Philosophy - December 2006

Or is what we see made real by the fact that our consciousness sees it at all?

2006-12-09 05:00:18 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

If life is a test, how could it have any type of reliability or validity? No two people are given the same lot and circumstances in life, so wouldn't that make the results of the tests incomparable and essentially meaningless? I guess life could be a good test if the each set of results was judged invidividually, but many seem to believe that the afterlife is a place where people are separated into large genealized groups, like those who go to heaven, hell, purgatory or move up or down the existential ladder. If life really is a test and peoples' results determine their post-death fate, like children's I.Q. scores may determine what class they are put in, wouldn't that mean that the testmaker has made serious methodological errors?

2006-12-09 04:56:38 · 20 answers · asked by Subconsciousless 7

Is it someone who just trys to make himself a better person, or is it someone who is trying to make everyone he comes into contact with better.

2006-12-09 04:45:42 · 9 answers · asked by The Chief 2

Life

2006-12-09 04:34:19 · 10 answers · asked by amazon 4

In every adversity lies the seed to an equal or greater benefit.

2006-12-09 04:30:42 · 17 answers · asked by justbuddy67 2

P.S. no one is around to hear it.

2006-12-09 04:16:08 · 19 answers · asked by Captain Reynolds 4

How does percieving scripts, the way your caught in them and the ways you resist them, effect your sense as an ethical subject?

2006-12-09 04:14:13 · 1 answers · asked by The Chief 2

Was asked at Sunday morning coffee I have with older men.

2006-12-09 04:12:52 · 12 answers · asked by amazon 4

2006-12-09 04:03:38 · 19 answers · asked by Lone Wolf Soldier 1

After watching DBZ and growing up on DBZ cartoons I have become infatuated with the thought of creating energy bombs with the energy in my body like on the show. Another example is the spirit gun technique from Yu Yu Hakusho. After reading some of Newton's laws on energy I have found that energy is neither created nor destroyed. In real life, would this knowledge hinder the characters of DBZ and make their attack methods impossible? (This is just for fun. Don't leave any insulting posts, please.)

2006-12-09 03:44:47 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-09 03:42:55 · 7 answers · asked by komis 4

Don't say the woods. That would be the first place the police will look

2006-12-09 03:26:19 · 51 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-09 03:17:24 · 6 answers · asked by tyt 1

2006-12-09 03:16:07 · 4 answers · asked by tyt 1

Someone like Hitler, Hussein, or Bin Laden. Even if they were little babies in their mothers arms I wouldn't hesitate to put bullets in their heads.

2006-12-09 02:52:51 · 10 answers · asked by Buster 3

2006-12-09 02:43:14 · 11 answers · asked by DoctressWho 4

2006-12-09 02:32:45 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-09 02:23:09 · 4 answers · asked by Silent_Hill 1

just inquisitive

2006-12-09 02:07:43 · 11 answers · asked by mesalcut 1

2006-12-09 01:53:24 · 13 answers · asked by ngudjohn 1

My mom passed away, and in my dreams I can bring her back to life. I can touch her, kiss her and have meaningful conversations. In this sense we are never really without those we love. I can dream about when my husband and I first fell in love and we are young again. My best friend from high school (33 years ago) whose moved across the country still visits me occassionaly in my dreams though we haven't spoken in years. What do you appreciate most about dreams?

2006-12-09 01:53:07 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-09 01:47:37 · 16 answers · asked by small 7

What is creativity? (origination, expression, evaluation)

2006-12-09 01:08:03 · 18 answers · asked by summation 2

2006-12-09 00:59:45 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

What do you love to do and love about life? You can list more if you wish!

2006-12-09 00:23:06 · 19 answers · asked by summation 2

2006-12-08 23:45:23 · 11 answers · asked by Little Boat Tart 1

For me I would have to say I was in a dark room with absolutly no light. I couldn't see the front of my hand in my dream but I could feel someone in the room breathing but I didn't know from what direction and so I made my way to a wall feeling around and found a door knob before I opened it. I remember saying Lord be with me and I opened the door at the same time and I saw a ghostly looking face of a devil and it pass right through me, like it ran away. I woke up my heart was pounding and I had chills and goosebumps all over my body. It was really wierd. One more was recently, I dreamed that my little daughter died and in my dream I remember regreting everytime I was to busy or told her to hang on when she wanted to talk to me. I was hurting bad in my dream and was crying. My husband heard me sobbing and woke me up and tears were rolling down my face. It was the first time I ever that sad in my life. I couldn't imagine losing my kids I would go insane. What about your dreams?

2006-12-08 23:38:09 · 7 answers · asked by Jessica 1

2006-12-08 23:35:46 · 10 answers · asked by john p 1

my mistakes made me the wise person that i am now. i am not repend for them because now i have the wise to know why i shouldn't make them again.

2006-12-08 23:04:00 · 14 answers · asked by kittana! 2

Apparently, in the future computers will be able to create genuine virtual reality. In other words, they will be able to build a universe atom by atom, molecule by molecule - completely indistinguishable from the "real" thing - except that it only "exists" within a computer programme. And it could create "beings" to live within this virtual universe, who would have no idea at all that they aren't "real".

If the idea of a multiverse is right, then maybe a scientist from another dimension has already created this programme, and we are it. Maybe the big bang happened when he pressed a button on his keyboard.

If this scientist does exist, then he does so in a way that we cannot understand, his motivations are beyond our comprehension and we are unable to interact with him. Who's that except God?

I am firmly agnostic by the way - I have no idea whether or not God exists and believe that, if he does, I have no hope of ever understanding him.

2006-12-08 22:48:09 · 31 answers · asked by Hello Dave 6