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 Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 5:17 pm
Let's be philosophical! whee ^_^
If you don't know what that is, here's philosophical responses in a nutcase.
Er, nutSHELL.
Q. Are you a girl or a boy?
A. How can we really know? We have been taught that we are either a boy or a girl, but really, this is just what some person believed and decided for the whole world. Maybe I'm a guy and not a girl. What defines boy vs. girl? It could be the other way around. And maybe somewhere else, what makes me a girl here makes me a guy there. And maybe there isn't even such a thing as gendar, maybe it's all made up and we're really just all unisex.
And that, my friends, is how to annoy people to the high Heavens. surprised
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Oh, and it helps for writing too. You know, the whole learning more than one way to skin a cat thing.
Yeah, so... I'll ask another question (Questions can be repeated if you really can't think of one).
Q. How old are you?
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Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 5:06 pm
THERE WILL BE NO CAT SKINNING HERE! O.o
Ooh, ooh! I know this one. 14!!!!!
Kidding. Philosophical. Right.
*ahem*
How old am I? How can I possibly answer that? Should I answer in PLuto years or in Venus years, or just plain old Earth years? And what is a year anyway? What is TIME, anyway? A subjective concept, a trick of the mind. How can we know it's real when we can't see it, feel it, touch, hear, or taste it? And furthermore, if I were to accept your concept of time, how would I know how old I am? What if I've been reincarnated? That would make me very old, depending on ho0w many TIMES i have been reincarnated. So you see, the concept of time plays many tricks on us, and therefore I have no idea.
:/
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Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 6:00 pm
Why is a year 365 1/4 days? It could actually be 1457 days. Or one day might not even be what we think it is.
And if day is the time when the sun's out, do we actually have a day age and a night age?
No, no. No actual skinning of cats. I just can't think of any veggie-friendly metaphors right now. O.o
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Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 6:19 pm
XD
How about, there's more than one way to drive a bus into a wall? ):<
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Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 10:57 pm
Of course there's more than one way to drive a bus into a wall. The question is, why would one drive the bus into the wall at all? Could it be possibly argued that one might want to escape the tensions of everyday life, therefore giving up home and crashing the bus into the wall? Or is a statement being made by the individual that they are through with life?
For that matter, why a bus being driven into a wall? Why not a car, or a motorcycle? Does the individual driving the bus into the wall believe that since a bus is so much bigger than any other driving apparatus, it would resound more deeply? Oh perhaps the person is trying to make a statement that they would like to bring down the rest of the world with them.
Returning to the major question at hand, there are many ways to drive a bus into a wall. One could crash it sideways, or head-on, or perhaps even backwards. Although why would one drive it head-on? Backwards is such more of a statement, being that the world is backwards, and such one dost drive it into the wall.
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Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 11:26 pm
What is a bus, anyway? And what is a wall? What are they, really, in an infinite universe, quantatively speaking? If an infinite universe is, in fact, infinite, can anything be measured against it? And what is infinity? Perception? A measure? THE measure?
And so, in fact, if nothing can be measured, it cannot exist. And if it cannot exist, it cannot be driven into a wall. And so once again, where is our wall? What is our bus?
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Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 6:07 pm
gonk What have I gotten myself into? Why did I pick Philosophy? I am two days into the course, and I just want to...go crawl under a rock. So, anyone want to do my homework? ninja
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Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 7:21 pm
wow, I don't remember posting all of that. o.o
Excuse me, but how can I DO your homework? What is the definition of DO? is it like to be, it just is? how can homework just be, just do? What is hoemwork, anyway? the name implies that it is work that is done at home, but there we are again with the doing. to do has numerous definitions, one of them being to have sex with.
So would you like me to have sex with your homework?
sorry, I'm already taken. talk2hand
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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 8:45 pm
Haha, awww you know my homework is much more appealing! I'll give you something really mind-boggling. (This has no right answer, it was a survey my teacher gave us.)
Suppose that John has learned in college that Gödel is the man who proved an important mathematical theorem, called the incompleteness of arithmetic. John is quite good at mathematics and he can give an accurate statement of the incompleteness theorem, which he attributes to Gödel as the discoverer. But this is the only thing that he has heard about Gödel. Now suppose that Gödel was not the author of this theorem. A man called "Schmidt" whose body was found in Vienna under mysterious circumstances many years ago, actually did the work in question. His friend Gödel somehow got hold of the manuscript and claimed credit for the work, which was thereafter attributed to Gödel. Thus he has been known as the man who proved the incompleteness of arithmetic. Most people who have heard the name "Gödel" are like John; the claim that Gödel discovered the incompleteness theorem is the only thing they have ever heard about Gödel. When John uses the name "Gödel," is he talking about:
A) the person who really discovered the incompleteness of arithmetic?
B) the person who got hold of the manuscript and claimed credit for the work?
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Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 6:36 pm
Ooooh I love thinking about this one:
What is language? How is it that random sounds can suddenly take on meanings to us? Why are they meaningful, and why is it that what is so meaningful to some people is complete random babble to the next?
Oh, and say any word about 10 times, thinking about the way it sounds. It will sound so wierd and random and meaningless. It's great fun.
But I'm not entirely sure this really counts as philosophy. Ohwell.
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Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 7:18 pm
To reply to the previous:
What is sound? Is it what our brain interprets from the invisible waves that shakes our eardrums or is it something that is inherent in itself? Oh yeah, write a word for about thirty times. By that time, you'll think you spelled it wrong even though it might be perfectly right. Makes me frustrated when I am proofreading.
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