Philosophy - August 2006

2006-08-18 10:38:24 · 14 answers · asked by ptrsblly 1

like thing about a car, u can see it right? i know there is a section of the brain dedicated to visual recall and imagination but where does the thought to begin thinking about a car in the first place come from?

2006-08-18 10:32:56 · 55 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-18 10:25:11 · 4 answers · asked by Michael 2

I would like to know why in this day and age, in this modern society why science holds more weight than religion. I am curious as to why people are willing to accept the word of science which may be able to prove itself over religion as this can also prove itself. (Both these points are debateable clearly) Is it because society has become secularised? Maybe because society has changed too much and religion has now developed a bad sterotype? I'm interested in what people think as to why a society (espically in some places more than others) accepts the word of science rather than religion?

2006-08-18 10:06:47 · 21 answers · asked by veggietasticgirl 1

If so, what does it mean?

2006-08-18 10:03:58 · 11 answers · asked by Josh 3

Please answer this question with the first feeling u had in your mind and heart. :D

2006-08-18 10:02:00 · 29 answers · asked by emo 1

2006-08-18 09:54:44 · 2 answers · asked by george 3

What if they got together and decided that what they've been doing for the last couple thousand years to each other and others is wrong and decided to have peace on earth the next day? Then what if the Buddhist decided that it was there chance to shine and pummeled everyone into the stone age? Would you be shocked?

2006-08-18 09:51:34 · 18 answers · asked by King of Babylon 3

this question is open to all sexs..:D

2006-08-18 09:46:06 · 26 answers · asked by emo 1

Cancer kills people... but then it is jus part of the system of nature... this is why predators exist... to keep the population of other animals lower than them steady... otherwise there wud be over population.... yet.. we keep tryin to research for sumthin tht is uncurable... when we already have people sufferin who are perfectly healthy... why use a lot of money to give a person an extra month... an extra year to live... when they are inevitably goin to die... i know it sounds mean.. but philsophically... would it not be better to spend all that money on starvin people... with tht money you could help a lot of people who actually are not gonna die... unless they starve..

2006-08-18 09:29:44 · 33 answers · asked by damn 2

2006-08-18 09:01:47 · 6 answers · asked by silverice2388 3

what are beliefs, are they truly realizations or a mere conditioning?
what do you think will happen when you let go of all your beliefs?

2006-08-18 09:01:05 · 16 answers · asked by . 4

How fitting is your name? Does a name become an unfortunate label? Sometimes names become associated with other things or people that may not necessarily represent you. Perhaps there should be different names for different stages of life?

2006-08-18 08:57:47 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

do you think we can choose our future or it selected for us from the past?

2006-08-18 08:49:06 · 12 answers · asked by Sara! 1

no crap please

2006-08-18 08:35:17 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

Please consider the fact that the ideas and approach of Socrates did not come to us from Socrates but from Plato and other writers. The Socratic Method was not a dialectic where a loser and winner are needed; it actually involves humility between a listener and a speaker in seeking for the truth together. Plato distorted this and his student Aristotle distorted it even more. Aristotle wrote that slavery is acceptable and that women are inferior. Some say the problem all started with Cain and Abel, or with Lucifer and Eve and Adam. Fine. But I say it started with Plato and Aristotle. There you go...just consider it without getting all worked up and angry, OK?

2006-08-18 08:32:44 · 11 answers · asked by clophad 2

2006-08-18 08:26:53 · 46 answers · asked by Lullaby 3

Making the list, ranking it correctly, and solving the problems sounds like a good goal doesn't it. Not that it will be easy in fact i imagine it will be the hardest thing ever attempted, and it will surely never be finished. But I happen to think it is a canidate for the most high minded, idealistic, noble and magnifiscent thing ever possible to attempt, I think it could be perhaps the worthiest occupation possible for the good people of humanity. Could it be a distributed computer program with input from as many people as possible with the eventual goal of every single person in the world having the chance to speak there opinion about the worlds problems if the wished and also kept private if they wished and ranking them all democratically and then using the same system to figure out how to solve those problems as peacefully, effectivly, ethically, and cheaply as possible with the largest attempted first could this be the answer to the problems we all face, big and small?

2006-08-18 08:23:55 · 7 answers · asked by Stan S 1

and if it is real how can we choose our next life? and when this loop finishes? and where do we go afterthat?

2006-08-18 08:12:34 · 10 answers · asked by demigod 2

Sorry that I've been out to lunch for so long. Maybe now that I'm here we can start fixing all of the crap that I left unattended.

2006-08-18 08:08:46 · 35 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-18 08:02:09 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

Are people inherently good and just learn to be evil from their surroundings or is evil something that is born in the person?

2006-08-18 08:00:14 · 8 answers · asked by Hypnotist 1

Could analitic philosphy be used to discover what a perfect and good god or goddess would be like if they did exsist littieraly somewhere in space or conceptually in our minds detail by individual detail and aspect by individual aspect? that doesn't mean a single set of conceptions is right, multiple sets can still be thought of; how they would act, think, say and work perfectly, not contradictory conceptually, working within the rules of the universe (physics), and apliciple to any situation, some details about peoples beliefs can be put up for analitical philosophical arguement to refute or confirm some individual aspects(especially the ones that are causing series problems (a problem being defined analitically as well)), god as a conception to a non-beliver, actually exsisting in space to a littieral belivier of a spiritual being or beings to allow diologue between skeptics and belivers?

2006-08-18 07:53:39 · 2 answers · asked by Stan S 1

......yeah thanks

2006-08-18 07:39:47 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

...have your ring finger twice as long as it is now or not be able to let your elbows touch your torso?

2006-08-18 07:39:37 · 4 answers · asked by Jonathan D 1

...they lock me up somewhere?

2006-08-18 07:36:15 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-18 07:33:23 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

Examples which prove your point would be most welcome!

2006-08-18 07:07:15 · 28 answers · asked by koukouvayia 2

Unless one construes peace in the spirit of domination a la Pax Romana, isn't the drive towards peace, in the anti-Orwellian sense, a death-drive?

Why do we value inaction, capstoning history, amnesty, and absolution? Isn't this just the working-class crying for another day off, freedom qua extension of the long-overdue vacation week in the Bahamas?

I've never enjoyed such a vacation. I'm trying to understand what peace is supposed to be like, but it seems either like a fatbastard fantasy (Pax Romana.. worker becoming leisurely class) or self-immolation, ultimate forgiveness, release from the material world...
i.e. death.

2006-08-18 07:00:36 · 5 answers · asked by -.- 6

Dirge To Decadence

So, my cowardiced white brothers

Have your souls fallen?

More Low now than their cage.

Low, yet bodies yearn,

Escape to potent dust and slumbered dirge.



Have you crucified man's last upon the Somme maybe?

His final dignity buried in one thousand suns.

Lo! Even Death has turned his craven cowl,

Such tasteless meals as vanquished unlived;

Filthy youth in his trenchless peace.



White crowds, young hordes hungry for living hell;

Unspent and unmeant army that IS youth.

Overpleasured Caligulas;

Crumble now to potent dust.

2006-08-18 06:53:16 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous