Philosophy - November 2006

and yet 'hound' quite often people of another faith as history has proven.
Was GOD the first domesticated ' animal' in our minds?

2006-11-13 07:43:39 · 7 answers · asked by Consultant 1

What makes your life worth living?What drives you to get up in the morning what is your spark your inspiration your dream?

2006-11-13 07:41:30 · 14 answers · asked by Big Bear 1

Discuss Galileo's " letter to the grand Duchess Christina". What are the arguments?

2006-11-13 07:06:35 · 3 answers · asked by tosin_20708 2

2006-11-13 07:04:36 · 30 answers · asked by alan r 1

does sound exist if there is no one around to hear it

2006-11-13 06:52:48 · 12 answers · asked by *Punk&Disorderly* 2

Have any of you had experiences that cannot be explained other than it was because you visualized the outcome of your goal? Do you have inspiring examples?

2006-11-13 06:36:45 · 6 answers · asked by Lisa M 4

2006-11-13 06:25:42 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

I don't want to be a college professor but I am good at reading books and writing essays. I am a deep thinker and love history, religions and philosophy. Am I a good candidate?

2006-11-13 06:17:53 · 15 answers · asked by icu812 3

God exists.
God is all powerful.
Evil exists.

Please explain why?

2006-11-13 05:40:22 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

what may be common to one may not be sen sable to another and visea versa.

2006-11-13 05:33:55 · 6 answers · asked by bumble b 2

So many times we are where we are due to past decisions. Where do you want to be this very second in lieu of where you are right now?

2006-11-13 05:25:03 · 21 answers · asked by Batman has left the building 3

The Worlds Richest man is atop a $52 Billion fortune, will death be an interruption of the grand and full life that all of this wealth generates and permits ? yet the man who is poor, struggles all his life to make ends meet, still meets with death, so is it really the same experience for rich and for poor ?

2006-11-13 04:42:55 · 8 answers · asked by Latin Techie 7

LOVE-AS-BOND METAPHOR – love is represented as a physical connection between the lovers.
She has an attachment to him.
There are romantic ties between them.
There is something between them.

LOVE-AS-CAPTIVE-ANIMAL METAPHOR - love is represented as a captive animal, external to the person in love but held onto by him or her, such that letting the animal loose represents loss of control over the feelings of love, and holding onto the animal represents retention of control.
He couldn't hold back his love.
She let go of her feelings.

LOVE-AS-COMMODITY METAPHOR - love is represented as a valuable substance to be traded, thus entailing mutuality of the trade and comparability of the amounts traded.
I gave her all my love.
I didn't get much in return.
What am I getting out of this relationship anyway?
I am putting more into this than you are.
She's invested a lot in that relationship

LOVE-AS-FIRE METAPHOR - love is represented as a fire, such that the cause, existence, and intensity of the fire represents the cause, existence, and intensity of the love, and burn damage done by the fire represents psychological damage due to love.
My heart's on fire.
She is his latest flame.
That kindled love in his heart.
I don't want to get burned again.
He was consumed by love.

LOVE-AS-FLUID-IN-CONTAINER METAPHOR - love is represented as a fluid contained in the body, such that the level of the fluid represents the amount of love.
She was filled with love.
Warm feelings welled up inside him.
He poured out his affections on her.
She couldn't hold in her love for him any longer.

LOVE-AS-HIDDEN-OBJECT METAPHOR - love is represented as a hidden object to be sought after.
He sought for love in the wrong places.
His search for love wasn't successful.
You're lucky to have found her.

LOVE-AS-INSANITY METAPHOR - love is represented as mental illness, such that the person causing the insanity represents the person with whom one is in love, the insane person represents the person in love, and the insane behavior represents the behavior of the person in love.
I'm crazy about her.
She drives me out of my mind.
He constantly raves about her.
I'm just wild about Harry.

LOVE-AS-JOURNEY METAPHOR - love is represented as a journey, thus highlighting the aspects of purpose, progress, and problems in the love relationship.
We'll just have to go our separate ways.
I don't think this relationship is going anywhere.
It's been a long, bumpy road.
Our marriage is on the rocks.
This relationship is foundering.

LOVE-AS-NATURAL-FORCE METAPHOR - love is represented as a storm, flood, or wind, thus highlighting the aspects of the intensity of love and the lack of control of those in love.
She swept me off my feet.
Waves of passion came over him.
She was carried away by love.
It was a whirlwind romance.
She let herself go.

LOVE-AS-NUTRIENT METAPHOR - love is represented as necessary sustenance.
She's starved for affection.
He's love-starved.
He hungered for love.

LOVE-AS-OPPONENT METAPHOR - love is represented as a foe in a fight, such that winning the fight represents maintaining control over one's feelings of love and losing or surrendering represents loss of control.
He tried to fight off his feelings of love.
She was struggling with her feelings of love.
She was overcome by love.
Love took complete control over him.

LOVE-AS-PATIENT METAPHOR - love is represented as a person whose degree of health represents the state of the love relationship.
They have a strong, healthy marriage.
The marriage is dead--it can't be revived.
Their relationship is in really good shape.
It's a tired affair.

LOVE-AS-PHYSICAL-FORCE METAPHOR - love is represented as a force such as gravity, electricity, or magnetism, thus highlighting a conception of love as something over which a person has no choice and for which he is not responsible.
I was magnetically drawn to her.
They gravitated to each other immediately.
His whole life revolves around her.
They lost their momentum.

LOVE-AS-RAPTURE METAPHOR - love is represented as a drug-induced high, highlighting aspects of pleasurability and loss of mental faculties.
He is intoxicated with love.
I am giddy with love.
I have been high on love for weeks.
She is drunk with love.

LOVE-AS-UNITY METAPHOR - love is represented as two complementary parts becoming one.
We were made for each other.
We are one.
She is my better half.
Theirs is a perfect match.

LOVE-AS-WAR METAPHOR - love is represented as war.
He fled from her advances.
She pursued him relentlessly.
He is slowly gaining ground with her.
He made an ally of her mother.

SEXUALITY-AS-A-PHYSICAL-FORCE METAPHOR - sexual attraction is represented as an explosive, electrical, or magnetic force.
She's devastating.
I was knocked off my feet.
I could feel the electricity between us.
He has a lot of animal magnetism.
We were drawn to each other.

LUST-AS-HEAT METAPHOR - sexual desire is represented as heat, such that the level of heat represents the level of desire.
She's an old flame.
Don't be cold to me.
She's hot stuff.
He was consumed by desire.

LUST-AS-HUNGER METAPHOR - sexual desire is represented as hunger for food, and correspondingly, the object of desire is represented as food.
He is sex-starved.
She's quite a dish.
You look luscious.
Hi, sugar!

LUST-AS-INSANITY METAPHOR - sexual desire is represented as mental illness.
I'm crazy about her.
I'm madly in love with him.
I'm wild over her.
She's got me delirious.

LUST-AS-WAR METAPHOR - sexual desire is represented as a war between the desirer and the desired.
He's known for his conquests.
Better put on my war paint.
He fled from her advances.
He has to fend off all the women who want him.

LUSTFUL-PERSON-AS-ANIMAL METAPHOR - a lustful person is represented as an animal.
He's a wolf.
He looks like he's ready to pounce.
He preys upon unsuspecting women.
He's a real stud!
You bring out the beast in me.

2006-11-13 04:42:00 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

i was just reading the news and found out about a very brutal murder of an innocent teenage boy. how does God protect us when we need him most

thanx

2006-11-13 04:33:49 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-11-13 04:27:18 · 19 answers · asked by Mitchell B 4

2006-11-13 04:23:43 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-11-13 04:15:12 · 19 answers · asked by Hem 1

2006-11-13 04:05:35 · 18 answers · asked by bluenose 4

2006-11-13 03:57:54 · 14 answers · asked by bhoot 1

dictated by fate/ luck/ God's will, and how much by sheer hard work and determination?
What makes you feel that way?

2006-11-13 03:54:42 · 17 answers · asked by emily_jane2379 5

I know I'm going to get alot of thumbs from this one, I'm just sooo tired of people thumbing peoples questions and answers for no reason. Seems like many people these days have a very narrow view of the world. I mean come on! This is the Philosophy section, no answer or question is wrong. Yes some are hard to comprehend but never wrong.

2006-11-13 03:49:50 · 19 answers · asked by I Ain't Your Momma 5

what are you going to do if someones belief is contrary to yours?

2006-11-13 03:48:12 · 11 answers · asked by harryn 1

I had 2 consecutive dreams about having colon cancer. In the first dream I was at the hospital were the nurses were smoking cigerettes inside my room, and the other patients were bringing me blankets. The doctor said there was a 100% chance it was colon cancer, and sent me home. When I told my step dad the news he started crying, and said What I'm I gonna do?
In the sencond dream it seemed as if it had picked up were the last one left off... after telling my grandma the news I started experiencing terrible stomach pain, so she drove me back to the same hospital. When we arrived the patient who was next to me in first dream was getting arrested. And again in this dream the doctor confirmed a 100% chance of cancer. When I woke up my stomach was cramping. What does all of this mean?

2006-11-13 03:37:04 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

Could this be any different, or may be not?

2006-11-13 03:34:12 · 21 answers · asked by Shahid 7

2006-11-13 03:10:35 · 15 answers · asked by sotu 3

2006-11-13 03:06:30 · 5 answers · asked by Estyle E 2

Peace and Love

2006-11-13 03:00:44 · 16 answers · asked by digilook 2

We have police, governments, and soldiers. Rules and laws.
Common-sense is not common is it? Therefore it has to be enforced.
Why?

2006-11-13 02:46:26 · 21 answers · asked by sotu 3

2006-11-13 02:37:09 · 12 answers · asked by Victoria Elaine 1

If this was not true explain why the world we have made is such a mess.
How much longer can we afford to avoid the central issue?

We are all self centred 'individuals-'selfish' thinking only about our little circle of existence. If we were not would the world be in such chaos?

2006-11-13 02:29:37 · 19 answers · asked by sotu 3