Philosophy - March 2007

I often hear on the news, etc. people who say something about God must have been looking out for them, because they didn't die in whatever disaster just struck nearby. Wouldn't that mean that God wasn't looking out for the people who DID die in the disaster? I believe that maybe God gives us life and everlasting life, but much of what happens on earth is just life and He doesn't "choose" who dies when. Comments?

2007-03-17 03:52:04 · 9 answers · asked by geckosgirl 2

2007-03-17 03:34:14 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

I think it is strange how when you wake up from a dream, no matter what the dream was, one wakes up to reality. Then one takes one minute to think what reality is, then the fact of being awake to reality seems even starnger then the dream. We always share our dreams with others, wild imaginative dreams, but few people share the small details of being awake to realitys of everyday. The strange thing is being here and this being the only reality we know, not being able to wake up, like from a dream. Yet most things of what we know about our reality is a mystery, and yet this the only real thing we know. Days and nights are strange, and after the short time I have existed here, I am still surprised by everyday that passes. So I am wondering what others think and feel about this, your own words about life???

2007-03-17 03:24:16 · 5 answers · asked by Lorenzo de' Medici 1

i was sittin in science class (at a christain school) and we were learnin about lyk the stomach and lyk the path of food and air and blood and all and recently we learned about the eye and there is just so many amazing things and i just wonder, what kind of person would beleive that all of this just "appeared" out of no where or that there was just a big BOOM and it was just all magically there... think about it

2007-03-17 03:03:38 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-17 02:52:47 · 8 answers · asked by Alex 5

regardless of if we are innocent UNTIL proven guilty.?

I personally do feel this...that we persecute everybody in our paths...right or wrong...we don't care and we don't spare anyone..that we all can be quite heartless!
I know that I have done this, and it also bothers me,greatly!
I also feel that we who signed the "three strikes you are out" law...should have thought a lot harder about this.....before signing anything! I know that I stupidly signed that thing...and as much as I thought about it...I didn't know ENOUGH..regarding this bill! I should have asked..and really talked more about it...trying to find out MORE.....it isn't the greatest thing to have around in the first place!!!

2007-03-17 02:51:46 · 15 answers · asked by Anne99 2

How can we define truth? Does it depend on our culture, perceptions, paradigms or none of these at all?

2007-03-17 02:12:27 · 24 answers · asked by purplereaper251 1

Is the categorical imperative synonymous with the GOLDEN MEAN?
Explain your answer.

2007-03-17 01:35:37 · 2 answers · asked by tmang0502 1

Is the categorical imperative synonymous with the GOLDEN RULE?

2007-03-17 01:34:13 · 2 answers · asked by tmang0502 1

"The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather, in spite of ourselves."
--Victor Hugo.

Passed on by a beloved.

2007-03-17 00:43:47 · 21 answers · asked by ? 7

Apparently in the UK more people donate money to animal charities than to, humans who are in desperate situations such as asbuse etc. Are animals more deserving or are we just not too aware to the plite of human suffering????

2007-03-17 00:32:05 · 29 answers · asked by Darkchild 3

2007-03-17 00:28:12 · 14 answers · asked by ssc23b9d 1

not poinion but real finding on ground reality is only expected
from you all

2007-03-17 00:26:11 · 11 answers · asked by ? 3

2007-03-17 00:16:04 · 22 answers · asked by Indra 2

Not asking if you want to be one. But do you have what it takes to BE a one?

For all the good ideas i might have i could never adjust my principles and ethics to suit party philosophy/ideology.
And even if i was to start my own party, i could never kiss where the sun don't shine so to enable the network to be built to get the influence and contacts that will decide how succesfull my political career would be.
To adapt my principles and ethics to the point they are just a tool to be used would disolve my integrity as an individual and i could never live with that. Even if i attempted the internal struggle would never allow it and something would give (probably my heart).
So how about you? How adaptable is your integrity?

2007-03-16 23:54:17 · 17 answers · asked by Part Time Cynic 7

2007-03-16 23:50:40 · 17 answers · asked by Shashiz 2

2007-03-16 23:20:16 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have a very different outlook on a lot of topics, and i always make people step outside their comfort box with my opinions. I love to expand peoples way of thinking but im not intersted in being a techer. Is there another porfession where I could put this to good use?

2007-03-16 22:34:30 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-16 22:05:00 · 18 answers · asked by asa 1

2007-03-16 22:02:51 · 14 answers · asked by sahil_qais 1

Do we need language to think? How do animals, birds and insects think? They don't have well developed language like ours.

Also if you are multi-lingual, do you think in one language over the other?

Is thinking same as speaking to yourself while brainstorming? I don't know whether I use language to think or not. What are your thoughts?

2007-03-16 21:40:21 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-16 21:31:19 · 12 answers · asked by Eric Inri 6

2007-03-16 21:30:05 · 15 answers · asked by Eric Inri 6

2007-03-16 21:07:42 · 6 answers · asked by x 2

I think that a lot of people do not have any patience to listen to and ponder over another person's point of view, which is the greatest hurdle in our learning process.

2007-03-16 21:00:08 · 12 answers · asked by small 7

2007-03-16 20:51:44 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm confused. I hear environmentalists whine about the "unnatural" things that man is doing to the earth.

Huh?

Seems to me man, (both male & female, mankind), is Part of nature. By definition, whatever man does is "natural", being part of nature.


Thoughts?

2007-03-16 20:45:11 · 9 answers · asked by spam_free_he_he 7

2007-03-16 20:31:36 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

a symbol which has different interpretations.

2007-03-16 20:30:03 · 7 answers · asked by merry 1

try this, close your eyes and imagine ur in a room. try to get a mental picture of the room, where you can see all four walls at the same time, lik you have four eyes at 90 degrees to each other arnd ur head....combine the visions to give urself an image tht is comprised of all 4 walls....its impossible to do it becoz our brain perceives only a 2d image of wht we see with 2 eyes, therefore our imagination is reduced to seeing and creating objects tht r restricted to wht we can see...this is wht i prefer to call perceptional fallacy...ne buyers for the theory?

2007-03-16 20:28:02 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous