A woman saw a book I was reading on philosophy and she literally said to me, "just what do you think you're doing reading THAT?" I told her that I was expanding my mind. She *tsk'd* at me and shook her head. She proceeded to tell me what a waste of time the book was and how I was messing up my mind, not expanding it.
I live in the Bible Belt. Does that have something to do with it?
2007-09-01 16:18:35 · 9 answers · asked by getusedtoit 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
first your beauty now your mind you seem to be getting it from all sides hang in there strive for greatness.
2007-09-01 17:01:49 · answer #1 · answered by triminman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Possibly; religious people don't like proselytizers from other religions messing with potential converts and questioning minds sensitive to contradiction are a threat.
The Will is positive, the Judgment is negative.
2007-09-01 16:32:31 · answer #2 · answered by Psyengine 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What, precisely, was the book you were reading? Could that have something to do with it?
There's quite a difference between Aristotle's "Metaphysics" and the books that you find in the "Metaphysics" sections of most bookstores today.
2007-09-02 09:15:49 · answer #3 · answered by kcchaplain 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, some people in the Bible Belt think anything that isn't the Bible will pollute your mind. (God forbid you learn to think for yourself.) Philosophy is especially suspect-Nietzche once said God was dead, after all.
2007-09-01 16:28:40 · answer #4 · answered by ketta27 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh yes. That poor lady just doesn't know anything besides the bible, and that knowledge is questionable. Here in the belt, judgement is fast and thoughtless.
2007-09-01 16:32:00 · answer #5 · answered by phil8656 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course it does....sounds like a good old-fashioned closed-minded chastising.
Never stop expanding your mind.
2007-09-01 19:51:31 · answer #6 · answered by imrt70 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She was afraid that by reading philosophy that it would give you insight that would tell you how empty and inferior she was. She chastised you out of fear.
2007-09-01 21:44:25 · answer #7 · answered by fatstan@sbcglobal.net 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Philosophy is commonly referred to as bullshit by people who dont have the capacity to understand it.
2007-09-01 16:25:50 · answer #8 · answered by Rudeboy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Location may have something to do with it. Some people are just nutters. Also what book it was may have something to do with it?
2007-09-01 16:23:15 · answer #9 · answered by caffeinefaerie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋