What are the philosophical aspects of gum chewing?

Answer 1

I think that there is no philosophical aspect of chewing gum...As far as I know, chewing gum may cause you a nice ulcer...your stomach keeps working, expecting food and no food is there to digest, so the stomach gets ill...Chewing gum is a really bad habit...in my humble opinion...

Answer 2

I reckon it relates to an aspect in your life. the kind of scenario when u do something but get no enjoyment or fullfilment at the end, or no end result a pointless exercise , and just like chewing gum how do u know when you've had enough. When do u bin it and start again

Answer 3

Conor Cruise O'Brien relates a conversation he had on a plane many years ago. He found himself sitting next to an ex-Jesuit priest who suggested that the Catholic Church ought to ban chewing gum, for the same reason it bans contraception.

Chewing gum stimulates pleasurable natural functions, salivation and so on, while deliberately thwarting the natural outcome of such pleasure, namely the digestion of what you are chewing.

Answer 4

Hunger reigns supreme in realms of our instinctual mind, but for the world where it is fed it has many expressions. There is, for example, huger for food, security, sex, social approbation or self-actualisation, but the root of all this is the same, instinctive hunger. I believe at some stage in our evolution of some sort we were endured a certain displacement from our original being into the constrained of this physically limitative world. If our life is an intelligent life-from interacting with its surroundings, or interfacing with the material world then our instincts are the basic computer programme and all our needs the expressions or the functions of this programme. We interface with this material world that necessitates us to be fed constantly and materially, even our spiritual needs require materialistic recognition.

When we chew gums, we simulate an artificial process feeding. We place ourselves in a close contact with our instinctual mind, but since nothing is passing in, for example, from our mouth into our stomach, the act of chewing is just to whet the appetite of our instinctive mind, or to keep our instinctive gaze fixed upon our voracious ability to consuming food. Aggression can also be an expression of hunger. When the supply of our food, whatever that may be, is interrupted, or is at risk, we rage and become angry. And I think the act of chewing gum is with strong repetitive action of our jaws releases that anger while we instinctively reassure ourselves, you see how strong and tough I am, and that I have in my sight just what I need.

Answer 5

The more you chew the less likely you are to have healthy gums and teeth, ironic.

Answer 6

The more you chew the more pain in the cheek's.
The more pain the more intense the concentration.
The more intense the concentration the purer the thought.
The purer the thought the closer to understanding what I;m gibbering about

Answer 7

Freud says. Not saying i agree, but its all that came to mind.

"An oral fixation (also oral craving) is a fixation in the oral stage of development and manifested by an obsession with stimulating the mouth (oral), first described by Sigmund Freud.

According to Freud, infants are naturally and adaptively in an oral stage, but if weaned too early or too late, there may be a subsequent failure to resolve the conflicts of this stage and to develop a maladaptive oral fixation. In later life, these people may constantly "hunger" for activities involving the mouth."

Answer 8

On top of being a waste of energy, it promotes mechanicality, and philosophically speaking mechanicality is one of the main sources of suffering. It prevents us from awakening to our pathetic condition.

Answer 9

Freud also said: "sometimes a cigar just is a cigar."

Banality, for the most part, is not philosophical.
If you had to ask "the philosophy of x?" for every word in the dictionary, less than 1% would be worth investigating.

Answer 10

I think that you should ask Alex Fereguson the Manchester United FC Manager