• Should A Men's Rights Movement Exist?
    Oh, look, I found a mansplainer! How awesome that we have you to enlighten us on what ALL women want and feel. s/NKBJ

    Very very untrue,,,,I said look around and ask??? If you don't have a someone like that in your list, then hey welcome to the feminist club.....
  • Should A Men's Rights Movement Exist?
    First of all lots of love and respect to all the women out there in the world :)

    The Idea of feminism is pure bbbb... Why do the women think that they need a movement, what was the reason for creating a movement? Where they left out? No they weren't, to me most of the women will always feel that they are being treated the same as men or more than men, but the problem lies in politics...

    In God's eyes both gender are same and no one is superior but those who does good, sees good and says good..... Women in today's world are just as active participants as men.....Women are soft and of kind heart while men are somewhat excused from this principle, now there are things that need to be done in the current society that requires a strong mind and heart, am not saying that women doesn't have, but physically and physiologically they cannot all the time and over again and again.... and is proven numerous times by....and for that reason the men will be compensated differently for those jobs....

    Everything what we see around us in the current realm is pure political B.S. and nothing more.. Ask a women around you that has family and kids and a normal life, ask them of what they want? Of course they will want a nice and quite life not with all those troubles that men faces,,12 hours job,,,working night shifts,,,,doing weekend jobs,,,,and many more which were noted by several above me,,,,,
  • How should you define yourself???
    Are you talking about your soul being constant? or what part of you can be constant?

    If you believe that a part of you is constant then you should know of it, or if not then your mind is telling you that you being constant can be constant in a different period of time, which to me can be a vague idea....

    That being said mind can tell you anything, but the reality is different, and that's how or we can call the mind games which can be so vast that has no attachment to the reality....

    Does it make any sense?
  • How should you define yourself???
    Constant and being in such state is not a character of a human being but rather of God.....

    It will be easy to define yourself if you were in that state as all your characters would be the same as yourself. There would be no change from day 1 to the infinity....
    Although us humans do not have that quality or luxury, therefore to me every second of our lives will have a different definition...

    What I am after is how do we collectively define yourself with all these mix characters that we are facing through the change of time....
  • Why are most people unwilling to admit that they don't know if God does or does not exist?
    Dude,,,,,,there is nothing in your writings or ideas that makes sense, you are not standing on your own theories, do you think with your broken and unfinished theories you can think of what is philosophy or do you think you are actually doing philosophy.....

    You are just rephrasing your one word over and over and that's what is happening with most of the "..k" comments people. I thought you guys will be smart but in reality you guys are just a memory drive of unmeaning-full sentences....

    I was thinking and hoping that this forum will be somewhat useful, but now am seeing that most of us here are just doing gibberish and doesn't make any sense.

    Good luck with what you are after and what you will learn, for me its enough....
  • Why are most people unwilling to admit that they don't know if God does or does not exist?
    Dude,,,,,,there is nothing in your writings or ideas that makes sense, you are not standing on your own theories, do you think with your broken and unfinished theories you can think of what is philosophy or do you think you are actually doing philosophy.....

    You are just rephrasing your one word over and over and that's what is happening with most of the "..k" comments people. I thought you guys will be smart but in reality you guys are just a memory drive of unmeaning-full sentences....

    I was thinking and hoping that this forum will be somewhat useful, but now am seeing that most of us here are just doing gibberish and doesn't make any sense.

    Good luck with what you are after and what you will learn, for me its enough....
  • Why are most people unwilling to admit that they don't know if God does or does not exist?
    Thank you

    when we are talking about upbringings and the way we are thought in our life then we are totally overthrowing the idea of subjectivity and ones own mind and actions.... then that human being have no right to decide for himself or that's what you are telling me??, or yet let the weak to decide and express the idea for being a God there or not??? does it make any sense?

    such as upbringing, and such as indoctrinationS

    Now here we are drifting away...... or that's what it looks like to me, Nietzsche's idea doesn't provide an answer but rather his speculations and theory, I wouldn't call an answer to anything other than what we all believe to be the truth....... now what is the truth that has been discussed so many times....

    His ideas about strong and weak are understandable but not fully acceptable...and that they can be well adapted in the current society, on the other hand being poor and weak can also be very dangerous in itself which can then generate negative power,,,,but in itself it is power......

    He is talking more of a dimension that is of grasp to the human world and not about God, which is good but my questions is still pending in the air ???..... We cannot compare the actions of human vs God....God's action are based on the understanding of past, present and future where human cannot..... Does it make any sense at all???

    The reason for me going this deep is to understand the real need of a God from your perspective,,,do we look for a God when we are in need for something and weak and forget it when we are in power ??? Don't powerful need God as well when they have all the time and money in the world and when they cannot solve a problem???
  • Why are most people unwilling to admit that they don't know if God does or does not exist?
    Thanks for the clarification,

    You misunderstand.S
    That's how much my mind's processor can work with only two words :)

    psychologicalS

    I do understand the need of psychology for a superior being or thing or whatever you call it, when you are lacking it or in need for it.....

    I would ask for better health when I am in pain and for a good meal when I am hungry.... then why should I be asking for something when can not guarantee me anything.....the question is why should a weak be asking for God and not for being rich or being powerful?
  • Why are most people unwilling to admit that they don't know if God does or does not exist?
    The weak.S

    Why do you think the weak needs a savoir? And by the way how do you come to the understanding that God is there only for weak and poor, if that is the case then do you think are all weak, just and rich are unjust?

    The strong.S

    If the strong is not in need of one, then where did they get the idea of the God being powerful? Why do think at all that there is something powerful beyond their reach? Which is called God?
  • If the universe is infinite
    This is one of the reasons the universe is not infinite;Devans99

    How do you define infinite?
  • Why are most people unwilling to admit that they don't know if God does or does not exist?
    Ok, that is understandable, now if I may ask,

    Obviously not guessing....

    I prefer not to guess one way or the other.Frank Apisa

    Why do you think there is a need of God?
    I see no reason to suppose the existence of a GOD or gods is impossible...Frank Apisa

    And why do you think there is no need for a God?
    ...and I see no reason to suppose the existence of a GOD or gods is necessary.Frank Apisa

    Any am curious about the following idea?? How did you end up with this thought when you do not know if there is any God at all?

    There may be at least one god...there may be none.Frank Apisa


    And I wouldnt suggest tossing a coin on any thought no matter who and where they generate them from>>>>>
    If forced to make a guess (which for me would be a blind guess)...I would toss Mr. Coin...the coin my wife and I use to make decisions in our football pools when we are undecided.Frank Apisa
  • Why are most people unwilling to admit that they don't know if God does or does not exist?
    I appreciate your straight forwardness and I am with you on your "belief" that the existence of a god (s) cannot be thrown away, meaning there is something (s) or someone (s) that is in control of what is out of the human control and reach? agree??
  • The Meaning of Life
    Agree, the world with its ideas in place or going to be in placed are so vast that computers fail to full incorporate. Minds should not be used as memory drives as they have been used so far, instead use them as machines to enhance ones knowledge......
  • Why are most people unwilling to admit that they don't know if God does or does not exist?
    Guys, after reading almost all the notes, here is what i would suggest, start with simply putting one sentence or idea forward at a time, there is too much confusion in all your thoughts, this not called philosophy or thats what i know of philosophy.

    To me it should be understanding of an idea that one does understand or not understand by him/herself. Rather you guys are targeting each other simply if he or she cannot understand what he/she wrote, maybe he/she cannot explain properly and thats why academics suggest using shorter sentences.

    One's belief and understanding are two different things. Beliefs are pure subjective and needs of objective principles to make it stronger or at least stand at first place. If none here are able to provide those then you all should stop and discuss other topic. The longer you guys go forward with this the more you will get gibberish instead of philosophy...
  • There Are No Facts. Only Opinions. .
    This and many such incidents are the reason that many of us keep to ourselves, children and so alike are now engaging in talks beyond their reach of understanding and the dimension of their computer screens......which i am assuming not much........and that's how much they can view the world from>>>>>

    These forums are created so that all of us no matter who, what, where, how , when and so on can be engaged in a conversation that at least can put some lights on what they are after or can take it to others.....
  • Could God be Non-Material?
    God has dimension in his own terms and definition. Although us human beings cannot live with the idea of something that cannot be seen through our limited eyesight and knowledge doesn't exist thus we are trying to shape or picture him the way want and unfortunately we are not and will not be successful in it.

    Not long time ago we were thinking of only our solar system because that is what we could see but guessing on all other things that recently were discovered and yet our guess is multiplied by the dimension of what we have found. The more we found the more we will multiply our guess and to simply put it we are nearing the thought of infinity.
  • What can't you philosophize about?
    Many have given philosophy a dimension of nothing or as they would refer to it breathing the air or bla bla....or mmmm..mmmm..

    To me its love for knowledge and that you can philosophize the heck out of anything that you want to be knowledge-full about it....
  • The poor and Capitalism?
    All living creations have to earn for themselves in order to live, no matter of the size, gender or race and that is what we can all agree on. These earnings are different some work, some prey, some steal and so on.....Similarly in every society there are difference among its inhabitants in the way of living and style and of course how they get their income and so on... In an Utopia and so called sustainable society the way of life is tried to be balanced among its population.... People are encouraged to earn from a balanced way so that all can be somewhat equally benefited. Now of course this is a dream society, desired by all and yet to be achieved.....

    Now the main question is why are poor left poor and rich getting richer??? Or why there are many poor and fewer rich day by day.....So many good answers have been given here and all are in the context of a sustainable society. Each society defines poor by its own rules, such as one country's poor can be equal to a medium income family in another. All societies can not be brought under one definition but what can be brought is how to manage and control.... It is said that in a well balanced community rich contribute more to society other than they pay taxes. Why? Now many will disagree and justify their disagreement by saying that they have worked for it, yes they have but poor have worked much harder than what rich have worked for? You for example work for $30 for an hour in a chair with nice cloths on and on the other hand poor works for $8 for an hour in a much harsher environment.

    The more we keep this difference the more poor will be brought in to the society. The more their is this difference the more troubles we will face. Yes to manage this a good governance is required and unfortunately we are washing our hands of such governments on daily bases. It has become a race of survival rather a race for a better future. We have lost track of humanity and sanity long time ago. There are good suggestions among all these posts but despite they being good they will all be suggestions. Governments need to be stronger to survive and in this game of survival there is no place for week or poor. They are being used as fuel to run the so called economist engines of the rich.....
  • Why are most people unwilling to admit that they don't know if God does or does not exist?
    I hope that with my little knowledge I can put forward a few ideas about existence of God.

    1. In every corner of the world and since we can see more than our planet then in the far beyond as well there are works of order, law and purpose.
    2. Every such order and creation calls for an omniscient creator.

    Now every creation with the little knowledge they have can see around themselves and can come to understanding of what is going and similarly now these are proved scientifically as well such as:

    The planet that we live in and to its fullest extent and then its comparison to the solar system that we are in. The solar system being a part of the galaxy and that our galaxy of having more than 100 billions of stars and the sun being a star of it.

    On the other hand in this great universe the count of galaxies are unlimited and yet many had to be discovered and in fact most of them will not be discovered at all and the recent image released of Blackhole.....

    The Newton's theory of gravity is governed by all stars and in every planet there is the existence of these forces. As he has put it in his words "Don't doubt the creator, because it is inconceivable that accidents alone could be the controller of the Universe." Also he said "The more i study science the more I believe in God, This most beautiful system of the Sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being". Same goes for Einstein.....
  • The Meaning of Life
    Interesting to read and yes like me, you also need to work on your writting, but for those who are thinking about your language is just pure >>>>> you can fill in the gap with your own vocabulary.

    To me we shouldn't be pinned on a word rather get the idea of a sentence, if you are one of those who are looking for needles in haystack then, hey.....what can we do about that....

    To me there is much more meaning to life just to breath. Breathing and similarly others are just conditions. Living and being alive and life itself is knowledge, the more you have the better person you are and the less you have the more troubles you will face. Educating oneself is a good way to earn appreciation not only for yourself but for those who are interacting with you. We can all start discussions on things that we think are correct or have an idea about it, but topics like "Meaning of Life" will have 7 billions meaning or equal to the world population whatever that is now. If you ask a new born baby, he/she will have also a definition to the meaning of life if they could speak. But if you are answering the meaning of life with just its conditions then to me you are making the question more problematic.
  • What option do you have if you don't want to or can't deal with how difficult life is?
    Life and the world itself is a play. We all struggle no mater what. Don't think that the rich are not struggling, i am confident that they struggle way more than those who live on the streets. They have so much more problems than what you explained here. To me you are doing just great. You are lacking or have lost the inner peace. When you are always in such mood, just compare yourself with the people who have lesser than you, not those who have more than you, because you will not understand clearly those who have more and their situation but those who have less you can easily interact.

    Killing yourself is a sin and its not a solution for your problems. Changing a job will help you. Interact more with people in real life, stay away from forums such as these ones if you are not in a good mood.
  • How do/should we DO philosophy?
    What I have learned so far is that the only pure knowledge left in this world is Philosophy, this was well in place since the beginning of human race. I believe there is no such thing of how to do philosophy, cannot be brought into a book or order of teaching or educating oneself, but rather to listen, read and understand.
  • Is it self-contradictory to state 'there is no objective truth'?
    The universe itself is an objective truth, look around and you will see plenty, but for a person to understand them, he/she should first understand the purpose and being of him/her as an actual being and part of the universe. Subjective truth is always changeable, but objective is agreed upon. Many will still disagree to the ideas of the universe and subjective truth and so on and i guess that's why human's are generally in trouble. Does it make any sense?
  • Why do some members leave while others stay?
    So, I normally go on the internet looking for decent staff to write about, and sometimes i end up where i don't want to, so finally today i decided to find one place and be there for as long as i can keep up with. Now to your questions, many have explained it here, but most probably that there is a limit to everyone's mind and when they cross that then either they have to search more or get tired and leave. To me it is always fun to search for more. But yes some would find that too much for them and of-course we have to bring food on the table.
  • "Skeptics," Science, Spirituality and Religion
    Though I am new and yet I have to learn a ton of things in my life, but what i can simply say is that both sanity and insanity doesn't tie to a religion at all. Religions are way of how to live and of-course they are all good in themselves. Those who says that they are living without a religion is untrue. To me the human knowledge stands on Religion. Religions have come in different shapes and forms. All had their influences, some are remembered and some are forgotten. To me the general definition of Sanity is based on how do we perceive insanity. Insanity is derived from Sanity and vice versa.
  • Can we live without anger?
    Anger, is the same opposite side of Happiness, if you can control your happiness then i would say yes you can control your anger as well. Emotions are part of the human nature, or so , and i guess that's what the AI advances is always consider about. How can we distinguish a robot from a human being, emotions and that's it. So it will be damm hard to live without both of them. The best of us can be negative sometimes but despite all the negativity around us we can be peaceful as well. That will require a higher wisdom and knowledge about the world in general.