1. How do you know anything really exists?
2. Can our minds exist seperately from our bodies?
3. what is the meaning of life?
4. And the all important question: Is there a god?
Just some questions.
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Just some questions.
Tater Tazz;677552 wrote: 1. How do you know anything really exists?
2. Can our minds exist seperately from our bodies?
3. what is the meaning of life?
4. And the all important question: Is there a god?
1.
A: because I can see it and experience it
B:faith
2. Yes. We have souls and the mind is different from the physical brain.
3. It's different for everyone.
4. Yes.
2. Can our minds exist seperately from our bodies?
3. what is the meaning of life?
4. And the all important question: Is there a god?
1.
A: because I can see it and experience it
B:faith
2. Yes. We have souls and the mind is different from the physical brain.
3. It's different for everyone.
4. Yes.
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Tater Tazz
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Just some questions.
Is there anything you would be willing to die for?
What is the relationship between mind and body?
What is evil?
What is truth?
What is the relationship between mind and body?
What is evil?
What is truth?
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RedGlitter
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Just some questions.
Tater Tazz;677560 wrote: Is there anything you would be willing to die for?
Yes. Several things.
What is the relationship between mind and body?
They work in conjunction but where the body cannot survive death, the mind can.
What is evil?
A pure lack of good. I can't describe it better than that. See Hitler, see rapists, see cold blooded killers, see any of that and more.
What is truth?
Truth is what is real. Truth is what your heart knows.
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Yes. Several things.
What is the relationship between mind and body?
They work in conjunction but where the body cannot survive death, the mind can.
What is evil?
A pure lack of good. I can't describe it better than that. See Hitler, see rapists, see cold blooded killers, see any of that and more.
What is truth?
Truth is what is real. Truth is what your heart knows.
....
Just some questions.
1) I don't. I could be a product of the autistic child at the end of the last episode of St. Elsewhere for all I know.
2) Possibly. I believe life is energy and energy cannot be destroyed, only dissipated.
3) In a hundred to two hundred years the most anyone will remember of most of us is a name on a third grade family tree project. Two to three hundred years later most of us will be lucky to get that.
I see a lot of folks running around trying to make money and postpone an inevitable death by all possible means. The silly part is that in a thousand years none of those efforts will relevant or important.
So what's the point to a life that in the end in a null set? The point is how we exist in the now. We can grab all we can or we can attempt to be descent. One day even that decision won't matter, so I choose to be descent. It feels better.
4) Yes. God for me is not a guy with a white beard who burns bushes, or lives as man sent to die for our sins, or sends down angels to clue us in on his thoughts. God for me is the Universe. The numbers and equations that define everything from the big bang, to the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium model, to the way a curve ball behaves the way it does.
I see the Universe a one big super sentient equation and scientists as the priests.
2) Possibly. I believe life is energy and energy cannot be destroyed, only dissipated.
3) In a hundred to two hundred years the most anyone will remember of most of us is a name on a third grade family tree project. Two to three hundred years later most of us will be lucky to get that.
I see a lot of folks running around trying to make money and postpone an inevitable death by all possible means. The silly part is that in a thousand years none of those efforts will relevant or important.
So what's the point to a life that in the end in a null set? The point is how we exist in the now. We can grab all we can or we can attempt to be descent. One day even that decision won't matter, so I choose to be descent. It feels better.
4) Yes. God for me is not a guy with a white beard who burns bushes, or lives as man sent to die for our sins, or sends down angels to clue us in on his thoughts. God for me is the Universe. The numbers and equations that define everything from the big bang, to the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium model, to the way a curve ball behaves the way it does.
I see the Universe a one big super sentient equation and scientists as the priests.
Just some questions.
Tater Tazz;677560 wrote: Is there anything you would be willing to die for?
What is the relationship between mind and body?
What is evil?
What is truth?
1) Lot's of stuff though there's nothing pressing at the moment.
2) When I exercise and stay away from junk food I "think" better, doing better on tests and able to form and coalesce my thoughts more quickly.
3) Evil is the abdication of humanity. (e.g. "My neighbor is hungry. I have more than enough to help, but I won't" or as I like to call it the "better him than me" way of thinking.)
4) Truth is the facts. We can deny them, forget them, interpret them, and lie about them, but what has happened has happened and what goes around comes around.
What is the relationship between mind and body?
What is evil?
What is truth?
1) Lot's of stuff though there's nothing pressing at the moment.
2) When I exercise and stay away from junk food I "think" better, doing better on tests and able to form and coalesce my thoughts more quickly.
3) Evil is the abdication of humanity. (e.g. "My neighbor is hungry. I have more than enough to help, but I won't" or as I like to call it the "better him than me" way of thinking.)
4) Truth is the facts. We can deny them, forget them, interpret them, and lie about them, but what has happened has happened and what goes around comes around.
Just some questions.
Tater Tazz;677552 wrote: 1. How do you know anything really exists?
2. Can our minds exist seperately from our bodies?
3. what is the meaning of life?
4. And the all important question: Is there a god?
1. Kick a stone as hard as you can with your foot, (like Dr. Johnson) which will probably break regardless of your attitude regarding the existence of the same stone, this is the basic test that reality has created you (not the other way around). Try it, it always works for some reason.
2. Unlikely, there is no evidence that this is the case in humans or any other animals, apart from intriguiging anecdotes.
3. Unknown, its also unknown whether there is supposed to be any meaning, which is useful as it means that generally you can make one for yourself, which is your right as a concious being.
4. Again, unknown, and thats how it will remain if you ask me, but you will find out one way or another, just give it time.
2. Can our minds exist seperately from our bodies?
3. what is the meaning of life?
4. And the all important question: Is there a god?
1. Kick a stone as hard as you can with your foot, (like Dr. Johnson) which will probably break regardless of your attitude regarding the existence of the same stone, this is the basic test that reality has created you (not the other way around). Try it, it always works for some reason.
2. Unlikely, there is no evidence that this is the case in humans or any other animals, apart from intriguiging anecdotes.
3. Unknown, its also unknown whether there is supposed to be any meaning, which is useful as it means that generally you can make one for yourself, which is your right as a concious being.
4. Again, unknown, and thats how it will remain if you ask me, but you will find out one way or another, just give it time.
"We are never so happy, never so unhappy, as we imagine"
Le Rochefoucauld.
"A smack in the face settles all arguments, then you can move on kid."
My dad 1986.
Le Rochefoucauld.
"A smack in the face settles all arguments, then you can move on kid."
My dad 1986.
Just some questions.
Tater Tazz;677560 wrote: Is there anything you would be willing to die for?
What is the relationship between mind and body?
What is evil?
What is truth?
Well, proably several things, but its one of those questions that you don't really know the answer to until the moment comes.
The mind and body are part of the same being, they are not seperate, which is why if you abuse yourself physically you will feel terrible, and visa versa.
Evil is selfish behaviour taken to the extreme, we are capable of it, because we see ourselves as seperate "things" and therefore can act with extreme selfishness.
Truth is that which is based on fact and nothing else, either in terms of events, actions, or the material nature of things. Everything else is what we construct to amuse ourselves and make life more pleasant, sometimes beneficially, sometimes negatively.
What is the relationship between mind and body?
What is evil?
What is truth?
Well, proably several things, but its one of those questions that you don't really know the answer to until the moment comes.
The mind and body are part of the same being, they are not seperate, which is why if you abuse yourself physically you will feel terrible, and visa versa.
Evil is selfish behaviour taken to the extreme, we are capable of it, because we see ourselves as seperate "things" and therefore can act with extreme selfishness.
Truth is that which is based on fact and nothing else, either in terms of events, actions, or the material nature of things. Everything else is what we construct to amuse ourselves and make life more pleasant, sometimes beneficially, sometimes negatively.
"We are never so happy, never so unhappy, as we imagine"
Le Rochefoucauld.
"A smack in the face settles all arguments, then you can move on kid."
My dad 1986.
Le Rochefoucauld.
"A smack in the face settles all arguments, then you can move on kid."
My dad 1986.
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Just some questions.
What is the relationship between community and the individual?
How can we be ethical in medicine, law, and business?
How can we be ethical in medicine, law, and business?
Just some questions.
Tater Tazz;677819 wrote: What is the relationship between community and the individual?
How can we be ethical in medicine, law, and business?
Human beings have a dual nature to my mind that it at once individual but also collective. The need and desire for personal freedom is one aspect of this, as is the need for family, for friends, and to exist within a wider social framework, (which all human beings absolutely require and aspire toward, hence hierarchy, power, society, etc etc). Although without some measure of personal freedom humans are generally miserable, without other humans to interact with, most people go insane.
Ethics is generally the idea of serving as many people to the most adequate fulfillment of their needs (which involve personal needs tempered with a knowledge that selfishly fullfilling all ones needs to the detriment of everyone else is self-defeating in the end). I think Aristotle recognized this about 2,500 years ago with his ideas of the "golden mean" his ideas about human ethics are still as valid now as they were in ancient greece as people and their nature have changed not at all since this time.
How can we be ethical in medicine, law, and business?
Human beings have a dual nature to my mind that it at once individual but also collective. The need and desire for personal freedom is one aspect of this, as is the need for family, for friends, and to exist within a wider social framework, (which all human beings absolutely require and aspire toward, hence hierarchy, power, society, etc etc). Although without some measure of personal freedom humans are generally miserable, without other humans to interact with, most people go insane.
Ethics is generally the idea of serving as many people to the most adequate fulfillment of their needs (which involve personal needs tempered with a knowledge that selfishly fullfilling all ones needs to the detriment of everyone else is self-defeating in the end). I think Aristotle recognized this about 2,500 years ago with his ideas of the "golden mean" his ideas about human ethics are still as valid now as they were in ancient greece as people and their nature have changed not at all since this time.
"We are never so happy, never so unhappy, as we imagine"
Le Rochefoucauld.
"A smack in the face settles all arguments, then you can move on kid."
My dad 1986.
Le Rochefoucauld.
"A smack in the face settles all arguments, then you can move on kid."
My dad 1986.
Just some questions.
Originally Posted by Tater Tazz
1. How do you know anything really exists?
2. Can our minds exist seperately from our bodies?
3. what is the meaning of life?
4. And the all important question: Is there a god?
1. If you can touch it then it is real
2.I dont remember being in the womb,so I would say before birth no.
3. There isn't one,people seem to have a need for reasons.
4. I don't think there is,why would he let so many babies be born to die from famine and war. Each to their own on this one.
1. How do you know anything really exists?
2. Can our minds exist seperately from our bodies?
3. what is the meaning of life?
4. And the all important question: Is there a god?
1. If you can touch it then it is real
2.I dont remember being in the womb,so I would say before birth no.
3. There isn't one,people seem to have a need for reasons.
4. I don't think there is,why would he let so many babies be born to die from famine and war. Each to their own on this one.
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Just some questions.
What is the nature of knowledge?
According to Socrates, an unexamined life is not worth living; and it certainly could not be a virtuous life. Why not?
According to Socrates, an unexamined life is not worth living; and it certainly could not be a virtuous life. Why not?
Just some questions.
What is the nature of knowledge?
To my mind knowedge is the concious aquisition of information and the collation of that information in such a manner that produces a coherent world view that has some basis in fact. Ignorance is the concious decision to reject knowledge.
According to Socrates, an unexamined life is not worth living; and it certainly could not be a virtuous life. Why not?
What type of people are those that never contemplate what they have done, why, and what they intend to do in the future? These people are similar to those I discussed in my first answer. I don't know of what interest life could be if all it invovles is in fullfilling unconcious base desires, not much of a life anyway. Though if you were a cat or a dog that wouldn't be so bad.
To my mind knowedge is the concious aquisition of information and the collation of that information in such a manner that produces a coherent world view that has some basis in fact. Ignorance is the concious decision to reject knowledge.
According to Socrates, an unexamined life is not worth living; and it certainly could not be a virtuous life. Why not?
What type of people are those that never contemplate what they have done, why, and what they intend to do in the future? These people are similar to those I discussed in my first answer. I don't know of what interest life could be if all it invovles is in fullfilling unconcious base desires, not much of a life anyway. Though if you were a cat or a dog that wouldn't be so bad.
"We are never so happy, never so unhappy, as we imagine"
Le Rochefoucauld.
"A smack in the face settles all arguments, then you can move on kid."
My dad 1986.
Le Rochefoucauld.
"A smack in the face settles all arguments, then you can move on kid."
My dad 1986.