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Everybody loves philosophy so, if you have a good philosophical statement for us all to ponder post it here. e.g. “If a tree falls in a forest, but nobody is there to hear it does is make a noise?” |
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A version of Euclid's paradox: The following statement is true. The previous statement is false. |
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philosophy is ok, but sometimes it just seems to stupid to question every damn thing... |
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Doesn't it seem stupider not to? Ignorance is bliss they say |
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Yeah i suppose, but some of the sayings are jsut funny like korbens one. |
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but why question EVERYTHING?!?!? I know what is reality, so why do I need to think about why it's real, or who decides it's real, or whatever? It's fucking real, and I know that!! I just accept it... to question everything is just a waste of time... you're not ignorant if you don't question everything... that's just paranoia I think... |
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Paranoia we philospohers arn't paranoid...gtg sombody is outside wanting to get me..... |
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I question why you want to question why people would question everything!? |
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You know funk, dismissal is kind of a weak form of argument, for a philosopher anyway .. |
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Korben New Zealand hey...i can't beleive u guys beat us in soccer....i am so ashamed to be Australian. |
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hahahaha "philosophy is ok" no offense but i found that sentence hilarious. hmmm philosophy, philosphy ooo! dick made me think of something! just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you |
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"If you are not good at something straight away, give up" |
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Well you know ... with the world cup n all .. NZ is trying to get on that band wagon also. There is talk of NZ in the such and such a world cup etc. Where's portland? |
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"God is dead" - Zarathustra |
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Australia - Victoria |
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Dick.#7 Cool cool .. what keeps you busy. "Language is the house of being" - Heidegger (i think) |
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What keeps me busy....yr 12 actually the final year but on holidays go back to school on Monday which should be fun |
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fair enough :) enjoy the rest of yer hols. i'm going to hop off the line. |
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"when your conscience is well trained, it kisses you and bites you in the same time" — nietzsche "the one who thinks he hates himself still respects himself as somebody who hates" — nietzsche (very poorly translated, sorry...) |
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"Is the glass half full or half empty?" Also used to work out if you are a pesamist or an optamist |
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Although it could be argued if the glass had just been filled - it would be referred to as half full, and if its just been (half emptied) - half empty. "I'm afraid god is not entirely dead as we still have faith in grammar" - Nietzsche |
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philosophy is a good thing even... but all I'm saying is that sometimes it seems stupid and pointless... |
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Cool cool :) "all we have is our opinions" |
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ok... i know im gonna butcher this but here it goes has anyone heard of the thing, where if you have a cat in a box, with a vile of posion that has a 50/50 chance of breaking open and killing the cat, and if you never open open the box to see... then the cat is both alive and dead at the same time... |
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Ok .. so why put the cat in the box in the first place? I'm not sure I'm getting what you're getting at? |
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Or if you could say, as long as the box is closed there is no cat. As soon as you open it, there might be a live or dead cat inside it (some Berkely for ya). |
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yeah, i knew this would be bad... hehe like, in theory... if a cat was in a box with posion, that had a 50/50 chance of killing the cat... unless we opened the box, the cat is both alive and dead at the same time. its not a matter of why the cats in the box, but has to do with relativity and stuff... ? hehe |
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who is the more foolish: the fool or the fool that follows him old, wise ob1 :) |
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amen brotha! |
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the potential for it being alive or dead are the same - so i guess in that sense yes. that's cool. i know - why the cat is in there is not the point, as with most philosophical scenarios (what if the tree didn't fall?). Hey, i didn't manage to d/l yer trax yet .. d/l kept stuffing up. will give it another try sometime soon. |
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"if you cant beat them, use bio-warfare." |
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"The only difference between me and the madmen is that I"M NOT MAD" - salvador dali (along those lines) |
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The cat thing is a thought experiment designed by Edwin Schroedinger (sp?). It has to do with quantum mechanics, actually, not relativity. He proposed it to show the absurdity of what was then the most widely accepted model of quantum mechanics--namely, the Copenhagen interpretation. Has to do with wave-particle duality, Heisenburg's Uncertainty Principle and non-locality, which Einstein referred to as "spooky action at a distance". Quite interesting stuff. |
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hmm, sounds interesting... at least I think it would if i could understand it. :) |
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It is. And if you're at all interested in learning more I suggest two books by the author/physicist John Gribbon: In Search of Schroedinger's Cat and Schroedinger's Kittens. |
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I went and saw the play Copenhagen last year (forget who by), but it was all about Bohr, and such .. intertwined with WWII and all the implications etc of stuff. :) But yeah, quantum stuff is wicked .. cool i reckon. |
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the past of the past is the future? |
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Nobody "knows" anything so philosophy is pointless IMO |
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^ We can't even KNOW that .. hence philosophy? |
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