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Intelligence, Memory & BrainRemoval from Working Memory...
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well eyes little technique things are all nice and dandy but perfect control of your thought is nirvana or enlightenment in budhast and hindu. This is supposed to be achieved through complete purity o... |
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Conditon of the average American
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I am a prison guard. Our uniform intails long sleve shirts. And it is because of this that no one I work with has yet seen my tattoes. But today I rolled my sleves up. I have a riseing sun on each of... |
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Life & DeathWhat would I Die For? Heaven (Forbid)
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In a world shorn of the soothing sooth of God, in a midday sky with a star but no sun, in an age when the telly is man's telos - what do we say? - that Nietzsche was perhaps right? - that Camus w... |
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Reality & Metaphysics'reality'
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I think it depends on the religion. What some religions see as human forgivable mistakes, others see as sin. And this whole thing goes back to the existence of God. What is sin? Is t something that Go... |
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Universal Constants
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Yin/Yang philosophy
Each thing depends upon its opposite in order to exist; thus Yin 'creates' Yang and Yang 'creates' Yin.
Everything in the physical world has an opposite.... |
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Who needs friends when you can write bad poetry?
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Sophmore year popped up to say "Why don't you skip class and smoke and party anymore, Janice?" And I ask "Has it really been two years?" And then sophmore year responds, "... |
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Life & DeathI feel pointless.
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I used to be busy building a life just as we're taught, but at some point I started to notice how hollow and empty it was, that I'm only maintaining a facade, and that I actually felt quite... |
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Life & Deathwhat defines life
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Lol.
Wittgenstein, heres an analytical answer for you:
Life is that part of time which occurs between the bringing into existance an entitiy which is capable of inner stimlus to direct its actio... |
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StoriesA Fly
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Again, this is ONLY my interpretation of the writing.
Try and see the fly within existence, as the so called 'problem' we find within it.
Forcing us to ask questions and look elsewhere for ans... |
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Life & Deathwhat is your theory on life?
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I find what you say to be wise ekiump. However sadness must take it's part in all philosophy's because it is a part of man. One can not just take parts he finds appelling and use them only,... |
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Religion & HumanityAn answer
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Knowledge is information based. I have knowledge of this because I have learnt it- school, university (at the moment), and have gathered my own scientific concepts and philosophy. I never claimed it a... |
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why continue?
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"You live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality but you do not know this. When you understand this, you will see that you are nothing, and being nothing you are everything.... |
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Reality & MetaphysicsWhy do we exist?
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I wouldn't be surprised if a super old civilization from another galaxy came close by on an experimental quest. Find the nearest capable and/or habitable planet even at a molecular level and star... |
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SpiritualityWhat happens after we die?
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i will admit that there is no proof of us being different then animals. it is a point that i know very well it is useless to argue, but me, being who i am, am going to try anyways. in all my years (3)... |
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GodWhy did God create the universe
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Angel of Death you asked "why did God create the universe?". You put this discussion forward to hear peoples reasons for your question. I know (and as i said before) our curiosity on questio... |
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FuturologyNature of Technology?
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Wisdomseeker, I am not versed in modern epistemology, nor am I well read in Jean-François Lyotard or Bruno Latour. However, I find that both of these modern French philosophers discount rational co... |
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Ignorance: acceptable?
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Back to trying to learn everything... trying not to be ignorant... perhaps the best you can do is work on core topics and where you stand. Sometimes one simple thing can go a long way like the old lin... |
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God in ReligionThe God Thread
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Sorry I don't have anything poignant to say, but I just had to say I like Rage's answer to the god question. Very thoughtful and with deep understanding and a very human, humane, philosophy.... |
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Now and Then...
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This is a classic example of how the ambiguities of language can create problems which don't exist. The "now" must remain elusive by its very nature, because the label must always be ap... |
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Life & DeathPHILOSOPHY OF LIFE
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THEORY....inorganic=mental / emotional; organic = physical, atomic.... which came first? The chicken or the egg? answer: The chicken originated as a thought-form. Through repeated cycllic sequencing o... |
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Religion & HumanityIntelligence and value
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other wise we would be like animals, though often some animals display such ethical values. most do not kill each other, they share rather than steal from each other. so what we call ethics is more or... |
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Life & Deathwhat is your theory on life?
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...define "wasting time"
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i think the point conway was making, was that philosophy could be pointless because it over-analyzis to the point where you begin questioning the very d... |
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Science vs ReligionScience gives proof of God.
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The only two religions I see as being more correct then all others is Mathematics and Science. Branches of these two subjects are based off observations, theories, and by individuals willing to accept... |
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SocietyWhat went wrong with America
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I have decided to join the philosophy these forums, of being totally offense and inconsiderate, on the belief that this somehow makes people better human beings.
For reasons I do not fully know, th... |
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two questions
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i don't profess to be any sort of expert on the subject, but i do enjoy philosophy immensely.
i love the fact that almost all philosophical questions don't have "right" or &quo... |
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