Philosophy Now Forum

Yes, Bill, and not only shirts because how many shirts can you wear and dispose of in a year, honestly ? Mine last very long indeed. But also foods and basic necessities. I buy local apples and turnips, almonds and oranges from Spain, millet from Austria and cranberries from the US, to help the Amer...

Titonos, the boyfriend of Eos, was made immortal by Zeus but he became older and older. Eos had forgotten to ask Zeus to give him eternal youth too. So she was crying about this tragedy and had to go again to Zeus and to ask him to let Titonos die. I hope to become an immortal spirit after I die. Th...

I only meant the kitchen of a dormitory in which people congregated in order to relieve their chests. You were like at home full of family and friends and like having a single appartement at the same time. University can be stressful, that´s why it is important to have people you can talk to and who...

Do you mean how to get people to listen to you even though they do not feel like it ?

I thought everyone was constantly looking for something good or interesting to listen to.

I do not quite get it where the problem could lie ....

You and Arising were mentioning the afterlife which is a religious element, isn´t it ?

I am interested in consciousness, I try to get to it using my dreams.
I am not bashing Christians.

Please do not get me wrong. I only wanted to assist Mr. Arising by offering food for thought. There is nothing wrong in getting a little bit emotional once in a while, it shows us the hidden aspects of our own personality. I am certainly not supporting the fundamental Christians in America. They sca...

Mr. Arising, I do not quite agree with your line of reasoning. Some people who are atheists say: what does it matter whether I die now or later ? what does it matter ? And those who believe in afterlife say: it does matter because my life on earth is just one part of a continuum which goes on after ...

You are perfectly right, bondi , when people can live together as neighbours and drop in with their own cups of tea and wearing slippers, just for ten minutes of a good laugh or psychotherapy, like in the kitchen in a students´ dormitory, that would be really lovely. I suggested it to some friends o...

This reminds me of my own panick attack, in the snowy woods, in January of the previous year. It was ridiculous. I tried to talk myself into being reasonable by repeating the words of wisdom: "tomorrow it could be the end of the world and you worry about the heating costs." (it sounds bett...

I like the element of the Hindu religion which consists in preferring to eat plants. My yoga teacher explained that people were less prone to violence and sadism that way because they did not put the suffering of the killed animal into them. Some people refuse to become vegetarians because they worr...

In the case of microorganisms you do not really kill them when you eat them. Lots of them are on salad leaves and that´s why you should eat salad with the microorganisms on it because you actually need the microorganisms to process food in the intestines. So when you eat salad you just move the micr...

Grains are plants. So are nuts I would say. I distinguish only between animal products and plant products. Cooked rice and cooked grains give long-chained carbohydrons and so give energy for a long day. I have cooked a rice or grain soup for breakfast for a couple of months now. The traditional Engl...

Carnivorous animals were designed by God to eat vegetarian animals and to keep them in balance, or so it seems. A lion eats sick and old antilopes and thus diminishes their population to a reasonable proportion. In Australia rabbits procreated to nightmarish numbers because there were no foxes to ea...

Violence against men is equally unacceptable. The problem is that we have to change our view of things and not consider it embarassing if a man goes to court because a woman had hurt him. Gianrico Carofiglio, who is magistrate in Bari, southern Italy, describes in one of his thrillers a husband who ...

One question is how to recognize what is good and what is evil. What appears to be good can turn out to be evil and vice versa. "Fair is foul and foul is fair" tells us a poet. Reason helps us to discover some internal contradiction which confuses the mind and clear thinking. "Volunta...