Tag: philosophy
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June 23, 2008 09:42 AM EDT --
"People who dance are considered insane by those who can't hear the music." ~ George Carlin
Were YOU among those who listened? . . .
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May 11, 2007 06:54 PM EDT --
**All quoted information from "The Experience of Philosophy" by Daniel Kolak and Raymond Martin. Additional information is from class notes, discussion and interpretation.**
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July 10, 2008 02:34 PM EDT --
Is searching for joy in tragedy a bad thing?
A question I read a few minutes ago. What do you think? Is it okay to search for joy or fun in tragedy?
At first I thought it's definitely fine to . . .
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August 04, 2007 11:05 AM EDT --
Name one thing you regret doing in your life or wish you had done differently.
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September 13, 2007 01:28 PM EDT --
I am going to go with Imagine by John Lennon.
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September 18, 2007 10:46 PM EDT --
Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body---but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "...holy s***...what a ride!"
Don't let . . .
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November 12, 2007 06:26 PM EST --
I can honestly say that I have no regrets. I don't even believe in regrets. I think they are just life lessons. Some may be mistakes, but how can you grow as a person and become . . .
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November 16, 2007 08:00 AM EST --
attitude:
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks . . .
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June 08, 2008 01:26 PM EDT --
"Do you know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?" -- 1 Corinthians 3:16
In the Bible, we are told many times by Jesus and by Paul that the kingdom . . .
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June 20, 2008 03:43 PM EDT --
"The most solid advice. . for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat and when you sleep, really sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, . . .
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September 12, 2008 11:55 AM EDT --
Cogito ergo sum.
Rene Descartes originally wrote, "Je pense donc je suis" in his native French in Discourse on Method (1637). He later uses a Latin version including "Cogito . . .
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October 27, 2008 08:27 AM EDT --
Today my grandmother, whom we affectionately call Nana, turns 100 years old.
Nana has led a long and interesting life. Originally from the Azores (the Portuguese islands off the northern . . .
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May 06, 2007 02:06 PM EDT --
We are a civilized society.
As such, we have natural disagreements from time to time. To stimulate more thought provoking debate . . . is the death penalty just?
The Bible . . .
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January 05, 2009 09:05 PM EST --
Although this is not an original thought on my part, until someone else claims it, I hereby take possession.
Women may want all kinds of things but all we really need are three good bras and one . . .
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January 07, 2009 12:21 AM EST --
Thought~Byte No. 29
Concept and words by John Philipp. Drawings by Phil Frank.
(The comments are where the wisdom is found.)
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May 19, 2007 01:44 AM EDT --
I exhale and the journey begins in the fibers of my roots my being starts to rise like a mighty nation formed from a single thought.
As I lay and look to the mighty nebulas I am taken to the beginning . . .
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March 05, 2008 01:09 PM EST --
Thich Nhat Hanh said this:
People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every . . .
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June 30, 2008 09:22 PM EDT --
I have read a lot of philosophy and self-help books and books about various religions. Well, let's face it, I've read a lot of anything that could be enclosed on pages with the use of some sort . . .
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July 11, 2008 09:58 AM EDT --
Is it so bad to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood,
and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and
Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To . . .
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July 15, 2008 09:12 PM EDT --
I believe
I just want to believe
So I Believe.
What else is there, everybody believes?
I can believe anything that I want to believe.
I'm not fake, I have common sense
And . . .
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