Philosophy Now Forum

More mischief?

I was being tongue in cheek mucker.

If we create our reality through thoughts and actions then those with bad realities have bad thoughts and deserve them. Its simple, nameless , and your insistence that those with no jobs might actually be willing themselves to have jobs and doing the best they can about it, or that those with no foo...

Nina Simone - Sinnerman

I put this on and couldn't resist dancing.. am now knackered lol

Have you ever tried to systematise your beliefs? It really is a nightmare. You think you know how each part fits with every other, then you put them together and you have annoying situations like A>B B>C C>A Anyone who thinks their beliefs are wholly consistent either hasn't bothered to check, is ve...

Yay! Free book!

As someone who wants to write a book in kopyleft I commend you for doing so yourself.

May there be many more to come!

I will try and get round to reading yours shortly

I have long tried to systematise my beliefs.

Their defiance of my efforts had me outraged.

Now I am ashamed for ever having tried to beat them into shape in such a way.

My children, return to me and grow from the fertile land above my corpse!

I agree. It is perhaps the case that too much of Western philosophy is about collecting together as many ideas as possible into a neat little coral, with too little emphasis on knowing of those individuals well. There is a distinct difference when two people say "I believe in God" to not o...

The day anyone masters acting in accordance with an idea they know all too well is certainly a day for front page news.

Sorry Typist, but thats old hat and, besides which, you didn't come up with it, as you yourself say, and so it would be the idea itself and not you that makes the cover.

Lenny Kravitz - I want to get away

The song does the explaining

Thanks guys (I am assuming that hearing my voice in the poem is a good thing :P) To see a path you must make a path to make a path you must cast aside all the burdens carried allow yourself to see yourself as someone who can be happy and not blind yourself to shortcomings so painful and stark and ad...

Hello Philosophy Now, After doing a bit of browsing for my philosophy assignment for my high school class, I stumbled across this forum. After reading a bit around the epistemology I took great interest in what everyone has been discussing. Hope to have some head turning, thought provoking conversa...

Welcome Cinna . I saw that episode of House, wootah . It is an interesting question. The consensus of international law at the moment seems to be that the correct response is to lock them up and throw away the key. But can individuals leave this matter to the faltering missteps of international law,...