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Why live if you're just going to die?
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If people actually believed that life had no point that why does anybody actually stay alive? By your own existence all of you who say there is no point are disproving yourselves.
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Vulgare amici nomen, sed rara est fides. |
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Sometimes you gotta say so what? |
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Conditon of the average American
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If you do not talk philosophy with all people then in the end you have canged very little. I think that it is neccesary to talk philosophy (in the most un-offensive way possible), with a... |
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Human Nature & EmotionPhilosophies dark side.
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I am considering changing my discipline philosophy to psychology. It seems philosophy draws me to arguing instead of debating.
Where psychology draws me to why do I argue in the first place. I am... |
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Relativity:The miracle of movement
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Both philosophy and science do have benefits.
philosophy is to understand our spiritual existence, it's an exercice of the mind, the more we think of all questions that we could not answer , t... |
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What is philosophy?
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Pragmatically, philososphy could be alot of things. The meta-questions are generally the questions that philosophers ask, though not always. "How do I know that I know?" and "What is &#... |
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Religion & HumanityIs Budhism a religion or philosophy?
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Buddhism is both a religion and a philosophy. I consider myself buddhist as far as the philosophy goes. A true buddhist imoo is not one who believes in practices but is simply on the way and knows he/... |
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Ethics & MoralityThe Morality of Action
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Alright, based on what I've read in the philosophy section, some of you have a pretty good grip on philosophy and the world around you. I'd like to pose some questions that I will contribute... |
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What can be done?
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why would you want philosophy to be cool? how does the study of philosophy require it to be cool? |
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Sometimes, The last person on the Earth you want to be with, Is the one person you cant be without. |
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Philosophy of action
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Most people see philosophy as remote, esoteric and estranged from what they might consider to be 'reality', but this argument - if it is to be dignified with that title - ceases to have mean... |
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Human Nature & EmotionPhilosophies dark side.
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There doesn't seem to be an absolute answer. There only seems to be partial answers. Every philosophy only has partial answers. No one has a complete answer, so every philosophy is flawed. |
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Life & Deathwhat defines life
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Strange how an apparently profound question encourages such dunder-headed answers. Pure, undiluted waffle. Sickly, saccharine-sweet sophistry. Blabber-mouthed obfuscation. Of course, it is lack of int... |
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Goals with philosophy
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this is actually a very good question,because many times it is argued that all that most philosophers ever do is argue about meaningless words, they never seem to reach a fixed conclusion. to many it... |
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Riddles & PuzzlesBuddhist riddles/interesting philosophies
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Angel of Death: can you comprehensively tell me why you think Buddhism isn't a philosophy?
The goal of Buddhism is enlightnment-you cannot possibly achieve that by philosophy and logic
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I never let the negativity of life, dull the beauty in my life. |
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Attempting to balance philosophy withother intrest
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I have allways said that the first rule of philosophy should be "that the only thing one can know for certain is nothing at all". This of course makes it very hard to beleive in anything. An... |
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Philosophy Forum / Theories on Life Introduction
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Welcome to CC's Philosophy Forum.
Please be very topical in your replies and titles. Make everything you write pertinent and keep casual banter out of these threads.
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ChristianityA wrong reason to go to church?
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The church just tries to control people by saying it is wrong for people to go to church for social reasons. I believe church is a waste of time just sitting in the pew listening to one man speak his... |
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Reality & MetaphysicsThe Molyneux Problem - an interesting philosophy experiment
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I was reading this and that on philosophy when I came across this Molyneux Problem on wikipedia. Th philosophical problem was formed by a guy named William Molyneux in the 16th century:
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Life & DeathWhat is the soul?
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Whatever, I think you are first of all speculating enormously when you make this nonesense assumption that we somehow choose who we are (if that were true, I think there would be a few less dying peop... |
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Are all Philisophical minds elitists?
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It doesn't matter what you call it, it still means the same thing. One person is better than the other. But in philosophy such as this you can't share it with the majority of people because... |
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SocietyAtlas Shrugged a Cynical Review
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Hobbes, I do not doubt what you say, However, it only has been an exposed, accepted philosophy since Reagan in American politics. It may have been held by American politicians prior to this, but was n... |
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"TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will de |
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