Philosophy (Arts & Humanities) - November 2007

It is easier, in life, to believe in a Deity and I don't.

I am interested in people who didn't believe in a Deity and then decided differently.

What changed your mind, irrefutably?

I am not in the slightest bit interested in deciding to believe in God as a crutch because I may be too scared to face the death of my friends and family or my own death. That's too easy.

And look into yourself before you answer this question:

Have you decided God exists because the idea of extinction at death is intolerable?

Be honest.

I am not in the slightest bit interested in answers that say 'of course there is a God because there is'

I welcome sane, logical, sensitive answers from believers, ex believers and atheists who became believers.

2007-11-07 20:12:50 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

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what is the parent of fear?

2007-11-07 20:05:21 · 11 answers · asked by Grateful 1

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How wise are your pearls?

2007-11-07 19:14:56 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

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Who in your view is more powerful.... one who wins over others through the head or the one who wins hearts?

2007-11-07 18:12:34 · 17 answers · asked by small 7

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Hide, Ride, Glide or Slide?

You're only to choose one, and why?

2007-11-07 17:43:01 · 8 answers · asked by Ken-Eros 6

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It had often been said, "Absense makes the heart grow fonder," but is this necessarily true?

Time, has a way, and a will, to kill, fade, build, encompass, salute, or destroy all things

which do you think it is?

2007-11-07 17:00:13 · 19 answers · asked by jackie41190 2

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How do you define your own personal beauty?

2007-11-07 16:55:08 · 7 answers · asked by Nina. 2

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Is the idea of God(s) the only non-empirical schema we can have?

What I mean is that everything we can think of is given to us by our 5 senses except for self-creating, transcendental deities. Can you think of an exception to this? The idea of a God (at least certain Gods) that is a self-sufficient 'prime mover' cannot be empirical as there is nothing in our world, even at a quantum level, that is self-creating.

I am aware that mathematical axioms etc are considered a priori, but that's a different thing as all numbers can be considered 'units' of something and therefore empirical.

Do you know what i mean? I would be interested to get your opinions

2007-11-07 16:38:55 · 11 answers · asked by soppy.bollocks 4

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is your soul-mate always the person you're married to?

or could it be someone else? no worries, i'm only 15, just curious.

2007-11-07 16:29:28 · 17 answers · asked by ♥Smiley♥ 2

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A question about beauty?

I have a good friend who is a beautiful woman. She has the physcial looks of a Goddess. But she bitterly complains that her looks simply inspire lust not love in men. All of her adult life she says, she has been the object of desire of many men but not really loved by any of them. She has all but given up hope for finding a true love. She is 30,a nice warm person with a good heart and I tell her that it is too soon to give up--that true love is out there for her somewhere. My question is---Do you think I am right? Or is someone who is beautiful doomed to never know real love? Are people who have regular or common looks the real lucky ones? For when they find true love....they can be assured that it is indeed real?

2007-11-07 16:27:45 · 11 answers · asked by Praire Crone 7

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If everone of this universe have a flying vehicle to fly in the sky ,what will happen?

2007-11-07 16:26:46 · 7 answers · asked by Dr. Susil 3

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Does everybody cheat?

No one resists temptation all is needed is the right person at the right time am I right?

2007-11-07 16:03:08 · 12 answers · asked by Master 1

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life sucks?

We're all trapped.

Each of us is stuck being who we are. Sometimes we fight to change ourselves, but
ultimately this has little effect. We can change what we do, but we cannot change who we
are.

If you're a happy person, you don't feel trapped. If you're surrounded by people who you
love and who love you, if you can do what you want to do in life, if you are at peace with
who you are, why would you ever feel trapped? You wouldn't want to change yourself, you
wouldn't need to try.

If you're a happy person, hey, you got lucky! Go back to the previous page, you'll find
nothing of interest here.

I am not a happy person. Maybe you're not either. Maybe you're too fat, or too thin, too old,
or too young. Maybe you're ugly and nobody wants to sleep with you. Maybe everyone
wants to sleep with you, but nobody loves you and it's all meaningless. Maybe your body is
****** up and you're in pain all the time. Maybe your mind is ****** up and you're in pain
all the time.

So you struggle with all these problems year after year, and you're getting nowhere, and
you wonder if anything will ever change. And the unavoidable reality of it all is that, for you,
life sucks.

But of course you're not going to give up so easily, you're going to keep struggling to
solve your problems, to change yourself, to find happiness, wherever it is, whatever it is.
But still, life sucks.

And you see all these people out there who are blissfully free of your problems, and if they
can do it, there must be some way for you to as well. But they aren't doing you any good at
all, they don't understand what it's like being you, and what good would it do you if they did
understand?

So, the forces which created you, random or otherwise, have spoken. And they've
determined that, for you, life sucks.

2007-11-07 15:53:19 · 4 answers · asked by Famous Gilbert 4

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Do you buy into occams razor?

2007-11-07 15:19:12 · 14 answers · asked by The Mighty Quinn 2

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If you had everything you wanted, would you feel guilty about it?

People live in poverty, family members die, people are lonely etc. and this is totally normally. If you had everything you wanted (possessions and emotions), would you feel guilty about it?

2007-11-07 14:58:11 · 10 answers · asked by OuiOuiChica17 2

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