Philosophy Club Number 1

Briefly,

I went to my first official meeting for philosophy club yesterday. The topic was not something I had a decent amount of knowledge or insight into, however it was my intention to contribute as much as possible to the discussion.

I found very quickly that, at present, I am SEVERELY outclassed by the members. The club seems, at the moment, to be a good area for philosophers to discuss the topics chosen by Prof. Bradshaw, the Dept. Chair.

However, most of the members are much more advanced than myself, and simply trying to keep up was challenging. There was an immense vocabulary, and even a specific syntax, used by the seasoned veterans of dialectic, that I am not accustomed to hearing or attempting to interpret. The seldom occasion that I had something to say, I immediately got out-logic-ed. It was like taking a 12 foot sailboat deepsee fishing - I would just get tossed around by the superior waves around me. The few times I felt that I might have been able to logically defend myself, we had already moved onto a new subject, and so my point was lost.

I have to assume that what seemed to me to be a jumbled mess of different intellects pulling each other different ways, with very little direction outside one's own necessity to prove his point, was merely an illusion. I think that I am simply not able to keep up at present time. I will, however, continue to attend with the hopes that I can contribute sometime down the road, as I grow past my philosophical larvael stage.