Philosophy - March 2007

Atheists, if you can believe that there is no God and that the World, with all it infinite beauty and sciences just happened...then my friends YOU HAVE MORE FAITH THEN US CHRISTIANS...
I propose the following to you, if you take a wrist watch with all its intricacies and you take out all the parts, needles screws etc. Then you go to the highest point you can imagine-like take a plane or even a spacecraft and from this point drop all the parts of the watch-would you believe that the watch could come together and be totally functional as if you had not taken it apart.

I don't think many is not anyone would say yes! So how can you say the word just came about???? Surely logic says there is a God.

For all the philosophers out there.See Pascal's Wager!! The great philosopher himself concluded that it makes logical sense to believe in God.

2007-03-22 21:36:28 · 45 answers · asked by RAVIE G 2

2007-03-22 21:12:38 · 7 answers · asked by . 6

For me it would be that I always put the lid down. What else is there?

2007-03-22 21:03:27 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

I was opening a fresh jar of strawberry jam this morning and I thought - ''My God, how would my grandmother open this?'' It's the same with a lot of household goods, they are just so very difficult to open. How do the packing companies reconcile themselves with making life so difficult for old or sick or weak people. There are other ways of packing things to keep them fresh, and also to enable people to reuse the containers after the product has been consumed. Isn't it time something was done about this?

2007-03-22 20:50:52 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

When a person is born blind can they dream in color? I know that it is a tuff question really. But I mostly want thoughts on the subject!

2007-03-22 20:33:20 · 8 answers · asked by Suzann 2

ever expanding, no boundaries

2007-03-22 20:16:08 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Hi , I am 24 yrs old female and have no one other that my mom i this world. I feel very upset these days for no reason. I cannot even dream or think postive about myself and i do not think anything can make me happy.I feel myself to be very lonely. I have a job as an HR Executive in a pvt software company but i do not see any stability in my carrer. I am not able to trust myself or anyone these days.
It is very hard to see my mom struggle to get me married as i am not good looking and it is impossible to get me married. I feel miserable about my life. I cannot discuss this with anyone whom i know because i know they will make fun of me. I am sometimes very scared to think that how i will be when i have to lead my life all alone without anyone with me. I want u to pls let me know the ways how i can come out of this fear of living alone and give some confidence before i loose it completely. Pls fo not make fun of my question .

2007-03-22 19:36:57 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

Carpe diem :)

2007-03-22 19:05:27 · 21 answers · asked by Carrie 6

Those things are so weird and really make you think sometimes. I was just wondering if anybody actually knew any facts or something on the matter. Thanks.

2007-03-22 19:04:43 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

or just living life in the box?

2007-03-22 18:54:54 · 15 answers · asked by maconsolviaa 5

he proves that it is impossible to create a private language and that language is impossible without other minds right? and is the private language argument valid? so far i have heard of no contradictions to his philosophy

2007-03-22 18:54:45 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

Today I was asked by a person the following question. "What can I do? The problems I have just seem to be so deep with in my soul I don't know where to start. There are so many issues, I feel overwhelmed and do not know how to deal with this without help".
I indeed can relate myself to what this person told me. I received here in yahoo a fantastic answer for a question. Part of it was the following: "As we slowly learn to focus on the inside of ourselves, looking within, to slowly dissolve our negative mental factors which "cause" our dissatisfactions/sufferings in life, we will learn how to unconditionally love all people, without having selfish, conditional attachments to them."
I indeed feel that this is so true, but would like to know if somebody has some practical ideas how to support this process?

2007-03-22 18:23:31 · 12 answers · asked by I love you too! 6

the doctrine that matter is inseparable from life, which is a property of matter.

if so, do you believe that every thing in the universe is alive in some way (animals, snow storms, high-backed chairs, rocks, etc.) or do you believe that everything is part of a single universal living organism?

or is it both of these things at the same time?

If you do not belive in hylozoism please explain why.

2007-03-22 17:57:05 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

"But, as he was ambitious, I slew him. There is tears for his love, joy for his fortune, honor for his valor, and death for his ambition."

2007-03-22 17:53:25 · 7 answers · asked by jjungpaint 1

there are so many theories that show the impossiblilty of life being an illusion and that only you are real.

but is the ONLY reason that we cant know for sure is because we can directly experience what another person is experienceing? but other than that its wrong and fataly flawed correct?

2007-03-22 17:42:48 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

I've noticed that many so-called "liberals" are just as bigoted and narrow as the people they criticize and oppose, just about different things.

2007-03-22 17:32:32 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

HOW WAS THEIR VIEW OF THE THE WORD SIMILAR TO THAT OF THINKERS OF THE REFORMATION AND SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION.

2007-03-22 17:19:07 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-22 17:06:56 · 6 answers · asked by marion 1

Is it inpossible? If it's something you're totally confused about ?
What if it's not in your own self interest?

2007-03-22 17:00:22 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Did the T-Rex alive 65 million years ago think about the kind of world it was leaving behind when it was it was eating another dinosaur? Or even when it was dying. Did it worry that its ofspring would not have enough meat to live?

Why then is humanity so obsessed with environmental issues, recycling and some humans even forgo meat to impress others.

Who cares what happens in a hundred years or even a million. We will all be dust by then. We are tought to care about the environment our ofspring will live in, yet they are not taught to care about the environment we die in.

Pollution and the environment is the next generations problem, not ours. If I die at 45 will my ofspring really care about wether I get 1st class private ticket to the end or a second class budget ticket?

Deppressing thoughts for a 26 year old, but its the truth. The media trains us to care about the next generation, not informing us that all they will want is our money.

2007-03-22 16:53:55 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-22 16:44:44 · 21 answers · asked by Frank S 3

Why do some people talk bad about others all there life and then when they die ,all the sudden they were the best peson they ever knew.

2007-03-22 16:42:13 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-22 16:35:20 · 24 answers · asked by kmac989 1

“Life... is like a box of chocolates; a cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that nobody ever asks for. Un-returnable, because all you get back is another box of chocolates. You're stuck with this un-definable whipped-mint crap that you mindlessly wolf down when there's nothing else left to eat. Sure, once in a while, there's a peanut butter cup, or an English toffee. But they're gone too fast, the taste is fleeting. So you end up with nothing but broken bits, filled with hardened jelly and teeth-crunching nuts, and if you're desperate enough to eat those, all you've got left is a... is an empty box... filled with useless, brown paper wrappers.”

i got this quote off an episode of the X-Files... what do u all think of this mindset?

2007-03-22 16:33:58 · 10 answers · asked by ♥_mrs.smith 4

Which would you choose if you only had these three options:

Option 1:
To love another and not be able for physical reasons be able to have them love you in return. These physical reasons may include paralysis, neurological fault or similar ONLY!

OR

Option 2:
Be phyically unable to love at all. This means unable to feel love from within for another or without from someone else.

Or

Option 3:
Death.

The point of this question is to understand the majoritys perception of the minority so please answer within the bounds of the question only unless expanding on a point.

(P.S. don't say that it is impossible, because it's not)

Thanks in advance.

2007-03-22 16:31:23 · 16 answers · asked by Arthur N 4

"If you walked by a street and you was walking on concrete and you saw a rose growing from out of the concrete, even if it had messed up petals and it was a little crooked to the side, you would marvel at just seeing a rose grow through concrete. So why is it that when you see some ghetto kid grow out of the dirtiest circumstances, and he can talk, and he can sit across the room and make you cry, make you laugh, all you can talk about is my dirty rose, my dirty stems and how I’m leaning crooked to the side? You can't even see that I've come up from out of all that."

what do u have to say to that? pac was referring to HiMSELF as that rose... what do u all think of his ideology? is he right? is this a fair comparison? just wondering what u all think. i agree with tupac completely but i'd like to hear others' thoughts on it. thanks and have a nice night!

2007-03-22 16:23:38 · 7 answers · asked by ♥_mrs.smith 4

Who created hell or how did it come to exist?

2007-03-22 16:19:22 · 14 answers · asked by sokrates 4

2007-03-22 16:16:35 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

Is It God or the Devil?

2007-03-22 16:06:30 · 21 answers · asked by sokrates 4

2007-03-22 15:51:48 · 8 answers · asked by The Knowledge Server 1