Philosophy - January 2007

Of the people I know, there are two basic groups: those that drink and party, and those that don't. I've always been a "good" kid, my father is a pastor, and I've never had a sip of alcohol. I'm 18 and started college this year.
Those that don't party tend to think that those that do are being stupid and are basically throwing away their lives. Those that do tend to think those that don't are just uptight and don't know how to have a good time.
Who is right?

2007-01-16 22:21:19 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-16 22:11:03 · 7 answers · asked by pax veritas 4

...similarly, what does this say of all who prejudge circumstances
and fail to adapt to changes over time ?

2007-01-16 22:10:01 · 3 answers · asked by pax veritas 4

...what does this say of all who prejudge circumstances and fail to adapt to changes of facts over time ?

2007-01-16 22:08:42 · 5 answers · asked by pax veritas 4

2007-01-16 22:08:16 · 9 answers · asked by Kuya Eli T 2

...what does that say about all philosophies and religious texts that believe in universal truth ?

What of the notion of Love and Hate conquers all ?

2007-01-16 22:07:20 · 2 answers · asked by pax veritas 4

2007-01-16 22:06:08 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

...is philosophical discourse valid only by denying the possibility of universal proof ?

2007-01-16 22:06:05 · 2 answers · asked by pax veritas 4

...when does it become personal perspective and not collective delusion through the influence of close relationships between man, environment, tradition and prevalent culture ?

2007-01-16 22:05:07 · 1 answers · asked by pax veritas 4

..do you suffer from the fallacy or delusions of making up your mind, (based of simple deduction of events now and not knowing the next event; your knowledge, fact and truth is based on events that come before it) and rational thought is really based on preexisting natural laws and assumptions that are rife with folk assumptions (assuming that chaos is not capable of rational explanation.)

Then, what claims would you make of yourself or of another that you or they, are unpresumptuous and an unassuming person ?

2007-01-16 22:04:13 · 2 answers · asked by pax veritas 4

..that informs your reality ?

2007-01-16 22:02:29 · 1 answers · asked by pax veritas 4

…in your daily lives in order to coexist with society and retain a job contrary to your beliefs, moral values and so on.

What is your tolerance ?

2007-01-16 21:59:55 · 3 answers · asked by pax veritas 4

...daily realities are too harsh that a created alternative reality is preferable.

How much can you handle ?

2007-01-16 21:58:35 · 3 answers · asked by pax veritas 4

Will conviction and faith on the one’s perceived known facts per ser, lead to an independent decision?

2007-01-16 21:57:08 · 2 answers · asked by pax veritas 4

and it skips and won't write, and you scribble somewhere else to get it going again, it STILL won't write in that one spot where it didn't write before!? It's like it cursed or tainted or something. You try to go back over the letters/numbers you tried to write the first time, and the pen will work everywhere but that one spot. It's infuriating...

2007-01-16 21:55:27 · 3 answers · asked by AmigaJoe 3

But when and why? Y2K also say so right, but it didn't come. I concern because global warming is getting very serious and facts are proven, will the movie 'The day after tomorrow' become real?

2007-01-16 21:53:44 · 11 answers · asked by ButterMilkQueso 2

2007-01-16 21:47:30 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-16 21:43:41 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Every time, and it seems quite frequent, someone asks about “I think, therefore I am” there are always some people who say that it means one of:

-If I don’t think then I am not (either morally, or factually)
-If I think I am something (eg I think I can do x) then I am that thing (I can do x)
-The only real thing is thought
-You should think before you speak
-Thinking describes the sort of person you are

My question is for those who have answered like the above: why did you think that?

-Did you guess?
-Is there a site or book somewhere saying that? (reference please).
-Is that what you want it to mean?
-Have you come to that conclusion after reading Descartes?

2007-01-16 21:27:17 · 13 answers · asked by anthonypaullloyd 5

I just had a nightmare last night about Dracula. Whew it was really horrible, to be captured by a group of them and know what your fate is then, as you witness their horrible attack and struggle to suck one’s blood, just in-front of your eyes. That made me wonder, if any one really believe these creatures exist? And if you do, then on what bases?

2007-01-16 21:26:07 · 6 answers · asked by Alkahest 3

Which is superior , human intuitions or god?

2007-01-16 21:15:38 · 19 answers · asked by rajesh bhowmick 2

2007-01-16 21:13:06 · 8 answers · asked by crimsion king 2

how do tihnk everything really started. like wat created the thing that caused the "Big bang" and wat created that thing that created the big bang and etc.

2007-01-16 20:46:28 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-16 20:29:23 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-16 20:20:21 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

At what PRICE, you could BE BOUGHT? Your MIND, BODY, SOUL... your FREEDOM and your FREE-WILL? In short, totally YOURS?

I believe that anyone can be bought... the problem is: How much? At what exchange?

How about you then? For example, will you even sell YOURSELF for a happy and loving family? Or for true friendship indeed? Or the whole total world domination? Or for the entire universe?

2007-01-16 20:08:45 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

I felt love-(agape) was the most meaningful thing in life but I now profoundly despair.
We experience love so powerfully because of bio. chemicals, naturally occuring, others influenced by will, chemicals all same. I think that initself doesnt diminish the feeling at all, -explains it. But, Perhaps other chemicals could make an even stronger feeling, one that could challenge love in its experiental quality
EX:: lets say on another planet somewhere there are people just like us, but 2 types of people. 1 group of people have brains that produce chemicals making them feel love is the most meaningful+true thing, they affirm it. The other group for some evolutionary reason, have brain chemicals making them feel hate(x) is the most meaningful+powerful feeling. Both feel absolutely their feeling is truest, even have 'faith' when in doubt. Now Sub. any feeling in for x, imagine, feel, minus bias
Please help, this RUINS me. Im sure we tell love is true and should be, because of it's feeling.

2007-01-16 20:00:52 · 8 answers · asked by metician 1

2007-01-16 19:59:49 · 12 answers · asked by SHANJAYA 1

i've read it.. but definitely grasp a little about it.. why is his philosophy hard to understand..

2007-01-16 19:49:09 · 1 answers · asked by Isaac 2

2007-01-16 19:35:16 · 4 answers · asked by Geek 1