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- Sun Feb 08, 2015 11:28 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Pleasure is the only thing that makes us good people
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2588
Re: Pleasure is the only thing that makes us good people
Well MozartLink, read through that bit of text you provided. Your "proof" has a fundamental flaw...you never defined what suffering really is. What is pleasure? Well most people would say pleasure is mindlessness. Drugs, sex, videogames, action. Mindlessness. Emotionally centered. Well, some would s...
- Sun Feb 08, 2015 10:34 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Richard Dawkins
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1919
Re: Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins is a good scientist but a remedial philosopher, Daniel Dennett is his best friend, I magine if they combined forces to make the Dennetkins? Hmm...combining two minds...an experimental force. Hmm, but the best way to boost power in this way is just to tell your friend the truth, thou...
- Sun Feb 08, 2015 10:24 pm
- Forum: Metaphysics
- Topic: ~ The Meaning of Life ~
- Replies: 418
- Views: 52484
Re: ~ The Meaning of Life ~
Have you seen this movie before? Monty Python and the Meaning of LifeBill Wiltrack wrote:.
Good enough.
And again, thank you for the link to your writing.
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Which book of Ouspensky did you read, by the way? The website said he never really was satisfied with his work.
- Sun Feb 08, 2015 10:21 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Richard Dawkins
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1919
Re: Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins is a good scientist but a remedial philosopher, Daniel Dennett is his best friend, I magine if they combined forces to make the Dennetkins? Hmm...combining two minds...an experimental force. Hmm, but the best way to boost power in this way is just to tell your friend the truth, thou...
- Sun Feb 08, 2015 10:19 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Wood and Chair question
- Replies: 79
- Views: 10774
Re: Wood and Chair question
I'm no archaeologist, but this youtube channel might have more info. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXbnJ03fdakGinkgo wrote:Alien technologies?
- Sun Feb 08, 2015 10:17 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Why are people scared of philosophy?
- Replies: 150
- Views: 22602
Re: Why are people scared of philosophy?
It is just blind leading the fools. It is better to be a fool than to be blind. Foolishness is a state of mind, retardcy is a state of mind, but it takes a miracle to heal the blind. By retardcy I do not refer to clinical retardation. That completely went over my head. Would you please explain it? ...
- Sun Feb 08, 2015 10:06 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Wood and Chair question
- Replies: 79
- Views: 10774
Re: Wood and Chair question
No, because wooden chairs are just as organic as the wood they were created from. Many chemicals are toxic, but are organic chemicals. What should be labelled as a hazard to health, should be labelled as toxic, no more no less. The current state of labeling just adds untruth, double-meanings, and c...
- Sun Feb 08, 2015 10:02 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Philosophy videos
- Replies: 104
- Views: 53948
Re: Philosophy videos
The first part is here. It is not to be believed, but understood. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E9i ... edit?pli=1Systematic wrote:Will you please share your opus? I'm not promising that I'll believe everything, but I'll give it a chance.
There are a total of 6 parts.
- Sun Feb 08, 2015 9:45 pm
- Forum: Introduce Yourself
- Topic: Good day all
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2221
Re: Good day all
I think that it makes him a brainwashed ninny. I took some philosophy classes; they were about as rational as the mud is clear. It's not just about rational, it's about how relaxing they are. Are the classes day-dream fodder? If so, perhaps they have some value after all, helping to soothe and reju...
- Sun Feb 08, 2015 4:29 pm
- Forum: Metaphysics
- Topic: ~ The Meaning of Life ~
- Replies: 418
- Views: 52484
Re: ~ The Meaning of Life ~
. Yeah, yeah I know what you mean...but there is a difference between reading an excellent post such as yours and then the experiencing of that philosophy. I am big into living a discipline of philosophy . Taking your consciousness to a new place based upon something as a philosophy. Welcome to the...
- Sun Feb 08, 2015 4:18 pm
- Forum: Metaphysics
- Topic: ~ The Meaning of Life ~
- Replies: 418
- Views: 52484
Re: ~ The Meaning of Life ~
. I appreciate the attention. More importantly I respect and appreciate both of you as veteran members to this, the greatest philosophy forum on the planet; the PhilosophyNow Forums. I can't walk backwards. I look back at my life and I see the happiest childhood into young adulthood. Then drugs. A ...
- Sun Feb 08, 2015 4:13 pm
- Forum: Metaphysics
- Topic: ~ The Meaning of Life ~
- Replies: 418
- Views: 52484
Re: ~ The Meaning of Life ~
. I can't tell you how much I enjoyed that read. I wanted to copy & paste part of that here upon this thread but I was unable to. THANK YOU for adding your link to this thread. Did you write that piece? . Yes, thankyou, and you are welcome. I especially like how you use big lettering, many would sa...
- Sun Feb 08, 2015 4:10 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Wood and Chair question
- Replies: 79
- Views: 10774
Re: Wood and Chair question
Hi all, This is my first post :) I have been wondering this for some time. My question may be badly formuated, so apologies! Is there a word to differenciate two objects, one which is 'natural' and the other which has been constructed. i.e wood and chair? Although wood has intrinsic existence, a ch...
- Sun Feb 08, 2015 4:06 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Richard Dawkins
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1919
Re: Richard Dawkins
He is a thinker. He performs no real action other than cheap entertainment. He offers no scientific investigation on the nature of life and death, no experiments concerning the metaphysical, or scientific experiments on what occurs after bodily death. Extraneous thought is the stuff of dreams, one ...
- Sun Feb 08, 2015 3:58 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Why are people scared of philosophy?
- Replies: 150
- Views: 22602
Re: Why are people scared of philosophy?
Do you know why there are admission to universities? ..to sort out the idiots, the retards and the fools. Because it's not worth educating them. It is just blind leading the fools. It is better to be a fool than to be blind. Foolishness is a state of mind, retardcy is a state of mind, but it takes ...