Philosophy: Love of Wisdom (446 hits)
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Submitted by <jka23.at.hotmail.com> (View user info) at 2003-08-25 22:48:59 EDT
I have a philosophy class at 9 in the morning. Promises to be fun. Except for the small fact that isn't Philosophy supposed to be just you and your thoughts? Evidently there are a bunch of rules for it and how you can do it. Which is pretty damn stupid for just thinking things out and figuring out the why behind stuff. And the other wierd thing is, the only time I'm creative is when someone, i.e. teacher is talking to me. Then all these ideas pop into my head and I write them down. Four notebooks filled in my senior year of high school. Thats four times 80 pages front and back.
Anyways, I thought of this concept. Bear with me, it has my logic stamped all over it, but I think it makes sense. It deals with God. Before you go all anti-religion just read.
God made Man in his image. Man evolves, so God should evolve. Well, back in the Dark Ages, the Church was a powerful influence on anyone's life. Most people back then believed in God and believed in heaven and hell. Most of the major wars then was fought over the issue of religion. But as man evolved, he stopped going to church.
Back then, going to heaven and going to hell were your two options. They served to keep people in check for the most part. I have read some books about this age and one issue that hasn't come up is a conscience. Why? I believe that people believed in God and didn't need one as they knew the consequences for their actions.
Fast Forward to the 21st century. Man has disproved God in many ways. I think that God evolved into each and everyone's conscience. That solves being everywhere at once and knowing everything too. So if god evolved into man's conscience, the devil came too. Hence the Angel and the Devil on opposite shoulders. So as much as we reject God, we still have a conscience and follow that most of the time. And our conscience would be the evolved form of God.
Its still rough. But I think it has value.
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Submitted by LazyFatAss (user info) at 2003-08-26 10:28:37 EDT (#)
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If you tried a philosophy like that in class, they would just tear it apart. I can tell you have never taken a philosophy class or read much on it. There are many logical fallicys and things you haven't considered in your theory.
Submitted by Razor (user info) at 2003-08-26 10:17:13 EDT (#)
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Philosophy is not crap, bart I think was being sarcastic about the classes, I really don't know, but anyway everyone has their own personal philosophy and you live by it whether you acknowledge it or not, so you might as well have a well organized one that's based on reason rather than a hodgepodge of what your parents taught you and what happened to you over the course of your life.
THe original post made no sense by the way.
Submitted by Hugeos (user info) at 2003-08-26 08:33:20 EDT (#)
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God evolved?
Surely not. If he is omnipoent, omniscient and omniwhatever else, then evolution is not possible, ie. evolution implies development. God does not develop as he is existent as an all-powerful, all-existent being.
Philosophy class? At 9? Dude, I *hope* that's p.m.
Submitted by jwlmar10 (user info) at 2003-08-26 08:16:18 EDT (#)
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Haha, so true.
Submitted by bart (user info) at 2003-08-26 01:43:54 EDT (#)
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Philosophy is crap, but philosophy classes are awesome. As long as you can babble enough to fill up a five page paper, you'll probably get an A.
Isn't the most charming philosophical technique to question what you yourself are saying? No, the most charming technique is to contradict yourself from one sentence to the next. Even better, provide a logical sounding three step argument so vague that any possible interpretation can be claimed as your intention.
Whatever you do, just make sure to end your paper with one fairly complex statement followed by a final sentence that trivializes your entire argument by wrapping thousands of years of intellectual progress into a brief but memorable five word catch phrase. After all, philosophy is crap.
Submitted by Slovin (user info) at 2003-08-26 01:41:29 EDT (#)
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Your philosophy was botched by the presupposition that there is a god. That's a philosophy in its own right, at least make some attempt to prove it next time.
Submitted by gbusman (user info) at 2003-08-26 01:12:59 EDT (#)
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Not completely moronic, but close.
-Bus
Submitted by etruscan (user info) at 2003-08-26 01:12:32 EDT (#)
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this sucks.........................................and when I say it sucks, i mean it sucks really bad.
Submitted by jwlmar10 (user info) at 2003-08-26 01:00:04 EDT (#)
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Philosophy is crap. I just had my first class today and here was some reasoning my professor used: "Almost everyone believes in God. Therefore God must be real or human reasoning can never be trusted since his existence is so widely accepted." I wanted to smack someone for this circular garbage.
Submitted by Can_Always_Trust_A_Liar (user info) at 2003-08-26 00:51:49 EDT (#)
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those are some insghtful observations there. i may not agree with ALL of them, but thought provoking none the less.