Philosophy - August 2006

Wisdom cannot be memorized...and knowledge without wisdom isn't intelligence... but stupidity disguised as intelligence. Face it, very ignorant people can accumulate enough knowledge to rule countries and start religions.... and even (God forbid) acquire followers. Knowledge without understanding (i.e. the clarity and wherewithal to know how to use acquired knowledge intelligently) is not only worthless but can be dangerous as well. There is nothing 'noble' about good spelling and a large vocubulary, no matter how much we like pumping ourselves up for being 'smart.' What the world needs is more wisdom and maybe even a tad less 'smarts.' Thoughts? :-)

2006-08-07 13:03:16 · 14 answers · asked by grace 1

2006-08-07 13:02:53 · 12 answers · asked by position28 4

It could be anywhere...

2006-08-07 12:53:22 · 10 answers · asked by Federico 3

have you ever like something/someone so much you feel as though you're obcessed with them? like....you just feel you need to be with them? don't get me wrong...not stalker type...but you know....then you try and push these feeling to the side and as soon as you see it again they come back stronger?

2006-08-07 12:37:59 · 28 answers · asked by hannahrosey 2

2006-08-07 12:22:33 · 17 answers · asked by Jason 2

It's probably hard to learn from your own fatal mistakes, but someone learns something from it eventually. Sometimes I feel like saying "We learn from our mistakes" is a way of making up an excuse. Especially when what the mistakes teach you are common sense that you should have known anyway. What do you think?

2006-08-07 12:14:06 · 27 answers · asked by Steph 4

2006-08-07 12:13:55 · 2 answers · asked by Leeboy 1

2006-08-07 12:05:58 · 40 answers · asked by Jason 2

any practical suggestion?

2006-08-07 12:04:13 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-07 12:03:35 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

i dont want anyone having a go at me or anyone giving stupid answers, this is a genuine discusion

2006-08-07 11:59:05 · 42 answers · asked by can0nbal 1

2006-08-07 11:58:08 · 37 answers · asked by Jason 2

What if someone actually found the meaning of life? One that everyone agrees on that transcends religion and diversity. Something that can be proven.

2006-08-07 11:49:49 · 12 answers · asked by Steph 4

2006-08-07 11:39:32 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-07 11:16:08 · 36 answers · asked by eternity 3

always they want more and more not happy on what they have.this question is always in my mind until now coz i saw how the human is so.

2006-08-07 11:15:59 · 21 answers · asked by cute sam 4

The older you get and the more wisdom you require, does it ever bring you more joy and fullfilment? I know people back home who never left home whilst I travelled the world and tried to open my horizons. They all seem happy as pigs in **** whilst I am always distanced and level(ed). What do you think?

2006-08-07 11:08:46 · 16 answers · asked by kurt r 2

Not that I endorse this idea, but it is good food for thought.
There really is no way to disprove this. All of our perceptions are based on electrical impulses. We think we are looking at the world, but we are prisoners inside of our heads, and all of our reality is based on our senses, all electrical. Our eyes are antenna picking up electromagnetic waves, which are projected upside down on a grid of receptors. These receptors turn this info into electrical impulses and carry it to our brains, and our brains decipher the signals and try to make something meaningful out of it. We already know that sight and sound can be electrically reproduced and stored in our reality, so who can say that the sights and sounds that we take as real are not synchronized software? Yes, sounds like the Matrix, but much of the original Matrix movie was based on old philosophy.
Google "brain in a vat" and prepare to be enlightened.

2006-08-07 10:56:20 · 6 answers · asked by Shannon W 2

2006-08-07 10:55:57 · 7 answers · asked by elkojote 1

thanks plz

2006-08-07 10:53:28 · 6 answers · asked by alliyah s 1

Here is a videoclip of a woman being tasered by the police with 50,000 volts of electricity.

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/news/video/taser_video3a.html

Right now, police officers can use tasers on citizens for minor reasons. Many people in the United States want tasers banned or they want the police to only use tasers in deadly situations. You may get tased one day for a minor reason, so I suggest you sepak up about how and when police officers can use tasers on citizens.

2006-08-07 10:50:56 · 3 answers · asked by dsgdgd d 1

2006-08-07 10:41:22 · 9 answers · asked by melon_rose 2

2006-08-07 10:37:30 · 24 answers · asked by george 3

Peace and Love

2006-08-07 10:22:25 · 3 answers · asked by digilook 2

Please, no religious answers

2006-08-07 09:58:53 · 7 answers · asked by philisophical 1

name everything, even the most imaginative of things

2006-08-07 09:52:16 · 13 answers · asked by sarvar 1

Mine was the realization that all of these magnificant thoughts in my head have exsisted for thousands of years. (Tertium Organum by Ouspensky is an excellent philosophical reading...) Why is it that they still seem so esoteric to the masses? Which made me ask,"Am I just naturally wiser than most people?" And why is it that the grandest of philosophical insights seem worthless in the real world? Ok, its all an illusion, color, sound, space, time, its all a product of my mind, save the illusive noumena that may cause it. I can buy into that, but what can you do with that wisdom here?
Guide me 'ole wisemen.

2006-08-07 09:38:49 · 31 answers · asked by Shannon W 2

2006-08-07 09:13:05 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

How far should intolerance be tolerated?

2006-08-07 09:12:50 · 10 answers · asked by phoneypersona 5

Don't say money 'cause money isn't a feeling.

2006-08-07 08:24:38 · 8 answers · asked by JUN R 3