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 Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 10:28 pm
It's my experience that a large number of (educated) Christians are big on philosophy. Anyone here harbour a love of wisdom? Metaphysics, epistemology, morality and ethics?
I'm itchin' for a debate about Parmenides. twisted
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Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 3:28 am
Well man you know me, if it's thinking and typing I love to do it.
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Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 4:57 am
Some metaphysics and epistemology to begin with, I think... as an appetizer.
Okay, Laz. My challenge to you: prove you exist.
It's harder than most people think.
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Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 12:08 am
i think therefore i am? no that's a tough one i'll get back to you
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Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 3:50 am
Descartes? rolleyes C'mon, Laz, I thought you were smarter than that! You should know that Descartes was a pretentious moron who was grasping at straws, trying to save his career from the onslaught of philosophical scepticism. He assumes the existence of the thinker; one might as well say that a rose exists because it is red. Of course, I call it an onslaught, but such thinking had been around since at least the time of Pyrrho.
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Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 7:57 am
i pulled it out of my a** early in the morning. give me time to figure this out.
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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 10:33 am
ok it's been over a week. i have nothing i have yet to prove that i exist and thus i conclude that i must not exist.
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Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 4:41 am
xd I wrote a short essay on this some time ago. I'll have to dig it up...
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Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 8:33 pm
please do oh sexy gothbunny. the idea of not existing is killing me.
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Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 12:53 am
Sexy gothbunny? xd More like sexy cyberpunk-bunny, if you ask me.
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Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 5:35 am
Actually, I doubt my essay will help, Laz... it's supposed to cause doubt in one's own existence, not reaffirm it. sweatdrop
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Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 9:40 am
Galad Damodred Actually, I doubt my essay will help, Laz... it's supposed to cause doubt in one's own existence, not reaffirm it. sweatdrop ok well i guess not existing has it's advantages
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Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 4:16 am
Yeah. You don't have to worry about... anything, really.
Well actually, you might not exist, but your thoughts definitely do. So even if there is actually no "you" to be you, there are your thoughts, and your thoughts dream of you.
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Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 10:30 am
dosen't this come back to Descartes?
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Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 6:50 pm
Yes, but only in part. Descartes decided that existence was a prerequisite of conscious thought, and since doubt is a kind of conscious thought, to doubt one's existence was to reaffirm it. I'm saying that even if you don't exist, your thoughts can, independent of the you-ness that makes you you.
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