Philosophy - July 2007

2007-07-19 01:26:51 · 15 answers · asked by Socrates 3

2007-07-19 01:22:48 · 10 answers · asked by marie 2

From a materialist point of view preferably, at the level of the brain, what is ambition? determination? Theres so many interesting things that i want to learn about, it excites me to think about them, but when i actually do them, the feeling either loses its flavor after a while or i can't even bring myself to do them in the first place. I could have accomplished so much in the time i've been alive, i could have learned so many new things, but when it boils down to it, after working 40 hours a week, i always tend to lean towards fruitless entertainment to take up my time, IE, videogames, movies, or even just sitting there being apathetic. Whats the difference between me and the millionaire teenager who builds his own company from scratch? Why do some people have more ambition than others?

2007-07-19 01:19:22 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-19 00:36:23 · 15 answers · asked by small 7

...with liberal quantities of cotton, eye, and corn candy thrown in, with a dash of savagely hot peppers...? Thinking to yourself "It's do or die, beach...Let's get it on!!!"?? Right now I'm feeeling like I need a 4th helping of it, with some "diffident dessert" on the side, with only a pair of cheesy chopsticks to chomp it all down...?

Isn't life more like THAT than a box of chocolates?

2007-07-19 00:25:35 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

somebody just said it to me and i jumped out of my skin like a babysitter. what makes you jump?

2007-07-19 00:08:26 · 17 answers · asked by archie. 2

Whose job do you think it is to decide right from wrong...the government?...or the individual person?

2007-07-19 00:06:31 · 21 answers · asked by Tucker 2

The question is as follows:

WHY?

2007-07-18 23:16:01 · 30 answers · asked by Legend 3

Or is it just a freak -- a result of a zillion to one circumstances?

2007-07-18 23:10:59 · 36 answers · asked by question asker 5

Would anyone agree that there is nothing important. Whatever we acheive, we will all end up in the same place and it's meaningless. You might say, "but think about the people you leave behind." All of humanity will come to an end one day. And everything will get swallowed up in a black hole again. Who knows how many infinities of creatures evolved, thought, and lived before we did. We're not special, we're made of the same material as all of the inanimate objects. So would you agree at all?

2007-07-18 22:59:02 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

Can you help me write this card better?
ok, i write :

wake your fantasies,
follow your passions,
realise your dreams
live in love.
Open pathways to your visionary destination
using all the opportunities and living all the moments.
And if someone get hurt or disappointed, without your conscious will,
then remember: YOU HAVE ONLY ONE LIFE TO LIVE.


please elp me make it as perfect as possible. It is for a very important person. thanks

2007-07-18 22:38:46 · 6 answers · asked by kittana! 2

as the source of your problems?

2007-07-18 22:13:18 · 27 answers · asked by Life goes on... 6

2007-07-18 22:07:19 · 21 answers · asked by khairul 1

2007-07-18 21:54:05 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

If the direction of nature and origins is survival, what are we to say About suicide an action that contradicts this direction.

keep in mind i do beleive in evolution. i am not an atheist but i am extreamly interested to hear an atheist explanation.if the explanation is biological dose that mean there is a suicide gene?

2007-07-18 21:35:30 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

Do you want to want to transform into a purifying wave of fire and wipe out all the greed,lust,hysteria,stupidity,vanity and the deceptive attitude of the others?Do you want to leave nothing but dust out of the annoying publicities,reality show sets,"intellectual" lies and dumb megalomaniacal illusions?I know you do.

2007-07-18 21:16:30 · 7 answers · asked by kalenderskiv 2

2007-07-18 21:10:19 · 20 answers · asked by sny 1

I know you can't know all,but tell me through your lifetime what does the world have to offer?

2007-07-18 20:11:09 · 14 answers · asked by Life goes on... 6

It appears everyone failed to see my point in the last question i asked, Can someone have the free will to change a pre-determined fate....If yes then there was no pre-determined fate, and if no then there is no "complete" free will....

2007-07-18 20:07:38 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-18 19:58:51 · 25 answers · asked by sfdmoment 2

...but being ENDLESS is everything...is ENDLESS with you?

2007-07-18 19:50:46 · 12 answers · asked by ? 5

2007-07-18 19:39:49 · 21 answers · asked by Nick C 1

2007-07-18 19:29:44 · 8 answers · asked by mississippi_gal_10 3

This is not a hypothetical question.

2007-07-18 19:29:27 · 15 answers · asked by Doctor Biobrain 3

I learned that:
1. You should never EVER use a pumice stone on your face and
2. That aloe vera cures pretty much anything.

What did you learn?

2007-07-18 19:22:00 · 9 answers · asked by Sid 4

What knowledge of good and evil is it that this world is bound to? Explain please.......

The knowledge of mind, body, and soul.......

Mind being of this world that we live in today-
Body being of the life that you have lived up until today-
Soul being the essence of life beyond this physical life we live in today-

Which best describes you?

2007-07-18 19:16:54 · 5 answers · asked by white_painted_lady 5

And when I stopped being who I am I found my self



Did You?

2007-07-18 18:51:09 · 26 answers · asked by The More I learn The More I'm Uneducated 5

What do you say?

2007-07-18 18:30:34 · 28 answers · asked by The More I learn The More I'm Uneducated 5

With all the stress and requirements of life in the mordern world do we have free will or is it just an illusion created by a complex system of controls.

Think about it for a second if you will...

Society programs us to think and act a certian way, if we do not follow this path we are ostrisised and/or punished.

We must work to earn money, we must use money to buy food and comforts, we must work to make more money.....

Society programs us to believe that one thing or one look is fationable of beautiful, to the point that minor imperfection of this image is less attractive and major imperfections are even repellent, i.e. weight.

We live within a complex and ever changing system, so my question is, within this complex and changing system do we have 'free will' or is this an illusion created as an artifact of the system.

Please explain your reasonings.

Serious answers only, Thanks.

PS. Please see "Small World Effect/Thoery" on Google for more information about this

2007-07-18 18:24:19 · 13 answers · asked by Arthur N 4

What ever happened to caring? Don't we care about the future of the children? Did any generation care about the future of children? Why does skin color still matter? Why do we still fight over religion? I'm curious.

2007-07-18 18:23:59 · 8 answers · asked by Iamhuman 1