Philosophy - November 2007

2007-11-15 12:01:34 · 10 answers · asked by neen1989 1

I have heard a lot already. But there's no meaning. So what is the meaning of life?

2007-11-15 11:56:11 · 12 answers · asked by Jun B 1

Why don't people look fear in the eye. Do you have any deep answer you would like to share?

2007-11-15 11:50:49 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-15 11:47:34 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

i'm just wondering.. what would be the basis.. universal morality, do we have that?

2007-11-15 11:38:21 · 9 answers · asked by kcin o 1

2007-11-15 11:24:10 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

Whats your opinion of his philosophy in general?

2007-11-15 11:20:55 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

I hate it when people try to say it's bad just to want intercourse with a chic. There's nothing wrong with it. It's fine, yet all those prests and nun wackos are actually trying to say it bad and sinful when yet I know damn well it's not.


And let me tell you something else, those same wacko priests and nuns ALSO say it's bad to want riches and money. When you die and go to Heaven, you will have the very same same things that they say are bad just to want, and that doesn't make any sense and I know damn well that sex in Heaven will be possible as anything pleasurable that's happened on Earth can happen in Heaven.


YET, the pleaureable things that they say are bad ARE available in Heaven. Why wouldn't they be? There's nothing wrong with wanting sex and riches and mansions.

2007-11-15 11:17:30 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

My whole life has been a giant (27 year) streak of bad luck it seems. It would take forever to type all of the ridiculous crap that has happened to me but basically I've been robbed, beaten, abused, lied to, cheated on, stabbed in the back, etc, non-stop. I'm not saying that stuff doesn't happen to other ppl, what I'm trying to say is that it's ALL that happens to me. There's no good to balance it out. I could write a novel just on the two serious live-in relationships I've been in alone. Both guys turned out to be pathalogical liars (I didn't find out who they truly were till AFTER I left them, and I lived w/ one for SEVEN YEARS). They both had serious mental issues (which of course they hid VERY well in the beginning). Both bf's were abusive, both stole tons of my belongings when I finally did leave them. Aside from that, 99.9% of the ppl in my life that I thought were friends ended up being two faced, back stabbing, liars just using me for one thing or another.

2007-11-15 11:15:57 · 7 answers · asked by ? 1

2007-11-15 11:05:17 · 8 answers · asked by Alex 2

2007-11-15 10:56:46 · 10 answers · asked by mzhudson@sbcglobal.net 5

Does death cure life? If life is a terminal illness, an STD, is the only cure for life death?

2007-11-15 10:55:32 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

Update: 18,000 as of sometime this evening. I will finish chapter IV tomorrow. Then the Editors will get to chop it to pieces. TD

2007-11-15 10:52:08 · 3 answers · asked by TD Euwaite? 6

what do you think of the line "were always dying" or "your are born dying"

Your thoughts ???

2007-11-15 10:48:41 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

why? i don't need this whole big explaination, but if anyone can throw me some psychology stuff while they are at it- that would be awesomeeeeee.. thanks!!

2007-11-15 10:37:15 · 25 answers · asked by beachbaby459 2

Do you consider yourself a hater?

hater: A person that simply cannot be happy for another person's success. So rather than be happy they make a point of exposing a flaw in that person.

Hating, the result of being a hater, is not exactly jealousy. The hater doesnt really want to be the person he or she hates, rather the hater wants to knock somelse down a notch.

Susan: You know, Kevin from accounting is doing very well. He just bought a house in a very nice part of town.

Jane (hater): If he is doing so well why does he drive that '89 Taurus?

2007-11-15 10:13:14 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

the person or the software

2007-11-15 10:10:26 · 4 answers · asked by saveitok 6

2007-11-15 09:51:08 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-15 09:37:09 · 1 answers · asked by Defunct 5

Maybe the past is happening right now...Just like you don't see Mars for instance, but you know its there...The past could be happening...You think there is nothing existent but the present? Maybe time is simply the comparison of today and yesterday. Or we could be in the past right now and the future is actually the present! Is time an illusion? What are your thoughts on time?

2007-11-15 09:31:49 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-15 08:42:57 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

Yeah...um,
1. Be serious, because this has been bothering me - if a person really DOES have multiple personalities and one of the personalities commits suicide, is it a homocidal suicide?
2. Answer the last of this series of questions: What keeps us living? Energy. What gives us energy? Mitochodria. What keeps them going? More energy. Now tell me - where did it all start?
3. If you're a scientist, can you believe in God?
4. I've asked myself several times why life is so boring. Am I just not that easy to please considering I'm a future artist who, occasionally, goes spazztic with sugar and, usually, air and friends who are even worse?
5. I need new ideas! Such as: things to draw, things to ponder, things to write about...etc.
6. One last question. What's up with the whole 'dream' thing!?!? I don't care about the scientific stuff, but really. Does it tell you stuff or is it just images your mind's collected? I recently had a premonition, so that's why I bring this up.
The End.^^

2007-11-15 08:28:41 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Are they just dictated from society? Does religion play more of a role? They may stem from a time when religion and society where far more intertwined, which would explain alot of the crossover. Does our self-centered, individualistic society demand self-gratification over the sanctity of the rights of others? Why do eastern cultures seem to act with so much more ethical concerns that western ones? Does religon stem from a need for a moral code, dating back to early man? What were ethics like prior to religon? Any help with these would be greatly appreciated.

2007-11-15 08:27:19 · 9 answers · asked by Maka 2

Altruism-is selfless concern for the welfare of others. Altruism focuses on a motivation to help others or a want to do good without reward.

I'm working on a psychology paper on the topic of Altruism and I just need a few thoughts and ideas from anyone who is interested and knows any little thing about the subject. Your help is greatly appreciated and I am willing to choose the best answer so you can get 10 points. Here are some questions given by the professor to help us out with it. I'm not asking for anyone to do my report for me, it is just that outside opinions are going to really help, thank you again.

How have altruistic acts played a role in your life?
Describe when you have been helped in an altruistic way by another
person or helped someone yourself in this way.
How do you think we can encourage others to be helpful members of
society?
What factors have played a role in why you have chosen not to help
someone? How might you have changed the situation?

2007-11-15 08:20:39 · 5 answers · asked by Tnisha 1

2007-11-15 08:08:45 · 17 answers · asked by scarlet 3

Have you ever seen an original or a reproduction of Adolf Hitler's paintings?

Go to "Snyder's Treasures - ORIGINAL Adolf Hitler Artworks" on the Internet to view some of them.

To me, they are wonderful works of art, although in the vast majority of them, there are no human beings protrayed: only buildings of some kind, or rural scenes.

One might well ask, "How could such a hideous, monstrously cruel person, envision and execute such visions of supreme serenity and beauty?"

Can you explain such a phenoemenon? It boggles the mind to contemplate such an enigma.

What's your opinion, and/or explanation?

An intrigued,

Wotan

2007-11-15 08:03:47 · 10 answers · asked by Alberich 7

Should morality impead science in the quest for knowlage or should the use knowlage be subjected to morality?

2007-11-15 07:38:11 · 3 answers · asked by Marcus M 2

The Moral Equivalent of Murder

1. The absolutely wealthy are allowing the absolutely poor to die.
2. If there is no moral difference between allowing someone to die and killing them, then the absolutely wealthy are killing the absolutely poor.
3. There is no moral difference between allowing someone to die and killing them.
So, the absolutely wealthy are killing the absolutely poor.


I dont want to agree with it but I can't think of an counter example.

this arugemnt is from Peter Singer: “Rich and Poor” and “Famine, Affluence, and Morality”

2007-11-15 07:31:03 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

To those that think we have a moral obligation to take care of others, no matter if we want to or not, why do we have this obligation? (I am not talking about your own family, but 'others' in general.)

I'm not looking for a 'god' answer, but a well considered, non-mystical, fundamental answer addressing why we have this moral obligation. When I say fundamental, if I am able to ask 'why' to your answer, you haven't given me a fundamental answer.

(So, I am in essence asking why altruism is a moral obligation.)

2007-11-15 07:12:00 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

When was it that time equated to money.
Is this one of the real problems in the world.
Your thoughts are of interest, as all points of view are valid and make this "soup" we all abide in.

2007-11-15 05:58:48 · 15 answers · asked by Astro 5