiley=uh.gif].....I mean........ [smiley=palmtree.gif] + Bay area could = [smiley=cold.gif]. ...who really says Congratulations for moving away from Hawaii? BTW...Hi There! I made it all the way to the end of March :P Gotta Go! [smiley=audi.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by Callie on Mar 24th, 2008, 11:17pm Congrats!! Gotta go, though. Hitler Youth Meeting again. The RIGHT coast just keeps getting more and more interesting. ;D |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by Philly on Mar 25th, 2008, 12:10am Congrats Steg... you looking forward to being in Callie? :o (Oops... I meant Cali! ;D ) |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Mar 25th, 2008, 2:44am on 03/25/08 at 00:10:52, Philly wrote:
BLLLLLAAAAAAAAHHHH... [smiley=laugh.gif] [smiley=hellyeafunny.gif] [smiley=LMFAO.gif] [smiley=sinister.gif] [smiley=rollinwithlaughter.gif] When I come up for air,... I'll answer the question... ... But, anyway, thanks for the congrats... Gino and I are really happy about having "direction" again. This last year has really been an icky "limbo" period for me, for us. |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Mar 30th, 2008, 6:13am on 03/24/08 at 02:30:29, StegRock wrote:
Well,... [smiley=shitfan.gif] "Best laid plans",... not that the above has changed. The plan has just been "augmented". But, it seems as though I've spoken too soon about the auspiciousness of it all as it relates to Steggie, fall semester, fantasy football, and ultimately "the Gridiron". This unexpected "turn of events" is all good, I suppose, though the timing is quite a bit from optimal and, in any event, not according to plan. Thing is,... things are all now more complicated, and the BIG move we were already looking at now has unforeseen,... unforeseeable ramifications that are sweeping, as in affecting the WHOLE Stegeman clan in a HUGE way, i.e. very possibly including Momma Steg, a lifelong Monmouth County, New Jersey resident. The bottom line is that the priority list for the old Stegger is soon to get a HUGE new addition, which, in any event, is DEFINITELY going to shove "the Gridiron", especially as is after six full years, down the list. This is not to mention that I was a bit tendentious above regarding my (conspicuous) absence of late. Truth is that I look more forward to getting back to my (current, cover-to-cover) reading of the Mencius than even dropping by this, at one time most beloved, place. Hell,... I had to fight that urge right now in order to sit here and bang this out. [smiley=steg.gif] I've knocked out three-and-a-half (dense) philosophy books [smiley=RIF.gif] and a (dense) full-length journal article over the last few months. My love of Philosophy and what I feel I can accomplish with my philosophical project (with people whose lives I have "direct" contact with and who can really "see" and "appreciate" "my way"/"what I am up to") is winning out over my love for fantasy football and what I feel I can accomplish here (with dudes in this disconnected milieu that doesn't lend itself to trustfulness, generosity and humility), and in light of this new "circumstance" third place means getting back-burnered much the same "The English Master (http://www.theenglishmaster.com)" has been (a venture of mine which would have to be sent to the cryogenic lab while "the Gridiron" would go on life-support). Don't get me wrong... As long as the GBRFL exists, which I intend on its doing until my dying days, this place will at some capacity (like "theEnglishMaster.com"). The undeniable fact, however, is that, this new "circumstance" aside, as I've thought less and less about this place and what it takes me to keep it going, the more I've gotten back into enjoying my fantasy "toilet seat [smiley=caughtonthecan.gif] press conferences", ;D giving thought more just to the league and,... eh-hem,... my team. But, this is all digression. I had been working on a thoughtful response to sk's "Where is the life" thread, and I will be posting that here soon, possibly tomorrow, despite this SERIOUS change in circumstances which will render much of that message moot or, at least, require most of it to be qualified. Nevertheless, I feel that I should throw it out there so everything is on the table and the decisions I make for and changes I make to the site going into the '08 season can be put into context and understood. The main point here, though, is that the straw,... eh-hem,... bale of hay that is going to break the camel's back is about to be dropped... This is in terms of both finances and life's "to-do list". |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Jul 6th, 2008, 8:00am (Thought this was about the best thread for me to make this post on,... especially, albeit peripherally, in light of my last couple of big posts on this thread...) I thought this was worth posting considering some of the other "goings-on" around here... Understand that, contrary to popular "opinion", philosophically I do not give a rat's ass WHAT you believe at the end of the day. Again, contrary to what popular "opinion" probably is, I do NOT seek agreement,... never have. All I seek is not to "agree to disagree" as a way out. [smiley=yinandyang.gif] ... :-/ |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Oct 18th, 2008, 4:48am Picking up where I left off on my last post in "the Bleachers",... on the scholastic front, I have made a wonderful choice for my Ph.D. The California Institute of Integral Studies [smiley=zenmaster.gif] and their Philosophy and Religion - Asian and Comparative Studies program is perfect for me. I get to be somewhat of a big [smiley=fish.gif] in a little pond. That ain't too bad. It's better than... [smiley=drown.gif][smiley=fishing.gif]/[smiley=stranded.gif] The fantastic support I am receiving from the faculty here is unlike what I could expect anywhere else. Dr. Wu, the Chinese Philosophy professor here and my academic advisor, has a personality and philosophical mindset very similar to that of Dr. Ni, the visiting professor at UH under whom I was able to write the Confucius-Wojtyla paper. We virtually finish one another's sentences. In particular, Dr. Wu's take on Confucius is almost exactly the same as mine. He terms Confucius's attitude toward "metaphysics" (using the term loosely) as one of wanting to "set it aside", not stand against it, be ignorant of it, deny it or work to eliminate it. For those of you who have waned philosophical with me about Confucius, you'd know that that is VERBATIM my stance. In my spiel about my proactive skepticism versus radical reactive Pyrrhonian or Cartesian skepticism I'm ALWAYS saying, "Set metaphysics aside." In my philosophy, for those of you with whom, again, I've done this dance, I'm constantly professing the paradox that it is precisely the setting aside of metaphysical beliefs that sustains metaphysical beliefs qua metaphysical beliefs. But, enough digressing... CIIS's genuine academic openness is exemplified by their rule that one of the three readers of your dissertation must be outside the department/school. What this means to me (in both senses), and I think I am correct, is that they provide (the) four main tracks of Eastern philosophical and religious thinking (faculty specialist in parentheses): Hinduism (Ryan), Theravada Buddhism (Sircar), Mahayana Buddhism (Goodman), and Chinese Philosophy (Wu). You then bring with you your source of comparison in the west and the scholar to go with it. For me, that could very well be my guy from back at Catholic U. The point is that there are no agendas at CIIS regarding the direction in which comparative philosophy should go like there were at UH! Furthermore, even though, given the specific nature of my area of interest and anticipated dissertational work, viz. confronting the problem of belief through the, I argue, resonant philosophical visions of Confucius, Wojtyla and Gyatso, a program in Philosophy and Religion (the only non-joint/-interdepartmental one in the nation mind you) with a concentration in Asian and Comparative Studies is perfect for me, when I hit the market, I will "spin" it as a, for all intents and purposes, Ph.D. in "Chinese [smiley=bow.gif] Philosophy" (which is the main area most Philosophy Departments are interested in when it comes to Eastern thought) "with a heavy dose of Buddhism (which is typically the second area of Eastern interest in Philosophy Departments) by choice". In summation, it's ALL good. On that "good"... [smiley=note.gif], I do have a couple awesome announcements on the professional front. I may very well have mentioned this way back when it was "in the works" [smiley=steg.gif] some 16 months ago (proof in the pudding of how slowly the wheels of academia turn), but, in any event, I have my very first professional academic publication coming out, a book review for China Review International. [smiley=dancin.gif] It went to print this past Wednesday, and I was sent my PDF tear sheets. If you are interested and want to give it a whirl, here it is exactly as it appears in this fall's issue of CRI: http://www.internetstitute.com/Stegeman-Chong.pdf. I believe, based on the pagination, that I am the very last piece in the journal. This is kind of cool. I don't get lost in the vast middle, [smiley=lost.gif] and, if my memory serves me correctly, reviews cannot be in the very beginning as that is where responses to reviews go. But, anyway, here's what may be the even bigger news. A cleaned-up, further hammered-out version of the Confucius-Wojtyla paper I presented at the conference at UH in Comparative Philosophy has been ACCEPTED for publication by the journal The Pluralist. [smiley=booya.gif] UNbelievable!!! Again, though, as further testament to the excruciatingly slow rate at which the wheels of academia turn, it is slated for publication next fall or the following spring. Oh, well... It just feels SO GOOD, vis-a-vis what happened to me at UH, to have received this academic stamp of approval from an outside, objective group of scholars. For those who missed out last time or want to read the new-and-improved version, here is the manuscript I submitted to The Pluralist: http://www.internetstitute.com/Stegeman-manuscript-Pluralist.pdf. It includes a 100-word abstract in the beginning on the title page which you gamers [smiley=helmethead.gif][smiley=thinking.gif] here may appreciate. As they say in academia, it's publish or perish. I'm getting out of the gate as a Ph.D. student well... despite all the setbacks/people setting me back. [smiley=woohoo.gif] As Nietzsche [smiley=wiseman.gif] might say, but in my words, "There are no excuses and pity, just undergoing and overcoming." [smiley=tough.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Dec 10th, 2008, 9:44pm I just received my two hard copies of the edition of CRI my review is in... :D The nascent stages of a publishing career... [smiley=fingerscrossed.gif] In my post above, I was wrong about the pagination of the journal. "Vol. 14 no. 2", the one my review is in, picks up where "vol. 14 no. 1" left off, so mine is in the middle. Oh, well... It's all good... Most of it will be being searched and accessed through some on-line resource like MUSE or JSTOR or something. But, it does feel good to hold that hard copy in my hands. ;D I'm very proud,... especially vis-a-vis the circumstances (if you recall)... I think I have a strong chin. Anyway, following the link below, scroll down to the eighth piece under "Reviews", or just do a "find" for "Steg": http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/china_review_international/toc/cri.14.2.html. It's a start... [smiley=thumbsup.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Mar 23rd, 2009, 5:55am This is in specific response to this... on 03/22/09 at 07:25:48, DirkDiggler wrote:
It'll also put this in context... on 01/25/09 at 00:53:23, StegRock wrote:
While researching for a paper at the end of last semester, I came across a scholar up my alley and, after sniffing around, a program in which I strongly believed I could be a good fit (not Utah). After some soul-searching, I felt with just one semester down and three to go this was the very last time for me to explore my grad-school options. But, right out of the gate, I ran into a devastating setback. My GRE scores had (just) expired. I had taken it in June, 2003. ETS only keeps the scores for five years, at which time they are completely purged from their systems. There is an outside chance, ETS said, that you can get your scores forwarded from one institution to another. I looked into this "option" and realized that this was MUCH easier said than done. Bottom line, I was going to have to retake the GRE... on extraordinarily short notice... in cramped quarters... with a newborn... and a full house of visiting mothers and mother-in-laws... [smiley=no.gif] For those of you old-timers around here, remember back when I devoted six-plus months to studying for the GRE and doing little else. This was going to be a nightmare. [smiley=Freddie.gif] After MUCH contemplation, I concluded that it was not worth it or, at least, not doable. This was the decision to which I stuck and, then, around January 5th my final grade for fall semester was posted. I had achieved a 4.0 for the semester (my first since undergrad). Given my age, all things considered, this was it for me. There wasn't going to be another one more time for me to consider another school. After MORE deliberation with my wife, we came to the conclusion, i.e., she convinced me, to let the GRE score make my decision for me. In other words, study for it only enough to refamiliarize myself with the format but not so much that I felt committed. After all, I'm already in a Ph.D. program with which I am generally happy. Well, this resulted in three days of hell, January 12th through the 14th. I just couldn't half-ass it. It's not in my nature. Thing is, I limited myself/was limited to three days, so that was a de facto cap on what I could put into it. Anyway, I took it on the 15th and did very well, enough to not just consider applying to the program that prompted all this but others as well. In all, I applied to seven programs. As the results came in, it was more of the usual. [smiley=thumbsdown.gif] Based on at least a couple of the schools whence I received rejections, I thought for sure I was down to at best one school where I had a chance because the others, including Utah, were all more highly-ranked in my estimation. And, then, last Thursday came... On my way out to a job interview, I open the mailbox. It's another very thin envelope obviously containing a single letter. It's from Utah. I'm thinking, well, I know what this is. I'll just quickly open it; put it back in the mailbox, and retrieve it with the mail when I get back home. Then, I read,... "We are very pleased to inform you..." [smiley=thumbsup.gif] My heart almost came up out of my throat as I ran up the stairs yelling out, "Gino! Gino!" She thought that my clumsy ass had fallen and that I hurt myself. Guys, I got into the University of Utah's Ph.D. program in Philosophy! [smiley=graduate.gif] The letter was an announcement e-mail the Department of Philosophy sends out to let you know of the decision and that the packet from the Graduate School will be coming shortly. Now, they await my decision, which needs to be in by April 15th. Who'd a thunk it? I can't believe it. I have two applications still pending, but, reality is, all things equal, only one of the two can really contend with Utah. As for CIIS, they have been wonderful. I have similar feelings toward them as I do toward Catholic U. I have nothing but love for them. I have received a wonderful education in the stuff I am specifically interested in over the last year as I could nowhere else, and surely the 4.0 was a big additional feather in my cap. But, it would be foolish of me not to jump on this one-last-time-in-a-lifetime opportunity. In any event, the moral of the story... never, NEVER give up!!! Between how I finally got into Hawaii and now this, if this isn't proof, I don't know what is! :) WHAT a turn of events... I'm still overwhelmed... [smiley=touching.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by DirkDiggler on Mar 23rd, 2009, 10:57pm WOW, CONGRATS STEG!!! Very impressive on so many levels. Doing so well on your GREs(with only a few days of studying), getting into a great program, pursuing your dreams, never giving up, and being able to give Hawaii the big F.U. I am happy for you and the family!!! |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Mar 24th, 2009, 4:18pm Thanks for the support, Double D! Get this... I just got a second acceptance today... I don't know if old Chucky and The Rick are poking around, but it would probably put a smile on their faces seeing that I got into Southern Illinois University Carbondale! ;D |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by cwhams on Mar 26th, 2009, 6:53am Congrats to you Steg ;D !!!! Carbondale is a great place to be right now, lots of building projects over the next year...new football stadium going up and a revamped basketball arena. Also a new student services building in the plans at location of old Andrews football stadium. |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by DOLFAN on Mar 31st, 2009, 11:48pm Congrats Steg!!! I know that you and I have had many talks about your long term education goals. I am so happy for you to get what you want. I also am very proud of you for not giving up. Just like I told you with Hawaii, keep working and good things will come!! Good for you bro!!! |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Apr 2nd, 2009, 4:00am Thank you very much for the support, Joe. :) Your [smiley=phone.gif] message that I came home to tonight also was very nice. Anyway, everybody, there is some new news to report... The Salukis have, at least at the moment, pulled ahead of the Utes in the race here (I can hear the cheers coming from the Hamilton and Gould households as I type this. Or, are those jeers? ;)). That is based on a couple factors, but, honestly, most notably, a "bottom-line" factor, namely... [smiley=greedy.gif] [smiley=money.gif] I'm not going to divulge details, at least not for now. But, suffice it to say, the difference in funding must be great to allow SIU to leapfrog Utah, the current #1 school in Chinese Philosophy (according to the PGR) as I mentioned up in "the Bleachers". Things monetarily related could still change with Utah, mind you, but I'm not optimistic. Things, in any case, are really getting interesting. In fact, the California Institute of Integral Studies, my present school, with all this stuff going on unbeknownst to them because I haven't told anybody over there yet (which is killing me, mind you), out of the blue offered me a Research Assistantship today. While, with the scholarship I received from them, the funding is starting to add up, vis-a-vis the ridiculous tuition, it still doesn't even put them in second ahead of Utah. Though, it does kind of put them in third and, at least symbolically, back in the race. Also of note, there still remains one pending application, which could take the cake,... but I'm not holding my breath. This has been a fun ride, though. I'm so happy my wife cajoled me into going for it. I'm so fortunate to be surrounded by such a supportive wife... and mother. I know many a 30-something wife, no less with a newborn, who wouldn't be hearing of this. I'm a lucky dude! [smiley=shammy.gif] ... [smiley=yes.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Apr 5th, 2009, 1:01am Update... I found out on Friday that I've been wait-listed at UConn. This just about seals the deal for SIU because, when funding [smiley=money.gif] is involved, there are no deadline extensions. They want people who want to come, and, if you don't really want to go, they want to give that money to someone who does. It makes sense. UConn advised me to wait up until April 14th as they set the same deadline for their first wave of offers. However, even if the news were good, that would give me absolutely NO time to "interrogate" the profs I foresee myself working closely with, and the following response to one of my interrogation e-mails to SIU is what they've got to compete with: "Welcome, Steve, to SIUC's graduate program! I'll look forward to meeting you when you arrive on campus. I'm puzzled, though, by your inquiry: what would lead you to think that your interests in "belief" and Personalism would not be welcomed here, especially since "belief" is central to classical American pragmatism, the main strength of our program, and "The Pluralist," the main journal for Personalist philosophy, is edited by my colleague Dr. Auxier? Moreover, our department has a long history of encouraging comparative East-West philosophy--indeed, it was perhaps the 1st graduate program in America to do so. I work in both the Pragmatist and Personalist traditions, and from my interest in Max Scheler, on whom I wrote my dissertation, I also have worked on Wojtyla and have used his works in my writings & seminars, most recently one on "European Personalism." (As a graduate student at DePaul University I was the research assistant for the late Manfred Frings while he edited Wojtyla's philosophical writings, & I was among those philosophers who met with JPII at the Vatican on the occasion of the publication of the English translation of "The Acting Person.") Indeed, I'm not aware of any Ph.D. program in America that would be more welcoming of your interests." I'll let that speak (the volumes I think it does) for itself. And, then, the guy who does Chinese Philosophy at SIU followed that up with a supportive e-mail that if it were double-spaced with one-inch margins would have probably amounted to about a three-page paper. ... Funding notwithstanding, do I really have a choice here? |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by cwhams on Apr 5th, 2009, 11:00pm [smiley=clap.gif] Steg, Bring your marrrroon colored shirts! The Egyptian Dawgs are ready to growl. |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Apr 9th, 2009, 7:08am Thanks for the welcoming spirit, Dubs... :) I'm gettin' excited! ... Moving right along, the first official move has been made... After overhearing about a faculty meeting at CIIS tomorrow (Thursday, that is) and considering that that RA-ship that is in the works for me for next year would probably be a topic of discussion, I thought tonight (PST) was the time for me to let them know what's up. I wanted to wait until next week when things start to officially break on the other end, but I thought it would be pretty jerky of me to let them potentially put the RA-ship all together only for me to say, "Thanks, but no thanks," less than a week later. So, here we go... Incidentally, on the other end, not, as I stated above, that I think it really matters, but I am still waiting out UConn. |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by cwhams on Apr 11th, 2009, 10:34am How did they take the news that you are leaving? Hope all went well. Dubs |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Apr 11th, 2009, 10:55pm Thanks for asking, C-Dub! :) How I did it,... I sent them an e-mail on Wednesday night (Thursday wee hours). It was a "Steggiesque" 5-pager. [smiley=awwgee.gif] I laid it all out on the line, in the process giving them some serious love and props and expressing to them how they and CIIS are a part of my scholarly and philosophical fabric. In fact, I didn't mention this, but, if I at all maintain the Tibetan Buddhist/Dalai Lama aspect of my work, I would almost definitely be contacting Dr. Goodman of CIIS and petitioning the department to allow him to serve as an outside advisor and reader of my dissertation. Anyway, though, I received a very gracious response from the chairman of the department, who I like a ton, but is the professor with whom I am the least close, and to date it is the only response I have received. With that said, my guy Dr. Wu and Dr. Sircar are on the older/elderly side and don't really do e-mail all too well. I'm a bit surprised to have not heard back from Dr. Goodman, but I can only think that he, probably like Dr. Wu, just wants to express his feelings to me in person. I mean this is surely a BITTER-sweet circumstance for them, at best. But, per the above, with the possibility of Goodman working as a hired gun on a dissertation at a better institution is a good thing for him and, thus, them. So, there is surely a positive spin here for all involved. I'll take this opportunity to also update you guys on things one last time before it all anticipatively goes final next week. It's just so wild when the path you are supposed to take becomes so clear, when all the arrows point in a particular direction, when you are one with the Dao. [smiley=zenmaster.gif] Last week, I finally heard back from the Chinese Philosophy guy at Utah, Dr. Eric Hutton. Truth is, he has an analytic approach, which, though perhaps slightly differently directed, I think I too have. I think he would be a good mentor for me. Furthermore, he has little to no patience for Ames, my nemesis, which on some level I of course like, but I think he goes a little too far because, after all, I am inspired by Ames and do think he has the right sensibility to a point. But, all that aside, bottom line, he commences a one-year sabbatical next fall, and the department has him slated for all undergraduate courses come the following fall when he returns. So, while I would still be able to meet with him from time to time during his sabbatical, there would potentially be only one semester, spring 2011, when I would be able to take a course with him. That's not gonna cut it. Making things worse, I never heard back from the (one) phenomenology guy (they have) (no less in the exuberantly supportive way like the SIU guy), and I actually heard that there is a chance he may not be staying at Utah. And, those are the only two professors in the department that could mentor me in a way specific to my interests and strengths. At the end of the day, while Hutton would be good for me (but he is going to be M.I.A. for one of my two anticipative coursework years) and I am sure I could make it work if I had to, the department is not that great of a fit. Just okay. As for UConn, even if I get accepted it will not be in time, April 15th that is, but, in any event, not with enough time for me to feel out the relevant professors. But, even with that said, when I go down the department faculty list, it is not promising, similar makeup to that of Utah's, with the exception that the phenomenology guy isn't one foot out the door. Furthermore, from what I know of his work, the Chinese Philosophy guy there, Dr. Joel Kupperman, would in my estimation rank the lowest of the, say, four guys in play here: Dr. Douglas Berger of SIU, Utah's Hutton, Dr. Yi Wu of CIIS, and then finally it would be UConn's Kupperman. It's just that UConn would have put me a relative stone's throw from my mom's, which is not an insignificant factor on the personal side of the ball with baby Monica Marie aboard and my mom's getting up in age. :-/ The fact that there is actually a school, a public school no less, that has BOTH a Chinese/Buddhist Philosophy guy, who specializes in Confucius, and a Catholic Philosophy/Personalism guy, who specializes in Wojtyla, is truly unbelievable. It's like SIU, of all schools if I may say, was tailor-made for me. And, on the personal side of the ball, we're sort of back toward my mom. In fact, it's what's going to allow us to get back to Jersey this summer for a little bit (and for the GBRFL Summer Meeting and Draft [smiley=woohoo.gif]). Go, Salukis!!! [smiley=dog.gif] ... [smiley=cheerleader.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by DirkDiggler on Apr 12th, 2009, 8:13pm Steg- WOW, I just had the opportunity to read all of this. Pretty cool news that you have finalized SIU. What the heck are the odds they have a Confusion/Pope/Buddist philosphers all in the same place? Too weird...... Funny how things like that work out. |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Apr 12th, 2009, 10:18pm Well, not quite yet, Double D, though, yes, the conclusion is, for all intents and purposes, foregone, and in fact I need to give my decision(s to SIU and Utah) by this upcoming Wednesday. The fact that a Philosophy Department at a public school has this combination is utterly amazing, especially from the Wojtyla side of the ball. Honestly, since returning to graduate school, I always knew about the Chinese/Buddhist guy at SIU, which, as you guys have perhaps come to know through me, is a rarity in and of itself in a Philosophy Department, but, to be quite honest, I didn't even think to look down SIU's Philosophy Department faculty list for a Wojtyla guy. There was just no way, I thought. Upon further more thorough review after being admitted, [smiley=uponreview.gif] I spotted the guy (whose exuberant e-mail response to me I copy-and-pasted above) who does Max Scheler, whose philosophy Wojtyla's is largely inspired by. At the end of the day, truth is, they may be the ONLY public school in America with a Wojtyla guy. That having been said, wait 'til you hear with just a little more specificity the rest of the reason why I will choose SIU.. [smiley=greedy.gif] ... [smiley=wiseguy.gif] In any case, though, thank you for the love, brother D! :) Be on the lookout for the announcement of my final decision soon... |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by cwhams on Apr 13th, 2009, 8:55pm SIU-C has been a bit behind the ole [smiley=behindball.gif] in terms of [smiley=money.gif]...in fact President Poshard was politely told to go back to the drawing board and come up with a better plan by his governing board...i.e. we are not going to raise the tuition and fees again this year...at least not to the extent recommended by Poshard and administration...that's not all bad, my Board of Directors have sent me back a few times as well. That said, I don't see them scrimping on attracting quality scholars to the University. So don't let my post get you a little [smiley=nervous.gif] about things. Lines may get a little longer; paint may have to last an extra year; copy machines; computers, etc. They are not going to cut back on building Saluki Way or the academic side of things. [smiley=pedestal.gif] I think you will be impressed by the space and beauty of the university. Though you will we teaching and taking classes in the same area...the campus is actually huge! Enjoy. |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Apr 13th, 2009, 9:45pm In the original standard acceptance letter signed off on by the Director of Graduate Studies of SIU's Philosophy Department, which incidentally I received by e-mail, it actually stated that: "If you applied for a teaching assistantship, please be advised that economic shortfalls have had a very detrimental impact on our program this year, so there is a slim chance that we will have any to offer." Then, a couple hours later, I received another e-mail from the Department Chair with the "dealski". [smiley=deal.gif] By way of your post C-Dub, I don't know if this was the leap you were looking for me to make, but what I take from all this is that I should really value and treasure what they are doing for me here and the fact that I am one of the ones still getting it, and, gosh darn it, don't look the gift-horse in the mouth too deeply and, moving forward, don't squander it. But, I digress... I just had e-mail communication with the Chair at UConn, and a "bigger" announcement is about to be made here at some point tonight... |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Apr 14th, 2009, 3:32am That's all she wrote, folks... Decision's in... Utah, thanks, but no thanks... UConn, at the very least, I can no longer wait... Southern Illinois University,... Dubs, The Rick,... HERE COME THE Stegemans!!! GO [smiley=dog.gif] SALUKIS!!! The cross-country tour in the FantasyFootballer.com mobile (to see what I mean, go here: http://www.fantasyfootballer.com/cgi-bin/theGridiron/YaBB.cgi?board=58;action=display;num=1119464907;start=11) will commence sometime between, say, May 20th and June 20th. Will the Stegs be coming to a town near you??? ;) As for those of you especially close with the Stegeman family, you will appreciate knowing that, besides all of the philosophical support the professors at SIU have shown me, they've also, as the "proverb" says, "shown me the money!" Don't get me wrong, now... Grad students don't get rich. BUT, SIU stepped up to the plate and gave me a FULL tuition-waiver PLUS a teaching assistantship. I'll be in the classroom teaching in just a matter of months. I'll be getting paid to get my Ph.D., like most top-notch doctoral students. This is something I feel like I've deserved for some time,... earned over time that is. And, by the way, fellas, a quick honorable mention in all this... The school that I mentioned above that prompted all this and to which I owe a sort of thanks, even though I didn't get in, was SUNY Buffalo. The scholar that my research had turned me on to was Dr. Jiyuan Yu. It's neither here nor there, ultimately, but it surely was not an insignificant domino in my life. |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by cwhams on Apr 16th, 2009, 9:51pm Yup, in the current economic environment you are in deed fortunate to have received a free ride from SIU-C. However, given your academic credentials and enthusiasm for the field, I believe SIU-C is blessed to have won the competition for your services. Now Stego, cut the poor student slugs a little slack in the classroom! [smiley=graduate.gif] Welcome ABOAAAARD! C.W. [smiley=egghead.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on May 18th, 2009, 9:10pm What a turn of events!!! Not that it really, substantively matters as I have already signed the contract with Southern Illinois and am already registered for classes, but it looks like I am going to be accepted by the University at Buffalo (my original #1 choice, though I do not necessarily think that would be the case anymore given SIU's having a Wojtyla guy, Dr. Stikkers, and the e-mail responses I received from him and the Chinese Philosophy guy, Dr. Berger) after all, and despite its being irrelevant at this point it still feels kind of good (considering all the rejection I have endured). In a VERY RARE turn of events, I received an e-mail out of the blue today from the Director of Graduate Studies of UB's Philosophy Department in which it was indicated that the department has decided to re-review my application as it is believed that it had not been given "due care". What do ya know? Redemption! In other news on this front, also as it turns out, I did not get into UConn. I just received that letter on Friday. Again, though, it's all kind of moot at this point... due to the Salukis!!! [offtopic]In general, though, I feel that this roller coaster I call a life is a tale worth telling, and that is why I share it with you all, insofar as I sometimes feel that I am cursed and, yet, somehow also blessed by the inability of people to really understand me. I really feel that I rank rather highly among the misunderstood. I think this very web site attests to that. Yet, the great appreciation I receive from those close to me who do get me far outweighs the headaches I get from those who do not even though the number of the latter far exceeds the former... at least to this point in my life. I'm optimistic moving forward, though.[/offtopic] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on May 21st, 2009, 3:26am Well, final final paper done for CIIS... I'll miss ya! This was a good little chapter in my life, for sure. But, it's on to SIU and a better situation for myself and my little Steglits! :) |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by cwhams on May 26th, 2009, 10:42pm Nate's fiance is a graduate from the philosophy department at SIU and she is convinced given your interests that you have made a great choice at SIU. Look forward to meeting you in the near future. [smiley=band.gif] Cdubs |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on May 28th, 2009, 5:59am I too CAN'T WAIT... to meet you guys... and to get started at SIU! [smiley=sdscoobydoo.gif] [smiley=woohoo.gif] It's lookin' like we'll be there around July 15th. By the way, I have a pending private message in to your son on this, but could you all make sure to ask her about Dr. Stikkers (he's the one who wrote that utterly supportive e-mail response that I quoted here)? Nateman told me her positive take on Dr. Berger (the [smiley=zenmaster.gif] Buddhist/Chinese [smiley=yinandyang.gif] Philosophy guy), but Stikkers (the Personalism/Wojtyla [smiley=priest.gif] guy) may actually be even more key [smiley=key.gif] for me. I'm also a little curious about Dr. Auxier. He is the editor of The Pluralist (the relevance of which can be found on this thread by those interested enough; 'tis funny how small the world [smiley=world.gif] is and how things work out...). Also, I want to share with yous the final piece I did at CIIS (which I make mention of above). I do my homework [smiley=RIF.gif] and academic [smiley=howtoput.gif] engagement for sure, but it is MY philosophy,... even more so than the Confucius-Wojtyla piece (http://www.internetstitute.com/Stegeman-manuscript-Pluralist.pdf) which is still more of a "research" paper. I navigate academic content, but I'm doing MY dance. [smiley=dancin.gif] At the very least, after a Ph.D. load of coursework (four years) it is a nice culmination-type essay. [smiley=threed.gif] Here's a link: http://www.internetstitute.com/Self-finalpaper.pdf. Please feel free to share [smiley=thinking.gif] thoughts and/or pose [smiley=wiseman.gif] questions, to "engage"... :) |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Jun 19th, 2009, 2:08pm Heya, Nateman, All... At this Society of Asian and Comparative Philosophy [smiley=zenmaster.gif] conference in Asilomar, California I attended this past week, I met Drs. Berger and Tyman. I also met a handful of graduate students, my favorite of which was a dude named Carl Dull. Anyway, SIU had the biggest contingent at the conference, eight if you include me, five graduate students and three professors. UH, with whom they somehow incorrectly associated me per my nametag (I ultimately registered as a student at CIIS), which kind of pissed me off mind you, but which is a school I must admit is a powerhouse in this field, only had five, one professor, Dr. Ames, and four grad students, all friends of mine. (Brown, another powerhouse due to Dr. Henry Rosemont, only had two, him and one grad student. :-/) It really was a great experience. Dr. Berger is TOTALLY cool. 8-) I ended up driving him to the airport, actually, at the end of the conference. We're in love! [smiley=smitten.gif] Though I wasn't presenting, I represented myself well, and, to wit, his comment to one of my CIIS colleagues who approached and spoke with him, was "We're excited to have Steve. We think he's a GREAT FIT." After now speaking and interacting with him in some depth and with Dr. Stikkers in mind, I couldn't agree more, and THAT really is the key [smiley=key.gif] in grad school, especially at the Ph.D. level. [smiley=yes.gif] ALSO, I must say that Dr. Ames and I made great strides toward burying the hatchet. Between that and the interaction I had with my old UH friends that were there, it really was a time of healing. [smiley=touching.gif] That said, make no mistakes... I held my own and held my "position". [smiley=tough.gif] A career can be made picking apart and going beyond the limitations and, at times, ill-logic of the Amesian vision, and I strongly anticipate taking such a career path... ;) Actually, based on various conversations I had, the cracks are already showing, and I am just the guy to exploit them based on my, what I (and I think Ames and Rosemont) take to be, almost unrivaled understanding of his (and ultimately their) philosophy... and modus operandi. ANYway,... to be continued... [smiley=whistle.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by cwhams on Jun 19th, 2009, 5:18pm Humm, glad you hit it off with the SIU contingent. It can be a pretty demanding place and relationships with the profs is certainly a key...though production and end product is what in the end matters. [smiley=hellyeafunny.gif] I think you will like the academic rigors of SIU...most don't understand how tough the university really is a the grad level. Good luck! Cwh |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Jul 6th, 2009, 5:39pm Well, the Stegeman's are off... My last post from 724 Smalley Ave., Hayward, CA #3... :'( See ya, Cali... [smiley=wavinbye.gif] Helllllooo, Southern Illinois... [smiley=wave.gif] and A LOT in between here and there! Guys and gals, suffice it to say I'm going to be (mostly) in communicado for at least the next 10 days or thereabouts... All the best... See yous on the other side,... [smiley=ufo.gif] some other side!!! ;D |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Jul 7th, 2009, 2:52am on 07/06/09 at 17:39:01, StegRock wrote:
Well,... maybe not, after all... :-[ Yup, this comes to you from 724 Smalley Ave..., Hayward... It's a looooong story... I'm not going to go into it now. Sitting uncomfortably on the hard floor... is breaking my back. Let's just say, it primarily deals with an overloaded little FantasyFootballer.com mobile, [smiley=cruisin.gif] and the local post office's closing at 5:00,... oh,... and a VERY cool 8-) and kind-hearted landlord and on-site managers. Anyway, we'll have some making up to do on the road tomorrow. We're gettin' there, Chuck (who in fact is doing me a big favor vis-a-vis the above), Nate, and The Rick! We're on our way,... sort of... :) |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by Takamine305 on Jul 8th, 2009, 4:31pm Where u at today stegfam?!? :P |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Jul 11th, 2009, 10:51pm Heya, fellas, Nateman... So, we actually ended up departing the Bay area a day later than scheduled, Tuesday, the 7th, and late at that. Only made it to Reno on Tuesday night, where I thought we would be on Monday night, so we were "officially" a whole day behind schedule. We did make up a bunch of time on Wednesday in Nevada, though I did get... [smiley=policeman.gif] [smiley=cruisin.gif] ... :-/ and we did spend two nights in the state, in Reno, on the Cali border, and Wendover, on the Utah border. The salt lake(s) on Rt. 80... INCREDIBLE! Spent the next night in Grand Junction, Colorado, and, despite all my years in Colorado, I had never been. What a town! After finishing out my Ph.D., I'll be applying to Mesa State for work someday, for sure. [smiley=yes.gif] Anyway, for more on the "Tour de Steg" and some pics to go with it, head on over to my latest post here: http://www.fantasyfootballer.com/cgi-bin/theGridiron/YaBB.cgi?board=58;action=display;num=1185832268;start=50. Stuff won't be in Carbondale until the 18th, so we're definitely going to slow down a bit. We'll be pulling into SIU, I would say, around late on the 15th or sometime on the 16th or maybe even the 17th. Nateman, I know your pops is going to be in receipt of a couple boxes we sent by USPS, and uncle "The Rick" in St. Louis we're thinking/hoping will be next on the tour, so, if you could pass this info on to them, it would be much appreciated! :) Lastly, Jim O'Dell, if you are reading this, again, we'll be in town for a bit more. Also, I did get to go through your old digs in NorCal, Vacaville. Seemed like a nice town. Alright, over and out, guys and gals... [smiley=wavinbye.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Jul 15th, 2009, 11:36am Pullin' up stakes in Salina, Kansas... [smiley=cruisin.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Jul 16th, 2009, 11:49am About a 185 miles out from Carbondale... We'll be at SIU [smiley=dog.gif] TODAY,... in a few hours in fact!!! [smiley=woohoo.gif] HERE come the Stegemans... [smiley=cheerleader.gif] [smiley=newbie.gif] [smiley=cruisin.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Jul 31st, 2009, 1:42am Okay,... after hanging out in our cool 8-) new digs at SIU [smiley=dog.gif] Carbondale for a couple weeks, we are back [smiley=cruisin.gif] "on the road again",... heading to mom's in New Jersey,... spending the night in Indiana. Just wanted to check in and say, "Hi!" |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Aug 1st, 2009, 10:30am Steggies soon to be pulling out [smiley=cruisin.gif] of western Pennsylvania and (after one more day's worth of driving) pulling into mom's on the [smiley=surfing.gif] Jersey [smiley=drown.gif] shore... |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Aug 2nd, 2009, 12:21am At mom's!!! :), BUT... [smiley=yawn.gif]... |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by Philly on Aug 4th, 2009, 8:48am How did your mom make out with all of the recent storms? I know much of Central and Southern Jersey got hit pretty hard. My town got hit with a tornado on Friday evening (as you know, tornadoes are pretty rare in Jersey) and another big storm blew through mid-day on Sunday. |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Aug 4th, 2009, 3:27pm Well, Phil, the north shore area here doesn't at all seem much worse for the wear. However, while my mom has told me how wet [smiley=drown.gif] this summer has been (and the toll it's taken on the tourism industry here), it's been nice [smiley=sunny.gif] since we got in (now, sliding into Indiana on the way here was a whole nother thing... [smiley=surfing.gif] ... [smiley=yikes.gif]). |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by sk on Aug 4th, 2009, 8:17pm Sliding through Indiana? Damb it! I hope you meant that you went across I80. Which is Michigan. At least we dont claim it. If you went through the middle of the state.(Through Indy) I will be disappointed. We could have had you for dinner. I dont mean eat you for dinner. The economy isnt that bad. We would have made you a good old Hoosier meal. Too bad. Your loss! Dont you know where your friends are steggie san? Pick up some sweet corn before you leave. Another hint would be to try a tomato while you are here. You havent had one yet unless you got it fresh from here. |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Aug 4th, 2009, 11:27pm We slid through Indiana on Route 64, Todd. When I say "slid", I was referring to a huge storm [smiley=storm.gif] last Thursday night that basically forced us to pull off in Indiana (not going as far as we would have liked on day one from southern Illinois to the Jersey shore). Did you guys get that storm up toward Indianapolis? Anyway, I did think of you, Todd, when we were going through that area. Per messages I had been posting (I understand that for a variety of reasons you have probably been out of the loop here), I was trying to coordinate with people about our meeting en route to either Illinois or thereafter New Jersey (C-Dub, The Rick, Primer and some of my personal buds) before leaving Cali or at least well beforehand. I never saw a post from you, sk (again, I understand you are not hanging around here waiting for my plans on bated breath, but...). So, I suppose it is a manner of speaking to say that it was our loss [I'm sure a hot-cooked meal [smiley=hungry.gif] at the Webster household is scrumptous, [smiley=lickinmychops.gif] ... [smiley=yes.gif] but I'm thinking language more along the lines of its being a loss for both of us is more true to the tale and at least more genteel (for corroboration of sorts on that, see here: http://www.fantasyfootballer.com/cgi-bin/theGridiron/YaBB.cgi?board=77;action=display;num=1244518777.)], but (at any rate) the invite wasn't there for me to act upon. Also, honestly, Todd, I didn't off the top of my head 100% recall that you were in Indy, and in any event I didn't have any digits [smiley=phone.gif] for you immediately on hand as we were in transit. ALL of that having been said, I'm guessing we go through Indiana too far south. Now, that said, looking forward, generally speaking, we're not too far apart... As for the other parts of your message, Jersey too is well known for its sweet corn and tomatoes, but, though that is presently where we are (I can only think that you misread something as it seems from your message that you think we are currently in Indiana [smiley=shrug.gif]), I'm guessing you're talking about Indy. That said, we will be going back through Indy the week of the 16th. We won't have too much time to dilly-dally as classes at SIU commence for me that following Monday and we've still not totally settled in, but,... if Route 64 is not too far south for you, let me know...??? We'll probably be going back through southern Indiana [smiley=cruisin.gif] around August 20th. Well, over and out... |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by sk on Aug 6th, 2009, 9:21am So close but yet so far. The week of the 16th I will be touring the great state of Pennsylvania. And it wraps around both dates. Uncle SK's Travel advice If you are going across I64 and you are observant. And we know that you are. Then you spotted with your keen eye; "Santa Clause" Indiana on your way through. We arent just some cheesey state that names towns after sleigh riding north polians. Santa Clause is home to the great HOLIDAY WORLD. Kiddie land, Huge Water park and roller costers that will kick your ass! The baby might be a problem , but here in hoosierville we just leave the windows cracked open.(Put the wet noodle away. Im just kidding) Holiday world is a must see attraction at the bottom of our fine state. Jersey Tomato's? Seriously! The Indiana State fair theme is the year of the tomato. At the fair you can get Chocolate covered tomato's, fried Tomatos. Tomato salad bowls. ( Yes, the tomato is the bowl) Ect,Ect. Man, tomato's are Indiana. Just like you wouldnt eat a potato from Illinois if you could get one from Idaho. Travel Safe Steggesan |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Aug 6th, 2009, 10:59am Yea, Todd, we had seen a whole show on Santa Claus, Indiana on The Travel Channel some time ago. Great advice, for sure! [smiley=thumbsup.gif] As we were going across Route 64, we didn't realize we were going to come so close, though. We're DEFINITELY going to hit that up during our time in southern Illinois. [smiley=yes.gif] My mom is a Christmas addict, so we'll probably make it a family trip someday. As for our getting together, I'm sure or at least I hope, while the Steggies are in the vicinity there, we can make that happen. 'Tis surely our loss ;) the timing was off this time around. With that said, we are going to be pressed for time this time through, anyway. Do enjoy your time touring Pennsy! [smiley=world.gif] ... [smiley=wave.gif] (On that note, [smiley=note.gif] though, there is no chance of our bumping into yous for at least a handshake and soda or something on our way back through Pennsy...??? We'll be on that Route 70-76 corridor... [smiley=cruisin.gif]) |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by Philly on Aug 8th, 2009, 7:41pm Looks like sk here hasn't enjoyed Jersey tomatoes... Having eaten some in Indiana (up near South Bend) and lots in NJ, I can honestly say NJ has it all over Indy. Same thing with sweet corn. |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Aug 8th, 2009, 11:04pm Sorry, sk,... but... :-[ on 08/08/09 at 19:41:16, Philly wrote:
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Aug 20th, 2009, 12:27pm Leaving the Jersey shore... [smiley=palmtree.gif] ... [smiley=drown.gif] Back on the road [smiley=cruisin.gif] here shortly... |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Aug 23rd, 2009, 11:50am Well, roughly 4,300 miles later [smiley=cruisin.gif] and, we (including our little, at the beginning, 8- now 10-month-old, bundle [smiley=newbie.gif] who, I am proud to say, [smiley=awwgee.gif] endured and remained very well-behaved throughout IT ALL) are back at SIU!!! [smiley=dog.gif] Got in last night... School and "assistantshipping" ;D starts on the morrow... [smiley=RIF.gif] ... [smiley=howtoput.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Sep 6th, 2009, 2:21am on 09/05/09 at 15:55:17, StegRock wrote:
Had a WONDERFUL time at the Hamilton-Gould family gathering at C-Dub's! [smiley=yes.gif] Learned a new backyard game today: "washers". Best I can describe it, it's a hybrid of mini-golf, tiddlywinks and horseshoes. Bottom line,... looooove it!!! [smiley=yes.gif] I may be taking my undefeated record on tour here soon,... per the ESPN contract I've been offered. ;) But, I digress... ;D What a lovely family! There weren't too many outside friends there,... not that they made you feel that way, anyway. Moreover, what a spread! [smiley=lickinmychops.gif] One of their relatives, uncle Scott I'll call him, worked his tail off making pizzas for everyone. Oh, my goodness... [smiley=pizza.gif] These were outragous. I've NEVER had such good homemade pizza in my life,... and, as yous know, I'm from New Jersey where pizza parlors are temples [smiley=worship.gif] and eating pizza is a religious [smiley=zenmaster.gif] experience. Anyway, great eats; great time! Dubs did try to goad me into gorging the last shrimp, though. It was a, if you will, fishy [smiley=fish.gif] move. I could see the post already... "Steg crashes the family get-together and goes and downs the last shrimp... right in front of my little niece 'Tiny Tina', who, in a 'make a wish foundation' request once wrote that 'all I've ever wanted was to eat the last shrimp.'" [smiley=laugh.gif][smiley=hellyeafunny.gif][smiley=LMFAO.gif][smiley=sinister.gif][smiley=rollinwithlaughter.gif] I'd have never lived it down. Suffice it to say, I didn't take the [smiley=fishing.gif] bait,... the shrimp that is... ;) |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Feb 26th, 2010, 2:10pm The answer to the original question posed, at the moment at least, is 4:00 (CST) today... Just thought I'd share this with you all... http://www.internetstitute.com/AgoraFlyer.pdf (Scroll down to today, February 26th!) I'm presenting that "self" paper that I think I've made mention of here before. Anyway,... here's to hoping all goes well... [smiley=fingerscrossed.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by DirkDiggler on Feb 26th, 2010, 8:45pm on 02/26/10 at 14:10:05, StegRock wrote:
Hope all went well.....subjectively and objectively speaking ;D |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Mar 3rd, 2010, 1:52pm Thanks for the kind words, Double D! Went very well! A crowd of over 30 attended! Great learning experience both philosophically in terms of insights had afterwards and logistically as it relates to getting my ideas across. Definitely got people talkin' and thinkin'! Incidentally, Gridironer Chuck Hamilton a.k.a. cwhams was actually in attendence! Boy, that meant A LOT to me! Thanks a bunch, friend! Anyway, Stevo, loved this... on 02/26/10 at 20:45:06, DirkDiggler wrote:
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Apr 10th, 2010, 11:37pm I'm not just looking forward anymore, but really moving forward... I've finally been called to the mound... To see what I mean, click the link below; choose "Fall 2010" from the drop-down menu and click the button; choose "Philosophy" from the topmost drop-down menu on the next page and click the button, and finally on the page you are taken to just scroll down a hair to the second section of "Introduction to Philosophy"... https://opal.rocks.siu.edu/prod/bwckschd.p_disp_dyn_sched. Who be that guy teachin' that second section? [smiley=awwgee.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Jun 18th, 2010, 12:29am Heya'll! Didn't mention this because I actually did not firm up my plans to go until just this week. That is plane ticks and all. [smiley=yikes.gif] Anyway, headin' back to Cali tomorrow (Friday) to do my "philosophy of the subject" [smiley=discoball.gif] dance [smiley=booya.gif] at the annual conference of the Society of Asian and Comparative Philosophy: http://www.sacpweb.org/conferences/programs/2010ConferenceProgram.pdf. I'm scheduled for 10:45 (in the big room, actually [smiley=awwgee.gif]) on Saturday, June 19th, Father's Day and my mom's B-day! At any rate, I'll be back on Wednesday and planning to kick it into a bit of a higher gear here. |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by DOLFAN on Jun 18th, 2010, 3:51am CONGRATS Steve! Knock 'em dead!!! |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Jun 26th, 2010, 6:02pm Thanks, Joe, for the words of support... I don't know if I left 'em dead, but I definitely "broke a leg"... ;D It went very well. I was on, especially during the Q&A session, which is really the key to having a good showing on these academic conference panels. |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Aug 22nd, 2010, 11:04pm on 04/10/10 at 23:37:12, StegRock wrote:
Here we go, fellas... Professional side of my academic [smiley=graduate.gif] career is finally kicking off on the morrow! Wish me luck! |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by DirkDiggler on Aug 23rd, 2010, 2:37pm on 08/22/10 at 23:04:37, StegRock wrote:
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by Drew Rosenhaus on Aug 23rd, 2010, 4:09pm Mr. (excuse me) PROFESSOR Stegeman, Huge congrats on the first of many, many more lectures to come in your career. Today is truly a great, significant corner of the foundation you have been building. Hopefully you did take my advice and have a pop quiz today worth 50% of the final grade. |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Aug 23rd, 2010, 10:41pm Thanks for the well wishes and way too kind words, Stevo, Markie! I'm still not really a prof yet... Officially, I'm an instructor. Anyway, what a day it was!!! [smiley=sunny.gif] WAAAAAY ready for this day! Knocked it out of the park! [smiley=thumbsup.gif] Day one intro class, and I held 'em for the whole 50 minutes... [smiley=mywhippinboy.gif] and taught. [smiley=ohshit.gif] Told 'em up front I was going to. They started with a sigh, ended on bated breath! No kidding! If and when I talk to yous, [smiley=phone.gif] I'll share some of the wonderful details, most notably a handful of comments made to me and aloud at the end of class as the students departed. UNbelievable! I'm where I need to be. I'm reveling for the moment, but need to gear back up soon... for the long haul... of a career. |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Sep 25th, 2010, 12:46am Didn't let yous guys know about this until now because I really was unsure I'd be making the trip. But, I've gotten sufficient funding to make it worth it,... and,... well,... the Steggie show's goin' INTERNATIONAL... [smiley=world.gif] And, it's a country that starts with "Chi...", but it's not China. :-X Check it out: http://www.internetstitute.com/afiche(2).doc. CRAZY, huh??? A little less than a month from now, I'll be kickin' it in Santiago, Chile. I actually still cannot believe this rarified group wants to hear me out on the issue of "Divine Omniscience and Divine Foreknowledge, not of the Same Species" (the title of my presentation). Here is the abstract if you are interested: http://www.internetstitute.com/FreedomandOmniscience.pdf. Anyway, all else is going wonderfully. LOVE teachin'. My Intro class is going outstandingly! Well, peace out... |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by DirkDiggler on Sep 25th, 2010, 6:00pm Wow, Congrats!!! That is pretty incredible that you have been selected to attend the conference AND that you were able to obtain the funding. I read the abstract this morning, but I am not sure I fully (emphasize the word FULLY) understood it. I am going to go back and read it again later today or tomorrow and give it another shot. I think since I am not a philosopher that I am at a disadvantage. Ashes to ashes and dust to dust......... I find it interesting that in your Bible references, you quote at least 3 books of the prophets, Isiah, Daniel, and Jeremiah. Beiong prophets, and what they said was to come true, does that mean they knew the choices man would make or what God had ordained OR that God used the prophets to give a hint of what was to come? Update: Just went and re-read the abstract and the bible versus. They definitely help tie it together for me. By the way, Jeremiah 16:17 is pretty telling, God sees all, so don't bother to try to hide as does Psalms 94. :) I do find it interesting!! |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Oct 14th, 2010, 5:02pm on 09/25/10 at 18:00:42, DirkDiggler wrote:
Thank you for the words of support, Stevo! [smiley=bow.gif] With the trip only a few days away at this point, I am very excited. Looks, too, with the wonderful news coming out of Chile, that I'll be visiting a country full of happy and relieved people! Quote:
I know you gave it some more thought, Steve, and narrowed the gap on your own, but I'd still like to submit my thoughts on the matter. First, let me address the first disjunct (or) within your larger disjunct. It's all coming from God. The question is what is the characterization of that (Divine) foreknowledge (to which the prophets had access). My argument is that in the Bible there are really, at least arguably, only two kinds: 1) Divine extrapolation (from the past and present about which God knows all, both outer circumstances and what is in the hearts of men, and which is thus going to be at a level unfathomable to us, whose knowledge of the past and present is infinitesimally infinitesimal in comparison) and 2) Divine intention (where it's like when you know what you are going to do in a way that you don't know what someone else is going to do, but, of course, in the case of Divinity, we are in the hands of God, and then it's up to you how extreme you want to take that view). Point being, while God's omniscience of the past and present is presented in the Bible as absolute, God's knowledge of the future is not presented with such precision. The ultimate point is that Divine extrapolation and Divine intention do not, strictly speaking, require God's knowledge of the future to be absolute. In other words, God's foreknowledge is characterized by Divine extrapolation and, moreover, mainly Divine intention or plan, not, strictly speaking, Divine foresight/foreseeing [as if the temporal has all been laid out (which seems to belie the definition of temporality) in front of this atemporal, eternal Divine Being; it's as if the understanding had to be that, if God is eternal and not within time, God must be able to know the future just like the past and present, meaning that it could NOT have been the case that God created time outside of time, but still as such, though with A LOT of insight into and power over it]. In this case - and this is the thesis and main point of my paper and presentation - there is room for human freedom and free-will (and for that matter Divine sovereignty/freedom). Now, as for the bigger disjunct (OR) in your question, from the above it follows that I think it is the latter because God's foreknowledge, though really great and unfathomably expansive, is not absolutely absolute, though, further narrowing the corridor (of human freedom and free-will), God's ultimate plan/intention may be. I have to admit that this was helpful for me moving forward toward my departure for the conference. I hope it was helpful to you, Steve, and any other readers who happen to be peeking in. ... Now, on a totally different but also somewhat related point - the international Steggies - I have some other news particularly relevant to the GBRFL guys... Not entirely without cause, which not the least of which is related to the reality that my wife's parents have not seen their daughter, my wife, for five-and-a-half years and my daughter has never met her grandfather, Gino and Monica Marie are headed to South Korea this Saturday for a month. This has all been in the works for some time. So, anyway, we've got a big few days with a lot of movement going on here in the Stegeman household at the moment. I'm going to miss the girls, but I've got a big week myself next week to distract me, and the reasons for their going are, as they say, all good. |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Oct 18th, 2010, 11:31am Okay, guys, asta... It's on to the International Academy of Philosophy and Santiago, Chile!!! See yous on the come-around!!! |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by Drew Rosenhaus on Oct 18th, 2010, 9:20pm A W E S O M E! Have a great trip Steve - you deserve it! Provide a full report when possible. |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by Philly on Nov 24th, 2010, 8:04am on 10/14/10 at 17:02:14, StegRock wrote:
Hope your wife and child are safe (and in a safe place away from any action). |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Nov 25th, 2010, 1:33am Thanks for the well wishes, Jeff, on Thanksgiving eve no less. Yes, all is well. I spoke with them last night. As it goes over there - as I used to tell yous when I was there - our media always makes things seem worse than they actually are on the ground. By and large, from what Gino said, all is normal there. The day-to-day presses on. The attack was limited to that tiny island that butts right up with the North. I feel for the loss of life and the destruction of homes. We probably are in for some cantankerousness out of the North given the impending regime change from crazy father to loony son, who will want to "establish" himself. [smiley=gimmeabreak.gif] There is a power struggle going on there behind the scenes according to my wife. ... Anyway, again, Jeff, thank you for thinking of us. |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by DirkDiggler on Nov 25th, 2010, 8:40am on 11/25/10 at 01:33:59, StegRock wrote:
Glad to hear they are ok...... You all are definitely in my thoughts. It is crazy what the North Korean leaders will do. I guess they figure as long as China sticks by them, they can do whatever the hell they want On a side note, I wonder how true the reports are that the South Koreans want our military back in bigger force. Didn't they desperately want us to leave a few years back (except for the DMZ of course)? |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Nov 25th, 2010, 1:20pm on 11/25/10 at 08:40:16, DirkDiggler wrote:
... and we are not helping matters further indebting ourselves to China. :-/ Quote:
Yea, that claim is unbelievable. However, I guess what is meant is that they would like us to roll [smiley=ready4war.gif] in for now, like the flex of a bicep, but then go away when things calm back down... as they always do. |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Jun 1st, 2011, 1:10am Got my first BIG-time essay publication in a journal... Received this today... Dear Steve, I am delighted to report that we intend to include your article 'Unfolding Mozi's Standard of Sound Doctrine' in the forthcoming issue of the journal - August 2011, Volume 21 Number 3. You will be alerted when the proofs are available for you on the publisher's website. I think we have all we need to proceed with publication, but I'll be in touch if there's anything more we need. Best wishes, Brian Brian Carr Joint Editor, Asian Philosophy Link to journal - http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/09552367.asp WOO-HOO!!! |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Aug 10th, 2011, 11:51pm This is related to the post right above... I thought you all (whatever I mean by "all" around here anymore, [smiley=idontknow.gif] I don't know; heck, I am not even sure what I mean by "you" [smiley=rollinwithlaughter.gif]) might enjoy seeing this... http://philosophy.siuc.edu/ (scroll down, bottom right). Meanwhile, I am staring down the barrel of the BIG 10-hour "final" exam next week... [smiley=scared.gif] Will it be Ph.D. candidate Steg in a couple weeks or not? |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by DirkDiggler on Aug 11th, 2011, 2:17am on 08/10/11 at 23:51:50, StegRock wrote:
Congrats on the write up on the website. Best of luck Steve!!! I somehow think it will go well!!! |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Aug 11th, 2011, 2:57pm on 08/11/11 at 02:17:47, DirkDiggler wrote:
Thanks, Stevo! Quote:
I think so, too... But, remember I specialize in all the non-traditional stuff, Eastern thought, and, even on the Western side of the ball, I mainly do Wojtyla. NONE of this will be on the exam... :( That stuff is just a side dish to the History of Western Philosophy that we have to know. This is the predicament a person with interests like mine, who wants to study the material in the light of Philosophy and not Religious Studies, has to endure. Indeed, most professors in Philosophy Departments who do the Eastern stuff do not have their higher degrees, their Ph.D.'s at least, in Philosophy. They typically have their degrees in Religious Studies or Asian Studies or something like that. To wit, my guy, Dr. Berger here at SIU has his Ph.D. in Religious Studies, and remember that I too wound up in a "Philosophy and Religion" program for a year of my graduate school career. Anyway, bottom line, if you want to do the Eastern stuff or a "seemingly" more theological figure like Wojtyla in a Philosophy Department, you have to know that that is a side dish and you still have to know all the regular Philosophy stuff. [smiley=yikes.gif] Anyway, I will be happy when I am just dissertating, and I hope that that is not delayed any further. :) |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Aug 15th, 2011, 6:58pm on 08/10/11 at 23:51:50, StegRock wrote:
Well, Day 1, metaphysics and epistemology, is over with,... and I am mentally drained. I think it went well... We'll see... [smiley=pray.gif] Now it is on to Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, and Aesthetics... Still doing a little,... [smiley=RIF.gif] especially now that I kind of better know what to expect. Well, over and OUT... [smiley=tired.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Aug 17th, 2011, 3:52pm DONE... and hopefully "one and... done." EX-HAUST-ED... [smiley=tired.gif] Talk to you all soon... Ready for some... [smiley=footballsmiley.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Sep 10th, 2011, 2:47pm With the lull in NFL football, let me share this with yous... on 06/01/11 at 01:10:58, StegRock wrote:
on 08/10/11 at 23:51:50, StegRock wrote:
Well, guys and gals, this story just keeps getting better and better (and more and more ironic for those in the know as to my trials and tribulations [smiley=gimmeabreak.gif] over the last five or so months, and I am not talking about the doctoral prelim exam)... To recap, I recently succeed in getting an essay published in a big-time (top-four) journal in my field, which in academia is a feather,... nay,... a plume in my cap, especially since I am not yet even ABD (All But Dissertation)! I just thought, especially as just a Ph.D. student, that my piece would be tucked in somewhere in the middle or even toward the end of the issue. Well, when it came out, there is immediate access to the on-line version, and, when I went to the page for the "current issue", let's just put it this way: I did NOT have to scroll! Here is the link; you can see what I mean yourself: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/casp20/current. Sequencing is not chosen willy-nilly, mind you. I could not believe my eyes. :o I know some of the other authors. They are professors, with doctorates. This is BIG! BUT, get this... The story gets even better... I, just for the fun of it, click on the link for the "Most Read" articles for the journal. When I did this, I saw one particular essay on the list by a former colleague of mine back at UH who is still a Ph.D. student like myself (actually, she is a candidate) and was curious to take a look at it when I had a little free time. So, I returned to the "Most Read" section yesterday for that purpose, and, 'lo and behold, just THREE days into publication mind you (the date of publication is 9/6/11), what was (already) on that list? My essay (the only one from the current issue, mind you)! Here is a link to that: http://www.tandfonline.com/action/showMostReadArticles?journalCode=casp20. Suffice it to say, I am flabbergasted! I guess now I am just waiting for the fallout. [smiley=scared.gif] Anyway, UNbelievable, and the backstory, which is a little long to be explaining here, only makes it WAY more so! [smiley=yes.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by DOLFAN on Sep 11th, 2011, 2:34am Congrats Steg!!!!!!!!!! I'm sure this is really Huge for you. I would like to say that I ...and we...collectively are happy for you and proud of you. You have worked very hard and I'm certain that this is just the beginning of many more articles that you will get published in your future. I know that you mom and wife and proud too. COINGRATS again Steg!! |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Sep 13th, 2011, 2:35am Thanks for the kind words of support, Joe... [smiley=bow.gif] on 09/10/11 at 14:47:14, StegRock wrote:
Well, I debuted at #14. I am now looking to break the Top 10, currently sitting at #11!!! :-X |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Sep 17th, 2011, 1:41pm All, what a roller-coaster ride the Steggies were on yesterday!!! It truly was the [smiley=thumbsup.gif] good, the [smiley=thumbsdown.gif] bad and the [smiley=zombie.gif] ugly!!! Perhaps more precisely put, and put in order of occurrence, it was the ridiculously [smiley=gimmeabreak.gif] half-baked, the incredulously [smiley=doseofreality.gif] half-bad (thank God, only half), and the, yet again in the world of Steg, semi-triumphant [smiley=victory.gif] AND, moreover, TOTALLY ironic. :-/ It ALL just happened in one 24-hour period this time. Life, when truly pressed, shows itself to be the theater of the absurd that it ultimately is and that almost all are ultimately lulled into, and I guess I am getting better at "acting" in this absurd theater... and hastening things along. Bottom line, right now, it is ALL VERY in flux. When the dust finally settles, I will probably give you all a glimpse into it all. IN ANY EVENT, the thing is, the effects of these developments will surely be felt here on "the Gridiron" and in the GBRFL. In other words, what was once looking like one of the easiest autumns I have had in a looooong time, one during which I envisioned really kicking back a little bit and enjoying life and football at a little slower pace and sinking my teeth back into here, has actually - believe it or not - likely turned into the greatest pressure-cooker I will have ever had to endure, both for the bad and, ironically, for the good. |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Sep 23rd, 2011, 7:29pm on 09/13/11 at 02:35:18, StegRock wrote:
I need a(nother) little (ironic) pick-me-up these days... After dropping a few spots over several days, I have cracked the Top 10!!! "Unfolding Mozi's Standard of Sound Doctrine" currently sits at #10: http://www.tandfonline.com/action/showMostReadArticles?journalCode=casp20. [smiley=discoball.gif] [smiley=booya.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Sep 28th, 2011, 12:25pm Guys, I am headed into one of the hugest meetings of my life here at high noon (local time). Please send me some good vibrations. (Any pending IM's I will respond to this afternoon. I apologize for delaying. At the moment, though, my mind is just elsewhere; my heart is beating fairly rapidly, and, frankly speaking, I am a bit lightheaded.) Just wish me some good luck, please... |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by Drew Rosenhaus on Sep 28th, 2011, 1:26pm It will be a good meeting Steve - hang tough, friend. |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Sep 30th, 2011, 2:39pm Things with the meeting went smoothly, by the way. I have another next week, though, which will be more "informative". Meanwhile,... on 09/23/11 at 19:29:00, StegRock wrote:
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Nov 12th, 2011, 2:23pm After some ups-and-downs, my article at the moment sits at... [smiley=drummer.gif] #8: http://www.tandfonline.com/action/showMostReadArticles?journalCode=casp20!!! [smiley=woohoo.gif] Honestly, I canNOT believe and am totally humbled by this. |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by DOLFAN on Nov 12th, 2011, 5:00pm Congrats Steg!!! Still going strong. I hope you make it to the top 5!!! |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Nov 19th, 2011, 1:27pm Thanks, Joe! The piece is now up to #7 all-time!!! [smiley=getoff.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Nov 22nd, 2011, 2:51pm ... #6!!! [smiley=jawdroppin.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Jan 5th, 2012, 12:45pm Quick, but crucial hit here this morn... For those in the know (or who can put two and two together) and who care, you will know what this means... PASSED!!! [smiley=dodged.gif] ... [smiley=woohoo.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by Drew Rosenhaus on Jan 7th, 2012, 3:21pm [smiley=clap.gif] [smiley=clap.gif] [smiley=clap.gif] [smiley=clap.gif] [smiley=clap.gif] [smiley=clap.gif] [smiley=clap.gif] [smiley=clap.gif] [smiley=clap.gif] [smiley=clap.gif] [smiley=clap.gif] [smiley=clap.gif] [smiley=clap.gif] [smiley=clap.gif] [smiley=clap.gif] HUGE NEWS STEGGIE!!! Congrats from all of us in Denver - (soon to be) Professor Steg!!! |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on May 26th, 2012, 6:57pm Well, this update is way overdue, I know... Things have just been that crazy for us for the past six+ months, and, anymore, most reading this are probably in the know about the last HUGE move for the Steggies. As such, as time got away from me, I was just going to let it go. But, at the moment I do have occasion to bring things back up to speed. I will do so by putting the mortar between these two posts... These words ended up being quite prophetic, [smiley=sultan.gif] coming true MUCH sooner than expected (although I still have a dissertation to write to complete the Ph.D.)... on 01/07/12 at 15:21:33, Drew Rosenhaus wrote:
That "coming true MUCH sooner than expected" is what the following message was underlain by... on 12/16/11 at 22:47:05, cwhams wrote:
In very short, that being (and I do not know how much longer this URL is going to last) this... http://www.sis.hawaii.edu/uhdad/avail.classes?i=LEE&t=201230&s=PHIL. [smiley=ohshit.gif] Now, the occasion that has me finally doing this update is this totally unexpected turn of events (scroll down to where it says "2012 Hawaii Great Teachers Grant Recipients")... [smiley=hmmmm.gif] http://www.uhpa.org/. [smiley=jawdroppin.gif] ... [smiley=booya.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on May 21st, 2013, 1:52pm After three "official" (and many unofficial) drafts of my dissertation prospectus, my prospectus defense is, alas, underway, has been since last Friday. It was a given that they were going to let me do it remotely. They decided on an e-mail administration of the defense. Bottom line, I should know within the next couple weeks if I am good to go to start writing the dissertation, which I am hoping will take at most one more year. [smiley=howtoput.gif] If anyone would happen to be interested in seeing the prospectus, let me know. I would be willing to share it here. :) |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by PrimeTime on May 22nd, 2013, 8:07pm Guess who is back? Yes! Me! Good luck Stegger. I recommend starting your defense with "These two utes....." |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on May 23rd, 2013, 4:42am on 05/22/13 at 20:07:13, PrimeTime wrote:
[smiley=welcome.gif] back! Quote:
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by DB on May 25th, 2013, 3:21pm My Cousin Vinny reference. Nice! Good Luck with dissertation! |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Jul 14th, 2013, 6:35pm I just wanted to bring those of you interested up to speed or, should I say, up to "slow". ;D Mind yous, so far, so good! Three committee members' very lengthy criticisms, questions and suggestions successfully responded to, but that was a month and a half ago. I am being held up by ONE M.I.A. professor. That seems to be coming to a head, though, finally. I just received an e-mail from my adviser who told me that the M.I.A. professor has, alas, been back in touch and will submit his comments tomorrow. I am happy to hear that, but I am not holding my breath. [smiley=fingerscrossed.gif] Bottom line, I just want to be let off the leash and get to making this end run! |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Jul 21st, 2013, 6:36pm on 07/14/13 at 18:35:06, StegRock wrote:
Alas, comments from fourth committee member are finally in! I just glossed them over for now because, once I engage, I enter the Matrix and will not really be out until I craft my response (which will take hours if not days). True to my understanding of this professor and his penchants for the unusual, his take, at a most general level, seems to be that I have an uphill battle ahead of me, even beyond the dissertation, because I am taking a position that is not going to be popular, BUT he likes it because that is the kind of thing that is right up his alley! It seems that he even defends my position on Kant, over which I have been beaten up by the other three committee members as well as my adviser. Woo-hoo! We are getting back to moving forward! ;D |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Jul 30th, 2013, 8:06pm Well, I am awaiting final word. My last (hopefully in both senses) [smiley=fingerscrossed.gif] reply took me a week to craft and went out on Sunday. I have proposed a revision to my thesis statement... that I think my colleague here Travistotle will like. With the changes italicized, it now reads... "Although Karol Wojtyla makes great strides in expanding the notion of subjectivity beyond consciousness and then establishing the person as subject as the foundation for ethical personalism, his analysis could be significantly enhanced through engagement with the classical Confucian interpersonal ethical sensibility." It had read... "Although Karol Wojtyla makes great strides in establishing the other as subject as the foundation for ethical personalism, his analysis could be significantly enhanced through engagement with the classical Confucian interpersonal ethical sensibility." |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Aug 16th, 2013, 5:05pm This is it, everybody!!! I have been let off the leash to dissertate!!! [smiley=peedog.gif] Paperwork is in process!!! Here we go... [smiley=howtoput.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by DOLFAN on Aug 16th, 2013, 8:50pm Congrats!! |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Mar 2nd, 2015, 12:55am 'Tis been AWHILE... Dissertation... 63 pages in, that is, almost halfway (just shooting for 150)... Chapter 1, minus the chapter summaries, done... Chapter 2 two-thirds done... First submission into my committee as of tonight! Woo-hoo!!! Revised thesis statement, by the way: "Although Karol Wojtyla makes great strides in expanding the notion of subjectivity beyond consciousness and then establishing the person as subject as the foundation for ethical personalism, his analysis could be significantly enhanced through engagement with the classical Confucian interpersonal ethical sensibility." The working title is: Karol Wojtyla's Interpersonalist Ethics: A Critical Appraisal and Confucian Reconstruction. Fingers crossed that they love it!!! [smiley=pray.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by DOLFAN on Mar 2nd, 2015, 9:21pm Great Job Steg!! I know you've been working loooong and hard on this. |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by DirkDiggler on Mar 3rd, 2015, 6:16pm on 03/02/15 at 00:55:40, StegRock wrote:
Fingers crossed......Did they love it?? |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Mar 3rd, 2015, 7:37pm Thanks for the words of support and encouragement, Joe, Steve... They are much appreciated and do inspire! [smiley=yes.gif] on 03/03/15 at 18:16:45, DirkDiggler wrote:
Will not know for a bit. Indeed, have not even received confirmation of receipt from my committee's chair, who has been out of town and just returned yesterday. That said, have not checked my e-mail yet today, so... [smiley=onit.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Apr 29th, 2015, 1:34am on 03/03/15 at 18:16:45, DirkDiggler wrote:
Got my first set of comments back from my dissertation adviser last week. They were on Chapter 1. They were critical. This is good. Moreover, my thoughts as I read through them were, "I can field each and every one." :) I wrote him back this weekend with five points I wanted to run by him before making any revisions. He e-mailed me right back. He confirmed my thinking. He wrote that all of the critiques he made he thought I would readily handle. Then, with respect to Chapter 2, which he said I was going to be receiving his comments on shortly and, moreover, in which I took liberties that went a bit against what had been agreed upon at the conclusion of my dissertation prospectus defense and so I was somewhat nervous about even though I had given them a heads up, he said that how I had gone about it, using existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre (whom I was supposed to cut out) as a segue, was, and I quote, "very effective"!!! [smiley=woohoo.gif] So, bottom line, we are looking good. On page 73, almost halfway there!!! [smiley=howtoput.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by DirkDiggler on Apr 29th, 2015, 3:15pm Great news Steg! Glad to hear that the first round of feedback was favorable. I am sure you are not only happy, but relieved! I am guessing Sartre would say you did the right thing by including him in your paper because you alone are responsible for your great results/actions, and there are no excuses ;) ;D [smiley=zenmaster.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Nov 15th, 2015, 2:18pm Benchmark hit... [smiley=howtoput.gif] On page 100, guys! |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by DOLFAN on Nov 17th, 2015, 11:13pm Congrats Steg!!! I know you have been working on this for a long time. |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Dec 29th, 2015, 3:30pm Just submitted Chapters 1 through 3 in full!!! Just one more 50-or-so-page chapter to go if all goes as planned. That is, I am on page 124 and thinking I can have this done within about 175 pages. [smiley=pray.gif] Feel free to send good vibes my way at will!!! [smiley=cheerleader.gif] Any sources of energy are welcomed and will be gladly accepted as I, alas, finally start to round third base on this thing. [smiley=yawn.gif] For those of you who have stuck it out with me here on "the Gridiron", you know how looooong and challenging of a journey this has been. [smiley=touching.gif] I remember, almost a dozen years ago now as I was setting out on this endeavor, about to commence my graduate studies at Catholic U., being reduced to tears as I sat out in front of an absolutely filthy, total craphole, literal rat's nest basement apartment on my first day in D.C., only to be helped up and out by a friend I made on-line via fantasy football and the GBRFL (and now you know why I have not given up on this endeavor). |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by DirkDiggler on Dec 29th, 2015, 6:31pm on 12/29/15 at 15:30:13, StegRock wrote:
Congrats on the progress! That is great. Positive thoughts on finishing it up and getting positive feedback from the committee.(or advisor) Lots of good stuff going on!!! |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Feb 6th, 2016, 7:45am I am on page 140, guys! I can taste it!!! |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by DOLFAN on Feb 6th, 2016, 1:59pm Congrats on the progress Steg. Keep it rollin. You are in the home stretch on achieving another one of your dreams! Stay focused and have fun with it. |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Feb 6th, 2016, 7:01pm Thanks for the supportive sentiments, Joe! These words of yours are particularly wise... on 02/06/16 at 13:59:47, DOLFAN wrote:
It will be the end of a task, but it will also be the end of an era. Gotta make sure to stop and smell the roses before it is over, and the next chapter begins. Got it! |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Feb 10th, 2016, 8:59pm I do not know if I will quite be able to pull it off, but I have been given the green light by my adviser to complete and defend my dissertation THIS SEMESTER and graduate in May!!!!! |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by DirkDiggler on Feb 11th, 2016, 7:57am on 02/10/16 at 20:59:57, StegRock wrote:
This is great news! Congrats on all your efforts paying off...... |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Mar 4th, 2016, 5:46pm Dissertation update... On PAGE 161... In "overtime" as far as I am concerned! Still see it being done by page 175-ish. Made my presumably final, partial submission earlier this week. Still do not know if I will make it this semester, but I am giving it the proverbial "old college try", quite literally, I suppose. ;D |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Mar 24th, 2016, 8:02am As of 1:48 a.m. local time, the writing of the Stegsertation [smiley=howtoput.gif] is... DONE!!! For all intents and purposes, at least! On page 182... Have a 1-to-2-page conclusion to write. Will likely end up being 183 pages. Plan to write that, proofread and submit tomorrow/today/Thursday! Will check back in at that time... :P and [smiley=tired.gif] but [smiley=woohoo.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by DirkDiggler on Mar 24th, 2016, 1:32pm on 03/24/16 at 08:02:44, StegRock wrote:
CONGRATS!!!!!!! I know you worked very hard to get to this point- and I know you will reap the benefits |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by Travistotle on Mar 24th, 2016, 2:18pm Steg!!!! Great news! Give me a call sometime so we can catch up and I can hear all about the dissertation. Approximate defense date? |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by DOLFAN on Mar 24th, 2016, 10:20pm CONGRATS!!! I know you have invested a lot in this, more than we will ever know. |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Mar 25th, 2016, 10:39pm Just sharing the journey, fellas... Did not get much done yesterday because of the late night,... correction,... morning the night before. But, anyway, I am right now on the LAST PARAGRAPH!!! I cannot believe it!!! |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Mar 26th, 2016, 12:26am DONE!!! DONE!!! DONE... with the writing. 184 pages! Thanks for ALL the supportive words, Double D, Joe, Travistotle!!! Words of encouragement have helped me along the way!!! on 03/24/16 at 14:18:13, Travistotle wrote:
As to this, I have hit a possible,... nay,... likely snag. Since time is of the essence and logistics need to be worked out fast if I am to graduate this spring, I put in a call to the Philosophy Department. The secretary asked me if I turned in the "graduation application". I said, "What?" Dum-dum here, [smiley=dunce.gif] I did not even know there was such a thing, no less that it was due on February 12th. [smiley=shootmyself.gif] For reals though, I am TOTALLY out of the loop on this kind of stuff. So, anyway, I immediately put an e-mail in to the Graduate School. I have not yet heard back (which I hope means it is working up the chain). Point being, defense dates and such will be scheduled relative to that. If I am allowed to graduate here in the spring, the dissertation is due on April 15th, so shit has got to move super fast. If not, I suppose it will be the summer. But, I do want to walk, and that would have to be in December because SIU does not have a summer commencement ceremony. :-/ We shall see... I really want to do this now, so please put in some prayers that my request for late submission of the "graduation application" is met by a reasonable, understanding soul. [smiley=fingerscrossed.gif] ... [smiley=pray.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Mar 26th, 2016, 3:47pm Well, 187 pages... Could not help myself this morning as the girls were sleeping in... It has become an addiction that I now see is hard to kick. BUT, really, outside of proofreading, revising [smiley=howtoput.gif] and defending, [smiley=gladiator.gif] THAT IS IT!!! :) |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Mar 28th, 2016, 1:21am Just finished proofreading it and sent it on in. It ended up being 189 pages... [smiley=yawn.gif] Wait-and-see mode now... [smiley=zenmaster.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on Mar 29th, 2016, 7:16am Okay, 192 pages... Resubmitted one last time! BUT, that is it!!! ... Yea, I could not help myself... I tinkered. 'Tis really an addiction... |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by StegRock on May 30th, 2016, 3:22pm Been largely out of pocket here for a while... RIDICULOUSLY busy! :P Final revisions took some time, but it is now REALLY over! Ended up 198 pages (213 including Abstract, Acknowledgments and Preface). Anyway, NO MORE tinkering allowed! [smiley=nownow.gif] Just moments ago submitted the completed dissertation to the committee!!! [smiley=booya.gif] Defense scheduled for June 22nd at 2:00 p.m. [smiley=nervous.gif] ... ;D |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by DOLFAN on May 31st, 2016, 6:00pm Congrats Steg!!!! Great job! |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by DirkDiggler on Jul 15th, 2016, 12:38am I assume by the name change that your doctorate defense went well? Doctorate in hand? |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by Stegfucius on Jul 18th, 2016, 6:35am 'Tis my first post as Stegfucius! Indeed, been waiting some time to use that message icon on this thread for this occasion! Thanks for asking, DD. My reason for not posting earlier: am still caught up in this... on 06/01/16 at 15:41:05, StegRock wrote:
Mama Steg is now here in Hawaii. She is making out,... well,... okay. The events of the past couple months have been a strain on us all, but things are slowly working themselves out. We are still living in partial heaps and piles, and mom remains somewhat raw. BUT, at any rate, yes, on the evening of June 22nd I changed my handle here from StegRock to Stegfucius to commemorate the fact that at 4:10-ish that afternoon after about a two-hour-and-ten-minute dissertation defense I became Dr. Stegeman! It went outstandingly. All five members voted "Pass as is" (as opposed to "Pass requiring revisions" or "Fail") in what was totally unflippantly told to me was the fastest deliberation in recent memory, less than two minutes. [smiley=dancin.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by DirkDiggler on Jul 19th, 2016, 8:22am on 07/18/16 at 06:35:43, Stegfucius wrote:
CONGRATS!!! I know how much time you put in and the journey to this point. Pretty cool they approved it in 2 minutes as well. Well done!!!! |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by DirkDiggler on Dec 8th, 2016, 9:49pm Doctor Stegeman- Your name was mentioned tonight at the dinner table as my freshman son was telling us about his day. He had to write a paper comparing and contrasting Confucianism and Daoism. After a brief discussion as to why the ruling class preferred Confucianism - I mentioned what you wrote your doctorate on. (I will let you know if he writes on the pope anytime soon :) ) Meanwhile, I just realized how much I am glad I am not in school anymore. |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by Stegfucius on Jan 27th, 2017, 6:39pm Been meaning to reply to this for some time... on 12/08/16 at 21:49:04, DirkDiggler wrote:
I am honored to have come up in the Warner household over dinner... even though coming up during dinner is not always a good thing! :-X As for Confucianism versus Daoism, actually, at least at the point of their original official cultural appropriation, that is to say, when the study/memorization of the core texts became mandated during the Han Dynasty, there was a preference for Daoism (perhaps, in part, as a backlash against the Legalism of the Qin Dynasty that had won the day of the Warring States Period). That said, philosophically, what you state is right given the small-government, low-taxes, anti-regulation, anti-war libertarianism of philosophical Daoism. Of course, the Confucians were also for low taxes, minimal regulations and by implication smaller government, too. However, Confucians are for institutionalization. Daoists most assuredly are NOT. Much of the difference between the two camps can be understood via their philosophies of language. They both see the inadequacy of words to capture reality and solve problems (which is the fundamental problem with legalism and, indeed, the law -- the concrete manifestation of which we call loopholes). The Confucians advise the "rectification of names (zheng ming)", that is, fix and standardize the use of words (top-down) and on a personal level choose your words carefully and in accordance with standard meanings. Metaphor muddies the waters of meaning and is, therefore, dangerous. The Daoists proffer the "doctrine of no words (wu ming)", that is, speak as little as possible, use words only for communication and never for phenomenologically affirmative philosophical understanding. Metaphor transcends the limitations of words and, therefore, is valuable. Feel free to share with your son, Steve! ... As for painting the whole picture and giving JPII some play here, well, announcing this has been long in the waiting... Here are the goods, all: http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1256/ or http://gradworks.umi.com/10/16/10163451.html. |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by Stegfucius on May 13th, 2017, 2:05am Late notice on this one... Steg, wife and child are in southern Illinois... It is belated by almost a year, but I am walking in graduation and getting "doctorally" hooded on the morrow (indeed, later this morning) at SIU's commencement. What a journey it has been... Football is getting to be around the corner... See yous soon! [smiley=wave.gif] |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by DOLFAN on May 13th, 2017, 12:28pm Congrats Steg!! |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by DirkDiggler on May 23rd, 2017, 8:17am on 05/13/17 at 02:05:50, Stegfucius wrote:
Congrats Steg! You and your family should be very proud of your accomplishments and I am glad you got to walk in the ceremony. |
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Title: Re: What time is Karma 101 with Prof Steegie-San Post by Stegfucius on Aug 6th, 2018, 1:46am It has been a long time since I gave an update on this thread. Frankly speaking, as some of yous know, it has been a rough couple years for the old, now "Dr." Stegger on the job-hunt front. :'( Disappointment after disappointment abounds in the Stegeman household. That said, this is an interesting development heading into fall semester: https://www.sis.hawaii.edu/uhdad/avail.classes?i=WIN&t=201910&s=PHIL. All other (adjunct) professors' classes have been cancelled, and not in every case due to low enrollment. [smiley=uh.gif] Indeed, I too may lose one, but nevertheless it kind of gives me goosebumps to think that little old me is holding down a college, albeit community college, Philosophy program all by myself! [smiley=scared.gif] And, yes, again for those in the know, this is the school that I have mentioned dating back to when Gino and I had left Hawaii for, then, California in 2008. [smiley=hmmmm.gif] |
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