Philosophy - March 2007

2007-03-24 20:03:26 · 20 answers · asked by martin 1

2007-03-24 19:55:01 · 15 answers · asked by martin 1

why we are dumping poison, into these things, depleting these things and we're all participating in this like it's not complete insanity and stupidity

2007-03-24 19:54:14 · 11 answers · asked by kandice F 2

Let's say if you didn't expect to fall or get hit for example. Would it hurt more if you were to expect it or if you didn't expect it?

How about for relationships? Would it hurt more if you knew they were going to leave or if you continued to be with them and they will eventually leave?

So do you think it would hurt more if anything was expected, or not expected?

Examples and serious answers please

2007-03-24 19:47:21 · 15 answers · asked by John Becker 5

2007-03-24 19:44:41 · 14 answers · asked by martin 1

I was in a day long event to meet Holocaust survivors, a former Skinhead, and an Equal Rights activist. The Equal Rights activist’s speech was full with solutions to world’s equality problems. He ranted that if you yourself respected everyone and you told “just one other person” to do the same, this would give the world Dr. Martin Luther King dreamt of. Right after the event was over, I went to ask him how does he expect his plan to work if every person in the world has a different concept of what respect is and of what one’s own requirements are for a person to be deserving of his respect? And told him that every person experiences life differently, and gives meaning and value to everything in life according to those experiences. He answered that this was the point of his speech, and that that’s why by telling only one other person to be respectful of everybody we might change the world. Well, he obviously did not understand my question, and I had to leave without clarifying it.

2007-03-24 19:37:58 · 10 answers · asked by Said 4

2007-03-24 19:36:54 · 17 answers · asked by martin 1

2007-03-24 19:35:41 · 7 answers · asked by martin 1

2007-03-24 19:33:08 · 11 answers · asked by martin 1

2007-03-24 19:24:14 · 7 answers · asked by tigertrot1986 3

What is the actual nature of human existence? What is this condition that now holds me and enables me to be myself?

2007-03-24 19:21:55 · 9 answers · asked by Vinni 2

2007-03-24 19:21:17 · 14 answers · asked by 2BaD4u 4

2007-03-24 19:08:23 · 6 answers · asked by rusalka 3

2007-03-24 18:54:26 · 3 answers · asked by sn_cheng 1

I am standing in a dusty church parking lot, when the sky begins to turn blood red and the clouds seem to fly past the steeple. I am left feeling powerless and overwhelmed in this dream because something seems wrong and there is nothing I can do to fix it. Any ideas on what this dream could possibly mean?

2007-03-24 18:49:04 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

What is indistinguishable from nothingness?

My assessment is:
Whatever is not as "part, whole, equivalence, uniqueness, limit, link, influence, sensation, origin, derivative, rule, condition, intent, and fulfillment" is indistinguishable from nothingness.

2007-03-24 18:48:48 · 8 answers · asked by The Knowledge Server 1

Wisdom or virtue? Only one!

2007-03-24 18:45:52 · 13 answers · asked by tigertrot1986 3

2007-03-24 18:41:37 · 4 answers · asked by oh herow 1

What does this phrase means....

2007-03-24 18:37:43 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

When you close your eyes, only the eyelids are shut. The actual eye is still opened. It's just like putting a curtain in front of you. Is it the inside of the "curtain" that we actually see? It's definitely not darkness that we see. What do are your thoughts on this?

2007-03-24 18:34:35 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

how you arrived at that decision and why?

2007-03-24 18:23:50 · 5 answers · asked by izt_is 1

2007-03-24 18:08:12 · 10 answers · asked by Nidhi S 1

is a metaphor for the beginning of duality???

God and man...man and woman...good and evil...paradise and the world...life and death???

2007-03-24 18:06:24 · 10 answers · asked by Jedi Baptist 4

2007-03-24 17:56:16 · 11 answers · asked by SK8TERGURL~1~NOT~ 2/davesslave 6

Is virtue (moral goodness) possible without the existence of anger?

2007-03-24 17:53:49 · 7 answers · asked by sokrates 4

2007-03-24 17:51:15 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-24 17:33:07 · 21 answers · asked by Joe D 1

All of these lines across my face
Tell you the story of who I am
So many stories of where I've been
And how I got to where I am
But these stories don't mean anything
When you've got no one to tell them to
It's true...I was made for you

I climbed across the mountain tops
Swam all across the ocean blue
I crossed all the lines and I broke all the rules
But baby I broke them all for you
Because even when I was flat broke
You made me feel like a million bucks
Yeah you do and I was made for you

You see the smile that's on my mouth
Is hiding the words that don't come out
And all of my friends who think that I'm blessed
They don't know my head is a mess
No, they don't know who I really am
And they don't know what I've been through but you do
And I was made for you...

2007-03-24 17:23:34 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

Okay, after a serious and intense process of contemplation I've come to a few conclusions:

a) If we live in a world of free will, there is no God. Free will + actions = accountability for these actions. Therefore if God DID commit the act of creating us, he'd be responsible for us and, respectively, our actions; uplifting all accountability we would otherwise have for said actions. This is a complete objection and contradiction any purpose/meaning we uphold for ourselves, creating a world of nihilism. Thus, God can't exist in such a world.

b) A world of fate requires a God to sustain its structure. A deterministic perception of reality would call for all causes and their respected effects to be apart of a long, on-going chain of such causes and effects, leading all the way back to one initial cause: God.

So I ask you, which paradigm do you adhere to: a or b?

2007-03-24 17:20:51 · 7 answers · asked by Smokey 2

2007-03-24 17:15:47 · 25 answers · asked by enki 4