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Conditon of the average American
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And I suppose that in a way I want the ultimate truth to be happiness.
That's compicated, what exactly is happiness? Can happiness even exsist without knowing evil? Can you recanize the light... |
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Paranormal & PseudoscienceDeja Vu-Theories
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If you are refering to aether specifically, your right it does belong in the science forum, and religion forum, and philosophy forum...
Not to offend oth, I was looking at the info presented but foun... |
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where did it come from?
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I was reading some of the threads on "Theories / Philosophy on Life" and suddenly it came to my attention..
Where did it all come from?
Not just the Earth or the moon or the sun or an... |
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Can science explore nothingness?
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"If there was SOME 'spot' in the universe that occupies 'nothingness' then where is this spot?"
-This is my point exactly. There is no such spot. If there were a spot of... |
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Cliqueless
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the logical argument behind facsism is this as i understand it...
do away with God = no religion
do away with spiritualism = solipsism/nihilism/existential ism
do away with philosophy = fascism... |
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Epistemology: Truth & KnowledgeThe Price of Wisdom
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One of my philosophy professors, Dr. Bulhof, asked me, "Why do students think I'm mean?"
"I don't know," I replied, "Could it be because NASA engineers would be abl... |
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BooksAny Book Suggestions?
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I really loved the "Metamorphose " by Kafka if you like the philosophy you should read it , the Tolkien's trilogy of the "Lord of the rings" , "David Copperfield " b... |
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Reality & MetaphysicsReality does it have meaning?
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meta physics and existential philosophy combine to create the ultimate cluster fuck question of reality, its sort of a catch 22 I guess you could say but the most complicated and time consuming of all... |
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Riddles & PuzzlesBuddhist riddles/interesting philosophies
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Well you could "melt" a whole in the bottle, that's not technically breaking it. And while melting the bottle I don't suppose the chicken would die, but I should think it would cau... |
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Life & Deathwhat defines life
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I really don't mean to be modest, but I just feel wowed at your intellect and at such a young age. I'm not in college yet and have had no formal teaching of anything in philosophy. I am eage... |
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ChristianityWhy I Am Not A Christian
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When somebody at the time asked him why he had stopped writing 'serious' philosophy he replied, "because I found that I perferred fucking".
haha. Didn't know that. Where is... |
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ChristianityIs anyone here...
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I am christian, muslim bhudist athiest etc.
bla bla bla blaaa
it is nearly impossible to tell wich religion is the best way to ascension into heaven or enlightenment or whatever.
in our cultur... |
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Philosophy and Skin Cream?
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Dear May Day obviously you do not feel the same way about philosophy that I do. I find it to be repulsive, what they have done. It does not however truley affect me. I thought that it was something ot... |
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the Holocaust of north and south america.
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if it seems as though my original thread is ambigious I apologise. I feel as though this is a very open ended subject that two people could spend a life time discussing. I feel that my thread was a go... |
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How should we live our lives?
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I understand totally. Its basically you wanting to be you and do what you believe.
I think you should have a look at some moral philosophers and ethics. To see what you agree with and what you dont!... |
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Human Nature & EmotionHappiness
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People believe that the meaning in life is to be happy. But in writing my own philosophy I find that being happy comes at too much of a cost for the important things going on around us. The whole worl... |
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Theres got to be more
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As a human we count our selves above all other creatures for our intelligence and that special something.
In my philosophy class today we started talking about utilitarianism and one of the theorie... |
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SocietyAtlas Shrugged a Cynical Review
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Ayn Rand Objectivism has been held to be the holy grail by many influential republicans. Notably Ronald Regan, George W. Bush, Alan Greenspan and Paul Ryan; amongst many others. Objectivism has been a... |
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Why is it that, as human beings, we seldom like to admit ignorance?
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Why does someone have to be right? In my short journey through the worlds of philosophy, religion, music, art, history. Change is the only thing anyone seems to have a grasp on. So how can, at any per... |
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About You / IntroductionsIntroductions
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*Originaly posted by thinkforyourself*
I'm from Vancouver, I have a wide range of interests, and I rarely take anything seriously. I was initially interested in this forum because of the philo... |
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Intelligence, Memory & BrainOf Computers and Minds
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I agree wih Blackgold here that this seems to be a question of free will and our inability to determine if we have it or not.
On regards computers, intelligent design works on the principle that ac... |
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Ethics & MoralityCan we connect philosophy with racism?
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Ideology universalizes, absolutises, and reifies (makes an object of) abstract concepts.
that whole sentance is just like a double negative, Universalizes and refines abstract concepts thats just... |
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GodOBVIOUS EXISTANCE OF GOD
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"He states that He has created the universe when it was not, for a particular purpose, and with all its systems and balances specifically designed for human life."
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Why is Philosophy like General Motors?
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Why is Philosophy like General Motors?
With the aid of new brain scan technology the amalgamation of scientific disciplines that make up what is commonly known as SGCS (Second Generation Cognitive... |
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is this considered philosophy/izing?
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If you or I make a conclusion about the way things are which are not obvious.. as in it may take some time to reason thorugh your memory to come up with certain conclusions.. example: like if you conc... |
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