Philosophy - August 2006

I just had my bike seat stolen, for no apparent reason. I can't exactly ride my bike without it, and it's been a pain in the butt trying to find a replacement seat.

There's a bike exactly like mine just sitting around and hasn't been moved in months. If I took the seat off of that one and left cash in its place, is this just as unethical as simply stealing it? I know I'd be a little happier if my seat thief left me some money.

2006-08-16 14:57:57 · 15 answers · asked by TOB 3

2006-08-16 14:57:37 · 22 answers · asked by Xo 1

real answer wins...

http://realityinquestion.blogspot.com/

2006-08-16 14:56:00 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-16 14:32:58 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why are you alive ?

What is the objective of your life ?

What should be the objective of one's life ?

2006-08-16 14:21:12 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous

Can you tell me all of the 10 commandments, along with the words of wisdom?
It would be well appriciated.
Please ignore the catagory I put the question in.

2006-08-16 14:10:20 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-16 14:00:44 · 6 answers · asked by mr.love 1

If so, how?

2006-08-16 13:50:13 · 12 answers · asked by Blissbug 2

Given our current social expectations, and the predilection certain reptiles have towards consuming humans non consensually, should crocodiles use cutlery?

This moral discussion arose after a conversation in which a friend insisted I couldn't write two thousand words on anything. I am currently halfway through the above essay, and would love to have further points of view on the matter.

2006-08-16 13:39:04 · 19 answers · asked by Skippy 2

if asked what is mind, one answered it doesnot matter.when asked
what is matter,the answer was,i dont mind.is matter guided by mind?if so, is the mind composed of matter?

2006-08-16 13:33:23 · 9 answers · asked by avicenna2006 1

like in MPH

2006-08-16 13:26:54 · 5 answers · asked by Louise-Rose 2

2006-08-16 13:23:31 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Ok, if you say that I should keep learning, then bad luck will go away after all. Then, how you explain that unlucky thing comes after me. ie: I made stupid mistakes on the job that I should not make them. thanks

2006-08-16 13:17:34 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

From the time I was a teenager, I could cast spells to make things happen around me. The thing that I want to happen doesn't have to be right in front of me, it could be half way around the world. There are rules though.
1. I can hurt other people, but not for no reason (not good people).
2. I can't change things that already happened.
3. I can't cast a spell that goes against physics.
4. I can't cast a spell that has a precise time constraint (the spell could take up to 2 years depending on how complex it is.

What spell do you think I should cast?

2006-08-16 13:14:02 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

What do you guys make of Matrix? For my money this film is just an eyesore, a dereliction, but what do you guys make of it?

2006-08-16 13:11:12 · 19 answers · asked by george 3

Who can make such a judgement?

2006-08-16 12:49:57 · 42 answers · asked by Anonymous

Not even a little?

2006-08-16 12:40:41 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-16 12:33:44 · 12 answers · asked by Bobby23 2

I remember when I was about 25 I started really thinking about absolute universal truth and questioning reality, and I remember one day my whole reality sort of started crumbling before me, I felt the abyss of infinity, and my new perceptions of the world blinded me with truth that I could hardly manage mentally. I can just imagine the lightning storm that must have been occuring in my brain as a multitude of synapes made new connections and my neural network expanded. I think perhaps a good portion of my brain was undergoing a transformation, a realignment of sorts.
It was really hard to bring myself back to this world, hard because it is difficult to do and also because I half didn't want to. It was seeing the light at the end of a long tunnel and knowing that I had to turn back, that if I didn't I might forever lose touch with the reality that I've known. So I came back down from that plane, but I think of it often and have such difficulty functioning here amongst these illusions.

2006-08-16 12:16:06 · 22 answers · asked by Shannon W 2

Is everything just a chasing after the wind and feeding on it

2006-08-16 11:56:54 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-16 11:56:32 · 4 answers · asked by Ehab 2

2006-08-16 11:55:25 · 10 answers · asked by Jujeaux 6

give reasons

2006-08-16 11:46:41 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Its interesting that Soloman instead of trying to philosophise scientifically or in other methods rather chose two simple methods....
"fear God and shun evil"....he chose to study the "folly of sin"...

2006-08-16 11:25:31 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-16 11:16:55 · 65 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-16 11:15:45 · 14 answers · asked by Mz2006K 2

What would that question be? And who would you ask?

2006-08-16 11:14:13 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

3 men go into a motel. The man behind the desk said the room is US$30, so each man paid US$10 and went to their room.

A while later the man behind the desk realized the room was only US$25, so he sent the bellboy to the 3 guys' room with US$5. On the way, the bellboy couldn't figure out how to split US$5 evenly between 3 men, so he decides to give each man US$1 and kept the other US$2 for himself.

This meant that the 3 men each paid US$9 for the room, which is a total of US$27. Add the US$2 that the bellboy kept brings the total to US$29.

Where is the other dollar!?

2006-08-16 11:12:50 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

For example, BANG, reading the word bang is only a mere second in present time even though every letter that you read in that word was a moment in present.
So you could say the only present you get, is the future.
We can not see the future, so all we can do is form our pasts, and hope that a well shaped past leads to a well shaped future.
So why live for the moment?
When you dont even know what a the moment will bring, unless you have shaped your past to form your present.
It was your choice to click on this question.
Just imagine if you didnt.
Shaping the past is harder then you think.
P.s
I would not like a lengthy answer stating facts I already know.
*Such as laws of Quantum physics, and mechanics.

2006-08-16 11:04:50 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

On the surface I can tell we want to believe that all human life has value but over and over again in the media and in different facets of life we understand that all lives ARE NOT of equal value. For instance, if a lebonese child is killed you can tell by our media coverage that that life was not worth as much as an Israeli or American child. If a celeb dies it's on the Yahoo home page..but if your father or mother dies it's not even news worthy. That being said, if all life is NOT of the same value then how do we determine value? Popularity? Net worth? Please explain your answer.

2006-08-16 11:00:24 · 15 answers · asked by the man 1