Tag: life
group name: philosophylovers
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January 29, 2007 08:02 AM EST --
A fundamental problem exists with trying to discover the meaning of life.
(Note that when we talk about the meaning of life we always implicitly assume that we are talking about the meaning of our own . . .
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May 11, 2007 06:54 PM EDT --
**All quoted information from "The Experience of Philosophy" by Daniel Kolak and Raymond Martin. Additional information is from class notes, discussion and interpretation.**
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July 29, 2007 11:04 PM EDT --
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
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August 11, 2007 09:52 PM EDT --
The word "money" has uncertain etymological origins, though it is probably derived from the Latin (of course) moneta which was a title given to the Roman god Juno whose temple was near to the . . .
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September 15, 2007 11:17 PM EDT --
Getting back to nature. Living off the land. Embracing the natural world and sacredness of our Earth Mother.
These concepts have been very popular in recent decades. Going back to the 1960s, people have . . .
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October 09, 2007 08:05 PM EDT --
(If you are a person who believes that every word in the Bible is literal truth and your mind is not open to other points of view or interpretations, then it is perhaps best if you do not read any further . . .
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July 04, 2007 09:00 PM EDT --
Initially I called it my bog garden, but I came to realize that the bog was in the pond and the pond was beside or a feature of the garden, but not the garden. So with my sixth son, I began to imagine . . .
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July 26, 2007 09:39 PM EDT --
Often on Gather various people will post some kind of simple statement or elaborate essay outlining their position on a given issue or cultural phenomenon, staking out their position and inviting like . . .
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August 07, 2007 02:01 PM EDT --
I was pondering the question which serves as the title of this piece, after participating in another conversation string here on Gather in which the idea of "common sense" was thrown out.
My . . .
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July 10, 2007 12:42 PM EDT --
Life may be more akin to a series of meets than a single marathon. You can lose a race here or there, as long as you win in one contest, in one area. All the struggles you endured . . .
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May 05, 2007 08:27 PM EDT --
DO YOU BELEIVE THAT THERE IS LIFE ON SOME OTHER PLANETS OUT THERE, DO YOU THINK THAT WE ARE ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE AS VAST AS IT IS AND DO YOU THINK THIS PLANET HAS BEEN VISITED BY OTHER LIFE FORMS?
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January 15, 2007 08:09 AM EST --
Some time ago, a woman with a gun in her hand demanded of me and my companions that we provide good reasons why life is worth living. Otherwise she was going to terminate us.
I thought to myself: "This . . .
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August 02, 2007 02:52 PM EDT --
Tuesday the House passed a sweeping ethics reform bill aimed at earmarks and the influence of lobbyists, long overdue with corruption running amuck the last six years.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi . . .
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June 15, 2008 09:29 AM EDT --
From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Furthermore, human beings have two heavenly gods who always accompany them, just as a shadow follows the body. One is named Same Birth . . .
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May 25, 2007 12:50 PM EDT --
Here at Gather, I have created this one group. It is closest to my heart. More so now than ever, all people of good conscience need to band together for the sake of peace.
What is global harmony? . . .
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January 15, 2007 07:29 AM EST --
My companions and I are in some kind of a building and strange, inexplicable things begin to happen. Every time we open a door to some room, the room and the things in it have changed. People try . . .
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May 17, 2007 08:46 AM EDT --
Hello!!
Hello up their on the flat top of our nation's social pyramid!
Yeah, you guys milling around right under the all seeing eye.
Here's a little heads-up from a few levels down.
The slippery . . .
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May 19, 2007 03:46 PM EDT --
The Mud Chief
(January 13, 2006 11:56 AM EST (Updated: January 14, 2006 09:19 AM EST)
He just mainly sat by the side of the road. His boots and pant legs had become a blended reality with the muddy . . .
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March 17, 2008 01:46 AM EDT --
On Saturday morning the loose-knit group unofficially known as the "Camera Club" meets for coffee at the local coffee shop. It is a legitimate title with four professional photographers (none . . .
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December 18, 2007 10:38 PM EST --
I guess my generation's, when it was younger, objection to our parents social culture was that it had one heck of a lot of hypocrisy in it. Kids don't drink but it was fine for the parents . . .
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