Nick
Why speak of professional philosophers when you don't know the purpose of philosophy?
This is absolute truth.
Belinda wrote: ↑Tue Sep 26, 2017 7:50 pmBecause professionals who have done a lot of hard work are better than lay people at their specialism. Would you employ a professional philosopher to milk your cow, or would you rather employ a professional dairyman?
This is half-baked truth. It makes me cringe to see comments like that these days. I really wish people could understand that the most important thing in life is to be comfortable knowing who you are and what you are capable of and not be made to feel like you have to be someone special to be somebody. The trust has gone out of society. It's gone forever. Now we live in fear of never being good enough.
The reason I've brought this up is because in my younger days...I used to milk cows, and did a very good job of it, I has no experience when I first took on my agricultural role in farming.. I just learnt the skills of farming as I went along. It's the same with parenting, no one is handed a manual on how to be a parent, you just have to muddle through the best you can do and hope you are doing it right. You'd think we'd have to have some special knowledge on the subject of raising kids given how much importance is put on what being a successful human represents. But no, no one thinks about that do they, it's just here we are, we have no experience on how to raise a child, and no one says you must have experience and special qualified knowledge on how to do it...we're just left to do it, often single handed when the other half decides to cop out of the whole responsibility.
My husband abandoned me and my 4 kids because he said it was not enough for him and that he wanted to challenge himself further, he some years later qualified as a fully professional osteopath..and in those years where he studied so very hard, he never once paid any child maintenance or wanted any contact with his children ever again. The child support agency could not find him either, he made sure he stayed well out of reach. Now, the question is, does that make him a professional just because he's an osteopath? ... would I trust a person like that?
I understand that today in modern society the dairy industry would not allow any tom, dick or harry to milk their cows.
What you are implying here ..is that you might just as well have said unless you are a professional philosopher and have earned a PHd in the subject to qualify you as such...then you are so totally misplaced and have no business to be participating in any discussion on this Philosophy Now Forum
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