Philosophy - September 2006

2006-09-04 08:48:28 · 3 answers · asked by stlllllllll 1

what is the reasoning for searching for a beginning of the universe or the last crunch or bang or the one before that and so on, why must it have started?

if you think about nothing really starts around us, its just a change of form (e.g biological growth) so why do we search for a beginning?

2006-09-04 08:36:14 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

Feel free to disagree, I'm not saying I'm right, but there's this thing about prayer that doesn't seem right to me. Ok, I know a lot of people with religious beliefs don't judge people, yet they pray for them for guidance. Isn't that presuming that what the person has done is wrong? Isn't it essentially JUDGING that person by thinking they need guidance, by thinking that they need to change their ways? I'm not talking about people like rapists who clearly are wrong and do need help - I'm talking about things such as sexual orientation, people of other faiths, etc. - stuff that people claim they do not judge yet still pray to help make this person change their ways. It seems to me like they feel superior.
When answering though please don't tell me to convert to a certain set of beliefs. I just want a straight answer.

2006-09-04 08:15:30 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-04 08:15:09 · 27 answers · asked by cristina k 1

Like a question you couldnt answer ,, or couldnt even understand!

2006-09-04 08:05:30 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-04 07:58:25 · 8 answers · asked by kazemi 1

2006-09-04 07:57:26 · 26 answers · asked by condy 3

A lady here recently asked if her bad vibes near a person have any legitimacy. Another person and myself answered her similarly; both initially warning her to not assume her negative senses about someone are justified only by said feelings, with the other person then saying that he does understand the possible power of bad vibrations because they've always been correct in his experience. But we, when last I checked, seemed to have been the only ones to warn her against judging people by what she senses about them instead of by what she confirms about them. She chose one of the other answers as the best, which is fine in my case, as mine was simple and didn't elaborate all that well on her question, but the other answers fed into her concerns more than they asked her to rethink her thought process, and that concerns me. If the basis for judging someone is an unexplained feeling, how many good people will be wrongly accused, and how might they have made us better for really knowing them?

2006-09-04 07:53:23 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

image someone who calls himself a christian being gay

2006-09-04 07:48:21 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

If possible, I would like the Biblical, Talmudic, Koranic, Buddhist, Hindu, Shinto and humanist viewpoints on this issue as well as that gained from detailed study of existential philosophy & psychologyi.e. the writings of people like Sartre, Kant, heidegger, Jung, Freud, Derrida & Alain de Botton.

2006-09-04 07:39:58 · 37 answers · asked by Dalton C 2

I'm not really sure what the answer to this question would be.

I generally believe that human beings should be able to do whatever they want as long as they don't hurt anyone else. But I don't know how that theory works when it comes to hurting yourself. Theoretically, if someone wants to kill themself, that should be their perogative. Your body is your temple and you can do whatever you want to it, right?

But maybe not.
In US law, I do believe suicide is against the law. Do you think this should be?

Clearly, commiting suicide DOES affect other people - it hurts friends and family and loved ones. If you have a family to support, you are depriving them of income. Then again, maybe they do better under your life insurance policy than when you were alive. (actually, does anyone know if you can still collect life insurance on someone who commits suicide?)

2006-09-04 07:32:22 · 22 answers · asked by worldpeace 4

My co-teacher is asking me a favor
He's half-Iranian
I only know him a about a month or so
He's asking me to make an invitation letter for his friend
His friend is Iranian but I don't know his friend
The letter is inviting his friend to study in the country
I'm having second thoughts about it
because I don't want any problem later on with the immigration
just in case his friend decide to do something illegal or something
I feel like backing out
I feel like I don't want to make that letter anymore

Because I watched the TV Series "24" that's why I feel like backing out

2006-09-04 07:17:47 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-04 07:14:50 · 3 answers · asked by peaches 1

Does anyone know of any published critiques of Popper's Falsification Criterion?

2006-09-04 07:09:36 · 4 answers · asked by anthonypaullloyd 5

2006-09-04 06:36:38 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous

The bible and the Quran

2006-09-04 06:35:02 · 10 answers · asked by brifri420 1

2006-09-04 06:34:53 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-04 06:34:01 · 7 answers · asked by realquietcool 2

How long will happiness & Joy last, nothing is last forever except suffering.

Trying to get over the sad feeling is suffering.
Trying to be happy is suffering.
Trying to think positively is suffering.
Trying to obtain and fulfill your desire is suffering.
Trying to pass your exam is suffering.

and where are the happiness?

2006-09-04 06:10:51 · 17 answers · asked by tidapon_tan 1

On this site, whenever someone asks about questionable passages in the old testament and/or contradictions or inconsistencies between the old and new testament(such as god being ALOT meaner in the old testament but more loving in the new testament), theres always people saying that when jesus came the laws changed, and the law now is to love each other, etc. etc.

My question is, if you went to hell for doing something that was wrong before jesus came but became okay to do later, do you stay in hell? 'cause eternity is a pretty long time to suffer for something that isn't even wrong anymore.

and also, what about the people in heaven? If they went to heaven, but did something that god allowed people to do in the old tesatment that he no longer allows people to do, are they kicked outta heaven and sent into hell?

2006-09-04 06:09:11 · 17 answers · asked by Donnie Dragon 2

Example; cup-saucer
flora-fauna
bag-baggege

Plz answ early as possible u guys, it's an urgent
exam's are haunting near.

2006-09-04 05:37:03 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-04 05:11:44 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am looking for passages in the new testament (including the gospels) that are really objectionable or offensive to our present value system.

2006-09-04 04:46:18 · 6 answers · asked by ebillar 1

it isn't merely the diagreement between fractions, is it? There can be dissent without there being conflict. How then is conflict to be defined?

2006-09-04 04:45:23 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Is death just another way of evolving for all life forms?

2006-09-04 04:21:59 · 11 answers · asked by ? 6

2006-09-04 04:14:23 · 5 answers · asked by ? 6

A paradox is a statement that seems to be contradictory, but is, in fact, true. The inverse would be something that seems true, but is actually contradictory. I know a word exists to describe the inverse of a paradox, but I can't remember it...help!?

2006-09-04 04:00:36 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

Mine is Cam'ron, probably.

2006-09-04 03:33:57 · 24 answers · asked by Pierre 2

2006-09-04 03:29:43 · 15 answers · asked by godfrey tshepo p 1

some people tkink that they are more important when they know a language that other people dont .

2006-09-04 03:28:51 · 6 answers · asked by godfrey tshepo p 1