Philosophy - December 2007

Do you think that you just don't live. your not there, forever, nothing, nada, your never here, and your just gone.. Or do you think you go to heaven or hell, and your there looking at the world?

2007-12-23 13:38:45 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-23 13:31:52 · 11 answers · asked by ? 6

What do you think?

2007-12-23 13:20:59 · 8 answers · asked by pikester666 3

Have you ever read one of those books where it’s like there is a boy in a room, and it’s separate from you. You are an onlooker, an observer. You can almost peer through the walls. You can almost see him through this wall that does not exist, except it exists in the book. What if something happens simultaneously at once where you are both the boy and the onlooker? The boy he is absorb in his action. He is absorbed within himself. He is absorbed in the moment. I am the boy, and I am the onlooker. It is weird, but it feels like there is some kind of detachment from myself. I am in the moment of the moment, but at the same time it’s almost as if I am outside looking in at myself—but I can’t really see myself. It is such that I am there, but yet I am elsewhere. I have so much to say, so many questions to ask—and at the same time nothing. Everything is a blank. I mean what is there to say, ask really? All there is is curious wonder. There are no questions, because the answer to most questions is it is what it is. I find that questions such as what is ego, and what is true happiness are questions to which there is no one answer—but yet we sit there and ask them anyways. For what? What purpose do such questions serve? Are these not questions that one can answer for oneself?

All of this is so strange and unfamiliar, and I don’t even know who to talk to. I want to talk to someone, but I feel that my thoughts have traveled a realm where they might have become inexpressible. There is more than just this detachment. There has been something that feels like a muted heart as if I am only ruled by my mind. My feelings are not devoid, but they are nonsensical. I am aware of their existence, because I can feel them form on my face. My mind is aware of them--but not my heart. How am I functioning when I feel so unfunctional you know? At moments weariness comes over, because I can’t grasp some unknown, and I cannot find myself within myself. I have so much to say, but yet there is nothing to say you know. I don’t know if curious wonder is the right word for what I am experiencing, but I don’t know what else.

I notice how the wind influences one particular branch on the tree, how in its subtle movements the branch is pulling itself towards the wind but yet it is withdrawing, pulling itself away from the wind so that it appears to be betwixt within its own occurrence. I am that branch. I am heaving steadily forward (towards the direction of the wind), but yet held in place by the undivided tree.


Perhaps, someone can IM me if you think you can even begin to talk to me? For all I know this can be the most convoluted question you ever encountered. I wish that people would be honest and say what their heart truly means. So honestly tell me what you take of this question and what you take of me, and not just pass it aside just because it is easier to do so.

2007-12-23 12:26:22 · 3 answers · asked by Tiffany 3

IF you come up with the right answer and explain it, you will get the prize($1000 USD). IF nobody gets it, I will ask another question. These are legitimate questions. IF you're a lover of wisdom, you don't need to know more.

Thank you and good luck!

2007-12-23 11:54:01 · 6 answers · asked by Alex 5

Are our brains just part of the interacting environment or are they immune to causing forces and have some ability to create choices without any causing.

2007-12-23 11:53:42 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

I mean to change for the better, to make a differance...to actually live instead of mearly exist.

2007-12-23 11:48:46 · 20 answers · asked by vitraux 6

I live in Japan right now and know that many of Japanese people like White people but hate Blacks or Chinese or other Asians(same race though). I have known many non-Japanese in Japan and seen they are treated very differently and felt so bad about it. Most people here treat White people so nice but say horrible things about other Asians. And the White people who are treated nicely don't even realize that the Japanese people are treating them nicely because of their race.

I myself am Japanese and have some adapted family from other country. One is my brother who is White. I have also Chinese and Indian family(not so close family though). And the thing is, I'm feeling really horrible to see those most of people who treat non-Japanese differently by one's race. I am feeling bad and upset.

How can I deal with this upset feeling?

2007-12-23 11:38:30 · 4 answers · asked by Chris 2

when we claim to love someone, aren't we basically saying that we like the way that particular person makes us feel, aren't we just in love with this feeling we get when we are around this person? isn't that selfish? we don't actually love our love interest, we love how they make us feel. When you cry for someone, who left, lets say you broke up with your girlfiend or whatnot, and you cry while she is having a good time, isn't it obvious that you are crying for yourself?

2007-12-23 11:38:05 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-23 11:36:07 · 19 answers · asked by ? 7

many people think the clothes they wear represent their individual selves, who they are. I say they couldn't be more wrong, as they did not design the clothes themselves did they? they also did not invent whatever movement/fad the clothes were created for right? they are products of everything they had ever been exposed to right, therefore they are not individual, and cloathes cannot possibly express their personality as obviously they were conceived by someone else, and no one really has an original personality.

2007-12-23 11:32:09 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-23 11:13:36 · 7 answers · asked by Nora 1

2007-12-23 10:54:26 · 14 answers · asked by Rita 6

2007-12-23 10:51:27 · 30 answers · asked by Rita 6

Emotions: love, hate, fear, anger, happy, sad, etc.
Intelligence: knowledge, logic, reasoning, analysis, etc.

2007-12-23 10:46:41 · 13 answers · asked by Russ 4

2007-12-23 09:53:50 · 11 answers · asked by simplesimon 5

Right, just eat and have as much sex as you can and just forget about fundamental questions like what is the meaning of all this nonsense. People go hungry and couples break up

2007-12-23 09:33:49 · 22 answers · asked by Neomaxizoomedweebie 3

2007-12-23 09:18:22 · 17 answers · asked by hieatthouse 3

I found this one tough to define. I'd like someone else to take a crack at it. 10 points for the best definition.

2007-12-23 09:12:53 · 12 answers · asked by LG 7

I'm tired of all these half truths and half lies.

2007-12-23 08:57:50 · 4 answers · asked by 666 2

I just love these kind of touchy subjects.

If the Jews will give him a second chance. Jesus would do it all over again with no regrets.
Why would God regret anything?
When Jesus came there was turmoil created by the Jews.
Were the Jews happy with their results?
After awhile look at what we have done. Here comes turmoil again. Created by who? God alone knows, but God does share the knowledge with whoever God pleases!

Be very aware that good and bad are the ways of the world.
The good will never condone EVIL no matter how bad they are.

Back to square one.
Conservative.
Is a conservative one who conserves and preserves all that is his?
Go reserve a seat, and observe what it is to conserve, and what it is to preserve of your conservatism to the preservation in your personal reservation, while we check you out, or in.

Show me a person with Red Skin, and I'll show you a white person who had been under the sun to long.
Black, White, Yellow (olive) Brown (chocolate).

2007-12-23 08:56:25 · 5 answers · asked by tonycastillo_21@yahoo.com 2

(i.e. the duality of light, a particle AND a wave...
or more confusing - the sound of one hand clapping...(but focus more on the first example - it's simpler))

2007-12-23 08:55:25 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-23 08:50:53 · 21 answers · asked by I Know Nuttin 5

what is your view on this?

2007-12-23 08:35:57 · 9 answers · asked by apho 3

2007-12-23 08:03:16 · 9 answers · asked by Bluebeard 1

If you believe people and everything cease to exist after death, then how do you explain the paranormal?


1) How do you explain Don Piper's "90 Minutes in Heaven"?

2) How do you explain witchcraft and the summoning of spirits?

3) Also, did you ever watch "GhostHunters", "Most Haunted", or "America's Most Haunted"?

2007-12-23 07:51:13 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

you know like pokemon
pikachu always says pika pikachu
haha

i would say choose "peace"
to be the word i will say for the rest of my life
because i want there to be peace!!!
:)

2007-12-23 07:46:57 · 15 answers · asked by Elaine 4

2007-12-23 07:41:50 · 5 answers · asked by Eric Inri 6

If they can't re-experience and re-do some of life's pleasures and relive certain moments down to the smallest detail like when they were alive, then I'd say at least one of those millions of people there would be at least a little nostalgic.


If I couldn't re-experience and re-do certain things that happened in my life, then I'd be nostalgic.

2007-12-23 07:36:16 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

It is OUR belief just like any other human being.

2007-12-23 07:31:37 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous