Philosophy - October 2006

2006-10-27 09:08:51 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why should we thing we are rational people, if we use our very reason to justify our mistakes? That is not pure madness?

2006-10-27 09:08:38 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

The god of the Arabs bless them in their Jihad........The god of the Jew also bless them in Israel's war....the god of the Christians blessed them in Inquisition....The god of the Romans, Greek, and so on blessed them in their wars and condemed the other...why they do such things?

2006-10-27 09:05:15 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

When I am weaker than you, I ask for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.

Thoughts on this statement?

2006-10-27 08:48:12 · 13 answers · asked by just nate 4

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.

Thoughts?

2006-10-27 08:46:30 · 8 answers · asked by just nate 4

Religion must be accepted as a source of energy. It can be directed for our purposes, but only within limits that experience reveals. Is This the secret meaning of free will?

2006-10-27 08:45:12 · 14 answers · asked by just nate 4

Why does it seem as if so many people see the world in terms of absolute black and white. Why is there so little room from shades of grey. Perhaps the Texas politican who said "there's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow lines and dead armadillos" may have been right, but there also nothing at the extreme right and left sides of the road but ditches, dirt and mud.

2006-10-27 08:41:40 · 7 answers · asked by Rico Toasterman JPA 7

As people we have the option to be a better human being, but why do we decline that offer and regress?

2006-10-27 08:15:29 · 17 answers · asked by hfdhs 1

How is it different from the other eras he outlines?

2006-10-27 08:12:15 · 3 answers · asked by yumsorbet 4

Whatever OF/BY/FROM us is based upon one irrationality- Faith in our senses.

2006-10-27 07:59:18 · 13 answers · asked by nimit_engineer 1

Please note I specified "wisest" not "most intelligent." Please give practical and specific guidelines, as much as possible. Keep in mind also that I am mortal and there is a limit to my time here on Earth.

2006-10-27 07:57:15 · 14 answers · asked by Seeker 4

I'm ('mentally' and physically) moving and searching for something new from when I wake up untill I fall asleep again, and I never stop. Forever curious about what is around the corner, what is on the other side (or in the next country), and whether there is something better. And I allways have short and very intense periods of being interested and curious about things. When I feel that I have understood them or sucked them dry of all their educational or entertainment value, I move on to the next thing that sparks my interest.

2006-10-27 07:06:41 · 41 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-27 06:52:27 · 26 answers · asked by Paley Pale 5

2006-10-27 06:44:43 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

Or might we be able to call this state of balance contentment, for example? And what is this 'self', as you see it?

2006-10-27 06:41:51 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

Atheistic evolution says there’s no God to create. But "How" can cells (single cell creatures) in eggs with no or very very low intelligence can "build" extremely high quality complex organs, such as eyes, without any test before delivery for chickens to be born ? How come high itelligent human beings, who took billions of years to evolve and thousands of years to learn, cannot build similar complex organs, but it only take days for cells to build eyes for the chickens ? Are cells much smarter than human beings in some areas?

Theists believe that only god can create complex animal organs like eyes. Does it mean that it is God who actually does every hatching? Is it God who actually builds everything for human babies to be born ? And if single cell creatures can "build" complex organs, can they create human beings too?

Theists and atheists, any thoughts?

2006-10-27 06:40:14 · 11 answers · asked by noname 3

2006-10-27 06:38:43 · 29 answers · asked by Paley Pale 5

Is there something relatively absolute and something absolutely relative?

What do you think?

By absolute I mean: with no exception, with no variations, with no point of reference to be what it is;

by relative: take the "no" word out from this things and then there is what I mean.

tnx,

2006-10-27 06:35:18 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-27 06:22:34 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-27 06:03:42 · 30 answers · asked by qutiepy9 2

2006-10-27 06:03:34 · 9 answers · asked by spacemunkeypunkskater 2

what are their sources. I ask this question to provoke thought.

2006-10-27 05:47:13 · 16 answers · asked by Weldon 5

I ask this question to provoke thought.

2006-10-27 05:34:05 · 16 answers · asked by Weldon 5

If the anti-christ was the head of a large multi-national corporation or leader of a political party, how would they bring about the end of the world?

2006-10-27 05:25:29 · 5 answers · asked by urbanrt 3

2006-10-27 05:24:17 · 8 answers · asked by im 1

if i ask define who are you .
what will be your answer to it after the years that you lived ?

2006-10-27 05:22:21 · 8 answers · asked by mohsen m 3

hmmm....

2006-10-27 05:12:35 · 20 answers · asked by Samuel 1

I mean, there are stimuli coming from within my body and my brain that I can be aware of, to a certain degree. How can I learn to control my reactions to these inner stimuli, and can I be 'more aware' of them, or even extend my awareness to things that are out of my reach at the moment?

2006-10-27 05:02:56 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

What are they gonna do about it? Kick me in my shin or headbutt me in my nuts?

2006-10-27 04:50:27 · 12 answers · asked by Samuel 1

I mean, how do we get out of the mindset that everything is a metaphor for something else?


I tried reading a book, but the story was a metaphor for part of my life.


I tried playing sports, but that was a metaphor for life itself.


I tried watching Jerry Springer, but that was a metaphor for everything that was wrong with life.


I tried having lunch, but then I sat down with a vegetarian, and everything became a metaphor for religious/cultural differences.


I tried having sex, but that became a metaphor for the battle between the Apollonian and the Dionysian.


I tried asking a question on Yahoo!(r) Answers, but that became a metaphor for making metaphors.


Help!

2006-10-27 04:30:40 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous