Philosophy - November 2007

2007-11-18 18:57:28 · 8 answers · asked by Brian L 1

2007-11-18 18:52:04 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

can we ever figure out why we're all here, what we're doing here, why we ask questions and answer them on message boards sitting oceans away from each other?
is there an answer to be found by questioning?

2007-11-18 18:47:39 · 12 answers · asked by Alex 2

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2007-11-18 18:46:56 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

something that never fails to be true over and over again?

2007-11-18 18:42:33 · 9 answers · asked by Alex 2

What is the most profound question that you can ask?

Why is it the most profound question that you can think of to ask?

PS:
The one word question 'Why?' is not allowed, it is too broad and lacks context. It is too easy to ask and it is virtually impossible to answer without context.

Please explain your reasoning’s about your question.

Thanks.

2007-11-18 17:45:57 · 16 answers · asked by Arthur N 4

2007-11-18 17:41:19 · 17 answers · asked by small 7

If we exist only because of some kind of random explosion in the cosmos, and have no purpose in life. If there is no afterlife, no spirit, and no hope...If we truly are no different than a wild animal, a bird of prey, or a cockroach, than why do we have any set of standards of behavior at all? Why might these same people be upset if there is murder, rape, pillage, and chaos? Aren't we just just behaving according to our "nature". Isn't this survival of the fittest?

2007-11-18 17:34:44 · 11 answers · asked by Mom of seven 1

I don't think many people sit around, or live their lives worrying/thinking about death.

Maybe it's the fact that i have to drive past the biggest cemetary in Texas it seems every day after college.

Point being then you factor in what i like to call the "oddness" of life, be it the culture, the birth of a baby in the oddest of manner, the unexplainable universe and the amazing things which can't be explained, do you ever sit around and question what If there is no God and we die, I fully believe there is, I hear the answer "well even if there wasn't at least you lived a life that was pure", then you counter that with whats the point of purity if for no judgment/god. Bottom line, does the vast perplexity of the universe ever freak you out when you just sit and think about life/everything?

I struggle with this daily.

2007-11-18 17:08:36 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-18 16:35:50 · 6 answers · asked by jr 2

2007-11-18 16:22:14 · 13 answers · asked by Shie-ann 1

2007-11-18 16:15:04 · 10 answers · asked by Honey 2

Is life on Earth Hell? What if we are really in Hell now and after death is something else/

2007-11-18 15:43:45 · 15 answers · asked by jr 2

2007-11-18 15:14:31 · 1 answers · asked by Tuna-San 5

Who or what is the driving force behind this direction ?

2007-11-18 15:02:39 · 6 answers · asked by Joe_Pardy 5

2007-11-18 14:45:32 · 13 answers · asked by ? 5

"The double grief of a lost bliss is to recall its happy hour in pain."

2007-11-18 14:23:19 · 8 answers · asked by happysnappy 3

2007-11-18 14:03:06 · 11 answers · asked by Sarah 4

Do you understand yourself more if you have a philosophical mind? Do you understand life more!?

Hope this question doesn't sound stupid.

p.s all you philosophical cats are really patient towards people who don't quite understand yet!! thanks!

2007-11-18 13:57:14 · 4 answers · asked by Miss Blue & Riley too. 6

2007-11-18 13:54:09 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Science is that witch is testable, quantifiable ,verifiable, and repeatable. Anything else is metaphysics and religion. I recomend going to this site before you answer. www.geocities.com/deke1942/tccop/evolution.htm

2007-11-18 13:46:37 · 6 answers · asked by Homer 133 3

Descartes describes there is no such thing as pleasure just a absence of pain
For example, sex, is not a pleasure but yet a fullfillment of a yearning which is a type of pain.

2007-11-18 13:20:11 · 11 answers · asked by theinsaneprofessor 1

why or why not?

2007-11-18 13:09:22 · 5 answers · asked by Kaitlin S 1

2007-11-18 12:58:47 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-18 12:58:32 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Mine used to be Saturn because of it's rings around it...but then I looked on Google images and I now prefer Jupiter because of how colorful it is...

2007-11-18 12:57:09 · 15 answers · asked by birdtennis 4

"In 1947 Australia signed the Metre Convention making metric units legal for use in Australia, and in 1970 passed the Metric Conversion Act with the aim of making the metric system the sole system of legal measurements in Australia."

According to the above, Australia possessed metric well before 1970.


Was the word "conversion" a bowdlerised form of the word "convention" ?

2007-11-18 12:54:14 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

The type of nonphysical attributes I question are things like sadness, joy, your conscience.

Maybe I am just blubering but what if you took your watch and carefully disassembled every single piece. Now put all the pieces into a coffee can and shack it, even for billions of years. Does anyone think for a second that the pieces of your watch will ever reassemble themselves by chance and form a working watch again? probably not. Now keep in mind you at least have every piece of the watch known to make it work. Now how in the world can anyone believe for a moment that if the watch, with at best 35 known pieces, can not reassemble itself by chance. That we as a people could assemble ourselves by chance with millions of unknown pieces?

2007-11-18 12:43:00 · 3 answers · asked by michaeljterry 2

Does your COMFORT ZONE have a small or big TERRITORY?

2007-11-18 12:25:22 · 20 answers · asked by enki 4

2007-11-18 11:35:45 · 24 answers · asked by Rita 6