[timmybrown]

Philosophy is a wondrous thing that can help one understand the world, and its a good way to increase one's reasoning skills/ IQ. Wanna get smarter? Come on down and enjoy Scholarly knowledge!

We'll talk about various topics until our attention spans change them.
Anyone wanna start by choosing one?

Current Topics:

What is what?

Is ignorance bliss?

Why does "tradition" affect us the way it does?

How do you feel about String theory?

When man cast his last shadow in this universe will he be remembered as a force of good or evil?

[R1king]

Why my washing always ends up dirty on the line...

[gennickhif]

moved to off topic

[ballerturfali]

What is what?




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[lisualsethelp]

Clearly, ignorance is bliss.

[enasseneiff]

Ignorance is a bliss that will lead sooner or later to a mass amount of pain, as soon as the ignorance is gone.

[LillyPlay]

i have a question to all who will participate. why does tradition brain wash us?

example: a sexually active woman may be deemed as a wh0re. this rule of insult does not apply to a man. religion takes the same affect. we are raised to believe what is right, and therefor are sculpted to fit a shape.

we evolve over time, as a people of civilization. some petty afflictions were overcome, while countless ones remain, and even newer ones await us. or... them. whichever way you look at it.

you will never know what is true unless you discover for yourself.

[enasseneiff]

It brain washes those in power, as they became successful with what tradition they have. And the last statement is true.

Life is like a box of spiders, it can be cool, but often times you'll get bitten.

[Yfclciak]

Japan's taking over the world. One anime at a time...

[R1king]

And why does my toast always land butter-side down?

[sPncEjF7]

QUOTE (Bowserkills7 @ Jan 16 2009, 10:13 PM)
And why does my toast always land butter-side down?[/b] Because generally, people drop toast from waist height, and at that height the toast only has time to revolve once before it lands on the ground, hence it lands butter side down. If you were extremely tall, or kept your toast butter side down on your plate, it would stop it falling butter side down when you dropped it, but that's just crazy fool.

[imnaone]

QUOTE (Brian Click @ Jan 16 2009, 04:10 PM)
i have a question to all who will participate. why does tradition brain wash us?

example: a sexually active woman may be deemed as a wh0re. this rule of insult does not apply to a man. religion takes the same affect. we are raised to believe what is right, and therefor are sculpted to fit a shape.

we evolve over time, as a people of civilization. some petty afflictions were overcome, while countless ones remain, and even newer ones await us. or... them. whichever way you look at it.

you will never know what is true unless you discover for yourself.[/b] that's not philosophy, that's sociology. Get a sociology textbook and look up " (social) institutions". Then you'll find an answer.

QUOTE (Bowserkills7 @ Jan 16 2009, 11:13 PM)
And why does my toast always land butter-side down?[/b] If you strap buttered toast (which always lands butter-side down) to the back of a cat (which always lands on its feet) and you drop the cat (from waist height obviously, where else would you hold your butter toasted cat?) will it then hover above the ground because it cannot decide upon which side to fall...?

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now THAT'S philosophy for ya

[payloansday]

How do you feel about String theory?

[lXwVlTgO]

QUOTE (€-C @ Jan 19 2009, 04:18 PM)
If you strap buttered toast (which always lands butter-side down) to the back of a cat (which always lands on its feet) and you drop the cat (from waist height obviously, where else would you hold your butter toasted cat?) will it then hover above the ground because it cannot decide upon which side to fall...?[/b] I'm 99% sure it would land butter-side up and the cat would land on it's feet, because weight must be taken into consideration. (assuming it was on earth)

Now THAT's Physics

QUOTE (Jedah @ Jan 19 2009, 07:26 PM)
How do you feel about String theory?[/b] How do you NOT feel about string theory? Science that cannot be proven or disproven is fun!

[imnaone]

QUOTE (Timekeeper @ Jan 20 2009, 08:31 AM)
I'm 99% sure it would land butter-side up and the cat would land on it's feet, because weight must be taken into consideration. (assuming it was on earth)

Now THAT's Physics[/b] So we come to the conclusion that should you want to play it safe with your buttered toast, you should always strap it to the back of your cat.

[himecthekWiff]

When man cast his last shadow in this universe will he be remembered as a force of good or evil?

[imnaone]

QUOTE (Snake Plissken @ Jan 20 2009, 01:09 PM)
When man cast his last shadow in this universe will he be remembered as a force of good or evil?[/b] good and evil are concepts derived by man.

if mankind dies, there'll be no one left to remember mankind in terms of good/evil

:/

[imnaone]

QUOTE (Hebi @ Jan 20 2009, 07:49 PM)
moar than that[/b]

[AALee]

QUOTE (€-C @ Jan 20 2009, 04:35 AM)
So we come to the conclusion that should you want to play it safe with your buttered toast, you should always strap it to the back of your cat.[/b]
An alternate solution would be to put the toast on a plate so you can't drop it :happy:

[timmybrown]

good and evil are concepts derived by man.

if mankind dies, there'll be no one left to remember mankind in terms of good/evil

:/

But there are probably sentient beings out there, possibly with the same kind of logic and morality of us.

If they knew of us, and we died somehow, they would probably call us evil, if they were copies of us.

However, in the same way, if we knew their history and they died somehow, we would think the same of them.

It's pretty simple to call anyone and everyone evil; countless religions and philosophies have said this and have yet to be proven wrong :P

I was just want somebody to say "This is madness!" so I can say in return, "This....is... PHILOSOPHY!!!!!!!!!!!"

No..."This...is...SPARTA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
But really; i wish you had waited until someone did, cuz then it would be SO cool. lolz

I'll set you up for another one

Philosophy has existed for over 9000 years

€-C, Philosophy has existed far more longer than that. It's existed since the most simple sentient being made the first thought ever. Humanity has existed far longer than 9000 years.

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Oh, and I'd think that all kinds of questions should be able to exist here. I mean, all questions with answers are related to human thought in some way, right?
Therefore,
The Philosophy Thread now accepts sociology, science, and all sorts of questions, even the ones made as jokes and may or may not answer them.
How does that sound.