Philosophy - August 2006

If you ever thought of changing your profession or have changed it or want to change it, then please go ahead and answer these questions...

1) What is your current profession ?

2) What do you want your profession to be ? (it can just be a change of position rather than the profession, more or less, what your profession or position you have to progress to, 3-4years down the line)

3) What would you like your profession to be ?

4) Why do you want to change your career ?

2006-08-17 14:24:25 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-17 14:18:36 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-17 14:15:40 · 21 answers · asked by JimmyJaan 2

2006-08-17 14:13:45 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-17 14:11:07 · 7 answers · asked by semaver c 2

we are born, we die...

2006-08-17 14:10:34 · 31 answers · asked by sharstar 2

2006-08-17 14:00:09 · 12 answers · asked by MELVIN W 1

Would there be color combinations? All one color?

2006-08-17 13:54:45 · 21 answers · asked by .. 5

I am in grea dilemma whether to choose Philosophy or Social service as I am going to enroll in univesity in January. I am willing to be a great field social worker, not job-oriented, and also my goal is to find out the meaning of life and expose to the world.So please I need your great useful advice. Thanks

2006-08-17 13:39:14 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

Does anyone else suspect that many ideas in psychology (particularly psychoanalysis) are stolen philosophy ideas. I refer to examples;
1. Freuds 3 part self straight out of Plato's Republic and The tripartide structure of the soul.
2. Jung's Collective Unconscious stolen from Hegel's Absolute in human consciousness.
3. Cognitive Behavioural therapy straight from the pages of the stoics like Marcus Aurelius.
Apart from examples does anyone here agree?
Here's why its important practically; with a counselling degree you can get a job helping people imrove their lives even though Counselling gains many of its ideas STRAIGHT from Philosophy. With a philosophy degree if you dont lecture you might be lucky helping people choose whether or not they want fries with that.
How can such a noble and esteemed field of knowledge be relegated to such disrespect after 2500 years of service to humanity?
Your views please? Thanks.

2006-08-17 13:26:54 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-17 13:23:48 · 17 answers · asked by aaron 5

2006-08-17 13:05:43 · 10 answers · asked by DanBoy 1

“One day I’ll marry a man. He and I will end up finding a way of dreaming of a future together: a house in the country, children, our children’s future, We’ll make love often in the first year, less in the second, and after the third year, people perhaps think about sex only once every two weeks and transform that thought into action only once a month. Even worse, we’ll barely talk. I’ll force myself to accept the situation, and I’ll wonder what’s wrong with me, because he no longer takes any interest in me, ignores me, and does nothing but talk about his friends as if they were his real world.

When the marriage is just about to fall apart, I’ll get pregnant. We’ll have a child, feel closer to each other for a while, and then the situation will go back to what it was before.

I’ll begin to put on weight, and I’ll start to go on diets, systematically defeated each day, each week, by the weight that keeps creeping up regardless of the controls I put on it. At that point I’ll take those magic pills that stop you from feeling depressed; then I’ll have a few more children, conceived during nights of love that pass all too quickly. I’ll tell everyone that the children are my reason for living, when in reality my life is their reason for living.

People will always consider us a happy couple, and no one will know how much solitude, bitterness, and resignation lies beneath the surface happiness.

Until one day, when my husband takes a lover for the first time, and I will perhaps kick up a fuss or think again killing myself. By then, though, I’ll be too old and cowardly, with two or three children who need my help, and I’ll have to bring them up and help them find a place in the world before I can just abandon everything. I won’t commit suicide; I’ll make a scene. I’ll threaten to leave and take the children with me. Like all men, my husband will back down, he’ll tell me he loves me and that it won’t happen again. It won’t even occur to him that, if I really did decide to leave, my only option would be to go back to my parent’s house and stay there fir the rest of my life, forced to listen to my mother going on and on all day about how I lost my one opportunity for being happy, that he was a good husband despite his peccadilloes, that my children will be traumatized by the separation.

Two or three years later, another woman will appear in his life. I’ll find out but this time I’ll pretend I don’t know. I used up all my energy fighting against that other lover; I’ve no energy left; it’s best to accept life as it really is and not as I imagined it to be. My mother was right.

He will continue being a considerate husband; I will continue working at the library, eating my sandwiches in the square opposite the theater, reading books I never quite manage to finish, watching television programs that are the same as they were ten years ago. Except that I’ll eat my sandwiches with a sense of guilt because I’m getting fatter; and I won’t go to bars anymore because I have a husband expecting me to come home and look after children.

After that it’s matter of waiting for children to grow up and of spending all day thinking about suicide, without the courage to do anything about it. One fine day I’ll reach the conclusion that that’s what life is like: there’s no point worrying about it,nothing will change. And I’ll accept it.”

2006-08-17 12:52:54 · 16 answers · asked by Josh 2

I think so. I'm already planning to disregard every answer that disagrees with me. Of course, you might be correct and I may be incorrect. But if Simon & Garfunkel are right neither one of us will change our minds or convince the other he or she is wrong.

2006-08-17 12:46:26 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

Can these words be who we become. It seems that our idle words make us. Can we speak our health, love life, WEALTH?

2006-08-17 12:39:25 · 10 answers · asked by ? 6

2006-08-17 12:29:04 · 23 answers · asked by Red Hair Sweetie 2

I'm not suicidal, so don't be all "your life is too precious" or something. I want to know because I've never been.

2006-08-17 12:27:55 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

I've a friend who sincerely believes this. I thought they were kidding but this friend has an old fashioned outlook that women are naturally more domestic than men and a family works better if the woman stays in the home in marriage lookin after the kids. Here's the punchline folks-this friend of mine, its a SHE!!!
And whats your opinion on HOUSE HUSBANDS in contrast?

2006-08-17 12:26:13 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-17 12:16:32 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why?

2006-08-17 12:14:33 · 26 answers · asked by ? 5

I know I will make you people "angry" by posting this. Are you showing real contempt for me wanting those stupid, useless people gone or are you saying how shallow and screwed up I am to make yourself look like a good caring person, sticking up for the little people when you're really not or probably don't give a rat's *** at all?

They contaminate society with their ugliness, and frankly I do think they would not mind a bit of they were incinerated. They are probably tired of being called ugly, and never being able to get dates and who knows what else.

2006-08-17 12:12:08 · 16 answers · asked by ding_bat 1

what type of person does it take to stand up for things they dont believe in? I don't just mean petty things, but why can't people be more vocal and willing to stand up for their rights instead of saying that's life but make complaints when things don't go their way? human nature?What name? Why can't more peoplp have the courage to do this? And then when others speak out, why do these same people get angry because changes may occure that will help them? (And I am aware that there are many vocal peole who speak out against wrong douings, but the majority seems too afraid, and too obvilious to know they are afraid.) Is it selfishness? Reputation? Fear? Self Preservation? What do you think? As radicals, rebels, revolutionaries less common or less covered by the media as they were in the past? are they still around as much as they were in the past? I hope this makes sense, lol. Sometimes The questions arent as clear as I thought them up to be, so work with me here

2006-08-17 11:58:33 · 11 answers · asked by ? 5

2006-08-17 11:57:35 · 15 answers · asked by heaven137000 1

im always so quiet and let pll do stuff...help me to be mean!

2006-08-17 11:56:30 · 26 answers · asked by juan 3

I was so frustrated with my life even I had tried to end up it several time, but somedays before I realised that I must not end up it without contributing some important "wisdom" though I am not a imtenligent one ,to the world. Now that could you tell me how I can fulfill my ambition( goal)? I am 30 thanks

2006-08-17 11:49:10 · 5 answers · asked by heaven137000 1

2006-08-17 11:45:28 · 17 answers · asked by reno 2

2006-08-17 11:35:53 · 15 answers · asked by heaven137000 1

Vedas and upnishads , the sacred books of Hindu religion were passed on thru. word of mouth. Where are the original books preserved in INdia?

2006-08-17 11:32:56 · 2 answers · asked by Rambha v 1

2006-08-17 11:29:53 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-17 11:12:54 · 15 answers · asked by CosmicKiss 6