http://allphilosophy.com/ All the latest philosophy http://allphilosophy.com/topic/5898 Make your vote! Current opinions are:<ul><li>Well<br />He was just this bloke who penned a few good poems, sang in The Doors, took lots of drugs and drank shit loads, which ended up killing him.<p></li><li>To those of us who didn't know him personally<br />He is however we are touched by his works and life, however large or little.<p></li><li>WHO WAS JIM MORRISON?<br />According to Wikipedia: James Douglas "Jim" Morrison (December 8, 1943 – July 3, 1971) was an American singer, songwriter, poet, writer and filmmaker. He was best known as the lead singer and lyricist of The Doors and is widely considered to be one of the most charismatic frontmen in rock musi...<p></li> Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:14:17 -0600 http://allphilosophy.com/topic/5896 Make your vote! Current opinions are:<ul><li>Two concepts of time<br />In theory, time is relative and even possible to manipulate. Moving fast enough, time itself may in fact be slowing down. Or if you take a Delorean you can go back in time and meet your parents before they got together! But look at it from the observer. He goes back to 1955. Theoretically ...<p></li><li>For me<br />Forever is as long as you last. After that it doesn't matter.<p></li><li>Does "time" exist without movement?<br />Time began with the Big Bang, and one hypothesis is that the universe will lose entropy and grind to a heat death (this means that nothing moves). I would argue that this is the end of time, because there can no longer be any movement in that dimension. So if by "forever" you mean "time always...<p></li><li>Yes<br />Forever consists of time. Not how long someone lasts, or how long love lasts. Forever is a time substitute, even when the world ends, time continues to go on.. forever. Or a DAMN long time at least.<p></li> Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:35:43 -0600 http://allphilosophy.com/topic/5894 Make your vote! Current opinions are:<ul><li>This is a crap debate!<br />GhostWriter 2003 starts of this debate and the only argument that he/she can come up with to support it is the statement, I think it should, they deserve to die! What a load of testicles!!<p></li><li>No<br />It actually costs more in court fees to try to get someone executed. Why should my tax money get tied up in the legal system?<p></li><li>if you think about it...<br />The death penalty would seem a lighter punishment because after it's over you ain't got to spend the majority of the rest of your life in a prison cell, which in my opinion is a far greater punishment. Being alive but denied the possibility to experience your life or just having your life put...<p></li><li>No<br />The desire for vengeance--sometimes when you're not even closely involved--is a natural, and perhaps unavoidable feeling. But this is not something we as a society should condone and encourage. If someone did something terrible to those close to me, I would want to kill them. But I would als...<p></li><li>No<br />simple as!<p></li><li>they deserve to die<br />I think it should. They deserve to die<p></li><li>Absolutely not<br />It should be abolished everywhere. The death penalty is an infinite punishment for a finite crime, and is immoral to the core.<p></li><li>The only problem<br />with the death penalty is that they take too long to carry it out.<p></li> Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:23:39 -0600 http://allphilosophy.com/topic/5892 Make your vote! Current opinions are:<ul><li>Factual statement<br />It supposes that one view of the world alone is truthful. It presupposes that several cannot be. Surely this is the case as if it were not the 'truthfulness' of each view would certainly negate the other and, paradoxically, an existential dilemma would ensue (ie. there would be no existence of...<p></li> Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:48:57 -0600 http://allphilosophy.com/topic/5890 Make your vote! Current opinions are:<ul><li>Happiness<br />... doesn't exist if you're not feeling it. All we have is a nebulous shadow in our mind of what happiness should be. Happiness is the feeling of connection with a person, place, or thing. It either happens or it doesn't, and like any fleeting feeling, it tends to be fickle for some people mor...<p></li><li>I don't understand<br />What do you mean "does it even exist or merely a state of mind one has"? Do not states of minds exist? It exists AS a state of mind. Some poorer people may be happier than some richer people. One man's trash and all that. Only you can answer "What makes you happy", but for most people love...<p></li><li>Well yes...<br />If you perceive happiness then I guess it does exist. Also, the fact that the emotion that we call happiness affects the body ie heart rate, smiling and the serotonin hit you get from experiencing this emotion, would lead me to say yes it does. <p></li> Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:13:19 -0600 http://allphilosophy.com/topic/5888 Make your vote! Current opinions are:<ul><li>40 and under<br />once your fifty... uh uh. <p></li><li>Well<br />Like many moral questions, this would largely be decided case by case. The health of the people involved being the main part. Firstly, if they're old enough that being pregnant risks their own life or the babies, it's a bit irresponsible. Second, if they're so old and/or in poor health that ...<p></li> Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:57:38 -0600 http://allphilosophy.com/topic/5886 Make your vote! Current opinions are:<ul><li>hmmm....<br />To be honest a crap song from some poor mediocre punk (in fact i wouldn't even call them punk, more mainstream rock) band. On a subject that's been done hundreds of times before.<p></li><li>Sepratists<br />It's fairly humorous I guess, especially if you pin their targets merely at "People I morally disagree with". The irresponsible aspect of it though is that it generalizes almost as much as they claim the opposition does. It favors not only "people who think like us" but largely "people who live...<p></li><li>NOFX, a very intelligent band<br />These are the lyrics to one of my favorite songs by NOFX, leaving Jesus land, and as much as I love pissed off Christians, I would like some thought out responses too. I for the most part, agree with the over all message of the song. We call the heartland not very smart land, IQ's are very low...<p></li> Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:55:51 -0600 http://allphilosophy.com/topic/5884 Make your vote! Current opinions are:<ul><li>What Knowledge is For This Paradigm<br />Knowledge for the purpose of this post would be defined as information. Human sentience and cognition--awareness is knowledge. Knowing is knowledge. The sentient dimensions would be affixed to the mass track dimensions--on an apposite dimension 'side' for an interior purpose of course. Can a d...<p></li><li>eh?<br />knowledge is more of a concept than an actual thing? or do you mean something to do with memory and how the brain works? what do you mean by knowledge, you dont make sense :S or am i missing something here?<p></li><li>I don't know-here are some ideas on that<br /> http://prd.aps.org/abstract/PRD/v62/i2/e024011 About zero point topology and a radion scalar field Anything is possible I suppose. M.C. Escher's artworks have juxtaposed surface topologies. A flip side would seem to apply a paradigm similarity if not a mirror image. Knowledge would need...<p></li> Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:30:20 -0600 http://allphilosophy.com/topic/5882 Make your vote! Current opinions are:<ul><li>Simple<br />CHUCK NORRIS!<p></li><li>The force will smash the object out of the way...<br />... but from the object's frame of reference it didn't budge an inch, and the world flew out of the way :P<p></li><li>Nice I like it<br />and I think you'll find the answer is the unstoppable force ricochets off the unmovable object!<p></li> Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:43:38 -0600 http://allphilosophy.com/topic/5880 Make your vote! Current opinions are:<ul><li>A reply to some critics<br />I write on pre-big bang cosmology and consider philosophical paradigms about that because I enjoy the topic. I do not expect replies at all. I doubt that many here have read much on the topic yet--I just shared some of my thoughts about it in order to draw attention to the topic. Its a philoso...<p></li><li>A Few Ideas on The One, The Plenum Space etc.<br />Parmenides contemplated the plenum-that in which a solid sphere might be contained--one may consider the same issues in the before-the big bang multiverse perturbative vacuum regime, as well as the origin of the plenum. There are tools for symbolic logic available if one has the time in life to l...<p></li> Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:02:42 -0600 http://allphilosophy.com/topic/5878 Make your vote! Current opinions are:<ul><li>My experience<br />The nearest I've actually come to freedom was when I went through a spat of being homeless. Now I know a lot of people would assume being homeless could one of the worst things that could happen and I will admit that i was shitting it when I first became homeless. But I found that I had no worrie...<p></li><li>Absolute freedom<br />Absolute freedom would mean total independence; not to be dependant upon anything. As good as that sounds though, it is virtually impossible. We are dependant upon rain, oxygen and a whole lot of other stuff, so absolute freedom can never be obtained. We can't choose to stop breathing or eating o...<p></li><li>Sort of a loaded question.<br />Inasmuch as I associate human beings as automatically creatures that have free will, to me, whether or not you have to pay is irrelevant to whether or not you're free. Are you a person? If yes, then you're free, merely by virtue of this fact. If you are being forced to "pay" for your "freedom"...<p></li><li>Just ask Ego<br />Freedom is the power to determine action without restraint, interference, or regulation; but for many people the concept of freedom is neatly tucked into their self-worth and sense of being, which is a sadly problematic thing. Absolute freedom is an impossibility for society, for it is based o...<p></li><li>No<br />If we have to pay to be free then that is not freedom, it keeps us tied into something that we might not necessarily agree with. Some might say that we are freer than some other people in the world , but still we have to live under the bondage of tax to ensure our freedom! You don't pay your tax ...<p></li> Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:01:48 -0600 http://allphilosophy.com/topic/5876 Make your vote! Current opinions are:<ul><li>stupid question<br />what is the point of eating an apple if eventually it will be a core?<p></li><li>Happiness<br />Lot's of beautifull thoughts here, I'd just like to add that life is inevitable. That's, to me, both how and why we're here. If there's an afterlife or not is irrelevant; we all got a shot at it either way, be it in good or bad circumstances. At the end, in the highest grade of every esoteric ord...<p></li><li>Why does anything exist?<br />Good question. But take it a step further. Why does anything exist at all? Its almost enough to make you fall over. I can't begin to get my head around it really. Sure we can say there's no point, or God did it. There really is an infinite number of possibilities really. I know I kind of took the...<p></li><li>There is no point.<br />But you may as well enjoy it while you're here.<p></li><li>We live for chance, change, and a new way<br />Maybe we're a prototype. Maybe we are just here to show our creator that there can be creatures with self control, and temperence. On the other hand, what if we're just here to be here? What if there was no creator and we are only an accident? This could also be the answer. <p></li> Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:48:06 -0600 http://allphilosophy.com/topic/5874 Make your vote! Current opinions are:<ul><li>Nah<br />I agree with Noel. Intelligence would be the easiest to identify attribute, aside from physically existing. How in the world would aliens come here without technology beyond our own? A hive-mindset like Pete suggested would be purely instinctual, and something we could identify. If this hiv...<p></li><li>Difficult<br />I disagree with Noel, testing for intelligence will be difficult. If for example these aliens conducted their affairs as a eusocial society, as is the case for termites, it might be possible that whilst the individual unit being rather stupid, the actual society being of a far higher level of sop...<p></li><li>Intelligence = human-like intelligence<br />The kind of intelligent life people are looking for is human-like intelligence. We can see that dolphins and chimps and parrots etc. are intelligent, but we're looking for alien life we can communicate with and learn from. Testing for intelligence isn't particularly difficult.<p></li><li>they probably wont<br />wecan only recognize the consciouness of other humans<p></li> Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:43:00 -0600 http://allphilosophy.com/topic/5872 Make your vote! Current opinions are:<ul><li>Exactly<br />What we call the past can only be remembered Now-what we call the future, we should not contemplate so much, as it has not yet happened, but it can only be thought of Now. One of the best ways to be rooted completely completely in the Now and to take your thoughts away from all that useless menta...<p></li><li>I think Relativity disproves your theory.<br />I'm not sure if I understood you correctly, so tell me if I'm wrong. What you're arguing is that the nature of time is more like a stack of photographs, as opposed to a roll of film. If you look at a movie roll you have a long line of images, each one representing an even in time, and exist...<p></li><li>I think<br />its time to bring out the men who live in my closet. They told me that time isn't linear and that its all an illusion. We're all living at one moment, and not living through many as most people think.<p></li><li>Sounds New-Agey to me.<br />Could you offer any particular reason why anyone would think this way? At the moment, it just sounds like someone decided that this idea SOUNDED better, more poetic or something, and didn't really bother to consider if it were really true or not; theorizing something involves having a REASON to h...<p></li> Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:15:31 -0600 http://allphilosophy.com/topic/5870 Make your vote! Current opinions are:<ul><li>evil vs good<br /> There's a reason why the so called evils (as perceived by the human eye) lies where we see it. Whether or not we understand why it stands so firmly in its position and why it is indestructible is a different subject. The so-called evils are a product of nature's attempt at balancing two supernat...<p></li> Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:34:07 -0600 http://allphilosophy.com/topic/5868 Make your vote! Current opinions are:<ul><li>From Darkness To Light<br />I believe and individual who eventually finds his purpose in this physical plain known as Earth, will eventually and finally be at peace. One does not find his or her calling innately nor is it some family tradition. Along the long arduos path will he/she be beckoned to fulfill their true calling...<p></li> Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:26:51 -0600 http://allphilosophy.com/topic/5866 Make your vote! Current opinions are:<ul><li>On the Topic of a Non-Dimensional Point for 'Singularity'<br />The non-dimensional point that might contain all of a Universe that could expand is interesting to consider. A non-dimensional point might be many things regarding relationship to categories that could not be mentioned here within dimensions. There would still need to be some sort of transitio...<p></li><li>...About The One and Pre-Big Bang Universe<br />A pre-big bang vacuum without content is one concept that provides a lot to consider philosophically. It is reasonable to preclude in one model the idea of a perpetual recurrence/recursion of content--in order to consider the origin of strings,loops, branes time-finite virtual quanta and so forth...<p></li><li>Quantum Uncertainty as an Emanation of Virtual Particles<br />In the Universe before the big bang there is an imponderable vacuum in which Universes might have their start. A singularity before a big bang is just a very small bottleneck like that of an hourglass in which a collapsing black hole on the left has passed into a white hole of expansion on the ri...<p></li> Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:54:05 -0600 http://allphilosophy.com/topic/5864 Make your vote! Current opinions are:<ul><li>They don't fully know<br />They don't fully know or believe in their own religion, that's why they fear hell. And is this "them fearing hell" a proven thing besides some teenagers. If they are teens, they're probably scared because they become gullible to the adult world who tell them they would go to hell. <p></li><li>Another Idea<br />I think a great many of those people might ask out of curiosity as well. I'm not so much worried about hell as I am interested to see how many people think I'll end up there. That is probably because, well, discussion between religions has never been very clear, so, there's a great deal of curios...<p></li><li>The right religion?<br />Well, has anyone ever considered if the Wiccan religion is right? Or Buddhism, or whatever else. What religion is right?<p></li><li>Fakes<br />Wiccans do not practice Christian beliefs unless they include the Christian god into their religion along with the goddess. But for the people who think just doing a spell makes them wiccan they are sadly mistaken But for the most part the Christian god isn't apart of the Wiccan belief and neithe...<p></li><li>Mostly are people from my situation<br />They have found this perfect lifestyle that matches their personal beliefs, but the fear of what they were force-fed still lingers against their beliefs and wishes. I am not one of these, mind you, but I can see their point of view.<p></li><li>I've wondered about that.<br />I've often wondered this m'self. To me, if you're a real, genuine-article pagan/Wiccan, why on earth would you care if some other religion thinks you're going to hell? They might as well think you're going to Disneyland. I mean, so what? I'm a Christian and I could care less if some other religio...<p></li><li>Perhaps...<br />They are just wondering if others believe they are going to go to hell for such harmless beliefs. A way to gauge how ludicrous another is lol Or maybe they're pan-religious. Pagan beliefs, but also belief in a Heaven and Hell.<p></li><li>While.....<br />...many do, irrationally, worry about going to hell, I doubt it is the majority. Of course, by my point of view, anyone who worries about going to hell is delusional, but it does seem to be just a little bit more delusional to worry about it when it is not traditionally part of the belief syst...<p></li> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:23:04 -0600 http://allphilosophy.com/topic/5862 Make your vote! Current opinions are:<ul><li>Its Not Bad<br />Dying and death isn't bad. I often think that people throughout the ages have made death a bad thing...I cannot explain why but it seems to me that society has looked at dying as a taboo thing or as something evil and undesired. When really its a natural thing that deserves some thought. People f...<p></li><li>Imaginating<br />I read an article of that people fear the unimaginative death, for if we were to try to imagine death, we wouldn't be able to (for we don't know what exactly what it feels or looks like) and adding the fact that people fear the unknown.<p></li><li>Think about it<br />It makes sense to be upset by death (and it doesn't make sense not to) if you were actually emotionally connected to the person or thing that died, or if you care at all about any life besides your own. It's going to hurt because separation from a vital part of your life, is painful. To use a phy...<p></li><li>The Fountain<br />Best movie ever made. Death is the road to awe. The movie can be interpreted from many different religious viewpoints, namely buddhist, but my Christian interpretation is that death is the transition to the world beyond - while the characters accept they will get to be together forever in d...<p></li><li>It's not.<br />Death isn't something to be scared of but it's our fear of the unknown that makes it so.<p></li><li>attachments during transitions are painful<br />It's not death I fear, it is the hope to live. <p></li><li>Maybe<br />maybe its the fear that there's nothing after death.no god no heaven no hell nothing.<p></li><li>I don't know<br />If I think about it from a logical perspective, there isn't anything wrong with death. It's a natural occurence (unless of course otherwise) that's a part of being on the earth. However we all seem to have some weird emotional connection to death.. If someone we love dies, we're sad about it. Why...<p></li> Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:14:48 -0600 http://allphilosophy.com/topic/5860 Make your vote! Current opinions are:<ul><li>Well.<br />Reality is a word, and so is nature. Any Questions?<p></li><li>Well<br />Life and beauty for the people to enjoy but many people don't stop to actually enjoy the sceneary that is given to us to appreciate now a days everything os taken for granted and people really need to stop and smell the roses sometimes <p></li><li>Me and only me<br />Everything else is just a figment of my imagination, or is it the other way around? Am I the dreamer or the dreamed upon?!<p></li><li>Reality IS nature, IMO<br />However, "seen" and "unseen" seem to fall short. I would rather "obsevable" and "unobservable", the observable reality being everything we can observe and demonstrate and the unobservable reality being the hypothetical rest-of-reality that has no impact on us, and is redundant to mention when des...<p></li><li>reality<br />reality is all about quality and quantity<p></li> Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:58:16 -0600