Philosophy For Us Dummies

[MagsJ]

mags--I cant believe all the silly shit being posted including my stuff

Perhaps we need to eliminate the silly thoughts in order for the profound ones to rise to the surface of the mind and be viable?

[turtle]

mags--I cant believe all the silly shit being posted including my stuff

Perhaps we need to eliminate the silly thoughts in order for the profound ones to rise to the surface of the mind and be viable?

yes mags...please dummies pay attention to my profound thoughts on GOD=NATURE and levs atheist thread....I have found a way to bridge the gap between theist and atheist...take a look and please comment

[turtle]

mags--I cant believe all the silly shit being posted including my stuff

Perhaps we need to eliminate the silly thoughts in order for the profound ones to rise to the surface of the mind and be viable?

yes mags...please dummies pay attention to my profound thoughts on GOD=NATURE and levs atheist thread....I have found a way to bridge the gap between theist and atheist...take a look and please comment

there is the person god and the nature god and they are the same but the atheist-theist debate rages on....there is a lot of ignorance...

[turtle]

yes mags...please dummies pay attention to my profound thoughts on GOD=NATURE and levs atheist thread....I have found a way to bridge the gap between theist and atheist...take a look and please comment[/quote]

there is the person god and the nature god and they are the same but the atheist-theist debate rages on....there is a lot of ignorance...[/quote]
the person god is something that people want and need...it is only in their minds....it is a part of human nature

[Arminius]

Perhaps we need to eliminate the silly thoughts in order for the profound ones to rise to the surface of the mind and be viable?

Or you should get a new brainteaser?

Do you remember the first brainteaser I posted in the thread "Post a picture of yourself"?

I will soon start a new brainteaser for you.

Are you ready, Mags?

[Arminius]

All other members of this forum are invited too.

[MagsJ]

Perhaps we need to eliminate the silly thoughts in order for the profound ones to rise to the surface of the mind and be viable?

Or you should get a new brainteaser?

Do you remember the first brainteaser I posted in the thread "Post a picture of yourself"?

I will soon start a new brainteaser for you.

Are you ready, Mags?

Great advertising you've been doing there Arminus... are you sure you don't work in thqat industry?

[Arminius]

Great advertising you've been doing there Arminus... are you sure you don't work in thqat industry?

Yes, I am sure that I don't work in such an industry. I get no money for it - yet.

[turtle]

I will admit to being one of the dummies......
Let us start-------
1. How did matter and energy come about?? please define the words how, did, matter,and, energy, come, about.

2. How did life originate???

3. What the fuck is it all about?????

us dummies need to update...

[Fixed Cross]

1. How did matter and energy come about??

Because nothing was there to stop them.

2. How did life originate???

Idem

3. What the fuck is it all about?????

Everything. Whatever anyone finds it to be about.

[turtle]

1. How did matter and energy come about?? [/quote]
Because nothing was there to stop them.

what does that mean....help me

[Ierrellus]

I find few places left to post. Atheists, who seem to rule here, are just as literal as are the fundies they attack. But they just don't attack fundies, they attack anything seen as spiritual.
On the big qestion--How did it all begin (matter, etc.)? One can say God did it, that is was God. But that is an opinion. Atheists will counter it by assuming that what came into being has no need of a creator/sustainer.

[turtle]

I find few places left to post. Atheists, who seem to rule here, are just as literal as are the fundies they attack. But they just don't attack fundies, they attack anything seen as spiritual.
On the big qestion--How did it all begin (matter, etc.)? One can say God did it, that is was God. But that is an opinion. Atheists will counter it by assuming that what came into being has no need of a creator/sustainer.

maybe we don't know shit....maybe that is what felix is talking about on the existential commit thread....idk

[Orbie]

this is beyond belief, god doesn't exist nor does he not exist. existence is not a quality shared by god, it is only essence. this is scholastic stuff. i think the scholastics were right in the tripartite division of existence, essence, and being.

does an idea 'exist'? of course it does, does an idea expressed as a word 'exist'? similarly, yes.
why come up with ideas? how? what's behind them? surely an idea is as real as the stuff behind them. god has a background. it has been generated from some thing(s), and thought itself is as a composite of those things , is like wise some thing. a thing is nothing more than the idea of that thing. and the absolute reduction of those things, or those two things, is not absurd, it has a genesis. in the beginning, was the word. before the word, nothing existed, at least nothing which could be thought about.

that absolute, is the god, the word, the idea and the love for it.

how can an absolute reduction generate love? by virtue of the reduction, where the surplus meaning is ever slowly cast out, toward those who have come to come up with the idea. love is=to compassion to those forerunners. it is a sort of repayment to those to whom the idea came, and became constructed by the passage of time.

[turtle]

us dummies....I am watching the forums closely.....there is a lot of anger and hatred......

[Ierrellus]

"I can smell a rotten egg without being able to lay a fresh one."--Walter Kaufmann. So try to avoid the rotten eggs. Nothing you can say or do will make them fresh again.
The anger here is usually, "You are not I".

[turtle]

"I can smell a rotten egg without being able to lay a fresh one."--Walter Kaufmann. So try to avoid the rotten eggs. Nothing you can say or do will make them fresh again.
The anger here is usually, "You are not I".

us dummies are right on top of that shit...

[Ierrellus]

"I can smell a rotten egg without being able to lay a fresh one."--Walter Kaufmann. So try to avoid the rotten eggs. Nothing you can say or do will make them fresh again.
The anger here is usually, "You are not I".

us dummies are right on top of that shit...

We are?

[turtle]

"I can smell a rotten egg without being able to lay a fresh one."--Walter Kaufmann. So try to avoid the rotten eggs. Nothing you can say or do will make them fresh again.
The anger here is usually, "You are not I".

us dummies are right on top of that shit...

We are?

on to something more positive.....why is there so much unhappiness on ilp...and in the world...why do we take so many pills....

[Arcturus Descending]

us dummies....I am watching the forums closely.....there is a lot of anger and hatred......

...and did you just dispel it, turtle?

[Arcturus Descending]

on to something more positive.....why is there so much unhappiness on ilp...and in the world...why do we take so many pills....

That's really not a positive statement you just made here there, turtle.
But perhaps one of the reasons is because we seek more happiness than we need to.
Another is because we haven't found something in our life that is so capable of turning us onto life - a raison de etre, so to speak, something to inspire our curiousity to give rise to the human spirit.
That doesn't discount clinical depression of course.
Those who takes pill do so because they feel they will work and for some they are needed and do work up to a point.
For the rest who take them it's a lazy shortcut into life - and death too I think.

[turtle]

us dummies....I am watching the forums closely.....there is a lot of anger and hatred......

...and did you just dispel it, turtle?

no...it is always there....it goes away if you don't relate with them...us kind dummies are still there...

[turtle]

this clinical depression thing is causing problems....it makes it sound like everyone has a disease that needs an anti-depressant....most of the problems are associated with the unhealthy lives people are leading...you are right about our expectations....we are digging an ever deeper addiction hole...

[Orbie]

this clinical depression thing is causing problems....it makes it sound like everyone has a disease that needs an anti-depressant....most of the problems are associated with the unhealthy lives people are leading...you are right about our expectations....we are digging an ever deeper addiction hole...

Because, symptoms are being treated. It's long past, when the causes were still optimistically treated, and reasons could be found for the symptoms. The word 'analyst', nowadays is more likely to be associated with a business, or a technical problem then with the psyche. The deconstruction of the psyche has replaced the ability to understand it or cure it. Technicians are more likely to approach this understanding, with devices, drugs then trying to evaluate who is responsible for what went wrong, the patient or society. Current view in this is inconclusive , divided, or inconsequential.

[Arcturus Descending]

obe,

Because, symptoms are being treated. It's long past, when the causes were still optimistically treated, and reasons could be found for the symptoms. The word 'analyst', nowadays is more likely to be associated with a business, or a technical problem then with the psyche. The deconstruction of the psyche has replaced the ability to understand it or cure it. Technicians are more likely to approach this understanding, with devices, drugs then trying to evaluate who is responsible for what went wrong, the patient or society. Current view in this is inconclusive , divided, or inconsequential.

I don't think it's such an easy thing to evaluate who is responsible for what went wrong -- laying blame -- I suppose that there is enough to go around for many in the field, and besides, doesn't that kind of remove the focus from what is the most important thing - the best treatment for the particular person - drugs or a combination of drugs and therapy or just plain therapy. It's not so easy is it?