Philosophy Now Forum

Every time a baby doesn't stick it's finger in a socket, every time a person doesn't blow their hand off lighting firecrackers are effortless acts of wisdom. How did they become wise , in that situation? Was by being afraid to try anything? That doesn't seem wise, even if it's safe. Or was it not b...

Every time a baby doesn't stick it's finger in a socket, every time a person doesn't blow their hand off lighting firecrackers are effortless acts of wisdom. How did they become wise , in that situation? Was by being afraid to try anything? That doesn't seem wise, even if it's safe. Or was it not b...

...one would need to know a specific question in order to get any sense of how complicated the answer might be. What about the OP here? How "profound" would the discussion be to deal with it? The first step in dealing with the topic would be to stop asking fuzzy, meaningless questions suc...

Philosophy is the love of wisdom. There is a lot of need for people to discover what wisdom is. Just look at the daily news. Well, wisdom takes work...mental work...and often, it takes suffering as well, actually. How many people do you know who have never suffered much, and yet are wise? If you lo...

How profound the questions are depends on how much imagined profundity you project onto them. Oh? So all questions are actually simple, and profundity is merely a "projection"? There are no genuinely "profound" questions? ...one would need to know a specific question in order to...

the questions in blue are probably unknowable and best left that way, in my opinion. Then don't bother with philosophy, I guess. Dealing with questions that frighten other people is what philosophers do. If you can't stand the heat, what are you doing in the kitchen? :wink: Philosophy is the love o...

I usually find that simply keeping things honest is sufficient. And sometimes, it is...and sometimes, it's not. It depends on how profound the issue is. How profound are the questions of the origin of the world, of its true nature, of the existence of God, of the fundamental nature of morality itse...

I usually find that simply keeping things honest is sufficient. And sometimes, it is...and sometimes, it's not. It depends on how profound the issue is. How profound are the questions of the origin of the world, of its true nature, of the existence of God, of the fundamental nature of morality itse...

This is why I think God should be avoided: It always leads to bizarre conversations of this nature, that are so convoluted, and involve so many odd twists and turns in logic, that one is left knowing damn well that it's a load of nonsense, but being completely unable to know where to start in unpic...

This is why I think God should be avoided: It always leads to bizarre conversations of this nature, that are so convoluted, and involve so many odd twists and turns in logic, that one is left knowing damn well that it's a load of nonsense, but being completely unable to know where to start in unpic...

I don't know. Maybe if God presented himself to me, it might help? \_(*_*)_/ You "don't know"? :shock: "Maybe"? :shock: That's not exactly an unequivocal commitment to be open to even the possibility. That being so, there's no wonder you feel you don't "know." There's ...

Can God make 2+2=5? Of course not. And yet he can build a world in which: God has perfect foreknowledge of every decision you will make + There is nothing you can do to change the decisions God already knows you will make = God gave you freewill. Well, again, Will, knowledge does not equal making ....

I often get a sense that God isn't really the final destination with you, but, rather, just a means to an end. Then your senses are deceiving you, I'm afraid. Maybe they are, maybe they aren't, but you are hardly likely to admit to it if they are not, are you? I can't say. I'm telling the truth, so...

If I had any control over the subject of God coming up, believe me I would exert it. You bring it up when nobody else does. But it does come up in most discussions oriented to truth...for the very obvious reason that it makes all the difference in the world what one believes about God. So it's boun...

But I don't have any reason to think about it. And yet, here you are...thinking about it. :wink: If I had any control over the subject of God coming up, believe me I would exert it. You bring it up when nobody else does. But it does come up in most discussions oriented to truth...for the very obvio...