Tag: philosophy
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July 10, 2008 02:34 PM EDT --
Is searching for joy in tragedy a bad thing?
A question I read a few minutes ago. What do you think? Is it okay to search for joy or fun in tragedy?
At first I thought it's definitely fine to . . . more
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June 23, 2008 09:42 AM EDT --
"People who dance are considered insane by those who can't hear the music." ~ George Carlin
Were YOU among those who listened? . . . more
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May 11, 2007 06:54 PM EDT --
**All quoted information from "The Experience of Philosophy" by Daniel Kolak and Raymond Martin. Additional information is from class notes, discussion and interpretation.**
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August 21, 2008 05:32 PM EDT --
“ When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy ” Voltaire.
What do you think that quote means?
I don't . . . more
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August 04, 2007 11:05 AM EDT --
Name one thing you regret doing in your life or wish you had done differently.
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September 13, 2007 01:28 PM EDT --
I am going to go with Imagine by John Lennon.
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September 18, 2007 10:46 PM EDT --
Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body---but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "...holy s***...what a ride!"
Don't let . . . more
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November 12, 2007 06:26 PM EST --
I can honestly say that I have no regrets. I don't even believe in regrets. I think they are just life lessons. Some may be mistakes, but how can you grow as a person and become . . . more
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November 16, 2007 08:00 AM EST --
attitude:
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks . . . more
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February 22, 2008 05:07 PM EST --
Was thinking the other day of the millions, the billions, of people who've died. Who've faced death in pain or with expectation of an afterlife or with fear that there's no . . . more
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June 08, 2008 01:26 PM EDT --
"Do you know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?" -- 1 Corinthians 3:16
In the Bible, we are told many times by Jesus and by Paul that the kingdom . . . more
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June 20, 2008 03:43 PM EDT --
"The most solid advice. . for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat and when you sleep, really sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, . . . more
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May 06, 2007 02:06 PM EDT --
We are a civilized society.
As such, we have natural disagreements from time to time. To stimulate more thought provoking debate . . . is the death penalty just?
The Bible . . . more
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August 19, 2008 09:00 AM EDT --
"What is the purpose of dreaming?"
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August 20, 2008 05:17 AM EDT --
Thought~Byte No. 9
Concept and words by John Philipp. Drawings by Phil Frank.
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August 20, 2008 05:19 AM EDT --
Thought~Byte No. 115
Concept and words by John Philipp. Drawings by Phil Frank.
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May 19, 2007 01:44 AM EDT --
I exhale and the journey begins in the fibers of my roots my being starts to rise like a mighty nation formed from a single thought.
As I lay and look to the mighty nebulas I am taken to the beginning . . . more
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March 05, 2008 01:09 PM EST --
Thich Nhat Hanh said this:
People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every . . . more
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June 30, 2008 09:22 PM EDT --
I have read a lot of philosophy and self-help books and books about various religions. Well, let's face it, I've read a lot of anything that could be enclosed on pages with the use of some sort . . . more
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July 11, 2008 09:58 AM EDT --
Is it so bad to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood,
and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and
Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To . . . more
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