Philosophy - May 2007

2007-05-20 18:35:24 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

if you have watched "The Seceret" you will know what a vision board is. im doing one for a "pass or fail" class

2007-05-20 18:35:24 · 2 answers · asked by badannagirl2 1

2007-05-20 18:20:58 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-05-20 17:58:39 · 9 answers · asked by John Carlo G 1

Out of the 11 philosophers pick 1 you like in brief and why you dont like the others.

Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, Friedrich Nietzsche,. Jean-Paul Sartre, Bertrand Russell, and John Rawls

2007-05-20 17:33:34 · 10 answers · asked by Bleeble Blabble 3

Inner silence, peace, quiet, calm, serenity, contentment, ...?

And, what disturbs your sense of it?

2007-05-20 17:31:30 · 7 answers · asked by guru 7

& why you thought it's COOL enough to suit you?
:-)

2007-05-20 17:30:28 · 32 answers · asked by enki 4

Geez, im so tired of hearing "God or evolution", or who is God and why doesnt he buy me a new sweater? Geez, pick a story and stick with it why dontcha

2007-05-20 17:16:31 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

tell me the most important thing you want in your life. Something that if you had it, you will feel completely satisfied with your life.

2007-05-20 17:07:54 · 16 answers · asked by ha. 2

2007-05-20 17:07:41 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

For some reason everytime the thought runs across my head about how I deserve something or when I hear someone say "I deserve this," my initial reaction is to say "Nobody deserves anything." But am I justified in my rebuttal? Is it possible to claim that nobody deserves anything? If a person works hard for something does he or she deserve to get something in return? If so then why? If not, is that just life and the way the cards are dealt?

2007-05-20 17:03:18 · 12 answers · asked by HThere 2

I always think it's funny how people make fun of beleivers in an afterlife (christians, muslims, jews, etc) as if they're brainwashed idiots...and YET, atheists are doing the EXACT SAME THING by stating they know WITH CERTAINTY, what happens to one's conciousness after they die...but atheists are somehow more logical and enlightened? I think not...

Here's my theory on what happens to our conciousness after we die...and the answer is...I DON'T KNOW. I repeat, I DON'T KNOW. I think saying "I don't know", is BY FAR, the most intelligent answer. And the reason, is we all share 1 thing in common...NONE OF US HAVE DIED YET! So the form of agnosticism that admits it is a fundamentally unknowable answer (until one dies), has always made the most sense.

It's funny really, pretending you "know" one way or the other.
It's like if I never opened a closet in my house, but i claim to "know" what's in it. Foolish, wouldn't it be? Both beleivers and atheists are guilty of that logic.

2007-05-20 16:56:23 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

Who is He??...

God – a comprehensive, yet Comprehendible, Being??


There seems to be a Terrible, terrible misconception creeping in and setting itself into modern culture that God only exists, or POSSIBLY exists, to the degree that we cannot explain matters – usually, scientifically.
That is, the very erroneous ‘standard’ seems to be embedding itself into the nature of our social thinking that we need to have mystifying, unexplainable phenomena or conditions occurring on earth, to ‘prove’, or even believe, there is a God!
I have not heard greater rot in all my life!!!!

God wants us to grow … He wants us to learn … to expand – to progress.
If you think about it, everything in life is bent towards our ‘human’ growth, our learning, the appreciation of what we have [or had, in some instances].
He is a God of knowledge and of abundance - a God of growth, of advancement and progress.
When we choose and learn wisely, we progress; our societies all progress.
His words were, through His Son, Jesus Christ:
“I am come that they might have life, and that they may have it more abundantly”


1.
Let’s just go back for a moment to the very first words ever to fall from the mouth of God in “survival instruction” to Adam and Eve.
Those words were:
“Be fruitful, multiply, replenish the earth and subdue it”

Now does that sound like a God of progress and growth – of advancing Man, or of a God stunting growth, of secrecy and hope for human failure – of regress and mysticism??

That last part of the instruction, in particular, assumes that man is learning about the earth and his environment – that he is gaining control and understanding of the elements.

2.
It has also been prophesied in holy writ that in the Last Days, knowledge would increase throughout the earth.
Is this not precisely what is happening?

3.
Jesus said, “Come follow me”. He also instructed his disciples to “Do the things that ye have seen me do”.
Yet scripture attests that He is the very Creator [see opening verses of John and various other places in holy writ]
If we are to follow Him then we are to learn all we can concerning life itself, and this earth; are we not?
… and what subject do we call this in school??
Yes; we call it, “science”.
God is not a god of secrecy and mysticism.
He loves all of us and wants us to become like Him.
Hence, his Son’s example to us, and His constant teaching to us of His ways through His prophets and the Holy Ghost.

4. Most importantly of the lot, we are literally, His children – spiritually.
Hence, the reason Jesus taught us:
“Our Father who art in Heaven … “
NOTE: He did not say, “My Father in Heaven…”
When teaching all of us He always referred to Him as ‘THE Father”, because God begat us spiritually; though He only begat one in the flesh.
He was also referred to in the Old Testament as, “the Father of spirits”
Now, every father wishes the very best for his children.
He wants his children to become like him, or better, where that be possible.
This is precisely our Father’s wish for us.
He wants us to learn everything … but piece by piece, is the only way we can handle it – even if simply that we get too big-headed to receive it any other way. But either way, we could not contain it all at once … plus we would not have earned it, and we must earn our right to knowledge and blessings in life.

Considering all of the above, I don’t think it is out of order to conclude that God wants all things to be comprehendible to His children, and that He would make all things explainable to their readiness to receive – at least, those things that relate to this earth and its inhabitants anyway.

I can only see from all religious reports that being able to explain things or otherwise has not the skeric of applicability to the Question of there being a God or not being one.

What say ye??

2007-05-20 16:24:26 · 6 answers · asked by dr c 4

Milk, milk, lemonaid, around the corner.... Fudge is made!

2007-05-20 16:18:33 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Ok, im just as to blame as a lot of people. But why not live everyday to its fullest. Why do people get so worried about stuff? Especially when we all know that we're all gonna die someday.

2007-05-20 15:56:52 · 14 answers · asked by Dan7 2

Many times, throughout my life, I have heard the statement:

If you were to randomly choose any major city, anywhere in the world, and remain for a given amount of time, you will eventually see or cross paths with someone you know ( or reversed: someone who knows you will see you or cross paths with you.)

2007-05-20 15:54:27 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

The virus that plagues this planet, do we not deserve to have torn away frrom us?

2007-05-20 15:48:36 · 4 answers · asked by -)-(- 6

Who thinks we are born from evolution? God? Give arguments of why.

2007-05-20 15:41:02 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-05-20 15:37:59 · 26 answers · asked by toietmoi 6

If we discovered a new planet that life (like humans) could live on, would you move there?

Basically you would be new settlers to an entire planet. Would you go now if you could?
You would be able to start over, completely, from scratch.

2007-05-20 15:35:28 · 21 answers · asked by Oh, Natey-O! 3

Truth: according to the Bible god is omniscient (all-knowing) and omnibenevolent (all-good). Plus hell is a place for the unrighteous.

However, a good god creating a person knowing that he'd just send them to hell in the end means he isn't good. Even if it's only foreknowledge... Simply knowing that a child will die if they wander onto the freeway, yet letting a "preventable event" occur is still cruel.

So my question is, can we avoid the unavoidable?

2007-05-20 15:34:29 · 7 answers · asked by 8theist 6

who is beyond the shadow of a doubt.....SHALLOW?

2007-05-20 15:32:17 · 10 answers · asked by FYIIM1KO 5

Why is it that all of us search knowledge, thinking it will give us satisfaction, but whenever someone gets an enormous amount of knowledge; they go insane?

People like Nietzsche.

2007-05-20 15:31:41 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

What would you be looking for in me? What do you think that you could expect out of me? Do we still have any nymphos out there and why are they called that? What kind of a culture do you think they could live with and what kind of perspectives would they have? What would their philosophical nature look like?

2007-05-20 15:24:29 · 15 answers · asked by Friend 6

I've long thought that people have very little or no control over their emotions. ~~>For example, you wake up and realize you're still mad at someone for something they did in a dream.

We usually have limited to significant control over out thoughts. ~~>You realize it was only a dream, and tell yourself not to be upset over it.

And we absolutely can (and should!) control our actions. ~~>You would seem crazy to go confront the person over their actions in your dream.

Agree? Disagree?

Spin off question: Is being "in love" an emotion? Is it an intense state of being, the same as being enraged? Or overjoyed?

2007-05-20 15:16:11 · 3 answers · asked by foxydallas 2

How beautifull

2007-05-20 15:09:23 · 13 answers · asked by zentoccino 2

Are people inherently good, or evil? (Or something else, like greedy, or self-interested?)

Is love/joy/(some other positive emotion) the "greatest common denominator" in humanity? Or is pain/suffering/despair the great unifier of our human existance? (*Yes, I've seen I Heart Huckabees & What the Bleep and I LOVE both of them!)

The Bible (and many other non-Christian spiritual guides) expresses the idea that both joy and suffering are divine. Can anyone shed some light on this for me? It sure doesn't feel like it!

2007-05-20 15:02:40 · 8 answers · asked by foxydallas 2

Can't even navigate the net anymore without running into the drug company ads, what do we do about that, guess we have to live with them don't you? Does that make it any more scientific or is it just more hard core pushing?

2007-05-20 14:58:53 · 7 answers · asked by Friend 6

I believe that bad things happen regardless because sometimes, humans inflict pain, discomfort, or punishment anyway on others because of the satanic spirit that's in them.

2007-05-20 14:52:05 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

Answer Honestly

Im not trying to push religion or anything
just answer

2007-05-20 14:51:21 · 19 answers · asked by -)-(- 6