Welcome the_greek_guy!

I hope you have a great learning experience with all of us here on the forum. We have a very active philosophy of science section that I am sure you will find most illuminating. You may find bioethics very fascinating as well, it was one of my favorite areas of study in university. If you are interested in it, Contemporary Issues in Bioethics by Tom Beauchamp is a very good introductory text to the study. I would love to see some good topics on that in the future.

Have a blast!

If you want to be a doctor, you want to be a psychoanalyst... No one else has the time for a relationship... If I were a doctor, I would be like that character, House. I am terrible at relationships, and the more I have the worse I get; but that thing, relationships is the key to all happiness and all misery, and you can only understand relationships through forms, and forms are the stock and trade of philosophy... So you are in the right neighborhood... I will tell you... Being a doctor is not a key to happiness or wealth... Those people who pay the bills like productivity, but so much of disease is really dis-ease having an emotional componant, or many... People want some one to listen to them, and treat them as human beings which we so often forget to do....They do not necessarily want honesty even if you can see the truth, you have to be careful about how it is delivered if it will be delivered at all...Some times it is best to just treat the symptoms... It is like sleeping piles... They interrupt normal dreaming, and so long terms memories are not fixed, so people going to sleep with persistent problems can sleep, but in time also may forget what is bothering them, and many problems do resove themselves better by doing nothing, or by the indirect approach... I have been a head on problem solver all my life...It has made me more enemies than friends... Honesty is not always a virtue, and is only a virtue in cetain circumstances... Don't lie to yourself... Offer only that amount of truth that is demanded of you...If your friends won't lie to you, who will???

I know exactly what you mean! A friend of mine, whilst I was discussing philosophy with a member of my class, said "Why do you bother? We're too young for this sort of thing, it's pointless!".

I am fifty five and too young for this sort of thing... The more you think about what you are going to do before doing it the less time you will have to devote later to regrets... And trust me, If you are active, and you do, and you live with abandon, daring death and serious injury, loving and hating with all your mortal energy then you can bet you will have some regrets... I can't tell you how close I have come to killing over nothing, but that is the only one of the ten I have not consciously broke... There might be a million things I would have done differently, and yet, since life is going okay right now, and has been for some years, all I can ask is: What could I have changed that would not have led me from this point... I must have done something right... Yet, it gnaws at me what a stupid ass I was. Too soon old and too late smart...Consider that foresight, which is the difference between the intelligent and the average is a gift which should be used... Hold onto your virtue because it is hard to get back, and I do not mean that as some prick, but all your virtue, honesty, courage, constancy, etc... Some times your reputation is your best asset and may save your life... Avoid trouble, and places where trouble happens..Never be an innocent bystander; they always get it... Where ever you are, watch the door, and check out everyone... 99% of the time you can see trouble coming in the door, and when it comes in, go out the back...Best of luck, and if you got any, never, ever count on it... Fido