Quote (sylvannos @ May 12 2012 09:30pm)

No I know. What I'm getting at is there is a sense there's something beyond your current state of being without having a shred of evidence to indicate this is true. Ben and tric explained it better than me saying to be agnostic about it.

We don't know for sure, therefore something happening after death is less likely than having nothing (your consciousness goes with your brain).



I'm totally using this as a counterargument to people against liberal arts degrees. "I heard about a guy with a degree in physics and a masters in electrical engineering but is stuck working not relating to his field of study. He's working some shitty job programming....boring as fuck."

Quote (Voyaging @ May 12 2012 09:38pm)

The vast majority of engineering majors get jobs in their field. Even his job could be considered applicable to his field of study.

Quote (bentherdonethat @ May 12 2012 08:50pm)

It's neither shitty nor boring. It's actually a really great job that I sure as hell wouldn't have without my degrees. About 50 people were hired at the same time as me and in the same role. There were math, physics, mechanical/chemical/electrical engineering, neuroscience, and biology masters and PhDs. There were zero liberal arts majors.


My master's field was analog circuitry with only a mild amount of programming. I haven't actually used anything from my grad school education other than the credentials, lol

Quote (bentherdonethat @ May 12 2012 05:50pm)

It's neither shitty nor boring. It's actually a really great job that I sure as hell wouldn't have without my degrees. About 50 people were hired at the same time as me and in the same role. There were math, physics, mechanical/chemical/electrical engineering, neuroscience, and biology masters and PhDs. There were zero liberal arts majors.


My master's field was analog circuitry with only a mild amount of programming. I haven't actually used anything from my grad school education other than the credentials, lol

Quote (bentherdonethat @ May 12 2012 09:50pm)

It's neither shitty nor boring. It's actually a really great job that I sure as hell wouldn't have without my degrees. About 50 people were hired at the same time as me and in the same role. There were math, physics, mechanical/chemical/electrical engineering, neuroscience, and biology masters and PhDs. There were zero liberal arts majors.


My master's field was analog circuitry with only a mild amount of programming. I haven't actually used anything from my grad school education other than the credentials, lol

Quote (taekvideo @ May 12 2012 09:41pm)

Programming finance software is a far cry from electrical engineering.

ps. "engineering" is the most abused term of the 21st century.

Quote (sylvannos @ May 12 2012 10:13pm)

I'm exaggerating. I used to be a CS major. I learned how to program my freshman year of high school. Then one day I realized how bored I was with the subject and switched to the thing I was next best at. Undergraduate work in CS is monotonous and dull, imo. All the fun stuff is at the masters and doctorate level.

I mean (at my school anyway), two terms learning the syntax for pointers? And then the third term we finally get into something more applicable (ADTs).

I should have been a math major :/

Quote (Voyaging @ May 12 2012 06:20pm)

What did you switch to?

Quote (sylvannos @ May 12 2012 10:31pm)

Painting and printmaking.

I've just grown frustrated as of late with nurses and CNAs who turn their nose up at me without seeing my work. I had to bite my tongue a few times from saying "It's better than wiping people's asses and emptying piss buckets like you do all day..."

Quote (RITZ @ 12 May 2012 19:14)

Stop bullying tric.  He's just founding his conclusions on reality.

Quote (tric-isHUGE @ May 12 2012 07:58pm)

Not all the details, but we got the big picture. 

If you are honest to the facts and not a skeptic for skepticism's sake then you can see the big picture.