Philosophy - November 2006

2006-11-30 12:25:48 · 29 answers · asked by John 1

2006-11-30 12:24:40 · 14 answers · asked by karla m 1

2006-11-30 12:24:18 · 34 answers · asked by John 1

2006-11-30 12:01:03 · 22 answers · asked by Seriously Though 4

My Honor's English teacher recently assigned my class a cause and effect essay on Transcendentalism. She told the class to quote Emerson's essay Self-Reliance and Thoreau's book Walden and show "how the belief expressed in the quotes are still relevant today with a personal example." She also said that our thesis needed to demonstrate a cause and effect relationship between the two.*

My first question is, is she actually describing a cause and effect essay?

Second, is there a direct relationship between the American Transcendentalist movement of the 1830's and how people act more independent and non-conformist today? The only connection I could find was that both are the effect of some deeper human drive to be an individual in society, or am I missing something?

Finally, I am considering writing a short essay to my teacher explaining (in a not so nice manner) why I think this essay was a waste of paper and how there is no cause/effect relationship between the two topics.

2006-11-30 12:00:21 · 3 answers · asked by Andrew M 2

2006-11-30 11:56:22 · 8 answers · asked by Evilbunnyfarts 2

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What if the wax on the candle just disappeared in thin air,
disintegrated into the murky ground.
no evidence of the candle flickering,let alone burning,evaporating its existence.

wat if the rose just rised as a wilted one?
no scarlet red,no luster in its beauty?
just there to behold a sympathetic glance from the o thers beyond our midst.

Wat if God was knocking on the door,but the turmoil from materialism just would barge thru refraining u from listening?

wat if we were numb to the sense of a hint of affction because our harden heart are froxen to any compassion whatsoever?just fell and broke to pieces uncounted for,put back to gether intact wit disordered tape and its once fullness is now withered and lowly.

wat if we slept wit our eyes open,no peace or tranquility,but disruption no cure of wat seems to b hopelessness in our days of numbered glory.

but here we r,standing by the chained gates and we knock,wewe thump on the shains,but do theyl istwe thump on the shains,but do theyl isten?we'll never know?do theyl isten,they won't show?
will they ever c me?
will they ever hear me?
will they ever know me?
but here i am,knocking on the gate.

girl by the river

Sh'e lowly and defeated by a withered tree of brokeness,
wat she grasps,seems ot escape and linger out of her fingers.
Her scent seems liek poison with hints of mystic dust in the air.

Her eyes once full of wonder,now tear stricken with shame.
Size of a clenched fist,so strong yet so weary.
comfort cushions it from all pain and fury.
burdens that eat and gnaw hungrily at her flesh,
once ripe and once pure once happy and fresh.

Now left at the mercy of the elders beyond,
by a river to cry and fill up its banks,by a river to c her reflection to know she's still existent.
Forgotten as a mere memory to b rotting away into the abyss of a cold night.
she yells and she screams "the sky is falling".
Noone pays heed for they no wiser to pay any heed watsever to her.she's nothing how's she know?
She screams ,she moans but who has time to care?
she cries and she yearns for a life of sunrise and flare.

She desires and pleads for a life other than her own
but who are u t pity,wh or u to frown?
it's not yr fault she's not content and that she's feeling down.

Don't bother now ,i tell u loved one,don't wasted a shedded tear.
for she's merely just the girl by the river wh olives in anger and fear.

2006-11-30 11:35:10 · 6 answers · asked by 321 3

2006-11-30 11:33:08 · 12 answers · asked by PRIVATE 1

2006-11-30 11:19:29 · 11 answers · asked by tolkienrules2123 2

2006-11-30 11:16:57 · 22 answers · asked by nicole80881 2

I do.

I've always wanted to walk across a New York Street, bang my hands down on the bonnet of a yellow cab and yell "I'm walkin' here" a la Al Pacino.

I have no idea why - just appeals to me.

You?

2006-11-30 10:44:23 · 21 answers · asked by Hello Dave 6

are you happy with your job?

how do you spend the money you earn ?

2006-11-30 10:11:58 · 6 answers · asked by thù tỉ tỉ 4

Please, I need as many people to give me advice on this as possible.Very important.No Joking please?
I own a small workshop. Last Monday, I had to leave early and only the workers were at the workshop. They are 2 workers ,and very honest. I trust them very much.
They sold things with the amount of 250 pounds on Monday. When the time came to close up, one of them put the money in the drawer of the desk , and they closed the doors and left.
The next morning, I came and asked for the money, it was gone. They looked for it every where , but they couldn't find it.There was no sign for any break in or anything.As I said , they didn't steal it. But what I think has happened is that they left the place for 3 or 4 minutes, which they often do, and someone got the money from the drawer.I decided to split the amount. I would pay 100. The one who had the money would pay 100. The other one would pay 50.But this last one refused . So I said o.k but I told him that if he ever leaves the place again, I would fire him. He got so upset and left. U think I was right or wrong ?wt should I have done ?

2006-11-30 10:05:24 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

...what's the one thing, in your final moments, that you would most regret never having done?

2006-11-30 09:46:07 · 64 answers · asked by Hello Dave 6

2006-11-30 09:45:19 · 18 answers · asked by birdy 3

I just got home after taking lessons for my driving license and this guy is the epitome of goodness. i love being there but every time i get home i feel sad 'cause I realize I don't have that kind of people near me. how do I get over it. i'm always saying to myself I wish I had that kind of family and so on. and now the Christmas time's comin' and I h... it.

thanx

2006-11-30 09:40:51 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

for me, it's my bunny rabbit. he's so gentle and cuddly, like a little animal angel

2006-11-30 09:31:27 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

i'd like to hear from people who do see that there is the point beyond which you cannot go

thank you

2006-11-30 09:24:19 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

not the definition but more like the explanation of why it exists and why we are the only living things on earth that have them

2006-11-30 09:22:52 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

In the present day world we come across more people who are short of contentment despite significant achievements. Restlessness is visible in all walks of life. Even in matrimonial ads a partner seeks is achiever. All these terms are relative in nature.Is lack of contentment is leading to miseries in human life?. If so how to deal with it? While dealing this discussion the possible scenario is confusion. For instance quest to know some thing asks for insatiability. If one is content with one learns, or thinks that learned sufficiently that could be end of learning. Same holds good with creativity. Also contentment and creativity will not go hand in hand. What makes a person to conquer the tallest peaks such as Everest, deepest trenches such as Mariana ( Challenger's depth). Those who can not climb can always go to peaks by other means and feel it. One need not go to depths of oceans but can send instruments to measure it and see the same while enjoying the currents on top.

2006-11-30 09:19:58 · 7 answers · asked by prasad 1

"cuz them (human)fockers eat everything, kill everything and one another, fock anything and have homosexual couples. Animals are not concious creatures at least, to figure out what's right or wrong.:-(

2006-11-30 09:00:21 · 16 answers · asked by oskarbutterfly 1

So i write some poetry and i wana get some opinions(honest and true dont hold back)...heres one of my most recent ones
*I can now feel it; I am in love.
With you, an angel from above.
*Your smile warms and brightens my heart
Forever, I will hold your hand, never planning to part.
*Your constantly on my mind, all day and all night
My world is now turned upside down, since you shown upon my life.
*Even though I don't always say it, I am in love with you
And if we were to say goodbye, my life would turn from gold to blue.

<3Manda...so what do you think?

2006-11-30 08:54:20 · 14 answers · asked by miniskirtvocals23 1

at work, we have I.D cards, and the managing director signs the back of each one to verify the authenticy and blah blah blah, then i noticed that she has an ID card, and i wondered who signs her card to verify her as a member of staff. sorry about the longness (i have a lot of time on my hands at work, maybe i should actually do some work)....so to my question...while the guards guard us, who guards the guards...lol i used the word guard so much, the word has lost all meaning

2006-11-30 08:53:31 · 10 answers · asked by bling_licious 1

2006-11-30 08:48:56 · 23 answers · asked by ? 6

What would you wish for?

2006-11-30 08:45:18 · 13 answers · asked by Ger C 2

It is a manufactured concept by the human mind... The purpose of which cannot be linked to an evolutionary event... Would the petiness of our day-to-day problems be overridden by the discovery that 'time' itself is a fraud?

2006-11-30 08:41:47 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-11-30 08:36:20 · 10 answers · asked by gotalife 7

2006-11-30 08:34:58 · 17 answers · asked by Source 4

I've created a highway...a highway straight to hell.

2006-11-30 08:34:06 · 10 answers · asked by gotalife 7

What we actually looking for individually and collectively? Do we really know what Freedom is?

2006-11-30 08:15:25 · 7 answers · asked by Oleg B 6