Hello Everyone

[FunctionalAlcoholic]

Hello All.

I am, as you may have guessed from my nick, a functional alcoholic. I just had a glass of vodka - the pathetic 30 ml shot glosses so popular on this continent are laughable.

My interest in philosophy has mostly to do with math and logic, and I have little patience for hideously verbose, nigh-unreadable stuff like Kant or Heidegger, or any of the 20th century French philosophers who write nonsense, but con a lot of people into believing they are being profound.

I teach high school math in the American Bible Belt. I am fortunate enough to teach in well-funded school in a well-to-do community where much of the population belong to the 1%. The brats come with an unjustified sense of entitlement and importance, but at least they are not the psychotic monsters of this country's inner city schools. As much as I am not crazy about the 1%, the 99% are even worse.

Another interest of mine has to do with "Just War Theory", although I hate the word "theory" as it is applied to philosophical ideas. Unlike so many people who like to talk about morality of war, I have first hand experience with it, having fought in the Soviet military in Afghanistan, and having later served in the IDF (Israeli Defense Force).

[Whistwisth]

Hello FunAl I am Whistwisth, I would personally describe myself as a dysfunctionalteetotaller, do you think that might be simply put as a Puritan, a totalitarian maybe?
And a functionalalcoholic would make you...a Shaman, maybe?

Good to greet, we two new skids on the street.

Whistwisth

[The Voice of Time]

May I ask how old you are?

[thedoc]

Hello, Fun, and Whist, from the sounds of things you might fit in around the edges. There may be some you will learn to avoid, voice is somewhat OK? General age group is OK if you are sensitive about your exact age, I'm well past the half century, and usually over the legal speed limit.