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  • Existence is relative, not absolute.
    ↪Terrapin Station
    Your subjective experience is sound. Plain and simple.
  • Existence is relative, not absolute.
    No, that is sound. — Terrapin Station
    Based on what else, other than a consolidation through interpretation?
  • Existence is relative, not absolute.
    ↪Terrapin Station
    That's the thing though. That's not sound. That's what you interpret as sound. Just like how you interpret a bunch of pixels as a picture.
  • Existence is relative, not absolute.
    ↪Terrapin Station
    Because sound is relative to the observer - otherwise it's just vibrations.
  • Existence is relative, not absolute.
    ↪Terrapin Station
    It produces sound, but the sound is inaudible.
    So, is it silent?
  • Existence is relative, not absolute.
    ↪Terrapin Station
    Does a falling feather produce noise - is it silent?
  • A way to prove philosophically that we are smart enough to understand a vision of any complexity?
    Can specifically human mind understand the intentions of another abstract mind of unlimited thinking power, given human gets enough time? — IuriiVovchenko
    Maybe.
  • The Weird Metaphysics of Censorship
    interact with an ad — praxis
    There we go. :up:
  • Existence is relative, not absolute.
    ↪Terrapin Station
    To be clear, are you saying it wouldn't be silent in the same way a feather wouldn't be silent?
  • Should hate speech be allowed ?
    Don’t let the sophist’s casuistry convince you that you can be arrested without committing a crime. That’s arbitrary arrest. — NOS4A2
    Consider that you find yourself amongst a crowd of protesters. You're not one, but are detained anyway for interrogation, simply due to being in the wrong place at the wrong time - coming home from school.

    This has happened. Where is the crime?
  • Existential Depression and Compassion.
    ↪Wallows
    I didn't mean you in particular, but people in general.

    Simply, you are your world. It is what you see, hear, feel and so on. So if there is so much more and better, why reduce it all to a depression - a hole - a grave?
  • Existential Depression and Compassion.
    Depression is in due to impatience; you want it now, but it takes time and so you slouch in dissatisfied boredom, and give up. And once you stand under for a bit, it'll sink in and you'll understand.

    You're rushing through life, shakingly focused - barely making out some certain end and with all your attention - panic. Everything else suddenly appears to lose meaning, though it's just you ignoring it in favour of some distant noise that reverberates through you.

    It's a whole lot of tension for nothing, precisely because you try to rush through rather than float by.
    A blurry mess and beyond it, life.

    And compassion? That's just patience.
  • Is democracy a tool or a goal unto itself?
    I won't be taking any flights, going to the doctor, or engaging pretty much anyone's services,in your world. — Janus
    Do you mean that in regard to the possible inconsistency in working hours?
  • Spinoza's metaphysical nihilism
    In its normal use, the meaning of the verb "exist" implies that illusions do not exist. — bobobor
    What illusions imply are deception and deception is achieved through selective information i.e limited perception. For instance a bottle of vodka actually full of water; you won't know at first glance.

    So, that in tow - how does 'exist' imply that illusions do not exist? Maybe you're implying they don't exist in the sense of being misleading from the whole picture, but then 'exist' wouldn't be the right word.

    Substance is aspatial and atemporal. — bobobor
    That's a problem. If there is no space, where's the substance? That's considering that the substance itself comprises its own space or space of self.
    If it's atemporal that could be in due to covering all timeframes, with the inability to shift between them; so it would be temporal but incapable of fluctuation.

    What do you think?

    Being infinite, it cannot have finite parts, and being indivisible, it cannot be measured. — bobobor
    I'm not sure how he arrived at that conclusion, but it doesn't really follow.

    Take it as you may, but even infinity is divisible and spells out 'in finity'.
  • Giving everyone back their land
    Do you believe that some countries are illegitimate in that they took someone's land with out permission? — Purple Pond
    Some countries were forcibly made up by splitting an existing country in order to weaken it and ultimately destroy.

    And today the denizens of these countries, stubborn donkeys that they are, refuse to acknowledge this and continue on pretending.

    History repeats itself, I guess.
  • Spinoza's metaphysical nihilism
    It also means, that the everyday world as perceived by the senses - including all the finite moods - is an illusion. Save for the one and only substance, Spinoza is a metaphysical nihilist. — bobobor
    How does this infer nihilism?
    There's nothing that says that the purported illusion doesn't have a purpose.
  • Should hate speech be allowed ?
    ↪NOS4A2
    You could be detained as a suspect and suspect doesn't necessarily mean perpetrator.
  • What triggers Hate? Do you embrace it?
    ↪Swan
    All your posts thus far are biased and spiteful in regard to something.
    Time to face the music.
  • Existence is relative, not absolute.
    ↪Terrapin Station
    Or the tree could be very far away.
  • Existence is relative, not absolute.
    ↪Terrapin Station
    They could be.
  • Attitudes
    ↪Wallows
    They're angles. Latitude and longitude.

    That in tow, propositions in regard to certain attitudes aren't about the correct attitude but a working method; matching angles to compose a flat and/or straight path.

    How's the method of wallowing working for you?
  • Existence is relative, not absolute.
    There are no unobserved' silent falling trees in the forest — fresco
    Are you observing the silent falling trees in Iraq, right now?
  • Study: Nearly four-fifths of ‘gender minority’ students have mental health issues
    Now if it is sometimes argued gender is different from sex, this leaves additional question marks as to categories. — Fine Doubter
    It is. You can be a masculine woman i.e tomboy and/or an effeminate man i.e bobcat.
  • Would there be a God-like "sensation" in the absence of God or religion? How is this to be explained
    My own notion is that early hunter-gatherer peoples got the idea that a pre-enactment of a hunt would help the real one, giving rise to the concept of a magic ritual. — iolo
    You're off course.
    Magic has to do with calculus.
  • What has philosophy taught you?
    ↪Wayfarer
    That's a stretch.
  • "A door without a knob is a wall..." Thoughts?
    A rabbi is teaching math and asks his student:
    - Moses, how much is 2 + 2?
    - 2 + 2 makes four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten... - answers Moses.
    - Wait, wait, wait! Now, you remember this from me - 2 + 2 makes four, five, six, seven at maximum!
    Eight, nine and ten in the Armenian school, next door.
  • What has philosophy taught you?
    Interesting fact: the name ‘Jupiter’ is descended from an indo-European compound name ‘dyaus-pitar’ meaning literally ‘Sky Father’. — Wayfarer
    Are you sure?
  • What triggers Hate? Do you embrace it?
    ↪Swan
    You're biased against bias, not immune. So your own statement works against you.

    Not a good start.
  • Drops of Gratitude
    I am grateful to die.
  • This has nothing to do with Philosophy sorry, but how old are you guys?
    ↪Fine Doubter
    What have you seen?
  • Wiser Words Have Never Been Spoken
    ↪PhilCF
    You pedantically whine about pedantry. Please stop.
  • Wiser Words Have Never Been Spoken
    This forum is impossible... it's a load of guys trying to be more pedantic than the next. — PhilCF
    And your closing sentence is completely wrong. — PhilCF
    In to the closet of irony I lay these bones.
  • The meaning of life and how to attain it
    ↪PhilCF
    You're a religious text, major?
  • Socrates Vs Aristotle... Who Was The Better Man?
    Thumb through Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics and then give me the name of a Philosopher who did it better. — PhilCF
    Perhaps you mean 'championed' ethics? — Shamshir

    Really?

    It doesn't make any difference what word you use. — PhilCF
    Then why not rewrite your title in to 'Who was the bigger shoehorn'?
  • In pursuit of happiness.
    I've been down this path. It mainly starts with believing that happiness is supremely good, and needs to be attained over all else. — Wallows
    Happiness doesn't need to be attained, but savoured.

    The pursuit of happiness over all, denies happiness - as the pursuit of victory over all denies enjoyment from playing.
  • What has philosophy taught you?
    having wasted my high school years on electric guitar — Wayfarer
    If you still play, do you still go for electric or acoustic?
  • The meaning of life and how to attain it
    Every single major religious text that is not interpreted by man confirms it. — PhilCF
    Could you supply a quote of this confirmation?
  • Socrates Vs Aristotle... Who Was The Better Man?
    ↪PhilCF
    He certainly wasn't - not even amongst the Greeks. Hippocrates who precedes Aristotle had installed a certain code of ethics for physicians to uphold - a code which he took from the neighbouring tribe of Traks.

    So ethics were certainly a subject of thought and discourse long before Aristotle.

    That said, will you elaborate on the other bit?
  • Socrates Vs Aristotle... Who Was The Better Man?
    Socrates was known as the “First Philosopher” — PhilCF
    That would be Thales, and even that's a stretch.

    He also pioneered ethics and that the greatest virtue comes from moderation (an incorrect thought, but we will not focus on this now). — PhilCF
    Very doubtful. Perhaps you mean 'championed' ethics?
    Also - please elaborate why the thought is supposedly incorrect.

    He did this because he knew that if he ran, if would prove that everything he had taught us would be undermined. He would be undermined. He knew that the soul was immortal, and that he’d led a “good life” - what on earth did he have to fear? Therefore Socrates not only taught us how to live, but also how to die. — PhilCF
    Are you sure? Maybe he was simply old and tired.
  • The meaning of life and how to attain it
    I think it could be argued that life is detrimental to peace. — jajsfaye
    Is or can be?
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