the more complex words the better!!
2006-09-12 07:31:06 · 47 answers · asked by responses_to_that_letter_i_wrote 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
What if?
2006-09-12 07:33:06 · answer #1 · answered by gromitski 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A hole in the ground is as big as you make it. But how deep is deep?
A very wide hole might be a more fulfilling experience than a narrow very deep one. The digger may find treasure and stop before reaching the goal. Would that treasure be worth stopping for?
The truly deep thinker would do something eventually but may have lost the planet by then.
A plate of chips could be oh so valuable that a king would willingly trade all his wealth to crush his hunger.
The deepest thought will never quench a raging thirst!
Goodbye
PP
2006-09-13 04:46:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not really going to be asked with complex words....and I don't know if it is considered philosophical, but it is something I have always wondered:
What is nothing?If you had to visualize "nothing" what would you visualize? It can't be a color (like black or white) cause colors are something. It can't be "clear", because you can see through whatever is clear. Think of the world,the universe, and all of the galaxies....if it were all gone and there was "nothing", what would it be?
2006-09-12 07:35:24 · answer #3 · answered by CBL123 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What is life? Even a flame conumes fuel/"food", grows, and reproduces. Are viruses life? Or are they just shards of DNA that somehow parasitize other living cells? Try as we might, even the best of science cannot nail down a perfectly accurate definition of life - there's always some exception to the rule that throws a monkey wrench into the whole works. Perhaps life is like art - you can't define it but you know it when you see it. Or do you? Everybody is likely to have a different opinion about art and life.
2006-09-12 07:49:18 · answer #4 · answered by gdt 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Universe, infinite or finite? Beyond our atmosphere, and between matter an energy we define the concept of "space," being void of anything and everything. This space, is thus, nothing, but what is "nothing?" Nothing = space? If so, then if we postulate that the universe is finite, what's beyond space? Nothing? Space is nothing, so nothing is something else? Is it possible to actually conceive this? Does space limit itself with itself into nothing? Is space limiting itself with nothing into nothing? If scientists presume space is in constant expansion, what is it expanding into if there is nothing in which to expand further? Hmm.
What if it's infinite? How can those who believe in infinity actually prove infinity if it would take infinity itself to prove infinity, especially given our limited conscious existance as the finite beings we are at present?
All I can say is if the universe is infinite, then I'm the center of the Universe (having infinity to the left, to the right, up, down, etc.) and so is everything else, so it's okay to be egocentric :D
2006-09-12 07:37:54 · answer #5 · answered by sebin 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Often we predicate properties of individuals (for example, when we say that both cherries and rubies are red, for instance, we seem to say individuals share common properties, those that make cherries cherries, those that make rubies rubies, and those that make both red) but is there anything in reality to match the linguistic one-over-many - a commonality in nature and reality - or is commonality imagined and illusory, perhaps a mere product of language, and if the latter, how can we accommodate the intuition that it is the world, and not our conventions, that make predications true or false?
2006-09-12 08:03:25 · answer #6 · answered by Doctor Why 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No complex words but I was thinking this the other day. Why are people always noticeable by their absence rather than their presence?
2006-09-12 07:54:56 · answer #7 · answered by bob kerr 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ah Grasshopper,
yes amaster,
if a tree falls in the forest and no none hears or sees the tree fall, who can say that the tree fallen!
Do not despise the snake for having no horns,
for who is to say that it will not not become a dragon,
then too, one just man can become, an army.
2006-09-12 07:42:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How can I be so insignificant when I'm one of the most complex beings on the planet?
2006-09-12 09:38:24 · answer #9 · answered by Katri-Mills 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If a tree falls in a wood and no-one's there to hear it, does it make a sound?
Is the universe infinite, and will it coalesce in a big crunch when it has finished expanding?
Why do people buy pot noodles?
2006-09-12 07:34:57 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If humanity as a whole know everything there are possibly to be known, will the world be better or worse?
2006-09-12 07:49:16 · answer #11 · answered by Astrid Nannerl 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋