Philosophy - August 2006

2006-08-29 18:57:11 · 12 answers · asked by sniff my finger 1

When I was a kid, we used to run down to the beach at night and lay under the night sky and wish on falling stars. Me, my brother, and my little sister would stay out there for hours. I remember many times being woken up by my dad who would always have to carry my sister home. I loved that beach. I just found out it's an apartment building now. Has anything like this ever happened to you? How do you feel about it?

2006-08-29 17:38:05 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

are we all just increments of time each seperated not by distance but by energetic patterns of speed.where each of us is placed in a seperate dimension,or does time move at an even pace if so that would mean time travel would never be a possibility.It has been speculated that time travel has already been discovered,but it was not safe to do so,so was discontinued.what is ur opinion?

2006-08-29 17:35:35 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

Bitter or bright side

2006-08-29 17:28:18 · 29 answers · asked by carbinated milk 2

2006-08-29 17:25:31 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

I got into a fight a few months ago with a close friend over something she thought I said about something else.... we haven't talked since and will probably never be friends again. I know she doesn't care anymore, and even though I try not to think about it, I always have dreams that we make up and apologize. The fight overall left me hurt and confused (and completely backstabbed)......how do I get over this?

2006-08-29 17:13:03 · 5 answers · asked by C. T 3

2006-08-29 17:11:51 · 23 answers · asked by Sally Pepsi 4

2006-08-29 17:05:14 · 12 answers · asked by Sally Pepsi 4

If we create moral value and there is no guarantee that our values are correct or will produce good results, why bother to become socially and politically involved at all? How did Sartre answer this question? Do you agree with his answer? Why, or why not?

2006-08-29 16:58:28 · 7 answers · asked by youthebest 2

My Revelation:

It’s Sunday night, I’m sitting in-front of a Computer applying for various careers. It’s been a long week; I have been hopelessly trying to find a new career - which doesn’t seem to be getting any easier. I have written many letters, and put in countless hours of research. The work/research for a new career never seems to end, and I get the feeling that it just never will. It’s not really a pessimistic outlook; maybe it’s just me realizing that life is hard work. If it’s searching for work... well that's just it - it’s got to be a real job. But at the end of it all, what’s left? What do you get from all of this work? The fact of the matter is that you don’t really get anything substantial, nothing but self-gratification. That is of course, if you like, not even love, what you do.



So here’s my point, make sure you like what you are doing with your life. If you are in a job that you don’t like, don’t do it. If you are in a relationship that you are unhappy with, get out of it.



At this point in my life, I can only talk about what I have experienced thus far. For me, that means a few relationships, my best friend's.... I can remember myself wanting to go into careers that range from being an artist, a lawyer, a vet, or a writer. In high school, I really could have done whatever I wanted. I could have gone into anything, had I chosen to challenge myself with the classes. I could have gone into business, once again if I had challenged myself with the classes or I could have gone into general arts; the one challenge that I took both in high school and upon entering College. The problem is that there is a broad range of classes that you can take in the Arts faculty at any College, but as I quickly learned (amid the strikes), a College diploma won’t do a lot for you...



Instead, I want to do something that I enjoy. But what is that exactly? I like to draw, and paint, but that’s not really a career. I like to bike, and swim and do all sorts of things, but none of those are a career. So here’s the dilemma, I need to choose a career. At least that’s what everyone keeps telling me, indirectly of course....



That is where I leave off for now...

2006-08-29 16:56:56 · 11 answers · asked by michelleinhamilton 1

2006-08-29 16:49:13 · 16 answers · asked by Sally Pepsi 4

Isn't that unfair? I mean just look at the poor people who live in Africa in extreme poverty and now look in America where most of people live actually good...

2006-08-29 16:27:45 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-29 16:03:01 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-29 16:02:31 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-29 16:00:27 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-29 15:59:55 · 11 answers · asked by Sally Pepsi 4

2006-08-29 15:55:26 · 8 answers · asked by mathew m 1

is our reality simply based on our perception through our senses that is not always accurate? If our senses can deceive us, does that mean that reality can deceive us as well?

2006-08-29 15:11:19 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

In Zeno's 4 paradoxes, the paradox of "the arrow" where it basically says motion, is therefore, an illusion. Why is this? I don't get it. The book says: "Does an arrow move when the archer shoots it at a target? Here again the Pythagoreans, who had argued for the reality of space and therefore of it's divisibility, would have to say that teh moving arrow must at every moment occupy a particular position in space. But if an arrow occupies a position in space equal to it's length, this is precisely what is meant when we say that the arrow is at rest. Since the arrow must always occupy such a position in space equal to it's length, the arrow must always be at rest. Moreover, any quantity, as we saw in the example of the racecourse, is infinitely divisible. Hence the space occupied by the arrow is infinite and as such it must coincide with everything else, in which case everything must be One instead of many. Motion, therefore, is an illusion." ....WHAAAT?

2006-08-29 14:52:19 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-29 14:44:15 · 19 answers · asked by April c 2

One thing that fascinates me is the first paragraph of the Preface to this masterpiece.

“Perhaps this book will be understood only by someone who has himself already had the thoughts that are expressed in it—or at least similar thoughts.—So it is not a textbook.—Its purpose would be achieved if it gave pleasure to one person who read and understood it.”

2006-08-29 14:39:27 · 3 answers · asked by ? 4

2006-08-29 14:38:06 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

The limitations of no or the expectations of yes?

Simple questions can produce profound answers. So think about it and be honest.

2006-08-29 14:35:53 · 8 answers · asked by Doc Watson 7

What goes up, must come down. If we discover life on another planet, is this law still true. We might go up and never come down again? I think it should be "What comes down, must go up again"?

2006-08-29 14:30:11 · 10 answers · asked by chatting_za 2

In this world, all We have to do is help the people. everybody, poor, rich, ugly................... because someday, I'll need your help and You will do this.

2006-08-29 14:09:17 · 13 answers · asked by R.Mantovanni 1

On a journey in the woods you encounter a bear, as he brings his paw into the air he suddenly stops when he hears you pleading for your life.

The bear pulls his paw back and stretches. you are still stunned from the encounter. suddenly his fur turns loose and it falls and seems to be suspended by a log. suddenly movement.

a man appear under the bear's coat and he calls himself "chaw lew yee" roughly forest in another language.

He asks you one question, if the answer pleased him, he would let you live, it he was displeased he would shatter you with his wooden cane and no one would remember that you existed.

He asked, why do you want to live?

This answer pleased him:

2006-08-29 13:18:58 · 22 answers · asked by Michael J with wings 3

Doesn't fear last longer than love??

2006-08-29 13:07:04 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

In your opinion, who was worse: Heinrich Himmler (the man who carried out the holocaust for hitler), or Adolf Hitler (the man who ordered the holocaust).

In other words, who's worse: The one who deals with the intricate planning of a mass slaughter, or the one who orders it?

2006-08-29 13:03:49 · 19 answers · asked by John S 4

it's a riddle from the middle ages

2006-08-29 13:01:52 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-29 12:48:26 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous