Mon 26 Nov 2007
The Williams Reads program needs your help.
The Williams Reads initiative aims to foster new connections among students, staff, faculty, and community members by exploring diversity and community through a common reading experience. Williams Reads is offered during Winter Study as an opportunity for us to explore a book together that will help us to celebrate and deepen our appreciation of varying viewpoints and experiences. It is a goal of the CDC to select a book that will stimulate community engagement and challenging conversation. In addition, the college offers related discussions, movies, performances, and presentations. In 2007, 700 free copies of the chosen book are made available during the first week of Winter Study, with the intent that these copies will continue to circulate throughout the community.
How about Education’s End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life as the book selection? (Previous EphBlog discussion of this book here and of Williams Reads here and here.)
November 26th, 2007 at 10:25 pm
David, did you read this book? Because if you are now recommending it after once believing it’s premise to be “90% gibberish”, then that would certainly make it more interesting.
Also, I noticed under the review section of the link that it was endorsed by a Williams President Emeritus, Francis Oakley?
I personally think it would be more inspiring to students if the book selection was about “living meaningfully”….
rather than a book that goes on about the inadequacies of our educators in addressing the question of the “meaning of life”.
November 27th, 2007 at 6:22 am
Hi, my name is Timothy Tang and I have just completed the book, “Real answers to The Meaning of Life and finding Happiness”.
Many people feel that the interpretation to The Meaning of Life question is too subjective to have any definite objective answer but I have managed to formulate a real and objective answer to the ultimate question of human existence.
I have made a blog that introduces the book. Do check it out.
http://ultimatemeaningoflife.blogspot.com
November 27th, 2007 at 11:21 am
The Path to the real meaning of life
:)
November 27th, 2007 at 10:44 pm
Well, well…ask and ye shall receive….
Not one, but two, DEFINITIVE answers to the question of the meaning of life… all in one day.
And I thought no one was listening.
November 29th, 2007 at 10:54 pm
The Meaning of Life:
Ingredients: Intellect, Character, Curiosity, Creativity, Imagination and Passion.
Never chase or pursue. It is a waste of time, you never catch your tail. In the stillness all will come to you. Life is about works and days, struggle and strife. Find the GOD within you. Never buy someone else’s bullshit or you forfeit your soul. Only surrender to the truth within you. Those who stake proclamations they are chosen or those who claim to be reborn are fools. Their purpose is to distract you and lay claim where there is none. Deceivers always peddle and make claims that have no standing. Standing only come from within.
Meaning is derived from survival. In meeting the challenges of higher states of disorder. Stay true to yourself. Listen with patience and remain focused.
November 29th, 2007 at 11:11 pm
The Meaning in Life:
1. That which is like unto itself, is drawn to itself.
2. That which I give though to and that which I believe or expect–is.
3. I am that which I am, and I am willing to allow all others to be that which they are.
November 29th, 2007 at 11:23 pm
On the mean streets that amounts to effete gobbledygook.
November 30th, 2007 at 12:13 am
I think fiction works better for a book project of this sort. Non-fiction tends to be too pointed and turns off anyone who (a) completely disagrees, (b) completely agrees, or (c) feels they know nothing about the subject.
Just to toss up a suggestion: _Mara and Dann_, written a few years ago by Doris Lessing (this year’s Nobel in Literature winner).
November 30th, 2007 at 12:42 am
The Meaning in Life:
1. That which is like unto itself, is drawn to itself.
2. That which I give thought to and that which I believe or expect–is.
3. I am that which I am, and I am willing to allow all others to be that which they are.
November 30th, 2007 at 1:50 am
Frank:
You are an idiot. Fuck you education. You are stupid.
November 30th, 2007 at 2:05 am
^Another good reason for consistent “tags.”
November 30th, 2007 at 6:14 am
Another high quality comment.