Philosophy - January 2007

2007-01-10 05:17:41 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-10 05:15:04 · 14 answers · asked by 1570024568 1

2007-01-10 04:58:45 · 8 answers · asked by luke p 1

2007-01-10 04:58:37 · 1 answers · asked by bansalmanish_1 2

i don't think there will be peace on my street in the next few years,but wouldn't it be a better place if we all danced about in kaftans playing with henna?

2007-01-10 04:51:04 · 35 answers · asked by heebygeeby 4

The Invitation
It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living.
I want to know what you ache for
and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.
It doesn’t interest me how old you are.
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool
for love
for your dream
for the adventure of being alive.
It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon...
I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow
if you have been opened by life’s betrayals
or have become shrivelled and closed
from fear of further pain.
I want to know if you can sit with pain
mine or your own
without moving to hide it
or fade it
or fix it.
I want to know if you can be with joy
mine or your own
if you can dance with wildness
and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes
without cautioning us
to be careful
to be realistic
to remember the limitations of being human.
It doesn’t interest me if the story you are telling me
is true.
I want to know if you can
disappoint another
to be true to yourself.
If you can bear the accusation of betrayal
and not betray your own soul.
If you can be faithless
and therefore trustworthy.
I want to know if you can see Beauty
even when it is not pretty
every day.
And if you can source your own life
from its presence.
I want to know if you can live with failure
yours and mine
and still stand at the edge of the lake
and shout to the silver of the full moon,
“Yes.”
It doesn’t interest me
to know where you live or how much money you have.
I want to know if you can get up
after the night of grief and despair
weary and bruised to the bone
and do what needs to be done
to feed the children.
It doesn’t interest me who you know
or how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand
in the centre of the fire
with me
and not shrink back.
It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom
you have studied.
I want to know what sustains you
from the inside
when all else falls away.
I want to know if you can be alone
with yourself
and if you truly like the company you keep
in the empty moments.

2007-01-10 04:47:09 · 5 answers · asked by Soulfulgrl 3

2007-01-10 04:32:30 · 10 answers · asked by peri-marie d 1

is silence effective if no one is listening?

life is full of issues, but when you have one, is life full of solutions?
you got what you wanted now..its like hey I got it, you lost it.. and now I'm out..
the one you want, you never get, the one you get, you've always wanted..

what you want may be right in front of you, but you can't have whats there, its like a wall you can't see... a breath you cant take, a chance you aren't allowed to take..

but the desire is there..

you read this because you inquire, but if you inquire why not ask? anonymity is a possibility... but boredom is the cause.. it is not that you inquire, it is boredom and anxiety that causes the inquiries..

it isn't about attraction or infatuation.. its about connection..
if you don't find the + in everything nothing adds up.

2007-01-10 04:29:58 · 12 answers · asked by Fashionista 4

2007-01-10 04:08:30 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

A question on Life

2007-01-10 04:01:24 · 30 answers · asked by giovellin 2

We Argued at work over the Diference between a mistake and a regret. No really good answer was given. im looking for someone to put this puzzle to rest

2007-01-10 03:58:01 · 24 answers · asked by shootpoolnotpeople 1

2007-01-10 03:44:28 · 27 answers · asked by Random Precision 4

2007-01-10 03:43:46 · 18 answers · asked by Joe K 6

Given the fact that everyone will either be wrong or right. Will we all be wrong or will we all be right? Who will dictate this? If we end up all being wrong who will end up being the only one right? ;)

Doesn't anyone ever get sick of pride within themselves and others?

2007-01-10 03:30:56 · 4 answers · asked by GoodQuestion 6

2007-01-10 03:19:37 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

I feel caught in a landslide; no escape from reality. What should I do?

2007-01-10 03:17:37 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

r gays born like tht , how or who motivates them to be like that

2007-01-10 02:34:42 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-10 02:34:15 · 40 answers · asked by franc 5

Hmmm... let's set up this website to see if people will trust other people. Will they answer other people's question just out of the good of their heart, just to be helpful? How many will do it just out of competition, to see who can acquire the most points?

If Yahoo Answers isn't an experiment on us humans - it should be.

2007-01-10 02:29:51 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

Please I looking for a topic for my Thesis in Philosophy I will prefer it to come from either Ethics or Philosophy and Communication. Suggest as many as you can.

2007-01-10 02:18:02 · 4 answers · asked by Stanne 1

Many country talked about peace but no right to speak,no right to study,no chance to compromise,which one will you need first?

2007-01-10 02:15:56 · 4 answers · asked by Saw k'nyaw 1

Just my own opinion gained from experience...people in here all talk about the most important things in life being life itself or love or self-worth or money or friends but can you have any of those things without first having respect for them?

2007-01-10 02:14:58 · 10 answers · asked by laveranda1 2

Man's greatest invention is language.

Think about these:
Would we be trading without communication?
Would we have a government without interacting to other people?
Would we discover new wonders without helping one another?
Would we... (and many more)...

Although the effects of communication truly had the greatest advantages to ease human life, it also caused the worst scenario in the human world... For example, war...
(Note: Think first before you'd react why war is a negative effect of communication)

Simply saying, it is the greatest, at the same time, the worst...
For man only had the capacity to think about the advantages, and by the time he meets the unexpected results, he finds a way to resolve it, but only rather end up creating a new set of problem...

2007-01-10 02:00:31 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

its like people want to write for hours about changing a light bulb, i have to say i am all for waxing lyrical but when its simple dont over complicate matters by writing a thousand word essay on how to cook scrambled eggs!

2007-01-10 01:56:32 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-10 01:51:46 · 29 answers · asked by May 1

It's another way of saying "What goes around comes around." People who hurt others, in the long run, get hurt themselves.

2007-01-10 01:47:40 · 4 answers · asked by JOYCE M 3

i have a term paper to write.. and i need a philosopher and i need to relate his philosophy to any social issue/problem like poverty, corruption, etc.. i chose john stuart mill but i think i dont understand his philosophy thoroughly.. can anybody summarize his major ideas? please please please use simple tems and grammar.. reading mill's philosophy on the internet got my nose bleeding.. just think of the reader as a poor 16 year old forced to understand these things against his will.. and im filipino so i dont even speak or understand english that good.. please please help me out.. also if anyone could suggest a social problem i can relate his philosophy to?? a million thanks to everybody who'd help.. waaaaaaaaah.. i only have three weeks.. oh noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!! what am i gonna do ohmygodasdfadasdasasdasfav

2007-01-10 01:31:51 · 5 answers · asked by coLd frOsT 2

pls don't forget to include yr sources if there are any, such as referring to one of yr personal experiences & stuff like that.

2007-01-10 01:30:38 · 8 answers · asked by twirsula 1

I recieved an email telling me that I had posted an insulting answer, which is a matter of opinion.

Isn't this site 90% opinion?

I love the idea of this site, but I didn't realize the site was called "Answers We Like."

But hold on!!! There are so many illiterate, unthinking, ignorant and insulting answers posted, why bother picking out a few to sensor?

Can we sanitize all of existence and should we be trying?

Personally, I find many of the responses of condescending bible bashers insulting, but I deal with it.

I think people who use the site to cheat on homework are commitiing a greater sin than anyone merely expressing their opinion. Wasn't the internet supposed to be a bastion of free speech?

A place where we could have a free market of ideas? I will read the answers to this question, but then I think my boycott of this site will begin.

2007-01-10 01:26:06 · 10 answers · asked by Just another guy 2

Plato made a distinction between two forms of arguement. On the one hand he described a form of arguement where both parties respectively hold the positions of thesis and antithesis and through a joint effort resolved the apparent differences in their positions by moving to a synthesis. This style of arguement he called dialectic.

He contrasted this style of arguement favourably with another form for which I cannot remember and cannot find the name for. But the disfavoured form of arguement consisted of two parties establishing a difference of opinion and then setting about discovering who was correct and who was incorrect.

Please help.

2007-01-10 01:06:18 · 7 answers · asked by tuthutop 2