Philosophy - November 2006

2006-11-17 07:27:45 · 17 answers · asked by I'm Sparticus 4

The great tragedy of human history is that some people do things and other people don't do things. Much as you might loathe murderers, rapists, fraudsters and warmongers, you have to respect the fact that they did things. It is said that some of them may even have left the house, something many have never done. I rarely do anything, and I am not sure if this is positive or not. Working on the premise that the road to hell is paved with good intentions, I'm hoping that the road to heaven is paved with bad intentions. Even though my heart is filled with hatred and malice, I never actually do anything about it. This is good. On the other hand, I could definitely do more to help the poor and the needy, perhaps by encouraging them to express themselves through poetry.

2006-11-17 07:18:34 · 10 answers · asked by rabbit0102030 3

....the 20th century? Among the physicists, Werner Heisenberg, Max Planck, Louis de Broglie, Niels Bohr, Erwin Schrödinger, Max Born, John von Neumann, Paul Dirac, Albert Einstein, Wolfgang Pauli and others. Among the psychologists, Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud.

2006-11-17 07:04:24 · 5 answers · asked by Seeker 4

will you still love someone who does not or cannot promote your survival and agree with your point if view?

2006-11-17 07:03:44 · 10 answers · asked by zigzagidiot 3

2006-11-17 06:37:48 · 4 answers · asked by Red Yeti 5

2006-11-17 06:35:17 · 27 answers · asked by Kate 4

Ok, I wrote this and I'll give 10 points to whoever can figure out what I meant.

When freedom glows inside one lonely moment
And stars are shaped to match your lovely torment,
Look up, look up! The sky is made of tears!
Look down, look down! The ground is built on fears!
But no... you sigh and smile... and forget
As if your lonely freedom doesn't fret,
As if the naked pages can escape
And glow despite their useless state,
As if they're blind, they cannot see
That bloodstained ink that kills the glee
Inside their mortal history
Because it doesn't set them free.

2006-11-17 06:21:46 · 13 answers · asked by ava c 1

2006-11-17 06:12:55 · 7 answers · asked by James 6

2006-11-17 05:59:48 · 27 answers · asked by tankbubbat 1

but than after thinking about it you know you are always right.

2006-11-17 05:48:48 · 23 answers · asked by sweetsmile 2

2006-11-17 05:29:28 · 4 answers · asked by wisdom 3

2006-11-17 05:27:27 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

The only reason I exist, is it to think and feel?

What if the essence of me, that which I am only now to see exist, what if it was to see the futility of thought and speech?

If that alone was not cause for my physical demise, would I still not live a life of death?

But to only experience myself die a thousand fold, is that not worth life?

To be without life nor death, contentment of sorrow, lovingly wicked, depressingly inspired... what is to be God is to be acknowledged.

That is to be you me, and anything else I desire, no longer shall we suffer together.

I will create and destroy you, mold you through yourselves, until my own madness should end. We are one.

I will squeeze the bloody life out of you until I understand my own. I will drop bombs on every aspect of myself until nothing exist. Until I no longer need to think and feel, time will cease to exist.

Then you will know me, address me as you would yourselves, for I am everything until you understand we are nothing.

2006-11-17 05:26:13 · 9 answers · asked by jonas_tripps_79 2

Why do you think anything to be more important than anything else?

2006-11-17 05:12:06 · 21 answers · asked by jonas_tripps_79 2

Assuming it is not to be or not to be, what is the question?

2006-11-17 05:09:34 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-11-17 05:07:25 · 8 answers · asked by jonas_tripps_79 2

after all they created us we didnt create ourselves.

2006-11-17 04:45:50 · 14 answers · asked by duffman 1

my friend recieved some criticism from someone that didnt seem like she really wanted to help. This criticism has affected her, so i just want to know if anyone knows a quote that will help

2006-11-17 04:42:48 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

My beliefs are pretty much a mix of methodism/deism/quantum physics, and i believe that your perception of the world, its gods, and your ideas about the afterlife and the state of the universe will determine what you percieve as your afterlife. In quantum physics, time does not exist. Also, in order to exist, something must be observed. As time does not exist, and the perception of time is simply our minds viewing the different probabilities the world may exist in. Therefore, all people are both alive and dead. In order to observe ourselves and observe others, we must exist. As something cannot both exist and not exist, only change form or be transfered between dimensions, the sentience that inhabits our bodies must persist after death for us to observe our lives, as both life and death occur simultaniously according to this worldview.

Therefore, there must be something beyond death.

Your thoughts?

2006-11-17 04:38:04 · 6 answers · asked by fishthevile 1

THink about it.........

2006-11-17 04:18:35 · 13 answers · asked by Lauretha 3

I believe God is all powerful....He COULD make a rock so big that he can't move it, yet wait he is all powerful, so then he would be able to move it....?

2006-11-17 03:39:16 · 19 answers · asked by habemf 2

I just finished taking an existentialism class in school and i think it's bloody genius, some questions though...
Some internal problems with existentialism that i see are as follows. For one thing, one wonders why we should even care if we are in the condition existentialists say we are. Why care about being authentic, about operating in good faith, as we create our own existence? Why bother about... bothering at all? Why not just eat, drink and be merry? Regarding standards of value, how can one avoid the notion that there are some values that everyone should accept, universal standards of good and evil, beauty and ugliness? We can't help believing some things are worth preserving while others are unworthy of our efforts. Is this due to our societal conditioning from which there's no return, or is existentialsm plain wrong?

2006-11-17 03:38:47 · 5 answers · asked by Lexus-Nut 3

2006-11-17 03:10:52 · 7 answers · asked by 12 Knight 1

2006-11-17 03:07:53 · 18 answers · asked by menschliches.wesen88 6

2006-11-17 02:37:03 · 8 answers · asked by chris B 3

Having ready many books (both fiction and non-fiction) on totalitarianism and distopias in general I'd like to know, where does it all end?

Let me explain.

Totalitarianism is generally a system of absolute power. Every author I have read in this field generally appears to support the thesis that totalitarianism is used by those who exercise it for personal emotional gain, that is, they enjoy the absolute power and dominance over others, and will continue to work towards achieving absolute power.

Winston Smith is told this at the end of 1984. In "WE" (Zamyatin) D503, after having undergone surgery, watches his former 'girlfriend' die slowly. A factual example would be the Nazi party, North Korea is another.

The question is, if this is a psychological illness/trait (is it?), what would happen if the person with this power were to reach a point where all his subjects (every one of them) were totally under control, where there was absolutely no possibility of deviant behaviour (in all of the fiction books I have read the possibility of deviant behaviour exists. In 1984 the epilogue actually makes reference to the fact that Big Brother's state was actually overcome in some way, because it refers to it in the past tense).

What would be left for the totalitarian in control to do in terms of satisfying urges of power? If the subjects had absolutely no way of dissenting (just imagine if the whole world were under control), how would this person go on? Surely merely torturing or abusing subjects in other ways would be meaningless, as there would be nothing left to suppress?

2006-11-17 01:48:26 · 6 answers · asked by martin 1

2006-11-17 01:40:44 · 13 answers · asked by IshotJR 2

For me, it's the journey. We tend to learn the most when we're trying to achieve something or get somewhere - i.e. when we're not focused on learning.

2006-11-17 01:36:10 · 28 answers · asked by The Mad Shillelagh 6

i like any motivational quotes, and here is one that i cant really understand real good. "Make now the most precious moment;now will never come again..

or maybe its just tell us not to waste our time by doing nothing..
or maybe its telling us to something that will make us near to something that we want....

2006-11-17 01:35:29 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

Is it just me.... Or the human being have reached already the point where we think we can manage ours and others destiny?...
I mean selecting between "boy" or "girl", as, what we want our baby to be, is unselecting as well some other options, that used to be destiny... What you think?... (and don´t take wrong, I am amazed as well of how far the technology advances have get)
I have 2 beautiful daughters, that just came in the perfect moment and to be...
And nothing makes me more happy than my princesses...
My wife and I, we decided to wait for knowing the babies sex till the moment of birth and that was exiting!!!...

2006-11-17 01:34:00 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous