What’s Your Philosophy of Life?

LurchAddams said:
Bullshit. Of course there's self. I'm very aware of myself, my goals, my loves, my aspirations. Everyone with a soul has a sense of self - you know why? Because all our actions and decisions affect others we love and others in our community.

"no self". Geez man :(
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We like to believe that there's a separate "self" of some sort that sits behind our eyes and exists outside of our flow of thought. There isn't. There is no extra part of our brain that is the "I" we all imagine exists outside of our flow of thought and feels our feelings, experiences our experiences, etc.

There is no thinker of thoughts. There are only thoughts.
 
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ZenMode said:
We like to believe that there's a separate "self" of some sort that sits behind our eyes and exists outside of our flow of thought. There isn't. There is no extra part of our brain that is the "I" we all imagine exists outside of our flow of thought and feels our feelings experiences our experiences, etc.

There is no thinker of thoughts. There are only thoughts.
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Agree. This was argued for by David Hume.
 
ZenMode said:
Hume and other philosopher-types since then. There's a lot of disagreement because people really feel like there is a self in the drivers seat that's experiencing, thinking, making decisions, etc.
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It is a Christian invention. Jesus as absolute subject identified with God. Ancient Greeks did not talk about the self and subjectivity.
 
evince said:
It’s the art of thinking

Some find no use for such activity

We call them losers
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Agreed on thinking. Still, not many philosophy jobs out there.

As it was, I had a job all lined up, and they didn't give a shit what my major was as long as I graduated. :thup:
 
College is for learning



People seem to have forgotten that fact

I went to a city college

I took all kinds of courses

I got an AA


I didn’t have the funds to go on


But I learned soooo much


I just kept taking courses


I had a different reason than most people did


I went to college because I wanted to learn


I have always been weird that way
 
LurchAddams said:
Successful philosophy majors:

https://umaine.edu/philosophy/career-planning/famous-philosophy-majors/

"Thanks to Brendan Lalor for compiling this great list (with a few additions from me):

Steve Allen (writer & comedian)
William Bennett (former Drug czar & NEH leader, Books of Virtues)
William Jefferson Clinton (former President)
Woody Allen (director & comedian)
Mary Higgins Clark (mystery writer)
Gene Siskel (movie reviewer, Siskel & Ebert at the Movies)
Philip K. Dick (science fiction writer)
David Duchovny (actor on X-Files)
John Elway (quarterback, Denver Broncos)
Ivan Frolov (editor of Pravda)
Rebecca Goldstein (novelist & MacArthur prize recipient)
Don Harron (Canadian comedian, author of Anne of Green Gables libretto)
Harrison Ford (actor)
Christy Haubegger (editor of Latina)
Vaclav Havel (former President of Czeckoslovakia)
Peter Hoeg (author of Smilla’s Sense of Snow)
Mark Hulbert (financial columnist for Forbes magazine)
Carl Icahn (business person & corporate raider, bought TWA)
Martin Luther King, Jr. (civil rights leader)
Bruce Lee (martial arts & actor)
Michael Lerner (editor of Tikkun)
Peter Lynch (director)
Steve Martin (comedian & actor)
Kate Millett (author of Sexual Politics)
Bob Moses (civil rights activist)
Robert Motherwell (painter)
Iris Murdoch (novelist)
Lachlan Murdoch (son of Rupert Murdoch, media magnate)
Robert Musil (Austrian novelist)
Freeman Patterson (photographer, author of The Art of Seeing)
Neil Peart (drummer for rock group, Rush)
Chaim Potok (novelist)
Pope John Paul II (vicar of Christ)
Patricia Rozema (film-maker, I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing)
Mick Schmidt (former Philadelphia Philly)
John Silber (former president of Boston University)
Susan Sontag (essayist)
George Soros (money manager, Soros Foundation)
Dave Thomas (SCTV)
Alex Trebeck (Jeopardy!)
David Foster Wallace (novelist & MacArthur prize recipient)
Robert Weaver (doyen of Canadian literature, head of CBC’s ANTHOLOGY)
Moses Znaimer, (Owner of CITY)
Emile de Antonio (documentary film maker)
Sheila Bair (Chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)
Larry Sanger, (Co-founder of Wikipedia)
Chris Hayes, (MSNBC political commentator)
Carly Fiorina, (former CEO of Hewlett-Packard)
Reid Hoffman, (Linked-In Co-founder)
Stewart Butterfield, (Flickr Co-founder)
More famous philosophy majors, by occupation: “Philosophy degrees and the people who have ’em” (external)"
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https://www.justplainpolitics.com/s...Your-Philosophy-of-Life&p=5285341#post5285341
 
Chris Hayes has a BA in philosophy from Brown. Makes sense. It is the only show on MSNBC that I like.
No chit chat. No wasted time. He stars off stating the topic, introduces a guest, then get immediately into the issue.
 
evince said:
College is for learning



People seem to have forgotten that fact

I went to a city college

I took all kinds of courses

I got an AA


I didn’t have the funds to go on


But I learned soooo much


I just kept taking courses


I had a different reason than most people did


I went to college because I wanted to learn


I have always been weird that way
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Your writing says you didn't get out of high school. If you went to college, you need a refund because you present with a literacy level of about grade 3.
 
Life is Golden said:
Your writing says you didn't get out of high school. If you went to college, you need a refund because you present with a literacy level of about grade 3.
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This is not a college dissertation idiot



This site is for communication


I’m not here to impress fucking dirt bags like you


I’m here to dish out FACTS


Your grammar Nazi act can be shoved right back up you fat flabby ass



Poetry does not follow grammar rules huh


And it is a supreme form of communication


You sell hate and lies



I seek truth
 
evince said:
This is not a college dissertation idiot



This site is for communication


I’m not here to impress fucking dirt bags like you


I’m here to dish out FACTS


Your grammar Nazi act can be shoved right back up you fat flabby ass



Poetry does not follow grammar rules huh


And it is a supreme form of communication


You sell hate and lies



I seek truth
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You communicate on an elementary level with incorrect grammar, no punctuation, no structure.

You are the epitome of hate but also dumb as dirt and you cannot hide it.
 
I don’t fucking care about archaic rules that get in the way of communication



I am here to communicate




I do that very effectively



I have been doing this shit long enough to see the results



You seek confusion and lies



Fuck you
 
evince said:
I don’t fucking care about archaic rules that get in the way of communication



I am here to communicate




I do that very effectively



I have been doing this shit long enough to see the results



You seek confusion and lies



Fuck you
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How is this effective? No one takes you seriously...it's impossible to do so... but you are pretty entertaining;) So carry on... I'm not sure what you're going to do in November though
 
In the pages of this very site is the proof of how many fucking times I have been proven correct in my assessments of the facts over a couple of decades



I can prove it


In fact those links in my quote link to some


All your side has Is attempts to lie about the past, future and present

The very pages of this site prove that


The internets destroys you


They are searchable and a forever record of the Republican Partys lies and failures


The younger people are

the more they understand this


You can’t win


Your whole gig is built on people forgetting what happened just a few years ago



Your fucked now


People can check and then remember


So lies and insults is all you have


You suck and now everyone knows you suck


They can check your suckability and can easily reference your massive suckingness



Your suck is now legendary


You will be crowned the monarch of suck though



So you do have that
 
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