Looking for hypothetical questions to ponder.
If life is unfair to everyone, isn't life actually fair by treating everyone the same?
What happens when an unstoppable force hits an immovable object?
Quote from: Necromancerman on January 27, 2014, 02:40:16 PM
What happens when an unstoppable force hits an immovable object?
The force does not interact with the object because the object is not the path of least resistance
Quote from: Taysby on January 27, 2014, 02:53:13 PM
why is it impossible to cut the last 3 cards to have a 60 card deck?
because you need them in your 63 card deck...
Was "Lost" the name of the show, or what I should've felt while watching it?
Quote from: Pi on January 27, 2014, 02:48:24 PM
Quote from: Necromancerman on January 27, 2014, 02:40:16 PM
What happens when an unstoppable force hits an immovable object?
The force does not interact with the object because the object is not the path of least resistance
But the premise of the question is suggesting that an immovable object is deviating the path of the unstoppable force, which is a problem because to be unstoppable is to not be able to have your path altered.
I've always seen it like: if an object is, in absolute terms, immovable, then it must have an infinite amount of standing inertia. Because inertia is a quality of mass, an immovable object MUST have infinite mass. Therefore, either it is not possible for an unstoppable force to exist because there's simply no room (thus ending the questions premise) or the immovable object and the unstoppable force are the same thing (which is an absurdity because an object of infinite mass has no room to change position at all, so it cannot be both immovable and unstoppable).
The answer to that question, then, is "that question doesn't make sense."
Here's one that I like:
Why is there anything rather than nothing?
(This tends to be a premise in intelligent design arguments)
Quote from: Necromancerman on January 27, 2014, 02:40:16 PM
What happens when an unstoppable force hits an immovable object?
it bounces?
Quote from: Steerpike on January 27, 2014, 03:23:03 PM
Here's one that I like:
Why is there anything rather than nothing?
(This tends to be a premise in intelligent design arguments)
If you mean, why does this place exist? There is no way to prove that it does. The only evidence for this universe existing are electrical impulses between the neurons of your brain. This means the only evidence is also a part of the universe that may or may not exist.
We can only assume that there is anything, when in fact there may be nothing
Well it's not asking "do we exist?"
It's asking "Assuming we do exist, why that and not nothing?"
Quote from: Steerpike on January 27, 2014, 03:43:38 PM
Well it's not asking "do we exist?"
It's asking "Assuming we do exist, why that and not nothing?"
I don't have an answer for that, so I took advantage of the vagueness of the question and bent it to my needs
Quote from: Pi on January 27, 2014, 03:51:42 PM
Quote from: Steerpike on January 27, 2014, 03:43:38 PM
Well it's not asking "do we exist?"
It's asking "Assuming we do exist, why that and not nothing?"
I don't have an answer for that, so I took advantage of the vagueness of the question and bent it to my needs
Ladies and gentlemen: Philosphy
:P
Oh and on the fairness in life question.
I don't think life is unfair to everyone. Some people are born, raised, and die in luxury. While unfortunate things might happen to them, it's not typically in proportion to everyone else's misfortune.
I do want to say though that life is fair in the sense that there is no prime agent of our fortunes (such as fate or something like that), so there ought not be an assumpion that all our lives ought to be proportionately (fairly) fortunate. That's kind of the nihilism talking though.
Philosophy: the favorite subject of pseudointellectuals everywhere.
And also, incidentally, actual intellectuals.
Quote from: #noided on January 27, 2014, 04:54:20 PM
Philosophy: the favorite subject of pseudointellectuals everywhere.
I think it is great when people major in philosophy. They can ask me why I would like fries with that.
Quote from: Pi on January 27, 2014, 07:12:40 PM
Quote from: #noided on January 27, 2014, 04:54:20 PM
Philosophy: the favorite subject of pseudointellectuals everywhere.
I think it is great when people major in philosophy. They can ask me why I would like fries with that.
Exactly.
If the universe is all that there is, and science is saying that the universe is expanding, then what is the universe expanding into, if the universe is all that there is?
I failed this class in college.
I probably smoked too much.
my favorite one is,
what if i see the color blue in my view but other people see the same object as green, but we are told that the object is actually red, so we think that blue/green is red, but we actually see the colors different colors, but think they are the same.
Quote from: AdamS on January 28, 2014, 08:00:28 AM
my favorite one is,
what if i see the color blue in my view but other people see the same object as green, but we are told that the object is actually red, so we think that blue/green is red, but we actually see the colors different colors, but think they are the same.
then it wouldn't really matter, because we would call all the colors as we perceive them the same thing. For example, if I see a red object that I perceive as blue and you see green (but of course we don't know this), then we would both agree that the object is red, because we have been taught that that color is that color. Also, this question doesn't make very much sense simply because I'm preeeeeeeeeeeeety sure unless you're colorblind or your eyes are jacked up, they would pick up the light rays at the same correct frequencies as anyone else's.
Quote from: AdamS on January 28, 2014, 08:00:28 AM
my favorite one is,
what if i see the color blue in my view but other people see the same object as green, but we are told that the object is actually red, so we think that blue/green is red, but we actually see the colors different colors, but think they are the same.
I wonder if you and me see differing hues.
Is my red your blue
Or is my green your green too?
Ad if we do how would we discover this fact?
Even if we did would it have any impact?
I don't think it would affect us personally
But it would have ripple effects
Through the interior design industry.
If you were pushed down a escalator that was going up would you be falling down or up?
Quote from: Necromancerman on January 28, 2014, 02:09:06 PM
If you were pushed down a escalator that was going up would you be falling down or up?
you would be falling down, and when you stopped, you would be getting up
This is a quote from Black Flag, and its an interesting set of questions.
If nothing is true, why believe anything at all?
If everything is permitted, why not chase your wildest dreams?
Quote from: xStrayKnightx on January 28, 2014, 07:56:39 PM
This is a quote from Black Flag, and its an interesting set of questions.
If nothing is true, why believe anything at all?
If everything is permitted, why not chase your wildest dreams?
because some things are true and not everything is permitted...