The Philosophy thread
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I think therefore I am, that is why I exist. I don't know, philosophy is strenuous on my brain. I'm here but what if my reality is part of someone else's imagination? What if humans exist for no reason? Maybe we exist because we can (my current theory) or maybe we exist to fulfil some niche. Does existence come with responsibility? Oh it goes on & on & on
More to the point, do you exist and if you do, why should I care? What's the point of you existing?
The glass may be half empty or half full, I can't tell because it is in a box along with a cat and a radioactive decay-activated poison which has a 50% chance of activating. As such, the cat has entered a state of both living and dead and the glass is much the same.
I exist because someone up there likes me, that's the only reason I can think of. I don't know why, though, alls I do is play Okami and watch Shaun of the Dead all day...
I exist because someone up there likes me, that's the only reason I can think of. I don't know why, though, alls I do is play Okami and watch Shaun of the Dead all day...
fullmetalangel said:
But you can't prove to me that YOU'RE aware of yourself. For all i know the post of yours was conjured by my repressed thought form wave functions collapsing into matter. The more we learn of quantum mechanics, the more likely these theories are.
For instance, we now "know" that everything is simply vibrating energy, wave forms, yet we don't see it as such. How "aware" are you, really?
anyone else familiar with Kant's work?
Schroedinger's cat? While it can be looked at as being both alive and dead, technically it is either or. An interesting thought experiment, but dated. Also, the glass can't die...Labyrinth said:
By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher. - Socrates
Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
Who was very rarely stable.
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
Who could think you under the table.
David Hume could out-consume
Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel,
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel.
There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya'
'Bout the raising of the wrist.
SOCRATES, HIMSELF, WAS PERMANENTLY PISSED...
John Stuart Mill, of his own free will,
On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill.
Plato, they say, could stick it away;
Half a crate of whiskey every day.
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle,
Hobbes was fond of his dram,
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart: "I drink, therefore I am"
Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed;
A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he's pissed!