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PerceptionMake Believe........?
5 Posts • 2741 Views Psychology Forum |
This is a very large debate in the study of philosophy. It deals with what we believe vs. what is actually true, and how we can prove that it is true.
I believe it was Rene Descates who thought th... |
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Science vs ReligionCreation or Evolution?
67 Posts • 18854 Views Religion Forum |
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the meaning of this, is that you are attempting to make a statement.
If something is completely random how can it have meaning? This... |
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Religion & HumanityA Just Religion
65 Posts • 16005 Views Religion Forum |
i got my info from world history class lol. im sorry i cant give u a more specific source, im yet young and doing my best to learn more, about my religion and others.
i said that the select few to... |
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Life & DeathAFTER DEATH
93 Posts • 30092 Views Philosophy Forum |
Some really interesting answers- Thanks!
My own philosophy- I Beleive that in everyone there is stuggle- to say between good and evil is an oversimplification - but that is close. We strugle with ou... |
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Reality & MetaphysicsQuestioning Reality: Are we for "Real"?
118 Posts • 36324 Views Philosophy Forum |
the absence of self doesn't call for reason as much as the need for an answer.........Opinions are miniscule truths to each person.....answers are a truth to everybody, a universal truth.....If y... |
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Deconstructing Deconstruction
1 Posts • 2198 Views Philosophy Forum |
It is a mystery, and it is a testament to the stupidity of the masses, that Derrida's odious uber-philosophy, parroted by a whole generation of drones and epigones, and trumpeted by the most ill-... |
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GovernmentPlans for George W. Bush Presidential Library
29 Posts • 8589 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
I am a classical liberal which naturally means I am on the right. And I'm proud to be on the right.
The interesting thing is that many Americans and many more Europeans do not know what it me... |
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Life & DeathAFTER DEATH
93 Posts • 30092 Views Philosophy Forum |
hola everyone. just wondering what your after death theories are.
do we go to heaven/hell?
do we simply cease to exist?
are we born again?
what do you think?
i have a few theories but i th... |
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'Absolute perfection'…
13 Posts • 9725 Views Philosophy Forum |
Woah Apeiron, you said the word perfection so many times I forgot what it meant in the second paragraph. Its' interesting of how you applied math to philosophy. I never thought it was possible...... |
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Is ideology the bane of intellectual sophistication in the US?
13 Posts • 4912 Views Philosophy Forum |
he is basically suggesting that all should be ruled by a higher class of critical thinkers
No, he's examining the notion of ideology in the context of critical thinking. You're reading thin... |
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EconomyWhy not tax the Rich?
52 Posts • 23367 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
But see, survival of the fittest does not allow for rules, and the "free" market you speak of does have rules.
Not to be disrespectful but your father practiced plain old survival, comin... |
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The Pain Project
1 Posts • 3254 Views Promotional |
http://www.davidbain.org/pain
The Pain Project is an international, interdisciplinary research project focused on relations amongst pain, perception, and emotion, as well as pain in non-human anima... |
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Religion & HumanityThe Meaning of Living
103 Posts • 24843 Views Religion Forum |
"I am still awaiting the evolution that should still be 'developing' new species...it has been billions of years...why are we not seeing new forms?"
Billions of years since what?... |
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Life & DeathSocial existance, life and friends.
24 Posts • 5553 Views Philosophy Forum |
To whomever this opinion may concern:
You cannot state such a topic on this forum feeling justified, glorified, and righteous, spewing what you believe to be the general truth when you have no... |
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The Zero Conjecture
10 Posts • 3975 Views Philosophy Forum |
Human beings are drawn to simplicity. We have an intuition that no matter how intractable a problem may seem it must ultimately be reducible. And as to confirm our hunch the path of enquiry has led us... |
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Utilitarianism and Kantianism applied to abortion.
2 Posts • 4232 Views Philosophy Forum |
I am taking an Honors Philosophy course in Ethics. Half of the students in my class are not doing very well; and they decided to start a study group. I am doing perfectly fine in the class myself; how... |
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Is there anything you shouldn't educate children?
28 Posts • 5912 Views Philosophy Forum |
The thing i fear is a world full of children who are taught things to early.
How would you possibly know what is too early, I see a world where people try so hard to hide things from kids that the... |
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DepressionMental Cusp
13 Posts • 3761 Views Psychology Forum |
Wyote,
Im happy to assure you from my own experiences, that you probably aren't going to be at the same level of intellect or mental processing forever.
At exactly around your age I felt the... |
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ChristianitySERIOUS BIBLE QUESTIONS
27 Posts • 10638 Views Religion Forum |
Deletion_Of_Me Wrote:
"...Oooh, the Bible. Fun. I enjoyed tearing it apart (in a non-literal sense) in the past, and will have more fun doing so in the future, or so I prophecise.
Just a ques... |
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Society & SociologyGOD and goofy belief systems.
210 Posts • 40141 Views Psychology Forum |
The checkered and colorful history of our planet is in some ways a quilt of religious timelines. Since the beginning of our species, man has devoted spectacular amounts of time and energy to explainin... |
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Riddles & PuzzlesSolve this paradox
35 Posts • 14542 Views Philosophy Forum |
Way to go Gemini! A stranger hun? A historian once said that every year we are invaded by hunreds of thousands of ravenous strangers.
The problem with Xxeyes paradox known as Zeno's Paradox or... |
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Society & SociologySave us from puritanical soul-torturing 'Green' people.
25 Posts • 10255 Views Psychology Forum |
Being a third worlder, perhaps it would be better to point out the difference in attitude & its' dynamics in first world society?
Look! i don't know about any green theory, c'mon i... |
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Elements
9 Posts • 4894 Views Philosophy Forum |
Fire, Water, Air, Earth, Electricity, and Plant life. Well, the first four were the foundations of theory of alchemy, which promoted a threoy of construction of the universe. By this teory the last 2... |
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The Human Race
5 Posts • 4026 Views Philosophy Forum |
" From the way we masticate, which is strikingly similar that of an animal (and logically so)"
Well sure, we chew like cows.
"I find it somewhat amazing that the majority of us is n... |
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God in ReligionThe God Thread
158 Posts • 41700 Views Religion Forum |
In answer to your query okcitykid, Aristotle's classification of souls immediately comes to my mind. Kant focused his philosophy on epistemological (the study of knowledge and justification) and... |
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