(02:49:06 PM) theamazingmegan is no longer away.
(02:52:53 PM) Me: hey hey.
(02:53:01 PM) theamazingmegan: hey
(02:54:38 PM) theamazingmegan: felt the need to make fun of my sharpie drawing now did ya??? haha
(02:56:00 PM) Me: no. i digg it.
(02:56:06 PM) Me: i couldn't possibly do it
(02:56:08 PM) Me: 4 real
(02:56:11 PM) theamazingmegan: haha
(02:56:21 PM) theamazingmegan: it was a draft to something bigger
(02:56:26 PM) theamazingmegan: but i've always been quite fond of it
(02:56:27 PM) theamazingmegan: haha
(02:56:32 PM) Me: i'm impressed
(02:57:30 PM) Me: so... i went through your list of like... little statements about yourself
(02:57:39 PM) Me: and i was like "me too!"
(02:57:43 PM) Me: not on like... all of them
(02:57:48 PM) Me: but like... a ton
(02:58:00 PM) theamazingmegan: haha
(02:58:07 PM) Me: esp. the "too trusting" things.
(02:58:21 PM) Me: and... it's nice to know i'm not the only one who's delusional
(02:59:18 PM) theamazingmegan: i feel ya
(02:59:35 PM) Me: yea. good. because it was starting to feel like one of those "dropped calls" commercials.
(02:59:56 PM) theamazingmegan: hahaha sorry
(03:00:04 PM) theamazingmegan: i get distracted by shiney objects sometimes
(03:00:46 PM) Me: :) i know how that goes.
(03:00:47 PM) theamazingmegan: actually i'm one of those people who has like a thousand windows and a thousand programs open at once and it pisses everyone else off and i don't even see messages half the time
(03:00:54 PM) theamazingmegan: those calls always make me laugh t hough
(03:00:56 PM) Me: me too. 
(03:00:58 PM) theamazingmegan: *commercials
(03:01:09 PM) Me: i actually have 7 seperate workspaces
(03:01:27 PM) Me: so i open like... a million windows on each one
(03:01:41 PM) Me: my computer is decently fast, though... so it's cool.
(03:01:47 PM) Me: "I like philosophy and intelligent converstion."
(03:01:51 PM) theamazingmegan: my poor mac is getting old
(03:02:04 PM) Me: ignoring the typo ;), which philosophers do YOU like?
(03:02:34 PM) theamazingmegan: i'm still a  beginner
(03:02:56 PM) theamazingmegan: but i managed to get enrolled in a senior/grad level existentialism class my first semester
(03:03:03 PM) Me: oooh
(03:03:06 PM) Me: existentialism
(03:03:09 PM) Me: what think you?
(03:03:36 PM) Me: (this is actually one of my FAVES. :) i <3 existentialism.)
(03:04:10 PM) theamazingmegan: unless your the only freshman with a bunch of senior and grad majors
(03:04:13 PM) theamazingmegan: but i got through
(03:04:18 PM) theamazingmegan: i do like it
(03:04:33 PM) Me: good. 
(03:04:59 PM) Me: what's j00r major? is it philosophy? gonna at least pick up a minor?
(03:05:16 PM) theamazingmegan: as of now film and latin american studies with a minor in spanish
(03:05:28 PM) Me: *nod*
(03:05:28 PM) theamazingmegan: but i'm probably dropping the film
(03:05:38 PM) theamazingmegan: and might go for a major or minor in philosophy
(03:05:41 PM) Me: drop film for phil.?
(03:05:43 PM) theamazingmegan: probably minor
(03:05:53 PM) Me: (say it out loud. it's witty.)
(03:06:18 PM) theamazingmegan: hahaha
(03:06:37 PM) theamazingmegan: my physics teacher in highschool had all these "physics is phun" phrases
(03:06:53 PM) Me: :) metaphysics means more.
(03:07:42 PM) theamazingmegan: haha
(03:08:06 PM) theamazingmegan: if you could force me to read one philosopher right now, who would it be
(03:08:17 PM) theamazingmegan: (i'm trying to figure out what to read this summer haha)
(03:08:56 PM) Me: uhm... does it HAVE to be a philosopher?
(03:09:01 PM) theamazingmegan: nah
(03:09:03 PM) theamazingmegan: anything
(03:09:03 PM) Me: i mean... in the traditional sense...
(03:09:04 PM) Me: cuz...
(03:09:24 PM) Me: ok. there's this group of guys (i use "group" in the loosest way possible)...
(03:09:34 PM) Me: who ... they write about ... property, i guess
(03:09:40 PM) Me: what individual rights look like...
(03:09:44 PM) Me: that kind of thing
(03:09:51 PM) theamazingmegan: ah
(03:10:04 PM) Me: uhm... John Perry Barlow (he's liek... t3h bombz0r)
(03:10:13 PM) Me: Richard M Stallman
(03:10:15 PM) Me: Cory Doctorow
(03:10:19 PM) Me: Lawrence Lessig
(03:10:32 PM) Me: (that last one... he's a lawyer, but his books read real easy...)
(03:11:00 PM) Me: also, nothing wrong with tanking your way through CS Lewis or Tolkien. JRRT just put out a new book.
(03:11:30 PM) theamazingmegan: haha i bought over 50 books this past year...
(03:11:35 PM) theamazingmegan: lots of money
(03:11:41 PM) Me: how many have you read?
(03:11:50 PM) theamazingmegan: prob 15 of them
(03:11:53 PM) Me: :)
(03:12:04 PM) theamazingmegan: mostly latin american stuff
(03:12:27 PM) Me: in Cory Doctorow's "Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town", he has this quote... "What's the use of a shelf full of books i've already read"?
(03:12:33 PM) theamazingmegan: some philosophy, but i haven't read them yet
(03:12:38 PM) Me: doctorow writes mostly science fiction.
(03:12:55 PM) Me: the others are pretty serious theorists. not that doctorow ISN'T...
(03:13:01 PM) Me: but he hides it better.
(03:13:05 PM) theamazingmegan: haha
(03:13:11 PM) Me: also. have you picked up Ender's Game?
(03:13:35 PM) theamazingmegan: nope
(03:14:12 PM) Me: ok. that's a must-read before you start to think that collateral damage is usually ok. y'know... before you turn 37
(03:14:12 PM) theamazingmegan: all written on my little blue post it note and stickyed to my computer
(03:14:17 PM) Me: lol
(03:14:19 PM) Me: :)
(03:14:24 PM) Me: you like blue?
(03:14:50 PM) theamazingmegan: its one of those blue purple yellow stacks, i jjust happen to be on the blue section
(03:15:02 PM) Me: *nod*
(03:15:11 PM) Me: didn't really answer the question....
(03:15:13 PM) theamazingmegan: there are always post it notes all around my computer haha
(03:15:19 PM) theamazingmegan: yeah i like all colors
(03:15:32 PM) Me: i use notecards and composition journals
(03:15:36 PM) Me: prolifically
(03:15:40 PM) theamazingmegan: except for like... puke colored yellow, which was the tile in my bathroom this past year
(03:15:47 PM) Me: i have so many notecards laying around...
(03:15:50 PM) theamazingmegan: i lose  papers always
(03:15:57 PM) theamazingmegan: gotta stick it somewhere
(03:16:05 PM) Me: i try to keep it in a stack
(03:16:23 PM) Me: but rubber-bands and the like are cumbersome... so i end up losing a few here, a few there.
(03:16:25 PM) theamazingmegan: and i write down all sorts of books i have to read, movies to see in all my notebooks when i hear them, but i never look back through my notes
(03:16:45 PM) Me: :) try a composition notebook. or a spreadsheet on your computer or something.
(03:17:08 PM) theamazingmegan: haha good luck finding anything on my computer, it needs serious organizing
(03:17:19 PM) theamazingmegan: i need help, im such a mess with all my shit haha
(03:17:22 PM) Me: (btw, i type emoticons reflexively. i'm not coming on to you, i just can't stop...)
(03:17:35 PM) theamazingmegan: haha no worrys
(03:17:38 PM) Me: kk
(03:17:41 PM) theamazingmegan: worries 
(03:17:46 PM) Me: some ppl are like "stop already"
(03:17:47 PM) theamazingmegan: damn i hate when i can't spell
(03:17:56 PM) theamazingmegan: haha i use to use them all the time
(03:18:06 PM) Me: it's ok. i'm color blind. that can be a real pain some times...
(03:18:14 PM) theamazingmegan: id have entire emoticon conversations with people
(03:18:24 PM) theamazingmegan: until we were out of new ones to use
(03:18:39 PM) Me: ... how about this one: >_<
(03:18:43 PM) theamazingmegan: hahaha
(03:18:49 PM) theamazingmegan: i think they're cute
(03:18:52 PM) Me: me 2
(03:19:09 PM) Me: oh. right. 1337 5p34k... yay or nay?
(03:19:37 PM) theamazingmegan: i can never figure out what that stuff is saying half the time
(03:19:39 PM) theamazingmegan: haha
(03:19:52 PM) theamazingmegan: same with all those weird acronyms 
(03:19:58 PM) Me: oh. i'm like... a big freakin geek.
(03:20:03 PM) theamazingmegan: what's ftw? i see it all the time
(03:20:04 PM) theamazingmegan: haha
(03:20:12 PM) Me: For The Win
(03:20:17 PM) theamazingmegan: i'm just always behind on that stuff
(03:20:22 PM) theamazingmegan: and too embarrassed to ask
(03:20:26 PM) Me: like... in WWII, it was a double-nuke FTW
(03:20:29 PM) theamazingmegan: so i pretend like i know
(03:20:38 PM) theamazingmegan: ahhh
(03:20:59 PM) Me: i used to think it was ppl being like "wtf"... but thinking they were funny doing it backwards
(03:21:08 PM) theamazingmegan: hahahaha
(03:21:13 PM) theamazingmegan: that's hilarious
(03:21:25 PM) Me: the whole point of any lingo like this is to be exclusionary
(03:21:34 PM) Me: in the circles i run in... we don't type "lol"
(03:21:38 PM) Me: we use 5
(03:21:53 PM) Me: because the binary representation of 5 is 101. which looks like lol.
(03:22:05 PM) theamazingmegan: you know what's more irritating than anything... people who say lol when they speak
(03:22:19 PM) Me: i say "lawl" some times. 
(03:22:28 PM) Me: not "el oh el" but... "lawl"
(03:22:38 PM) theamazingmegan: haha
(03:22:57 PM) Me: big. freakin. geek.
(03:22:58 PM) theamazingmegan: i use to know all the computer stuff, at least a lot for my age, but now i'm hopeless
(03:23:18 PM) Me: a lot for your age? you graduated high school in 2k6, right?
(03:23:27 PM) theamazingmegan: yup
(03:23:39 PM) Me: you know that you're probably more computer literate than most of the ppl in j00r existentialism class, right?
(03:23:45 PM) Me: by like 3 or 4 orders of magnitude
(03:23:50 PM) theamazingmegan: i mean like in 6th grade i could fix anything and do anything on my computer
(03:24:04 PM) theamazingmegan: now if something breaks i go to the first guy i can find haha
(03:24:07 PM) Me: kids today can use technology in ways that people just a few years older can't dream of.
(03:24:26 PM) Me: ... sorry. rant.
(03:24:28 PM) theamazingmegan: haha
(03:24:34 PM) theamazingmegan: i'm decent with most programs
(03:24:41 PM) Me: i'm uhm... i'm a linux user.
(03:24:55 PM) theamazingmegan: at least as decent as you can get teaching yourself photoshop and final cut and such
(03:25:02 PM) theamazingmegan: i'm mac...
(03:25:04 PM) Me: j00 run a mac, right? OSX?
(03:25:09 PM) theamazingmegan: yup
(03:25:13 PM) Me: mac's are hip
(03:25:16 PM) Me: and they use BSD
(03:25:19 PM) Me: which is LIKE linux
(03:25:23 PM) theamazingmegan: i love this thing
(03:25:23 PM) Me: but not quite as cool.
(03:25:24 PM) Me: :)
(03:25:30 PM) theamazingmegan: it's my baby
(03:25:37 PM) Me: i keep thinkin about getting a mac. cuz they make KILLER hardware...
(03:25:43 PM) Me: and putting Ubuntu on it
(03:25:50 PM) Me: (www.ubuntu.com)
(03:26:01 PM) theamazingmegan: there was a period in time where my house had computers running os, linux, and windows haha
(03:26:12 PM) Me: ... j00 know linux?
(03:26:15 PM) Me: j00r kidding me
(03:26:21 PM) theamazingmegan: my mom use to use it
(03:26:27 PM) Me: that's awesome
(03:26:30 PM) theamazingmegan: haha
(03:26:30 PM) Me: redhat?
(03:26:36 PM) Me: j00r mom rox my sox.
(03:26:40 PM) theamazingmegan: hahaha
(03:27:17 PM) Me: wanna hear a story leading to a question?
(03:27:23 PM) theamazingmegan: sure why not
(03:30:16 PM) Me: ok. so i know this guy who majored in philosophy in detroit back in like... early 90's, i guess... he was dating this girl... and every other week, they'd have a date (he was really dedicated. had to work really hard to make time for her)... but... in the in between time... he'd type up a 14-page thesis... every 2 weeks... get a copy to her... and expect her to read it. y'know. so they'd have something to talk about. now. i'm not the type to write like that... but i would be interested in your opinions on the things i read... if i tossed you a coupla... articles... i mean... since you said you like philosophy and intelligent conversation... would you let me know what you think?
(03:31:13 PM) theamazingmegan: i like prob wouldn't mind reading
(03:31:17 PM) Me: :)
(03:31:22 PM) Me: not that it'd be shit i type
(03:31:24 PM) theamazingmegan: depends on the topics, i like soem more than others
(03:31:51 PM) Me: but... y'know.. i love to read opinions and such. recent thought... i love modern philosophers, even if i despise most modern philosophy.
(03:32:05 PM) theamazingmegan: haha
(03:32:15 PM) Me: i tend toward (boy, get ready to hit the "block" button) .... copyright law.
(03:32:27 PM) theamazingmegan: haha
(03:32:37 PM) theamazingmegan: why that of all things?
(03:32:47 PM) theamazingmegan: it is an interesting topic though
(03:33:05 PM) Me: i think... ok. i'm going to steal a few lines from john perry barlow....
(03:33:09 PM) theamazingmegan: you could def. get some serious debate
(03:33:40 PM) Me: i ithkn that underlying our first amendment right to free speech is the idea that we, as humans, have the right to know all the useful stuff the rest of humanity knows.
(03:34:03 PM) Me: if you can read a book, i have a right to read that same book.
(03:34:20 PM) Me: but we find that more and more, copyright is encroaching on this right...
(03:34:35 PM) Me: and destroying our culture (lawrence lessig. "Free Culture")
(03:34:49 PM) Me: ... that's the long and short of it..
(03:34:57 PM) Me: but i could go for hours
(03:34:59 PM) theamazingmegan: makes sense haha
(03:35:15 PM) theamazingmegan: i'm mostly interested in ethics, morality, human rights, that sort of thing
(03:35:21 PM) Me: i presented a paper on this topic at a philosophy conference this semester
(03:35:31 PM) Me: i think of this as an ethical issue. and a civil rights issue
(03:35:39 PM) theamazingmegan: definitely
(03:35:51 PM) Me: seriously, i have friends who are TOTALLY passionate about like... abortion (one way or another)...
(03:35:56 PM) Me: but... i'm stuck on copyright
(03:35:58 PM) theamazingmegan: haha
(03:36:02 PM) Me: and patent, to a lesser extent.
(03:36:14 PM) theamazingmegan: ohhh i could rant about abortion... but i always end up back in a circle
(03:36:18 PM) Me: :)
(03:36:24 PM) Me: j00 have a position, though?
(03:36:44 PM) Me: (i don't know IS a position"
(03:36:45 PM) Me: )
(03:36:49 PM) theamazingmegan: prob pro-choice, to an extent.... but I don't know if I could get one myself
(03:37:29 PM) theamazingmegan: there are circumstances i think, and there is already such an overpopulation in orphanages and plenty in need of adoption
(03:37:57 PM) theamazingmegan: i mean, rape is something where abortion should definitely be ok simply because of the sheer traumatization
(03:37:58 PM) Me: abortion easily destroys conversations/relationships. i don't know if i have a position on it. i think i've been passionate on both sides... right now... i'm up in the air abot it...
(03:38:24 PM) theamazingmegan: i mean, even if you don't keep the child, their still the humiliation of everyone seeing and knowing...
(03:38:45 PM) theamazingmegan: but then again, if you get into ethics and right to life and determine where life begins and such
(03:38:48 PM) theamazingmegan: ... it's tough
(03:38:59 PM) Me: it's tough.
(03:39:00 PM) Me: yea
(03:39:07 PM) Me: ... yea
(03:39:12 PM) Me: have you read peter singer?
(03:39:20 PM) Me: harvard ethicist.
(03:39:59 PM) theamazingmegan: no
(03:40:08 PM) theamazingmegan: like i said, i'm still a beginner...
(03:40:12 PM) Me: he's a utilitarian
(03:40:23 PM) Me: so... take everything he says with a grain of salt. ;)
(03:40:33 PM) Me: but he has some interesting pro-choice arguments.
(03:40:49 PM) Me: i refuse to buy into utilitarianism.
(03:40:58 PM) theamazingmegan: haha
(03:41:17 PM) Me: do you think you're an existentialist?
(03:41:46 PM) theamazingmegan: i definitely agreed with alot of what i read
(03:42:35 PM) Me: :) good
(03:42:38 PM) Me: who did you read?
(03:42:48 PM) Me: sartre, beauvoir, obviously
(03:42:53 PM) Me: but... kierkegaard?
(03:42:53 PM) theamazingmegan: yup
(03:42:55 PM) theamazingmegan: yup
(03:42:59 PM) Me: heidegger
(03:43:06 PM) Me: ?
(03:43:08 PM) theamazingmegan: yup
(03:43:13 PM) theamazingmegan: neitzsche
(03:43:16 PM) Me: ok
(03:43:22 PM) Me: he was NOT an existentialist
(03:43:25 PM) theamazingmegan: i know
(03:43:30 PM) theamazingmegan: but we read him
(03:43:43 PM) Me: yea. i hate him. pretty much if i was in a dark alley with him... and had a knife...
(03:43:51 PM) theamazingmegan: so you can kick my existentialism teacher
(03:43:53 PM) theamazingmegan: why?
(03:44:24 PM) Me: he takes existentialism (in my opinion), and... makes it into this... terrible social philosophy
(03:44:58 PM) Me: to me... existentialism is just a template for normative ethics.
(03:45:19 PM) Me: but he seems to establish it as a means of justifying any action
(03:45:28 PM) Me: which existentialism does not seek to do
(03:45:39 PM) Me: fucking nihilist.
(03:45:52 PM) theamazingmegan: i never interpreted him as quite that to such an extent
(03:46:36 PM) Me: he said himself that, in the absence of a moral compass, society becomes rule of the strong, or rule of pleasure.
(03:46:59 PM) Me: which is true, but it seems that he thought that was 1) the way it ought to be 2) that there is no moral compass.
(03:47:05 PM) Me: and i disagree with both
(03:47:41 PM) Me: i think that there is absolute morality *notices self slipping onto a rant* and that we ought to persue it.
(03:48:13 PM) Me: i disagree that "God is dead"
(03:49:12 PM) Me: (btw... here's a conversation Cory Doctorw had lately...http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=480 )
(03:49:43 PM) theamazingmegan: i agree that there are limitations to what is right and wrong and that we should try to find an absolute morality, but i don't know how feasible of a possibility that actually is...
(03:49:54 PM) Me: :) thank you habermas.
(03:50:11 PM) Me: he sort of says the same thing.
(03:50:42 PM) theamazingmegan: i mean the closest thing you can get is questioning, but you can never know when you've gotten it right
(03:50:42 PM) Me: and... i like him. i think. i think he ends up being wrong about that... but i like him. his heart's in the right place.
(03:51:03 PM) theamazingmegan: it's all just opinion and perspective
(03:51:16 PM) Me: oh. see? that, right there? i hate that.
(03:51:16 PM) theamazingmegan: morality is constantly shifting based on circumstance
(03:51:24 PM) Me: i totally disagree.
(03:51:28 PM) theamazingmegan: really...?
(03:51:30 PM) Me: someone is right.
(03:51:37 PM) Me: SOMEONE is right.
(03:51:39 PM) Me: maybe not me
(03:51:43 PM) Me: maybe not anyone i've met
(03:51:49 PM) Me: but someone is right about something
(03:52:01 PM) theamazingmegan: well yes, but you can never possibly define every possible circumstance and determine the correct reaction
(03:52:02 PM) Me: some things are ok.
(03:52:05 PM) Me: some things are not.
(03:52:25 PM) theamazingmegan: simply because every circumstance is unique
(03:52:27 PM) Me: well... that's where a good metaphysics helps out, right?
(03:52:54 PM) Me: if you understand the ultimate nature of reality, and morality is a component of that, then you'll have guidelines by which to judge each and every action.
(03:53:40 PM) Me: now... maybe we can't legislate it. legislation has a tendency to become twisted and broken. but if we had... good guidelines for how people ought to interact... that'd be useful.
(03:53:59 PM) Me: right?
(03:54:20 PM) theamazingmegan: but theres no way you could cover everything
(03:54:39 PM) Me: the utilitarians are on the right track, sort of.
(03:54:56 PM) Me: their morality dictates that you do whatever generates the most happiness for the most people.
(03:54:58 PM) theamazingmegan: every guideline would have limitations, gray areas, different methods of interpretation
(03:55:28 PM) Me: not every one, surely... just. most. all but one, right?
(03:55:45 PM) Me: just gotta find... that... one good guideline.
(03:56:03 PM) theamazingmegan: but even so how do we know that the morality we are pursuing is correct
(03:56:16 PM) Me: our moral compass.
(03:57:13 PM) theamazingmegan: i mean, yes, i am very much pro-human rights helping people... but if you say survival of our species is our purpose... such a thing can be interpreted as survival of every member (human rights) or simply the survival of the fittest most capable of progressing our species farther...
(03:57:45 PM) Me: ... i don't think survival of the species or survival of the fittest is a good moral compass
(03:58:06 PM) Me: boy, here's a make-or-break question: are you a christian?
(03:58:10 PM) theamazingmegan: nope
(03:58:18 PM) Me: *nod*
(03:58:22 PM) theamazingmegan: are you?
(03:58:25 PM) Me: yea
(03:58:41 PM) Me: *listens closely. for the crickets.*
(03:58:47 PM) theamazingmegan: i've never been raised within a religion
(03:58:59 PM) theamazingmegan: no i don't care that you are a christian
(03:59:04 PM) Me: good
(03:59:21 PM) theamazingmegan: i'm just kinda, existing, believing whatever I come across that makes sense to me
(03:59:53 PM) Me: some people... the kind of people who... go to Temple Honors College... they can be hostile.
(04:00:09 PM) theamazingmegan: hey now
(04:00:12 PM) theamazingmegan: be nice
(04:00:21 PM) Me: there is ... i've seen a lot of intellectual arrogance from people who are told they are smart
(04:00:33 PM) Me: it's not really fair for me to pre-judge, i guess.
(04:00:34 PM) Me: sorry.
(04:00:40 PM) theamazingmegan: haha its cool
(04:00:50 PM) theamazingmegan: actually, my room mate was dumb as a brick, if you ask me
(04:00:55 PM) Me: :)
(04:01:01 PM) theamazingmegan: the only stuff she knew was what she memorized out of books
(04:01:09 PM) theamazingmegan: don't ask for an individual thought from her
(04:01:12 PM) Me: that kind of stuff pisses me off.
(04:01:24 PM) Me: why don't people... talk about what they hear?
(04:01:26 PM) theamazingmegan: or any of her other honors college friends
(04:01:45 PM) theamazingmegan: they just watched gilmore girls and memorized answers
(04:01:50 PM) Me: lol
(04:01:53 PM) theamazingmegan: irritated teh hell outta me
(04:01:53 PM) Me: that's awesome
(04:01:55 PM) theamazingmegan: haha
(04:01:59 PM) Me: j00 should have filmed it.
(04:02:04 PM) theamazingmegan: haha
(04:02:28 PM) Me: good.
(04:02:36 PM) Me: *is coming back up for air*
(04:03:12 PM) theamazingmegan: haha no don't worry i was put in my place... all the ivys i applied to rejected me
(04:03:25 PM) Me: ... i go to clarion.
(04:03:40 PM) Me: and i'll be graduating a semester late with a single major. philosophy
(04:03:53 PM) Me: even though you're a freshman, i'm intellectually intimidated by you.
(04:04:02 PM) theamazingmegan: haha
(04:04:20 PM) theamazingmegan: i talk alot of shit, but half the time i prob have no clue what i'm talking about
(04:04:28 PM) Me: same here
(04:04:36 PM) Me: but i'm trying to figure out the Truth of it all
(04:04:50 PM) theamazingmegan: i've only grazed alot of things, so i probably get alot of details wrong when supporting my ideas
(04:05:01 PM) theamazingmegan: but i like to think i have alot of decent ideas developing
(04:05:02 PM) Me: that's ok. i don't read. :)
(04:05:16 PM) theamazingmegan: thats what the teacher's lecture is for
(04:05:19 PM) theamazingmegan: :-P
(04:05:21 PM) Me: for real
(04:05:37 PM) Me: but we have small, intimate classes. no lectures. all discussion.
(04:05:46 PM) theamazingmegan: yeah, same actually
(04:05:55 PM) Me: i take my book. skim a few paragraphs, then make myself sound like an ass for a few minutes
(04:06:01 PM) Me: someone puts me in my place
(04:06:03 PM) Me: and i learn.
(04:06:11 PM) theamazingmegan: i have my first lecture next year, and its astronomy, i chose to take the lecture though so i can be lazy
(04:06:25 PM) Me: i know how that goes, yea.
(04:06:26 PM) theamazingmegan: i'm the real quite one in the room always
(04:06:35 PM) Me: i'm a big talker.
(04:06:38 PM) Me: can't shut the hell up
(04:06:40 PM) theamazingmegan: i never talk
(04:06:54 PM) Me: this convo alone, i've probably out-paced you 3 or 4 to 1
(04:07:06 PM) theamazingmegan: mostly because i like to formulate my thoughts over alot of time, and i prefer talking to one or two people
(04:07:27 PM) Me: speaking of which... so that you don' think i'm a freak when i copy paste something to you...
(04:07:31 PM) Me: i log everything
(04:07:33 PM) Me: EVERYTHING
(04:07:38 PM) Me: i keep emails for years
(04:07:38 PM) theamazingmegan: haha ill talk more and more as i get more comfortable
(04:07:41 PM) theamazingmegan: haha tis cool
(04:07:44 PM) Me: every conversation i have gets stored.
(04:07:44 PM) theamazingmegan: i use to
(04:08:00 PM) theamazingmegan: i'm very cautious though, i don't like to offend any one
(04:08:09 PM) Me: i try not to offend anyone
(04:08:16 PM) Me: and i have a tendency not to tip my hand
(04:08:22 PM) theamazingmegan: because I really am respectful of all opinions I like to think, and I don't want to seem otherwise
(04:08:37 PM) Me: considering this is our first serious conversation, and i betrayed to you that i'm a christian... that's huge for me.
(04:08:43 PM) theamazingmegan: hahaha
(04:08:56 PM) theamazingmegan: my best friend in highschool was a christian, don't freet none
(04:08:57 PM) theamazingmegan: haha
(04:08:58 PM) Me: i don't tip my hand on most things....
(04:09:17 PM) Me: but i'm learning to assert what i atually think
(04:09:26 PM) theamazingmegan: as I become more sure of it i will
(04:09:44 PM) theamazingmegan: i told my buddy i'd pick him up like a half hour ago haha so I should prob go
(04:09:51 PM) theamazingmegan: but I hate interrupting good conversations
(04:10:01 PM) Me: there's a strong tendency, nowadays, to be more interested in every opinion getting expressed that talking about which opinions are closer to the truth.
(04:10:07 PM) Me: omg.
(04:10:09 PM) Me: ok
(04:10:13 PM) theamazingmegan: haha tis cool
(04:10:15 PM) Me: ttyl. :) glad you stayed.
(04:10:15 PM) theamazingmegan: he doesn't care
(04:10:35 PM) theamazingmegan: im always on at absurd hours of the night
(04:10:37 PM) theamazingmegan: so i'll be back
(04:10:40 PM) Me: ok
(04:10:41 PM) theamazingmegan: see ya
(04:10:44 PM) Me: bye
(04:10:59 PM) theamazingmegan has gone away.
(04:11:21 PM) Me: (btw, i'm sure you'll get this when you get back... i have a series of parties to attend tonite. so... i might not be back on. but i look forward to our next encounter.)
(04:11:22 PM) theamazingmegan: Auto-reply: around.
(04:11:51 PM) theamazingmegan: behave yourself and stay out of trouble then haha