Philosophy - November 2006

Lactantius always spoke ill of Lucretius due his idea of a peaceful and undisturbed God that wouldn’t interfere with the world -for he foresaw in this the end of religion- but it is true a God deprived of its own perfection would be no God at all. It would be inconsistent with God’s nature to suffer from the very same affections that pull the strings of nerves and blood every human being is made of. No father would chose sides when his sons fight each other for petty things. If it were possible to drag God to our side he’d be deprived of his own will. Lactantius understood vengefulness as opposed to mercy and thought a merciless God a God deprived of forgiveness –for if God were deficient in one thing he would necessarily lack the other. What Lactantius does not see is that a God deprived of his perfection would be no pattern to follow and, therefore, this would be the same as basking in perpetual darkness. If God followed this path he would make his offspring orphan, there can be no doubt. It is not to God to turn human but to men to become like Gods.

2006-11-18 15:22:26 · 17 answers · asked by george 3

When a person abandons all desires which enter his mind and remains satisfied in his Self alone, O Partha, then he is called a man of steady wisdom.

He said: "O Arjuna, listen. This inordinate desire of the mind becomes an obstacle in the realisation of the bliss. Even a person who is happy and contented is caught in the snares of the sense-objects because of attachment. When a person rids himself permanently of this desire and remains immersed in the joy of self, he is known as a man of steady wisdom.

Source :- Jnaneswari viz Bhagavad Gita

What are those ways and methods by which we can abandon all our desires ?

2006-11-18 14:57:00 · 7 answers · asked by jayakrishnaathmavidya 4

Is there a difference? If so, why do believe that?

2006-11-18 14:55:35 · 30 answers · asked by Amara 1

[that everyone agrees, in some little attic room of the mind where the rationality lies forgotten]


premise: everyone will agree that, if a govt committed the enormous injustice of taking 90% of income & fortune permanently off 90% of the population & gave it to 1% [so that 90% wd now have a 10th for the same work, 9% wd have the same as before, and 1% wd have 82 times as much for the same work] that that action would cause a giant increase in violence, social unrest, anger, etc and decrease social happiness [peace, safety, etc] - by a factor of say 100

corollary: and thus everyone agrees that reversing that policy wd decrease violence disturbance poblems etc and increase happiness by the same factor

premise: we humans have such injustice - a worse level of injustice [pay/hour from 1000th to a million times average, 1% getting 90%, etc]

conclusion: everyone knows [in that tiny rational corner] that we can be, like, 100 times happier

is being happier relevant to us?

2006-11-18 14:33:30 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

1. Partless part = partless whole.
2. Equivalenceless equivalence = equivalenceless difference.
3. Boundless bound = boundless tie.
4. Influenceless influence = influenceless sensation.
5. Originless origin = originless derivative.
6. Choiceless choice = choicelsess determinant.
7. Intentless intent = intentless fufillment.

2006-11-18 13:38:04 · 7 answers · asked by The Knowledge Server 1

2006-11-18 13:37:37 · 29 answers · asked by bbalhotshot 2

Based solely on my avatar, past questions and answers, and wild speculation, how evil do you think I am on a scale of 1 to 10. 0 is Ghandi. 10 is Osama Bin Laden on PCP armed with a chainsaw.

2006-11-18 13:30:48 · 14 answers · asked by Wise1 3

I stand a few feet from a tree. On the opposite side of the tree, hanging on the bark and looking at me, is a squirrel. I begin to walk in a circle that has the tree as it's center. As I walk, the squirrel stays opposite my position, its belly always facing toward me. Once I walk around the tree, have I walked around gthe squirrel?

What does this scenario say about ones definition(s) of "around"?

2006-11-18 13:22:15 · 12 answers · asked by neil s 7

I'm asking this question just to get people's opinion on it. This is my topic for my Final Project in Philosophy and I really just wanted to see what others had to say about it.
I appreciate all answers :)

2006-11-18 13:13:33 · 15 answers · asked by Shellybelli24 2

people, countries, continent and whaterver is all important to the world but insted of working together we fight each other and that cause great catastrophe.......so why does people have war instead of living in peace and harmoney......i really wanna know why......

2006-11-18 13:07:17 · 20 answers · asked by miss kiss 2

Can people be controled through fear and is it a lasting control, or dose it only promt inevitable rebellion? Generaly speaking (not just govenrment) General opions, and any historical example.

2006-11-18 12:47:34 · 12 answers · asked by joe_junior69 1

im serious.... you know the song:

"hey joe, where you goin with that gun in your hand
im going down to shoot my old lady, you know i caught her messin around with another man"

...surely anyone who has ever had their heart broken can relate. ...i mean i dont think id ever shoot my ex... but if someone did, i think id be like well, i can see where he/she was coming from. ...wadya think? shooting people okay in that situation?

2006-11-18 12:46:53 · 18 answers · asked by sean_mchugh6 3

for ex: flirting with your husband only while she is drunk? but otherwise you really enjoy being with her and you are her are so much alike in the way you think and she's a lot of fun??? forgive and move on?

2006-11-18 12:12:16 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

"What is the meaning of life?"
Since I've been seeing it every day since I joined Y!A, I've probably seen it 80 times.
Does anyone bother to answer it?

2006-11-18 12:03:41 · 21 answers · asked by The Gadfly 5

2006-11-18 12:00:21 · 14 answers · asked by rayeraye 1

they don't have to think alike, not all the time!

2006-11-18 11:58:26 · 12 answers · asked by patzky99 6

To me, truth is beauty, beauty is truth. What is your defenition of beauty?

2006-11-18 11:51:45 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-11-18 11:34:58 · 26 answers · asked by meh_hamha160 2

Fear means
F- alse
E-vidence
A-ppear
R-eal

When we know that why we still have fears...after all its a false evidence appear real?

2006-11-18 11:18:45 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Is there any one out there that is in love without being able to realate that love to something specific like a person/pet or what ever you can love, OR am I going banana's here?

2006-11-18 11:14:36 · 9 answers · asked by Daniel 1

what moment in your life completely changed things for you and made an impact?

2006-11-18 10:52:37 · 35 answers · asked by Anonymous

the person really really likes you and you like them but you try to hide it and you took to long to respone back to them so they moved on do you have achance getting back with that person or ever meeting them again

2006-11-18 10:34:21 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

and why can most of us not tolerate being toe to toe with Not Knowing for more then seconds.....

2006-11-18 10:33:46 · 15 answers · asked by zigzagidiot 3

My answer's don't show up. Gee whiskas man, i was so proud of myself with my last answer.

2006-11-18 10:27:43 · 22 answers · asked by Duisend-poot 7

2006-11-18 10:24:02 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

I just answered this question about a rose:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061118145210AAs14Yc&r=w#Rs0rDDa8WGbqf9eYwa9X51f9TSMSlLpCXgbJ0lC8yXRZ9R98PJ1A
Can you add to my list?
Other neat things to do after done with rose:
1- Answer every question asked in YAHOO ANSWERS
2 - watch a cloud form and then dissipate or pass by
3- contemplate the grains of sand on the ocean floor
4- continuously add .0000001 to the next largest number you can think of

2006-11-18 10:22:44 · 7 answers · asked by gare 5

Something that makes you feel just so good about yourself? Come on, don't be shy, share it with us!

2006-11-18 10:19:56 · 64 answers · asked by nev 4

we are born with vision. ok to be 'correct', MOST of us are born with vision ok???

we learn that certain things are a certain color. like...THIS FONT IS BLACK. THIS BACKGROUND IS WHITE. etc. so we come to associate certain colors with their names.

but...maybe YOUR black is someone else's GREEN. see what i mean? we are taught names of colors, but no one can get in our brains and find out exactly WHAT wavelength of light we are perceiving.

well what if 'green' meant different things to us? it might, right?

2006-11-18 10:10:43 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-11-18 10:05:56 · 43 answers · asked by blazeofminds 1

2006-11-18 09:52:10 · 31 answers · asked by blazeofminds 1