Philosophy - October 2007

In an age of enlightened self-interest where we are to help others, who has helped you recently? What did they help you with?

2007-10-07 14:44:39 · 8 answers · asked by guru 7

for WALKING backwards...
for MOVING too fast....
for RUNNING wild...
for JUMPING into conclusion....
or for not STEPPING up...

2007-10-07 14:25:17 · 19 answers · asked by enki 4

2007-10-07 14:18:46 · 7 answers · asked by xxx 2

I am proud of the way the world of hatred and bigotry has subsided in my neck of the woods...how about yall?

2007-10-07 13:39:44 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-07 13:08:30 · 26 answers · asked by Maximum_Erwin 3

I never met him before and he is married, I spontaneously started to cry and left the room. This person ment nothing to me, why did I react that way

2007-10-07 13:06:23 · 15 answers · asked by Jenny G 3

Why should all be fair in love...it makes NO sense at all!!
Or does it?
What other sayings of this type do you find less than logical?
Debated with myself on what category to put this...lol!

2007-10-07 12:54:38 · 11 answers · asked by Silva 6

2007-10-07 12:26:31 · 11 answers · asked by b n r 2

for instance all of us reading this have not been to space. how do we know that the earth is round? how do we know that we are actually living on earth? maybe people told us that we live on earth and showed us pictures of it from space. but in reality we could be living on god knows what and have no idea about it and most of us will never get the opportunity to go to space and see it for real. kinda scary isnt it. we could all be told one thing but in reality have no idea what is really going on. we all just belive it is round becasue thats what they have told us, but no one really knows unless you have been to space and seen it first hand.

2007-10-07 11:26:21 · 10 answers · asked by Hockey_star104 2

I'm inlove with life. Are you?
Why?

2007-10-07 11:08:21 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

your thoughts?

2007-10-07 10:49:25 · 7 answers · asked by rue saint-denis 3

“Do the gods love piety because it is pious, or is it pious because they love it.”

whats the differnece between the two. and what would be an example of the second one?

2007-10-07 10:48:30 · 2 answers · asked by jackie 2

i've been readin phaedo, and i dont understand how socrates actually PROVES the immortality of the soul.

help?

2007-10-07 10:45:41 · 4 answers · asked by jackie 2

2007-10-07 10:20:29 · 3 answers · asked by LUCKY3 6

2007-10-07 10:16:56 · 15 answers · asked by LUCKY3 6

2007-10-07 10:07:22 · 8 answers · asked by Ali T 1

We seem to have bottomless respect and blind trust of specialists (and sometimes thats good but not always) Very few people seem to value being able to see accross disciplines and look at the 'bigger picture', the bigger issues.

We've gotten quite good at isolating the variables and solving for them but in the process we frequently lose sight of and feel powerless over bigger issues.

Even when the value of a broad education is grudgingly admitted, we end up placing all our faith in the specialist anyway.

Even here on Yahoo, people get little orange banners to show that they are specialists in their field but there is no recognition of interdisciplinary efforts (not that a megalomaniac wants or needs a little orange banner to be validated) but it would be cool and perhaps even beneficial if we could figure out a way to reward and encourage boundary crossing thought here on Y!A and in the world at large.

Your thoughts?

2007-10-07 09:50:56 · 5 answers · asked by megalomaniac 7

They see statues of Jesus and his mom. They see paintings all over the place. They see priests and preachers that are elevated on a platform. They hear stories from the day they were born about angels and devils and demons and spirits. The entire religion or religions are created in the greatest art in the world. A fantasy is delivered on a silver platter to them constantly. Then they have the stupidity to say they have faith and believe without seeing. Christians do not know the difference in a picture and reality or even come close to believing without seeing. When will this religious stupidity end?

2007-10-07 09:32:29 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

Ive been asking this question alot and never get a clear answer so I decided to try here ^^!

2007-10-07 09:29:21 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

*wink*

2007-10-07 09:23:11 · 18 answers · asked by LUCKY3 6

"what you see is what you get"

or do say "don't judge a book by its cover" ???????

2007-10-07 09:11:32 · 11 answers · asked by Minty 2

2007-10-07 08:48:17 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-07 08:38:09 · 8 answers · asked by Jack K 2

Assuming that it is cognitive enough to do so, do you think that an infant in the womb would fear being born? Seems that it could be thought of as an end to life as it knows it, much the way that death to us is an end to what we know, and a beginning of something unknown.

2007-10-07 08:31:11 · 11 answers · asked by Dave B. 7

True or false ?

2007-10-07 08:15:30 · 13 answers · asked by Lost. at. Sea. 7

2007-10-07 08:02:23 · 8 answers · asked by Raghavendra R 5

why do most people conceive it in the same way?

2007-10-07 07:34:44 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-07 06:58:19 · 6 answers · asked by megalomaniac 7

For thousands of years humans have enjoyed music, even slamming sticks on some stones in a rhythmic pattern. And then to the more elaborate classical music. Music has always been one of the centric aspects of a festival or celebration. We listen to it and we love it. An animal, however, just recognizes it as sound, it doesn't interpret the melody or rhythm of it. We can.

Not only can we sense the melody and rhythm of music, but we enjoy it, it calms us and uplifts our mood. What's the explanation for this?

2007-10-07 06:23:29 · 8 answers · asked by aelius28 2

2007-10-07 06:19:27 · 11 answers · asked by Jack K 2