Philosophy - December 2007

..... you get fired from a job and you end up going to school for your dream job

.....your significant other passes away and you meet your soul mate

2007-12-02 12:25:04 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-02 12:03:10 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-02 11:59:25 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

You have no CLUE.

2007-12-02 11:53:32 · 6 answers · asked by YOCRAPSMAN 1

2007-12-02 11:15:36 · 5 answers · asked by Бэлзeбот 2

2007-12-02 11:06:55 · 21 answers · asked by jack 5

2007-12-02 10:35:29 · 6 answers · asked by B R I E ♥ 2

2007-12-02 10:29:49 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Some deep thinking stuff :-)

2007-12-02 09:30:38 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

In my philosophy class he wants us to find a good philosophical argument in which I have to analyze in terms of validity and soundness. I just need to find some famous or good arguments BETWEEN 50-500 words. So kinda small. Thanks guys

2007-12-02 09:20:04 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

like how do we turn and once we do that than how do we live?

2007-12-02 09:19:13 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

Power and strength? And which do you think is more abused in society?

2007-12-02 08:59:43 · 4 answers · asked by LolaCorolla 7

my description is someone on the line of insanity, and normal, because they will see things in a different way from us. Tell me yours....

2007-12-02 08:55:54 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Only I been posting a question about Evolution and Creation I which I give a list of the different forms of each!
I do not state my belief in order not to effect the out come but people seem to think I am asking in order to prove creation, which I am not if anything other than feed gathering, it is to show that the issue is understood by different people in different ways!
and to point out that empirical evidence is just that.

Why is It that an open question cause such offence?

2007-12-02 08:50:19 · 14 answers · asked by Sly Fox [King of Fools] 6

2007-12-02 08:45:41 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-02 08:26:17 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

Francis Bradley (1846-1924) wrote "Appearance and Reality" (1893).

The office psychopath simply exploits the inevitable discrepancy between appearance and reality.

2007-12-02 08:16:06 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

if you got the chance to live eternally (until the end of the world) here on earth, would you?

2007-12-02 07:50:11 · 15 answers · asked by YouKnowIt! 3

A CLUE.You"re not.

2007-12-02 07:44:42 · 12 answers · asked by YOCRAPSMAN 1

Exploiting the community.
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thanks Yahoo!

2007-12-02 07:43:48 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

I know that this seems a question of faith but as Aristotelian of causation was once used to prove the exist of God may here I'll get so interesting answers.

1; Atheistic evolution (naturalistic evolutionism)

2; Deistic evolution

3;Theistic evolution

4:Old-Earth Creationism, The Day/Age Theory:

5:Old-Earth Creationism, The Gap Theory

6:Young-Earth Creationism (Scientific creationism, Creation Science)

7: can't say but I believe in Creationism based on Genesis 1

8: can't say but I believe in Creationism based on Genesis 2

9: none of the above (please explain)

Note:
Progressive Creationism is in fact the same as Theistic evolution in it's essence

And Fiat creationism is just another way of looking at Old-Earth Creationism, The Day/Age Theory.

Intelligent answers only!! please be respectful this is a serious question.

2007-12-02 07:43:43 · 9 answers · asked by Sly Fox [King of Fools] 6

Why do scientists accept that random mutations and natural selection indicate that evolution has no purpose, while at the same time they reject that the fine tuning of the universe nature's constants for life does not indicate any purpose? Isn't that contradictory? I think we should accept or reject both, but can not accept one conclusion while rejecting the other.

2007-12-02 07:21:41 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

Several times.

2007-12-02 07:19:32 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

several movies and sitcoms treated this matter...

2007-12-02 07:09:08 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

THE opening of large tracts by the ice-cutters commonly causes a pond to break up earlier; for the water, agitated by the wind, even in cold weather, wears away the surrounding ice. But such was not the effect on Walden that year, for she had soon got a thick new garment to take the place of the old. This pond never breaks up so soon as the others in this neighborhood, on account both of its greater depth and its having no stream passing through it to melt or wear away the ice. I never knew it to open in the course of a winter, not excepting that of '52-3, which gave the ponds so severe a trial. It commonly opens about the first of April, a week or ten days later than Flint's Pond and Fair Haven, beginning to melt on the north side and in the shallower parts where it began to freeze. It indicates better than any water hereabouts the absolute progress of the season, being least affected by transient changes of temperature. A severe cold of a few days duration in March may very much retard the opening of the former ponds, while the temperature of Walden increases almost uninterruptedly. A thermometer thrust into the middle of Walden on the 6th of March, 1847, stood at 32 degrees, or freezing point; near the shore at 33 degrees; in the middle of Flint's Pond, the same day, at 32½ degrees at a dozen rods from the shore, in shallow water, under ice a foot thick, at 36 degrees. This difference of three and a half degrees between the temperature of the deep water and the shallow in the latter pond, and the fact that a great proportion of it is comparatively shallow, show why it should break up so much sooner than Walden. The ice in the shallowest part was at this time several inches thinner than in the middle. In midwinter the middle had been the warmest and the ice thinnest there. So, also, every one who has waded about the shores of the pond in summer must have perceived how much warmer the water is close to the shore, where only three or four inches deep, than a little distance out, and on the surface where it is deep, than near the bottom. In spring the sun not only exerts an influence through the increased temperature of the air and earth, but its heat passes through ice a foot or more thick, and is reflected from the bottom in shallow water, and so also warms the water and melts the under side of the ice, at the same time that it is melting it more directly above, making it uneven, and causing the air bubbles which it contains to extend themselves upward and downward until it is completely honeycombed, and at last disappears suddenly in a single spring rain. Ice has its grain as well as wood, and when a cake begins to rot or "comb," that is, assume the appearance of honeycomb, whatever may be its position, the air cells are at right angles with what was the water surface. Where there is a rock or a log rising near to the surface the ice over it is much thinner, and is frequently quite dissolved by this reflected heat; and I have been told that in the experiment at Cambridge to freeze water in a shallow wooden pond, though the cold air circulated underneath, and so had access to both sides, the reflection of the sun from the bottom more than counterbalanced this advantage. When a warm rain in the middle of the winter melts off the snow-ice from Walden, and leaves a hard dark or transparent ice on the middle, there will be a strip of rotten though thicker white ice, a rod or more wide, about the shores, created by this reflected heat. Also, as I have said, the bubbles themselves within the ice operate as burning-glasses to melt the ice beneath.

2007-12-02 07:08:18 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Selfesh?

2007-12-02 07:05:44 · 6 answers · asked by Tom C 1

Tell whether this man is an idiot or not.

He has a philosophy that you can make the best of what you have with everything and be glad with what you've got.

In this case, he was dying from an embolism.

Rather than call an ambulance, he dicided to be greatful for the life he has and enjoy it.
So he sat down and watched star-wars and died before he even got to the emporer get killed.

Why is this philosophy wrong?

2007-12-02 06:53:34 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have made an amazing discovery. The discovery belongs to everyone. I was selectedto distribute the information because I have proven that I care. Caring is the key to eternal life. If you do not care don't waste your only time you have left. If you care about life and love and are sick and tired of seeing people mdie then I am your source for life. I am asking nothing. I am only offering. Eternal ife is very simple. It flys high above religion and science. It only requires for you to be as you know everyone should be. My concept is righteous and actually founded in the Bible which I believe is a message from someone long ago who was trying to get a message across time to the future about how we lost eternal liofe and what must be done to regain it.
If interested email me. I will tell you my idea. I can only email a few per day. But I will reply, to all, as fast as I can. If you are not a caring person I will be unable to direct you.

2007-12-02 06:52:25 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

What do you thik it will be like? Someone told me it will be the slums of the U.S. Will it be more expensive?

2007-12-02 06:51:48 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-02 06:46:21 · 12 answers · asked by PLUTO 6