Philosophy - September 2007

2007-09-20 12:33:46 · 19 answers · asked by Hot Coco Puff 7

2007-09-20 12:33:23 · 8 answers · asked by :) 2

2007-09-20 12:32:34 · 6 answers · asked by //beth// 1

2007-09-20 12:28:37 · 8 answers · asked by //beth// 1

Two other questions. Do you think/believe that: 1. A person can live without morality 2. Morality gave birth to societies(The "I don't like how something is run, so I'll start something new" mentality).

So basically, are we born with a tendency to be moral(not with them). If so, did we create societies to help us live out our ideas about how we believe things should be.

(My wording on this is kind of bad so it might change as I think of how to better express what I'm thinking)

2007-09-20 12:22:42 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-20 12:21:32 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-20 12:14:32 · 6 answers · asked by Hot Coco Puff 7

wait a minute self....where did that come from?

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2007-09-20 12:05:27 · 7 answers · asked by someone 5

Please explain your position. I will post this in philosophy and in religion.

2007-09-20 12:02:39 · 0 answers · asked by R 5

2007-09-20 11:57:52 · 23 answers · asked by Holiday Magic 7

would you say you live the life you say you always wanted.would you have fullied some of your long and short terms dreams.would you have forgiven the ones you hurt most.
would you miss the world

2007-09-20 11:49:11 · 9 answers · asked by livelifelikealibra 3

2007-09-20 11:47:16 · 7 answers · asked by sharifjunaid 3

I don't know. I always happenes that the more I like a guy the quicklier he wan't to run away! I can't understand why! All the other men like me a lot no matter how I treat them! To my own oppinion I treat those I don't like awful! I mean if they are in need I help them of course but if they just want to meet, I always say no, I behave really cold! Because of course I don't want them into my life! With those I like it's a total difference! I do everything for them! People open their mouthes when they see what things I do!.. I see a big treasure in every person I like even if in my mind I think that all the people equaly deserve to be loved. Well, so no matter how funny and beautifull I am those I like just run away one after another! Those I don't stay All by me! I have bought a book about how to behave with men and that we have to stay cold. I tried a bit. He got more attracted to me, the one who ra away before, but then I started again and he ran away again! I just can't be cold the one I love! How can I? When I behave so I feel like I am lieing and that it is not a true me! Because a true me is the one who does everything, and forgives everything. Please help me! Tell me what should I do! When I stay cold even those I like like me back, but in that case I feel that something good (that thing about willing to do everything) inside of me is dieing. It is a very hard feeling, like if you become a machine. Then once I open myself and do everything I want I feel free and like something hard has fallenof my shoulders. But the same moment guys first become happy and then run away. Well, tell me please what do you think I should do? :)
I thank you all very much! And lately I have become friends with another girl who is the same as me so you will help not only me!
Have a great day you all! And may all your problems go away!
Maria

2007-09-20 11:18:46 · 3 answers · asked by Maria 2

2007-09-20 11:17:47 · 15 answers · asked by c'mon, cliffy 5

he's just goin to let us burn in hell if we simply don't believe or live for him? i think that is just outrageous..if this god was so great and forgiving i don't see how he can accept such things to happen..

2007-09-20 10:55:24 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-20 10:49:20 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

The beginning of the Universe, the big bang, reality and everything. This theory combines both religion and science.

For hundreds of years many people have thought God made the universe. There are different religions that basically all end up saying the same thing about God - that God has always existed. He was not created and he can't be destroyed. He was, is and always will be existing. This is the view of nearly every religion.

Now looking at it from a scientific point of view, the current best accepted theory for the beginning of the Universe is the Big Bang. The definition is:

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A broadly accepted theory for the origin and evolution of our universe. The theory says that the universe started expanding roughly 14 billion years ago from an extremely dense and incredibly hot initial state.
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The big bang theory also states that all matter along with space-time was born with this "explosion".

The human mind is a complex thing. Right from when we are kids we are born with the ability to imagine. We can imagine anything right now. The moon? Sure. Space? Sure. Even if you haven't been to either of these places you get a fair idea of what to imagine. But there is one thing that you cannot imagine, no matter how hard you try. That is nothingness.

How can one prove the concept of nothingness exists? Technically you couldn't, but say you were able to pause the whole of the Universe at this moment and go to a distant corner of the Universe and start stripping down the entire contents of that particular portion of space - down to the last atom, down to the last proton. What would you be left with? Nothingness. But you would never be able to form a mental picture of what that nothing would look like.

The big bang theory apparently explains how the Universe started but actually it just explains how the infinitely dense singularity expanded to the Universe that we see around us now. It never explains how that singularity got there. If you ask anybody knowledgeable in this subject what happened before the big bang you would get an answer saying there was no "before" as time was born with the big bang. But this is just the man-made time. There had to be a prior event to the big bang. This singularity had to be born, it couldn't have been always there. There had to be some sort of event that caused this speck to appear out of nowhere. I believe what happened for this speck to appear holds the key to the mysteries of the Universe. So far we've been able to (reasonably) explain majority of the stuff in the Universe, but no one has been able to provide a satisfying answer to what it was actually like "before" big-bang.

Let's assume for a moment that before the big-bang there was nothing. Complete and absolute nothingness. Now if in a few million years everything in our Universe gets destroyed, there would be nothing left. Also absolute nothingness. So nothingness always has, is and will be existing. Just like God. The speck of singularity appeared out of total nothingness. Many religions say God created the Universe. If you clear your mind and try to imagine what nothingness would look like eventually your brain would whimper and give up. Similarly, you cannot imagine God, what he looks like, where God is.

Why then, when there are so many similarities between God and Nothingness, can we not say God is Nothing?

My theory is that that nothingness is God. This is not the God that can do magic tricks etc. But this is nothingness has an intelligent mind that ignited this speck of singularity to expand to what the Universe is now over many many years.

This 'God' that is talked about in religion is a concept invented by man for protection, later turned into an item of commerce and a basis for power. Any child left free from the shackles of doctrines, tradition, beliefs ,and philosophies too ,will see for himself that a seed will grown into a tree and a tree in turn produces seed. There is progression of everything everywhere. What is hidden in the seed manifests into a tree - this is how things are.

Nothingness is the ultimate. If you try to get away from everything that was ever handed down to you in an attempt to 'see clearly', you are left with Nothingness. Bur since we see existence all around, it must follow that existence arose out of that Nothingness, that that Nothingness contained the seed of what is now. The seed of everything and the workings of everything reside in that Nothingness.

2007-09-20 10:45:58 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

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Won't we be in SERIOUS trouble if they turned out to be just as nasty and egotistical as us (whether they were actually CREATED as such in OUR IMAGE, or they learned to evolve into it in time)?
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"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQcUS4chhc4
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2007-09-20 10:27:29 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-20 10:17:46 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-20 10:11:04 · 13 answers · asked by D C 1

"I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my own motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don't know why I do things." J.B.S. Haldane

2007-09-20 09:05:18 · 8 answers · asked by Zelda Hunter 7

with love?how and why which and when?

2007-09-20 09:01:50 · 7 answers · asked by @NGEL B@BY 7

2007-09-20 08:53:24 · 32 answers · asked by Rita 6

=)))))))))))))))))

2007-09-20 08:52:09 · 26 answers · asked by enki 4

2007-09-20 08:43:23 · 23 answers · asked by Rita 6

Do you believe that it's kinda predestined?

2007-09-20 08:42:20 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

what will you eat? will it be only fruits?

2007-09-20 08:40:41 · 14 answers · asked by @NGEL B@BY 7

2007-09-20 08:23:34 · 7 answers · asked by someone 5

when you are exposed to a situation that pushes your buttons?

2007-09-20 08:22:42 · 14 answers · asked by someone 5

what is the process for seeing things for what they are? (in your words)

2007-09-20 08:17:24 · 16 answers · asked by someone 5