More Philosophy

Today we continued our discussion of philosophy but first the story from yesterday. The story starts out many years ago while Mr. Schick is living in Chicago. He is going to a bagel shop on Michigan Avenue and as he approaches the establishment there is a man begging for money outside near the door. Mr. Schick offers to buy the man something inside. When they enter the shop all the man orders is a coffee and Mr. Schick insists that he buy something to eat and that it's on him. They then go to eat and Mr. Schick goes on to ask him some questions about his life. One of them is where is he going to sleep tonight? The man said that he plans to sleep on this place near a building that blows out warm air sort of like an exhaust. Then Mr. Schick suggests that he go stay in a homeless shelter but he refuses since people steal your belongings there. Then, running out of options, Mr. Schick asks   if he has any family. The man says his sister lives in St. Louis but he is too embarrassed for her to see him like this. Mr. Schick even offers to buy a bus ticket for him to go back and live with his sister but he refuses. There are some other details which I cannot recall but this homeless man was very genuine and had a story to how he ended up like this and even when Mr. Schick offered to pay for things that would up his life he refused. The ending was that the man just went back out infant of the shop. The discussion of today was about philosophy which I will cover next time. 

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