Philosophy - April 2007

commit suicide? fly a plane? jump off a cliff? drive different cars?

2007-04-29 06:54:51 · 11 answers · asked by layla 3

anybody out there has a phd with philosophy. What did you have to do to get it. What did you discuss in your dissertation, etc?

2007-04-29 06:29:41 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

Actually, what is it that makes something funny, and why do we laugh? Is it a certain degree of relief or if not... what else?

2007-04-29 06:29:00 · 18 answers · asked by incogno 1

We live in an illusion-somewhat 'cause of our senses.Hinduism-maya (illusion)says so, too, although I don't believe in religion.Does religion not give people a firm grip at life? Does it not lie out all which life has to offer, and deprive individuals of wondering? Religion keeps structure in our insane world. People do not wonder, they do not question Truth because for them, they “know” what to live for, they believe they know the truth, written in their holy scripture-they are conditioned to believe certain reasoning, say, from their caregivers. But they are not to blame. Mankind cannot stand not knowing. For if they did never know the truth, it would drive them insane wondering. They need to be confident that they are stable in life, that they do not live in an illusion, that they are experiencing ‘reality’. What they do not know, they make up, they lie, they deceive themselves. I think mad men (geniuses) go insane and commit suicide because they get to close to the truth.

2007-04-29 06:16:44 · 10 answers · asked by Anya 1

do you agree with this quote or do you think that you will always have plenty of time to get stuff done?

2007-04-29 06:01:17 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

why?

2007-04-29 05:18:50 · 18 answers · asked by MB 3

2007-04-29 05:17:00 · 15 answers · asked by scholar 2

this sign / symbol in quotes "A" is letter A ???
If you can scientifically validate it.

2007-04-29 05:06:37 · 3 answers · asked by Maulik B 1

How many people in socalled world are awake???
And how many are asleep????(From birth tilldeath)

Some are born to Sweet Delight
Some are born to Endless Night
When soul slept in beams of Light
God appears and go is light.

A waking Eye, APrying Mind
Heart that steers is hard to bind
A hawks keen sight
YE !! Cannot bind

2007-04-29 05:04:26 · 3 answers · asked by Maulik B 1

2007-04-29 04:50:52 · 20 answers · asked by Tabby 2

The meaning of live from spiritual version

2007-04-29 04:01:10 · 12 answers · asked by Felicia Wong 1

2007-04-29 03:40:00 · 43 answers · asked by ash 2

I want to say things that will make my professor and classmates say, wow!, she is very intelligent. How can I develop these skills. Are they simply IQ or can they be learned? I'm having trouble understanding the concepts in my philosophy class. I want to be deep. A critical thinker. Albert Einstein. Wake up Brain! Wake Up!!!

2007-04-29 03:25:32 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

Or where you live is a major factor in how people behave?

Do you join them if you can't beat 'em?

Do you find yourself more impatient and hostile because of the environment around you?

2007-04-29 03:20:31 · 11 answers · asked by Reserved 6

belief that gives them a sense of security and no wonder they become very angry with people like me who say that this security is illusary...I can not see how the smallest advantage is to be gained from decieving myself. What do you think about this? How does psychiatry induce this need for a belief system?

2007-04-29 03:13:54 · 21 answers · asked by Friend 6

2007-04-29 03:07:34 · 13 answers · asked by Jackie H 1

Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery?

2007-04-29 02:58:38 · 11 answers · asked by Friend 6

2007-04-29 02:40:26 · 10 answers · asked by Milky Joe 3

Our instinct changes with age and maturity. We know it is not just sixth sense. How much of the instinct is based on knowledge probably is what makes a person Scientific or Superstitious? Does instinct have varied proportions of Gut feeling and Knowledge at different times or is the proportion often the same?

2007-04-29 02:39:07 · 11 answers · asked by smartobees 4

"The meaning of life is arrived at ...by dark groupings, by feelings not wholly understood, by catching at hints and fumbling for explanations."

What does it mean to you?

2007-04-29 02:09:49 · 7 answers · asked by Friend 6

2007-04-29 01:55:43 · 14 answers · asked by BooBooKins 5

Is nothing unacceptable in the two most noble arts?

2007-04-29 01:31:08 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-29 01:27:17 · 26 answers · asked by varun r 1

Lots of "so-called" religious people put god 1st and treat all of his other creations like crap. We lie, cheat, steal and kill each other but claim we worship "god". We smoke, do drugs and alcohol, we over eat and stuff. Where is this "god" when we're doing all this stuff? God put us here on the earth and takes us out when he/she/it is ready. Isn't it up to us to do something spectacular with this time we've been given?

2007-04-29 01:03:35 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-29 00:53:17 · 6 answers · asked by Green Valley 2

2007-04-29 00:52:09 · 8 answers · asked by bklyn b 1

2007-04-29 00:20:47 · 21 answers · asked by Xena: the Leather-clad Bitch™ 4

From racism to animal slaughter to science. When will we start educating by supplying information instead of prescription?

2007-04-29 00:15:06 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-28 23:49:55 · 19 answers · asked by press_fast_forward 1

2007-04-28 23:47:03 · 12 answers · asked by Akansha S 1