Philosophy - August 2006

Is god some form of infinite intelligence? Is god love? Is god a person? Is god simply the universe and everything and ever expanding and love and music and feelings and stars and the sun and things we never thought of and willpower? Are we all part of god? Did you name your god? is god you? your highest most divine self? Midnight and moonbeams and shadows? Magical forests inside yourself? dreams and hopes and wants?What is god to you?

2006-08-02 07:51:35 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

just wanted to see a new way to put an old question...

2006-08-02 07:49:06 · 8 answers · asked by her half dead lover 4

2006-08-02 07:43:50 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

The meaning of life is in the search for meaning. Is this true or do you have a different answer. I'd like to know

2006-08-02 07:37:19 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-02 07:29:29 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-02 07:18:37 · 25 answers · asked by truthyness 7

2006-08-02 06:58:16 · 3 answers · asked by george 3

2006-08-02 06:57:33 · 5 answers · asked by benam 1

Every position of Socrates is presented by Plato and not by Socrates himself. Plato does not write, in his engaging and dramatic dialogues, about any Socratic humility between listener and speaker when looking for truth. Plato tells us there must always be a winner and a loser, a dialectic. Would it be a reinterpretation Socrates if we were to assign humility to Socrates in our study of him today?

2006-08-02 06:47:39 · 5 answers · asked by clophad 2

life is a gift of god and must be used with effectiveness without amuse

2006-08-02 06:46:58 · 54 answers · asked by sam c 1

If we believe in the law of cause and effect, then surely everything we do is caused by something that happens to us, or by the way we are at birth, or by some interaction between the two? Surely the past determines the future? Even if there is some element of randomness, how can something that happens at random be defined as a choice? We have no control over things that happen at random.

2006-08-02 06:25:51 · 20 answers · asked by Jo 2

The hurdles of the past, the situations of the present, and the inability to get past pain, forgiveness, etc. Yet you have all the things around you to help you get past these things, but you never forget, you always remember, and the pain always persists. Why do we choose to continue living life with such pain, other than our selfless desire to not let all those who live and love us to grieve over our passing on to some other place...or no where...

2006-08-02 06:24:16 · 12 answers · asked by TseeMan 1

2006-08-02 06:16:53 · 37 answers · asked by bluepearl 3

Technology has increased our bandwidth to communicate, expanded our community in which we can communicate, but if we only ask meaningless questions what good is it? And has technology made us so lazy that we no longer search for the meaningful questions?

2006-08-02 06:13:28 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-02 05:19:57 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

"God and Mr stupid"

stupid : God , if in the end all is in vein...what is the difference between intelligent and fool like me.

God : True...but in the end...as you said....and end will never come.

stupid : [ fainted ]....

God : [ smiled and left!!! ]

2006-08-02 04:47:30 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

I woulkd like to receive answers from the different religions and cultures. Please indicate your religion at the moment of answer.

2006-08-02 03:46:11 · 4 answers · asked by Nemo 1

I don't have a problem with religious people, that's their business. But how can a person live their life following a religion and they don't even know if some one just made it all up when they were bored? I think religion just restricts your life. If you believe in individual things like not having sex before marriage, or not drinking alcohol; thats fine why can't you just do that? Why can't you just follow your own morals rather than having to follow someone elses rules?

There's never been any scientific proof that any religion is right or that any religion or god is real, or that following any religion makes you a better person or that following a certain religion sends you to heaven when you die (if you believe in heaven). How can so many people devote their lives to such an unsure thing?

2006-08-02 03:40:24 · 35 answers · asked by Yasmin H 3

obviously both are important, but do you think there are areas where one isnt necessary? how do they work together or against each other?

2006-08-02 03:38:20 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-02 03:25:49 · 6 answers · asked by anwesha08 2

2006-08-02 03:24:35 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-02 03:11:28 · 21 answers · asked by lifes_heart 3

2006-08-02 03:05:56 · 23 answers · asked by kenneth g 1

I mean like your living in the wrong era.

2006-08-02 02:53:19 · 16 answers · asked by lifes_heart 3

hey... I was just wondering since we haven't discussed plato and socrates that much and I'm only a high schooler (in asia), I would like to know what are the main criticisms on plato and socrates' philosophies? socrates was sent to prison right? why? we watched a film for about 30 mins and didnt get to finish it. I was just intruiged because this would be our topic for the next three meetings. I would like to have a head start... many many many thanks!

2006-08-02 02:42:18 · 5 answers · asked by JCC 2

2006-08-02 02:40:46 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous

Consider this scenario…

Suppose a powerful being approached you and said, “I will truthfully tell you one of these 2 things:"

Either the exact time, day, and place where something *bad* will happen to you, so you can naturally avoid it and keep it from happening.

Or

I can tell you where to be at the exact time, day, and place where something *good* will happen to you.

The only catch is he will only tell you about ONE of these occurrences. So, if you choose to know about the bad, you will never learn about the good, & if you choose to know about the good, you will be unaware of the bad. Plus, keep in mind that the good & bad is up to him to tell you – so you don’t know if he is going to tell you something really helpful like how you will die or something trivial like where you will lose a dollar. Same with the good – it could be where to be to win the lottery – or just something small like how to get a free T-shirt.

It's a gamble either way, but the choice is yours...

2006-08-02 02:34:04 · 15 answers · asked by Answers Anyone 4

Shouldn't we call them sperm mail? There are just sooooo many. Why?

2006-08-02 02:15:01 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-02 02:10:44 · 19 answers · asked by A 3

2006-08-02 02:03:54 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous