Philosophy Now Forum

Words cannot express how grateful I am for yours and others words of care. Whether theist or no, please accept this in the vein it's meant; bless you all. I do appreciate this sentiment very much, regardless the origin. I wish you peace in this journey, and wish you all the best in this time of sor...

Dalek Prime, It's a very hard thing you are going through right now, and I am sorry that you have to go through it. I hope that your father suffers the least amount possible and that he finds peace from pain for himself soon. The worst feelings I've ever had were watching people suffer, and I do it ...

Do you consider treating everyone as having equal possibility a compassionate position? I by no means ever said that I condoned beatings, or want to roll back time. I simply want people to be aware of their talents and their weaknesses, according to their capacity of body and mind. I want them to ce...

For me, instinct is one of the most powerful tools we have as human beings. Is instinct our body telling our mind to move or act in a certain way or is it the mind telling the rest of our body to move or act? Is instinct actually in the nerve endings of every inch of our body, an extension of our mi...

In no way am I saying that women should stay home barefoot and pregnant at all, or that all women should be mothers. There are some women who have no instinct to have children, and they should not be encouraged to do so because if the instinct is not there, they will not be good, attentive, caring m...

It would take something dire and truly offensive for me to change my mind about an individual. There have been rare cases, but I am generally an optimistic person and I prefer to think the best for people. Sorry to disappoint. I'm not disappointed. You, however, stand to be so. People don't really ...

I think that if you study modern sociology and popular psychology, many "modern" thinkers believe in the blank slate. That every single person on the planet has the exact same potential given the right opportunities and the right influences. Hollywood embraces the idea, sure. It makes for ...

It would take something dire and truly offensive for me to change my mind about an individual. There have been rare cases, but I am generally an optimistic person and I prefer to think the best for people.

Sorry to disappoint.

There is a tendency in any relationship to apply a bit of the smoke and mirrors routine. A deeper understanding of why someone who is insecure would lie about themselves for attention or admiration, and then the person being lied to exposing that and allowing that person to know that they are admire...

You can create your own reality. We are all a perception of ourselves, as we are a perception to others. It's not necessarily a lie, per se. We can choose to accept or discard varying perceptions of ourselves and others. We can choose to be as naïve or skeptical as we need to be to get to the truth ...

Allo, Just thought I would introduce myself. I could label myself a thousand things, but none of them are really me. I'll leave it all for you to judge. Trust your instincts, understand yourself before applying your perception of yourself on to me, that's all I would ask of you. Keep an open mind. Y...

Modern Social Theory teaches us that we should strive to be anything we want to be, because the individual is more important than the society. I believe that this is the reason for the deep depression that some people feel in their lives because their dreams of what they want to be, and the limitati...

Capitalism happened to the American Dream. Capitalism and extremely corrupted Media. It costs money to support all those people, and the cheap labor drives down prices in the long run, lessening the profit margins of the palm pressers in Washington that lobby for big business. The American Dream... ...