Philosophy - September 2007

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2007-09-11 00:00:43 · 3 answers · asked by The Knowledge Server 1

2007-09-10 23:26:56 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

"Where is the end of the universe?" . I often ask myself this childish question.

2007-09-10 22:49:13 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-10 22:47:55 · 8 answers · asked by JMAO 2

2007-09-10 22:46:22 · 27 answers · asked by Nelly 5

2007-09-10 22:45:10 · 23 answers · asked by Nelly 5

This question appears in Ursula K. Le Guin's short story The New Atlantis.

"Is one dead only after living, or before life as well?"

The question is in the italicized part of the story.

2007-09-10 22:41:39 · 4 answers · asked by Vernan 4

2007-09-10 22:20:16 · 4 answers · asked by Aken 3

2007-09-10 21:59:35 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-10 21:26:00 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-10 21:15:43 · 9 answers · asked by Phoenix 1

I asked a question a little while ago about adults and whether they are mature by being or if maturity is something earned. I got many different answers, some good, some bad and some completely off topic. However once answer questioned what maturity was and I think that is a very good question.

What is maturity, since there are adults who act immature (Paris Hilton for example) and children who act mature (a child of drunkard parents who is forced to care for siblings and possibly parents) it cannot be a function of age. So if maturity is not a byproduct of age then what is it?

What is maturity and how does one attain it? If it is a product of pain and suffering why is it that one person will gain maturity and another will gain only cinicism? Also how does our society help or hinder the progress of maturity in a person?

Please explain your answers.

Thanks.

2007-09-10 20:46:50 · 13 answers · asked by Arthur N 4

Dec 25 is Christmas Day. July 4 is Independance Day.
What should we call 9/11? Should we call it WTC day?
Or perhaps WTF day?
Get patriotic, get evil, feel free to vent.

2007-09-10 20:16:57 · 11 answers · asked by Phoenix Quill 7

2007-09-10 19:54:39 · 13 answers · asked by Aken 3

Everybody welcome, don't be too cruel.
Do other religions have drugs that describe them?

2007-09-10 19:46:09 · 8 answers · asked by Phoenix Quill 7

I don't think the world would continue if I were to die. In fact, I don't think I'll ever die. Other people can die, but not me. I mean, I'M ME. How could I die?

If I did die, how could the world just go on? Not possible. I wouldn't be here anymore, so everything would have to stop.

I think everyone and everything else around me is just a creation of my mind.

2007-09-10 19:43:03 · 11 answers · asked by Chuck W 1

2007-09-10 19:32:58 · 3 answers · asked by helene d 1

With today being 9/11, I always think of empathy. I wonder where it went that morning and how people could have done something like that to other people. As a result, I wrote my English Lit dissertation on this subject because I needed to make some kind of sense of what happened that morning here in NY and Va and Pa. I wrote a 47 page dissertation and I still don't have the answer. What is it? Where did it go that morning? How do we get more? Pax - C

2007-09-10 18:52:52 · 11 answers · asked by Persiphone_Hellecat 7

I've noticed I get immediate eye contact and much more than others (in college setting lecture or a certain attendance of importance to me). Why is it that the lecturer would not equally give eye-contact? Should there be a bias in eye-contact and what does this mean? Thanks.

2007-09-10 18:35:19 · 5 answers · asked by Pansy 4

...it is amazing that the others can pick up on the exact thoughts and reflect them back at you. This is the proof that telepathy can exist!(humorously)

Seriously, what causes some people to be so good at this.. I've noticed the people really good are lecturers of some sort that deal with a good sized group of people regularly and for a long time.

2007-09-10 18:19:31 · 5 answers · asked by Pansy 4

Is our world real? is the computer your looking at real? are you real? are you just being precieved? and if your being precieved are you real? is pain real? or is it just a though?

2007-09-10 18:09:30 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

Please give full details and examples

2007-09-10 18:07:24 · 9 answers · asked by FILO 6

And do you eat hot dogs?

2007-09-10 17:57:54 · 13 answers · asked by Nep 6

2007-09-10 17:47:57 · 1 answers · asked by mmking91 1

2007-09-10 17:46:33 · 9 answers · asked by fr33dom 2

Francisco D’Anconia: “ … why is it that throughout man’s history the Nat Taggarts, who make the world, have always won—and always lost it to the men of the Board?"
Dagny Taggart: "I … don’t know."---Part 2, Chapter V

2007-09-10 17:46:17 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

i believe it was mark twain that said it. anyways it was something along that line i just dont know the exact quote.

2007-09-10 17:42:01 · 3 answers · asked by bob 2

I find myself spending hours supplying answers to questions asked by people I have not and never will meet. What is it that motivates one to do this? I mean, the "points" have no value, and since nobody knows who I really am, have no meaning. Yet I come back and give answers day after day. WHY?

2007-09-10 17:40:31 · 6 answers · asked by Marc G 6

In your own perception what is the definition of change? Is there any change in your life? What made you decide to have a big change in your life?

2007-09-10 17:28:25 · 8 answers · asked by liza 2

How does 'loneliness' manifest in behaviors and thoughts? Thanks.

2007-09-10 17:20:14 · 7 answers · asked by Pansy 4