Philosophy?

Happiness is...

Succumbing to desire	2.2%	[ 2 ]
Self-indulgence	7.6%	[ 7 ]
Pleasing others	5.4%	[ 5 ]
The simple things that bring pleasure	40.2%	[ 37 ]
Being in a good state	17.4%	[ 16 ]
The aim of life	27.2%	[ 25 ]
Total Votes:			[ 92 ]

This poll closed on March 14, 2008.
No longer accepting new votes.

[Vest Man the Original]

Komodra

hybrid_hound

questions: can we actually touch anything?
if a tree falls in a forest and nobody's around, does it make a sound?

a tree will still make a sound. its like asking if no one is around are you breathing? its a simple question of if no one is around to see or experiance anything happenning, is it ever considered to happen since everything in life is written down to prove it happened

Did something just happen
The way I saw it?
All the others saw something too.
But, will they remember it,
Just as I do?
Or will they remember at all?
Did it really happen?
I don't remember.

[Vest Man the Original]

Does anyone find it funny that there are classes on how to think, analyze, and comprehend philosophical meanings?

[Vest Man the Original]

Adolphus Huxley.

[[Nympho] Whore]

I'm doing that =D


I ask you all, what is a soul?
It'll be the hardest question you'll EVER answer.


Also. -points to table- Why is this table a table? It can be used as other things, but why name it a table? Heh. Gotta love Plato and his theory of Forms.




To OPer ~ Are you doing Ethics as well? Like Philosophy& Ethics?

[battlekin12]

i have this crazy like philosophical belif thats the closest thing i have to a religion


All of us are together, and part of a flow. What you do in life doesn't matter, whether your a farmer or billionaire it has no effect on the flow. All that matters is how your actions make people feel.
More over the only thing that should be avoided at all costs is causing pain or suffering to people, because when you hurt another human or animal you are hurting yourself and the entire flow.

[Fieress]

do whatever you like, just be satisfied with it

[Vest Man the Original]

battlekin12

i have this crazy like philosophical belif thats the closest thing i have to a religion


All of us are together, and part of a flow. What you do in life doesn't matter, whether your a farmer or billionaire it has no effect on the flow. All that matters is how your actions make people feel.
More over the only thing that should be avoided at all costs is causing pain or suffering to people, because when you hurt another human or animal you are hurting yourself and the entire flow.

Uh I hate to break it to you but that ain't all that crazy, there are quite a number of people that believe that.

[rabbit sushi]

I'm doing Philosophy & Ethics, though I'm Year 11 now.

Ooh, I could start discussing, but I'll get carried away.

Last thing we were doing was the Teleological Argument - I've come to the conclusion that Paley's analogy of the stop watch was bollocks.

Meaning of life? Keep on reproducing till you die. C:

[Kainel]

As a sociopath...

I find that happiness is whatever I want it to be...

It falls under my theory of universal relatively...

Everything is relative to the human consciousness.

...or as far as I've been able to infer.

...Happiness is whatever satiates whatever urge that I have at the moment.

[Kainel]

Angel Kumara

battlekin12

i have this crazy like philosophical belif thats the closest thing i have to a religion


All of us are together, and part of a flow. What you do in life doesn't matter, whether your a farmer or billionaire it has no effect on the flow. All that matters is how your actions make people feel.
More over the only thing that should be avoided at all costs is causing pain or suffering to people, because when you hurt another human or animal you are hurting yourself and the entire flow.

Uh I hate to break it to you but that ain't all that crazy, there are quite a number of people that believe that.

Energy takes many forms... from tangible to intangible...

Consciousness is an intangible form of energy...

...energy is recycled...

Thus sayeth the Law of the conservation of energy...

Therefore...

...consciousness must be recycled...

[Kainel]

I apologize if I misspell consciousness...

[Kainel]

Angel Kumara

Does anyone find it funny that there are classes on how to think, analyze, and comprehend philosophical meanings?

It is as the Tao...

...To give it name or form... is to render it meaningless.

[Kainel]

If you see the Buddha on the road, kill him.

[Koji_magyar]

What is the meaning of life? well at the moment it's to reproduce or be remembered.

What is happiness? accomplishment.

Can anyone lead a good life? yes

Why do you do what you do everyday? it makes me happy

(note: I'm not a philosophy student, I just have my own spin on things)

[Vest Man the Original]

lalalalalala

Wait, what? ......(whispering).....Now I am sad.

Ignorance is bliss.