Philosophy - August 2007

I mean, I'm always reading questions about whether time travel could ever be possible, how it would be achieved, and what the consequences would be.

But now I want someone to tell me how humankind would benefit. For this, you have to suspend disbelief. So we're assuming that it is environmentally sustainable, that it's possible to travel in both directions along the time line, and that by visiting the past, we don't impact on the present.

BTW, if you accept that last point, then you have to concede that anybody who did visit the future, then returned to the now, could have no impact on that future already visited.

So let's go.

2007-08-03 16:14:35 · 5 answers · asked by Dr Know It All 5

2007-08-03 15:48:26 · 12 answers · asked by hookerln 5

You good live in the city in the on a mountain by a big lake on an island like Bermuda haha Greece or italy or anywhere in this world can you say that you are in harmony with the nature around you??

2007-08-03 15:35:21 · 9 answers · asked by Rita 6

I have read that some thinkers see communism as the bastard child of Christianity. What do you think?

2007-08-03 15:27:43 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Sorry guys. My computer is acting really weird. Y/A doesn't look anything like it did this past year for me now, and I deliberately wanted to ask you guys this question, but the only way to get my pc to catagorize it in philosophy was to type the word with the question. Think I'll have to do it like that from now on. I don't know what happened but I've tried everything I know of to fix it, and so far, to no avail...

2007-08-03 15:13:00 · 5 answers · asked by philisopheyes 3

2007-08-03 15:07:32 · 13 answers · asked by philisopheyes 3

The most passionate inwardness is the Truth...:)))

2007-08-03 15:06:28 · 16 answers · asked by Rita 6

hi
by the way i speak, can you tell how old i am?

i want a tongue piercing by the end of this year. its just simply something i want. i know its 'taboo' and frowned upon but i know the risks and the way corporate america looks at body piercings. it is slightly immature and doesnt make much sense at all but im more urban and underground orientated than anything else.

by this, can you determine how old i am?
(dont presume im a minor/adolescent just because i haven't pierced my tongue [yet])

thanks

2007-08-03 14:52:55 · 21 answers · asked by Mango 5

Freedom Of Opinion And Freedom Of Speech What Do You Think. Every Thing Bad IE War, Crime, And Terrorism Is All Based On Opinion Which Then Is Based Upon Freedom Of Speech. All Answers Welcome.

2007-08-03 14:44:53 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

What Is The Meaning Of Life To You And How Not Knowing What Is Affect How We Accomplish The Meaning.

2007-08-03 14:41:18 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-03 14:12:08 · 5 answers · asked by Save A Tree [Remove a Bush] 4

is love as a feeling COMPLETE? or love is love till you give it away(expression)? or how you perceive it(impression)? or when it's accepted or given back(affirmation), a figment of imagination(hallucination) or the greatest human invention next to God(fabrication).....
what is love using one word to describe it(as one of the choices above) ?

2007-08-03 14:11:59 · 34 answers · asked by enki 4

...what would you say?

2007-08-03 14:11:48 · 19 answers · asked by ? 6

there are more dead bodies burried around the world than there are living people,

i wish i didint have to live around so many dead people

2007-08-03 14:07:48 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-03 14:04:48 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

No one I live with respects me.

2007-08-03 13:32:09 · 7 answers · asked by SheRa 3

and I don't dispute it. But what else is there involving YOUR personal definition of faith, and most importantly, seeing the results of it in your life, or making it work for you? The definition
I read in a book, and instantly recognized it to be true for me is:

"FAITH: The belief and commitment that everything will work out for everyone's highest good, and taking the stand of being ready to participate in those results..."

The taking the stand part is my add-on, but the first part of the definition motivates me to action.....Do you have any unique personal definition to share?.............

2007-08-03 13:14:33 · 15 answers · asked by Monsieur Recital Vinyliste 6

arent we just mistaking feelings with each other?isnt it just some kind of imagination?

2007-08-03 13:11:11 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

in time and were to kill our grandparents or parents...(not saying I want to)... but if this were to happen, would we automatically disappear? Since we would have never been able to be born.

2007-08-03 12:25:06 · 7 answers · asked by mommymanic 4

If so, what advice would you give someone who once believed, but has lost their faith? No Christian fundamentalist answers please - I'm not looking to be "saved", I just want to believe that there is some purpose to life again.

2007-08-03 11:51:10 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

I need some help

2007-08-03 11:27:16 · 22 answers · asked by flatfoot 3

Well? After looking at this grand selection, I'm lost when it comes to my opinion. I think that its an interesting philosophical debate, no?

2007-08-03 11:25:42 · 22 answers · asked by Ana Makes Art. 3

2007-08-03 11:16:16 · 4 answers · asked by gldnsilnc 6

2007-08-03 11:12:22 · 17 answers · asked by BIG Drew 1

Provided your habits, tendancies and desires are not harmful to yourself or others, do you think it's wiser to follow the blueprint nature has wrote for you and be who you are, and want what you want? Or do you agree that it's your responsibilty to try to change and improve into something better, if you think that can be achieved with self denial, discipline and training?

2007-08-03 11:12:18 · 11 answers · asked by TroutSniff 3

Aren't they truly determined by our histories & our genes? Can we really choose what to do in situations, or is it just the illusion of choice?

2007-08-03 10:57:09 · 12 answers · asked by embroidery fan 7

I was outraged when I looked at her website http://www.sylvia.org/home/readings.cfm and saw that she charges $$750.00$$ for a psychic reading and her psychic reading lasts only 20 -30- minutes long. This is in U.S. dollars and I'm on disability in Canada...that would eat up the entire funds for a month of my disability pay....and that does not include the long distance bill that would accrue [she doesn't even have a 1-800 number to call. She has written over 30 books - many being bestsellers-I don't know why, I read one that was total crap]...She is Sooooo rich , and she can't even afford to have a 1-800- number or give to the poor by lowering her prices! My son was right when he stated in his will/suicide note that "Greed rules the world". It even says on her site that her and her son are the best psychic readers in the world -such conceit! I believe that Edgar Cayce was the best psychic that ever lived in North America...

2007-08-03 10:53:05 · 12 answers · asked by birdtennis 4

Can anyone elaborate on what is meant when Nietzsche said, "Prayer to men.-- "Forgive us our virtues" -- thus one should pray to men." And also this one: "Not their love of men but the impotence of their love of men keeps the Christians of today from -- burning us."

I have no idea on the first one. The second one he seems to be saying something about Christians lack of love for people that keeps them from killing us. If that's even close to what he means, he doesn't elaborate as to how he came to this conclusion.There is a footnote in my book about it that says basically that if Christians were concerned for the salvation of others they would still burn those whose heresies lead legions into eternal damnation. I don't get what Nietzsche is getting at here...

2007-08-03 10:52:14 · 4 answers · asked by James 1

2007-08-03 10:21:49 · 12 answers · asked by SUPERMAN 2

I am talking about all shades of red, from light red to crimson and burgundy.

2007-08-03 10:16:28 · 16 answers · asked by Questioner 1