Well here is a new post for the day. I have screwed my schedule up for the job tonight. It's now almost 9:30 in the morning in I have stayed awake all night long. I'm going to go to bed in a couple of more hours and sleep the rest of the day, then get up sometime late in the evening. I spent the night arguing with Kip and playing video games with Tom. In all an interesting night. This is the second one in a row I've spent arguing with Kip. The first night was about what philosophy is exactly. Tom had previously given Kip the dumbed down answer of "Philosophy is about asking questions". He later regretted that and tried to explain in better detail what philosophy, and the study of, tries to succeed in doing. I finally gave Kip a short and concise answer by saying "Philosophy enables one to develop cognitive reasoning skills" This however did nothing to satisfy Kip and only annoyed him further. He wanted definitions for reasoning, cognitive, and (because he didn't understand the answers we gave him) philosophy. We gave a dictionary and he was able to find reasoning and philosphy (this was only the second half of the dictionary) and essentially these definitions said the same thing that our explanation of the words meaning did. (In some cases almost word for word). But he still wasn't satisfied and we gave him a definition by using understanding. This really confused him, he made the statement that "if an answer isn't understood then it's not an answer." I replied that it simply wasn't true, there are many legitimate answers to questions in which I do not understand the answer (or the question for that matter. We finally got him to understand through carefull explaination and analogies... I think.
To nights argument was a little bit different. Kip was trying (for the thousandths time) to claim that horror and dark genre are easier to do than light genres. His claim is; that if someone is a true master story teller, or filmmaker, or playwright, that they will be able to concoct a story with no conflict and still keep it interesting. I don't know where he has gotten this idea, or why it would have occurred to him. I argue that the main reason a story is a story is because of the conflict contained with in. He thinks I'm missing a point. I feel the same way about him. Conflict is the only thing to keep the audience's interest. A story can only be driven by characters so much, and even then, with out conflict in the characters personality and life, the character would seem unrealistic. There has to be a plot, even if the plot is centered around a minor incident of conflict, in order for there to be anything compelling. What the conflict is, is naturally dependent on the story being told. Kip has seem to have lost sight of this in his storytelling. Which is unfortunate, because I've heard some of his stories and he's not bad. Oh well. He's a little mad at me now. I wish Joel had been around for this, it would have proved to be more interesting than it turned out.
Well I start back up at Gossner's tonight at midnight, wish me luck.
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