Philosophy - December 2006

2006-12-07 07:34:02 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-07 07:23:22 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

that no matter what people do, no matter how altruistic it may seem, that it is basically a selfish deed. Even if it's giving away all your time or money to charity... you are doing it to make yourself feel better... does this belief or philosophy (or whatever) have a name?

2006-12-07 07:23:16 · 14 answers · asked by barry-the-aardvark 2

How many of you can relate to this?

New blood joins this earth
and quickly he's subdued
through constant pain disgrace
a young boy learns their rules

with time the child draws in
this whipping boy done wrong
deprived of all his thoughts
the young man struggles on and on he's known
oo a vow onto his own
that never from this day
his will they'll take away

what I've felt
what I've known
never shined through in what I've shown
never be
never see
won't see what might have been


they dedicate their lives
to running all of his
he tries to please them all
this bitter man he is
throughout his life the same
he's battled constantly
this fight he cannot win
a tired man they see no longer cares
the old man then prepares
to die regretfully
that old man it was me

2006-12-07 07:22:22 · 6 answers · asked by luv_my_bimmer 1

2006-12-07 07:21:55 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-07 07:21:34 · 7 answers · asked by jasonhenrybaker2 1

Is it really worth the dealths of millions of animals, and the pain of so many, just for knowing something. (referring to animal experimentation etc)

2006-12-07 07:15:19 · 8 answers · asked by joy_hardyman2003 2

if so, why the authority don't make them suffer or execute them?

2006-12-07 07:13:48 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Just curious as to what everyone thinks?

2006-12-07 07:12:39 · 11 answers · asked by Next evolutionary step... 6

2006-12-07 06:50:45 · 22 answers · asked by joy_hardyman2003 2

2006-12-07 06:24:24 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

...without longing for it for the rest of your life

thanx

2006-12-07 06:22:37 · 19 answers · asked by Fuzzy_lop 1

I would like to know about the tangability of time. Websters describes time as "a nonspacial continium, inwhich events seem to occur in an appearently irreversable succession." You are not allowed to use a word to describe itself, yet they use the term continium, another word for time, to describe it.
My question comes from this, should we try and break the hidden code of a theoretical tool we invented ourselves? If we never cared to meet someone at a specific setting on the sundial, the concept of time would never have even existed, much less be a challenge to the beings who created it. Science wants time travel. Is it reasonable, since we also invented the hammer to crave hammer travel?

2006-12-07 06:18:58 · 4 answers · asked by oceanblue_007 3

2006-12-07 06:15:32 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-07 05:57:26 · 7 answers · asked by krissa 2

Do the other trees laugh at it?

2006-12-07 05:52:43 · 7 answers · asked by Brittany 2

i truly believe this and do not try to convince me I shouldn't 'cause it's all right but I'd like to know why do you think that is. please stick to the question.

thanx

2006-12-07 05:31:20 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

What do you think the meaning of life is?

2006-12-07 05:00:29 · 37 answers · asked by purplerachi 2

can you discribe the life you want in the future in three words or less

please do not use the words "happiness" or "enlightened" or thier synonyms

2006-12-07 04:58:55 · 17 answers · asked by ? 3

2006-12-07 04:54:36 · 16 answers · asked by kosh 2

2006-12-07 04:47:03 · 73 answers · asked by Anonymous

which will mean that they are less likely to break apart the fabricated self that we all construct, and out of whose eyes we think we are looking out of at the world..... and so are less likely to produce spiritual philosophers of the highest calibre....or does being more emotional make the self image less concrete to start with?

2006-12-07 04:26:01 · 5 answers · asked by catweazle 5

Whether your answer be positive or negative.
I am just curious about truth, honesty and to see how people REALLY think.

There is no need to be PC. I would prefer no PC. Since an "honest PC" person is an oxymoron.

2006-12-07 04:21:53 · 21 answers · asked by Thackery2000 2

Is there, at society’s core, an intrinsic sense of order that prevails?
Or, is it the other way around? Chaos is the primary force and People merely create pockets of Order within it; you carve order into the realm of randomness and disorder.

2006-12-07 03:57:49 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

Size is relative; just answer subjectively.

2006-12-07 03:48:15 · 6 answers · asked by NietzcheanCowboy 3

Sartre theorized that all meaning in the world is self applied and therefore false. He backed up this idea by writing plays that worked out in completely unintended, and counter intuitive, ways for their protagonists.

My thought is that yes sometimes things don't work out the way we expect, but most of the time they do. That is why we make such assumptions of meaning.

As Sartre backed up his ideas with examples I will do the same. Think if a highway. Hundreds of us humans driving at speeds well beyond anything we can realistically live through in tons of mettle plastic and fire. If we were really so alienated from one-another I don't think such a thing would be possible.

Rather I theorize that multiple subjects have the ability to actually communicate and connect in meaningful ways.

What are your thoughts on this?

2006-12-07 03:46:09 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-07 03:40:51 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-07 03:39:44 · 11 answers · asked by deepak57 7

what are you going to do that will be healthy and fulfilling for yourself?

2006-12-07 03:30:44 · 5 answers · asked by I am Sunshine 6

i need help!

2006-12-07 03:24:16 · 6 answers · asked by wipeoutartist 1