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 Freedom
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 Re: Philosophy really has changed me  [Re: 4896744]
#16119934 - 04/21/12 01:51 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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You mean when you talk about your beliefs or questions about belief?
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Re: Philosophy really has changed me [Re: Freedom]
#16119942 - 04/21/12 01:52 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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Right, and that is almost all I think about at all times of the day no matter what I'm doing.
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Re: Philosophy really has changed me [Re: 4896744]
#16119972 - 04/21/12 01:59 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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wow thats intense
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Re: Philosophy really has changed me [Re: Freedom]
#16119988 - 04/21/12 02:02 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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Do you not think about that kind of stuff all the time?
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Re: Philosophy really has changed me [Re: 4896744]
#16120023 - 04/21/12 02:10 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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I'm busy not thinking about it right now.
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Re: Philosophy really has changed me [Re: LunarEclipse]
#16120066 - 04/21/12 02:22 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
LunarEclipse said:
What's more amazing is you had a thread just like this 6 months ago.
Give or Take.
Sorry To Trouble You.
I've got not trouble with you
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Re: Philosophy really has changed me [Re: 4896744]
#16120072 - 04/21/12 02:23 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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Not all the time but its probably what motivates me to write here so much
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Re: Philosophy really has changed me [Re: Freedom]
#16120515 - 04/21/12 04:40 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
Freedom said:
Quote:
LunarEclipse said:
What's more amazing is you had a thread just like this 6 months ago.
Give or Take.
Sorry To Trouble You.
No more.
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Re: Philosophy really has changed me [Re: LunarEclipse]
#16120666 - 04/21/12 05:29 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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thought junkies.
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Re: Philosophy really has changed me [Re: LunarEclipse]
#16120779 - 04/21/12 06:02 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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i'm going to have to beg to differ with the opinions in this thread. philosophy for me seems to be the practice of directly engaging the world through language. surely there are iconic philosophers who are known for their hermetic lifestyles like kant and nietzche, but even then their writings seem to greatly outweigh their lack of physical presence in society in that people are still talking about them. beyond that, philosophy deals with the search for truth, and if everyone was able to find truth i don't see how that could be anything but unifying. that's not to say that everyone should subscribe to the same type of thinking in some dogmatic way, but society itself is a product of our reason, and the more capacity we have to utilize our rationality, the better made our society can be.
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Re: Philosophy really has changed me [Re: millzy]
#16121188 - 04/21/12 08:22 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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Definitely with symbols on this one.
why did i have to go and make things so complicated?
dunno avril lavigne but your HOT AND I WANT IN
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Re: Philosophy really has changed me [Re: Freedom]
#16121624 - 04/21/12 10:11 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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I see the reason for this not as a denial of death, but that the need for self esteem
read beckers work and you'll come to realize that they are much the same thing.
Becker, for me was like putting the final nail in a project I had been working on for a long time thinking I would never find where that last nail could possibly go.
for me, beckers work is like the glue that holds my understanding of human motivation together. before reading becker i felt lost in a sea of facts. people do this, people do that. but now i feel that becker has provided me with a theoretical framework with which i can organize my observations of human nature. it really is a wonderful thing. what makes it really brilliant though is that it is not only useful for academics to deconstruct events or ideas, it is just as useful to the average individual for understanding their own motivations and the motivations of others in day to day life.
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let's fuel the robots with psilocybin.
cez said:
everyone should smoke dmt for religion.
dustinthewind13 said:
euthanasia and prostitution should be legal and located in the same building.
White Beard said:
if you see the buddha on the road, rape him, then kill him. then rape him again.
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Re: Philosophy really has changed me [Re: blingbling]
#16123282 - 04/22/12 07:51 AM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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Maybe sometimes it needs a little rhetoric to gain a Pulitzer price for simple and obvious facts like 'avoiding harmful situations' and their consequences and motivations.
For me it's not the driving force behind life. It's the secondary consequence - maybe the other side of the medal for it.
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Re: Philosophy really has changed me [Re: BlueCoyote]
#16123323 - 04/22/12 08:34 AM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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 ... read becker
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Kupo said:
let's fuel the robots with psilocybin.
cez said:
everyone should smoke dmt for religion.
dustinthewind13 said:
euthanasia and prostitution should be legal and located in the same building.
White Beard said:
if you see the buddha on the road, rape him, then kill him. then rape him again.
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Re: Philosophy really has changed me [Re: blingbling]
#16123424 - 04/22/12 09:32 AM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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"People convince themselves of their own lies, becoming victims of their own inventions as they begin to direct their lives by standards of behavior, ideas, feelings, or instincts which do not correspond to their inner reality. What is truly serious in this matter is that the individual loses all points of reference regarding what comprises truth, and what comprises lies. He becomes used to considering as true only that which is convenient for his personal interests; everything that is in opposition to his self-esteem or in conflict with already established prejudices, he considers false."
- John Baines
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Re: Philosophy really has changed me [Re: blingbling]
#16124111 - 04/22/12 01:49 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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Shmecker Decker, it's too obvious for me to read... 
But it's good if it helps people...I think he also relays to the primary factor as he says it's better to overcome these fears...
Edited by BlueCoyote (04/22/12 01:55 PM)
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Re: Philosophy really has changed me [Re: BlueCoyote]
#16124172 - 04/22/12 02:15 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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This may be the dumbest thing I've read from you yet.
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"People convince themselves of their own lies, becoming victims of their own inventions as they begin to direct their lives by standards of behavior, ideas, feelings, or instincts which do not correspond to their inner reality. What is truly serious in this matter is that the individual loses all points of reference regarding what comprises truth, and what comprises lies. He becomes used to considering as true only that which is convenient for his personal interests; everything that is in opposition to his self-esteem or in conflict with already established prejudices, he considers false."
- John Baines
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Re: Philosophy really has changed me [Re: Icelander]
#16124215 - 04/22/12 02:36 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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Isn't it not ? ohh  But that's what he does, as far as I remember you say so 
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Re: Philosophy really has changed me [Re: BlueCoyote]
#16124393 - 04/22/12 03:50 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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"People convince themselves of their own lies, becoming victims of their own inventions as they begin to direct their lives by standards of behavior, ideas, feelings, or instincts which do not correspond to their inner reality. What is truly serious in this matter is that the individual loses all points of reference regarding what comprises truth, and what comprises lies. He becomes used to considering as true only that which is convenient for his personal interests; everything that is in opposition to his self-esteem or in conflict with already established prejudices, he considers false."
- John Baines
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Re: Philosophy really has changed me [Re: BlueCoyote]
#16125864 - 04/22/12 09:59 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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I think he also relays to the primary factor as he says it's better to overcome these fears...
how can you know what he says if you've never read him? 
it's too obvious for me to read...
your too obvious for me to read...
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Kupo said:
let's fuel the robots with psilocybin.
cez said:
everyone should smoke dmt for religion.
dustinthewind13 said:
euthanasia and prostitution should be legal and located in the same building.
White Beard said:
if you see the buddha on the road, rape him, then kill him. then rape him again.
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