Arts & Humanities: Philosophy: “Question: Why Muslims are so stupid that they always fall pray to us westerners conspiracy?” plus 5 more |
- Question: Why Muslims are so stupid that they always fall pray to us westerners conspiracy?
- Question: What is Time?
- Question: What are feelings for? What do they tell us?
- Question: Is genuine philosophy metaphysical, logical, ethical, or what?
- Question: How does one deal with incessant boredom?
- Question: Which is worse, doing the right thing for the wrong reasons, or doing the wrong thing for the right reasons?
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| Question: What are feelings for? What do they tell us? Posted: 28 Mar 2015 08:20 AM PDT Feelings link us into situations and relationships. They are a primitive animal "language" to aid our survival as a species. They can be good - do this more, or bad - avoid doing this again. They tell us who can help us, and who or what can damage us. They can also signify a change in the security of our situation. Our intellect can over ride our feelings which leads to stress. |
| Question: Is genuine philosophy metaphysical, logical, ethical, or what? Posted: 28 Mar 2015 07:27 AM PDT Philosophy is "exploratory". It's an exploration of ideas that interest a philosopher. Your list is one of thoughts ABOUT philosophy - not philosophy itself. Philosophy isn't confined like that. A philosopher has no regard for the boundaries others would try to put around his interests or his work. He walks right through them. Philosophy knows no bounds. Nothing is off limits. There is no "out of bounds". Those who can, explore. Those who can't...well...they pretty much just go about criticizing or thinking they've figured out and nailed down those who can. Thoughts ABOUT philosophy aren't philosophy. They have nothing whatsoever to do with one another. You can think your own thoughts and embark on your own exploration or you can just suck up and regurgitate what those who do that say about what they're finding. You can't do both. |
| Question: How does one deal with incessant boredom? Posted: 28 Mar 2015 02:35 AM PDT Once in a while, it is cleansing to feel a really strong feeling. Life might provide this in the form of a near-miss on the road, or getting your feelings hurt and crying or being startled. But if that hasn't happened recently enough, you can learn ways to manufacture some cleansing feeling. For me, smushing my toes in sand gives me a happy nostalgic feeling, because I vacationed at the beach as a child nearly every summer. What was something in your childhood that consistently made you happy? All you need is to remind ONE of your senses (smell, a sound, holding a particular object or toy in your hands) and part of that feeling might come back to visit you. Get silly with somebody. Got any kids in your life? Sugar em up and play for a few hours, they can help you find your silly. Phone or visit a sibling or best friend from childhood and reminisce, if that might help. Put ice down the back of your best friend's shirt and then run away when they try to get you back. or whatever. One good belly laugh can clear a surprising amount of debris out of the soul. Try doing something creative. Painting is a very satisfying feeling for me, even if there is no talent involved. Coloring with name brand crayons is also satisfying, and costs less to get started with. Or cut shapes of colored paper with scissors and arrange them and glue them onto another paper to make a design. Look at something beautiful. I like sculptures, and certain buildings, but hardly anything is more beautiful than looking up at the sky through tree leaves. Even bare branches against the sky is beautiful. Heck, ANYTHING about looking at the sky...clouds, or clear and look at the moon. Try music and dancing. I enjoy jamming it up dancing around my living room. Or again, think back to the kind of thing you liked sometimes as a kid. Have you ever layed upside down on a chair and looked at the room like your ceiling was the floor? You know, just something easy and fun, to clear out whatever stress is blocking you, making it hard for you to feel. Find it. |
| Posted: 28 Mar 2015 12:11 AM PDT In most cases, and in my experience, doing the right thing for the wrong reasons is usually worse than doing the wrong thing for the right reasons. But of course the real quandary is in determining just what is right and wrong, and why. Our cultures and societies convince us of what is right or wrong, under threat of neglect, isolation, even death. I don't believe there is a universal "right" and "wrong", although there is most certainly a subjective (even by the standards of whole societies) "right" and "wrong". |
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