Philosophy - July 2006

Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
Can someone clearly explain this quote to me please?

2006-07-30 07:14:03 · 28 answers · asked by mrxxbrian 2

must we live in it ??

2006-07-30 07:09:54 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-07-30 07:09:54 · 7 answers · asked by Sneha N 1

2006-07-30 07:02:26 · 12 answers · asked by Veg.hotdog 1

2006-07-30 06:59:51 · 10 answers · asked by benam 1

2006-07-30 06:50:27 · 39 answers · asked by truthyness 7

2006-07-30 06:50:14 · 17 answers · asked by Veg.hotdog 1

You're travelling on a train with several carriages, you're in the middle. You look out the window, from a certain angle you can see the carriages behind you as they curve round the track. You look the other way and can see the engine. Could you say that you are looking back at the past / looking at the future? If you ran down the carrriage or up the other end would it be travelling in time or are you always in the present?

2006-07-30 06:50:06 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-07-30 06:48:33 · 29 answers · asked by truthyness 7

asian languages give you culture and freedom

2006-07-30 06:39:07 · 9 answers · asked by gorg273-423 1

If man hadn't experienced pain would pleasure not have come about. If pleasure came about first, why then pain?
(I'm talking physical sensations here not mental thoughts considered as the same type of pain and suffering.) OK

2006-07-30 06:36:22 · 13 answers · asked by Leigh 3

Just curious to know how many of you really want to live up to someone else expectation of what they think you should be, do, say, think, talk etc.....

Don't you think it is time to start living life for you???

2006-07-30 06:09:43 · 16 answers · asked by T.B 2

I am going crazy with this can someone tell me what is the best way to talk to them i dont know them .. I know she is a female and he is a male :) Thanks

o yes they live above me .

2006-07-30 05:33:14 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

i been in chating for a year or so , but i still did not get 1 fm as a friend in chating. i just wana sa that all r not the same. some r honest and want 2 b as a good friend

2006-07-30 05:03:31 · 12 answers · asked by reddy 1

2006-07-30 04:33:26 · 14 answers · asked by ForgeAus 3

Is it possible that he is correct and that there was a past life
> we knew each other in? i admit i've pondered this. Or, as i am more
> likely inclined to think, is this the past life and we will know
> each other in the next life? What does the Bible say? I'm not a
> biblical scholar but i have read the whole book though several
> times. I'm unclear about this issue. So much of what Buddhism
> teaches as far as i know now, is truth but with a slight caveat:
> they don't believe in the story of God (but spend a lot of energy
> appeasing spirits and are very afraid of ghosts). AND Buddha taught
> that no one outside of yourself can help you with your sin problem.
> You and only you can change your behavior to do enough good deeds
> to outweigh the bad ones. I beg to differ and he knows it. Though
> Noy is completely clear why i am learning Thai, he contines to have
> a only a passing interest in my faith and is so very Thai in that
> he thinks it to be a "good" faith too

2006-07-30 04:17:35 · 7 answers · asked by karen i 5

Is it a matter of following the rules of law, religion, or personal morality? Can an person be evil in one culture but good in another?

2006-07-30 04:11:23 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-07-30 04:02:23 · 17 answers · asked by greebo 3

it looked skanky too and had tony blairs lipstick just below and behind

2006-07-30 03:31:24 · 8 answers · asked by howie 2

have you ever thought about how life will be soon?
if you will live to be 50+??
just wondering

i know there is no such thing as THUNK..ok..so bare with me..OOKK

2006-07-30 03:16:55 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

*He Will Always be With You*

The rain fell heavly on the roof
There the girl lay awake in bed
Her eyes where wide and full of fear
Lightning flashed in yellow and red

Tears came down the dread-filled face
Thunder roared lofty and loud
Fear came over her tiny faith
She sat up and screamed aloud

Then a light brighter than the sun
Shone briliantly in her darkened room
A voice so soft and majestic then spoke
"Hush little child don't be filled with gloom"

"I am your faithful guardian angel
Your father has sent me here to you
He loves you so dearly, child
He will always be with you"

He disappeared and darkness came back
And rain came down more than ever
But this time came reassuring peace
Love and protection she felt forever

2006-07-30 03:08:18 · 15 answers · asked by OnFireForJesus! 3

2006-07-30 03:05:47 · 22 answers · asked by abstemious_entity 4

Just a good hyperthetcal question to ask oneself i think.
When measuring out exactly how much one's life time is spent actually feeling the pleasure sensations within the body compared with how much time we spend feeling the pain body. If female the pain certainly out weighs the pleasure. (This is not talking about the pain and suffering mind, the physical sensation body only!)

2006-07-30 02:56:20 · 13 answers · asked by Leigh 3

I'm starting my MA in October 06 and still wondering what subjects to chose. Considering Political Philosophy, Ethics and Aesthetics, but would like to know if anyone can recommend others as well.

2006-07-30 02:53:37 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-07-30 02:42:39 · 22 answers · asked by poetic_lala 5

The world awaits your direction and guidance. What can you offer?

2006-07-30 02:19:50 · 24 answers · asked by CosmicKiss 6

2006-07-30 02:01:50 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

This is something that questions the existence of infinity, I think.

2006-07-30 01:50:08 · 22 answers · asked by Angst Line From Song 1 1

Live to lie and lie till believe with no way to reach ..

2006-07-30 01:32:54 · 19 answers · asked by abdelqader_abdelqader 2

*Rose From a Thorn*

Many hardships and sufferings occur
Everything beautiful is just a big blurr
Pain pierces from a sharp cutting thorn
And All you can do is cry and mourn

Trials devour you, and there is no end
You feel like you have not a friend
All you can think about is searing pain
Forgetting God's powerful healing name

God watches you go through severity
He wants us to see his blessings with clarity
Call to him and he will make a way
Through the pitch black darkness of today

Out of the thorn will bloom a red rose
All of its wonderous beauty will be exposed
Maturity and love will blossom and grow
God's perfect will and purpose you'll know

What is a beautiful rose without a thorn?
For it makes the rose's beauty reborn
What is a life without trials to endure?
It will create a thankful heart so pure

2006-07-30 01:29:13 · 19 answers · asked by OnFireForJesus! 3