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May 4th, 2012, 10:34 pm
The Vedas state that the purpose of Human existence is to understand the true nature of Self. The cause for Human existence is ignorance. (Note I am disambiguating the word reason from the OP question)
April 29th, 2012, 8:29 pm
Xris wrote:I think your missing the point. There has to be a limit to anyone's honesty, to be honest. To say otherwise is dishonest.
No, there need not be such limits placed. A person can lead a righteous, perfectly honest life - even now - anywhere in the world. Her attachments, weakness and greed drive her towards dishonesty.
April 29th, 2012, 8:21 pm
(quote not shown) Not quiet that fast. Because the person pressing the button has two things to do. 1. He has to decide that the person he is going to kill deserves death. It is easy to hate most people but when we really ask the questions - Do we hate her enough to kill her? Why me - What gives me ...
April 22nd, 2012, 12:07 pm
Replying to the OP, In any given society, there will always be some - so called "deadbeat" parents. Dealing with them is a problem of legislators and social workers. But philosophers have to choose to look at the root cause - Why does a person become a 'deadbeat'? If their percentage is un...
April 21st, 2012, 12:12 pm
(quote not shown) And which country would be that? :mrgreen: -- Updated April 21st, 2012, 11:38 am to add the following -- (quote not shown) In this particular case - Having needed to explain your purchases - is that what you treat as your burden? Then the cause for it could have been - a communicat...
April 21st, 2012, 10:18 am
(quote not shown) It is not proven that the application uses magic. The technology behind is not exposed. So the first thing that people do is associate it with magic. But I request you not to get side lined with the questions like - How this can work and What is a valid ID? I have given some reason...
April 21st, 2012, 9:29 am
(quote not shown) I liked Zionized's answer as being more mature and with a different perspective. Thanks everybody for participating. Let me explain the theory behind this exercise. 1. This is a community which labels itself to the world "Philosophy" and further since it is online - every...
April 16th, 2012, 7:30 pm
Ok, Now let me add a little bit of a twist to the question to make it more real. If you need to have something, you need to give up something else. The Red pill makes you twice as intelligent but half as stronger. The Blue pill makes you twice as stronger but half as intelligent. When you grow weake...
April 16th, 2012, 12:39 pm
I make a computer application that is sold online only. It will be linked to my bank account anonymously and I will make sure that none of my personal information is available to anybody. The application will be sold at $1000 a pop. Anybody can buy this anonymously after making the payment. The appl...
April 16th, 2012, 11:03 am
Scott wrote:Define stronger.
Obviously the tone of the question suggests that it is physical strength. However I have corrected the OP to prevent people form playing with words and concentrate on the philosophical problem and refine their thoughts.
April 16th, 2012, 10:57 am
(quote not shown) Some how people have the perception that the rich got to be rich by doing something bad. Sometimes it can be jealously. Sometimes it can be what media portrays. But there are a few people who are rich and who reached that place with a righteous living. More often than not, they hav...
April 16th, 2012, 10:38 am
I have a red pill in my left hand and a blue pill in my left. I can offer you one. Which one would you choose and why? The red pill makes you twice as intelligent as you were and the blue pill makes you twice stronger physically.
January 1st, 2012, 8:48 am
Well said Paul and Belinda. Now the issues among the rich (problem cases only) 1> In developing countries, where the family structure still functions - the rich tend to have more broken families. Reasons may be * The rich tend to allocate less personal time * High incidence of infidelity and lack of...
December 29th, 2011, 2:37 am
(quote not shown) Here your assumption is that it is important to save lives - no matter what those saved lives suffer afterwards or contribute to the society. Diogenes and many other philosophers state that there is no difference between life and death. Further more there are still many tribal ways...
December 28th, 2011, 6:31 am
I am not sure if my observation is not tinted but I see more often that all the social work projects - goals are to help the poor/under privileged. Do you concur? Happiness is a state of mind. I see no correlation between the social class of an individual and his happiness. I see lots of issues that...
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