Philosophy - November 2006

And if we do does it matter anymore.If there IS life after death and you don't qualify you won't know so will that matter either.

2006-11-26 04:44:25 · 24 answers · asked by Niamh 7

2006-11-26 04:31:05 · 11 answers · asked by happy_blabla 2

2006-11-26 04:27:38 · 16 answers · asked by Nautilus 2

2006-11-26 03:59:35 · 22 answers · asked by Melissa 4

I'm not looking for fence-sitting answers here. I already know that there are many reasons to argue both for and against warfare. What I am asking is that you imagine you possess a magic amulet that gives you the power to end warfare everywhere, now and forever. Would you use it? What are your reasons, for or against using it? Would you hesitate before choosing or jump right in?

The background to this question is this:

Recently I asked here whether the world would be better off had gunpowder never been invented. To my surprise I received a resounding, "No!" I expected some no answers but it was actually unanimous. The reasons were varied. One suggested that without wars and the technology developed in and because of wars we might still be in the dark ages.

So how do you feel about this? Use the magic amulet or not?

2006-11-26 03:55:58 · 14 answers · asked by Seeker 4

I'm trying to write a piece exploring a coherence/holistic interpretation of knowledge where statements/theories are mutually supporting.

I am looking for a good example. "Evolution" is just too contentious and, as yet, too unspecific in its conlusions. "Plate techtonics" was another idea, but it seems just too singular in its output - not so much a group of inter-related theories but the only available meta-theory to stick onto the base thoeries.

What I'm really after is to be able to ask "how do we know X" and to have a group of theories supporting X, say, A, B, C and I can say "we could just as well started by asking how we know B"

Anyone got any ideas?

2006-11-26 03:28:53 · 5 answers · asked by anthonypaullloyd 5

2006-11-26 03:18:53 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

Do you really believe that it's worth holding out marrying someone/anyone on the slim chance that the universe may align one day, during your life-time, and you'll be thrown under the car of that person (metaphorically), or is a bird in the hand better than spinsterhood? And if I think that theory is twaddle, does that make me a pessimist or a realist? Now that our culture is so mobile compared to 100 or 200 years ago, are chances greater of finding your own TRUE LOVE or even smaller?

2006-11-26 03:05:39 · 9 answers · asked by alison k 3

2006-11-26 02:34:29 · 12 answers · asked by G-Man 3

I allways disagree with people that think that way?
I feel that we have choices,and we have the gift to
dictate and make our own decisions some are good
and some are sad! I think that people just say things like that because they don't want to face the truth.

2006-11-26 02:13:47 · 6 answers · asked by sergio 29 1

2006-11-26 01:56:59 · 13 answers · asked by Appu s 1

Wouldn't this prove that although science has proved many truths mankind is still clinging to old beliefs?

2006-11-26 01:55:56 · 17 answers · asked by apicole 4

I feelempty useless. It's better for me to run away of my current life than to die?? I have 1 wife and 2 child but I feel empty

2006-11-26 01:13:54 · 23 answers · asked by jamesyei 2

I love being shallow and girly and all, yet i'm uncomfortable with the the reactions i get for my "superficial" indulgences.

How would you justify and argue for vanity?

Thanks.

2006-11-26 00:56:31 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-11-26 00:54:09 · 22 answers · asked by S 4

1- How to become a millionaire?
2- Who is my soul mate?
3- What is the purpose of life?
4- How to get over the fear of death?

2006-11-26 00:39:02 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-11-26 00:30:58 · 22 answers · asked by Great Man 1

2006-11-26 00:20:14 · 9 answers · asked by sweet candy 1

People who have no control over their own emotions usually try to control others.

2006-11-26 00:09:34 · 12 answers · asked by Thebronx 5

Does it become a part of us or does it remains as self deception.
or
How real is self deception?

Thanks.

2006-11-25 23:25:53 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-11-25 23:07:43 · 9 answers · asked by nourbakhsh_shahram 1

is it the complex of our society ?

2006-11-25 23:05:44 · 7 answers · asked by SG 4

2006-11-25 22:47:09 · 24 answers · asked by jax onam 1

So we could use there resipitory systems and be able to dwell on this planet.

we are obviously aliens ourselves as we contribute nothing to the planet other than destruction , we dont care for any other living thing other than ourselves, we cannot live in peace , and the first man to think of an answer to where we came from was a mad man named Darwin. So we took that as the answer and educated all our children to believe this. Or of course the God the almighty created us and all the worldly problems?

Well I would prefere to believe it was the aliens.

Does anyone agree with me ??

2006-11-25 21:57:25 · 31 answers · asked by Drunvalo 3

2006-11-25 21:38:18 · 7 answers · asked by dreamtime 1

Because if He can't lift it then He can't do everything, but then it is impossible for him to make that rock? I'm just curious to know what answers you guys might come up with ...

2006-11-25 21:18:53 · 20 answers · asked by gorgeousfluffpot 5

I think it has to do with sports

2006-11-25 21:14:37 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-11-25 20:56:59 · 37 answers · asked by sachin j 1

2006-11-25 20:43:52 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

A train was traveling thru Europe and in one cabin was a mathmatician, a philosopher, and a young boy. When the train crossed the border into Germany, they passed a black sheep and the boy said, "Look, the sheep in this country are black!"
The mathmatician said, "All you can say is that some of the sheep in Germany are black."
The philosopher said, "All you can really say is there is at least 1 sheep in Germany that is half black."

2006-11-25 20:34:54 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous