Why Are People Afraid of Living?

Uh again.

Investigating other people's neuroses is so ... neurotizing ...

 

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Why are all people afraid of living?
Why are people afraid of living?

Well you'll just have to appear to think about that.

 

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Well F off out of the thread neurot.

 

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Wrong question.
False premise.
Fail.

Why do you think people are afraid of living?
What makes you the authority on the subject?

 

Like this -

Exhibit a:

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Exhibit b:

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Exhibit c:

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Woohoo!

 

Can't.
We don't have the weather for it.

 

What is the right question?
What is the false premise?
What have I failed at?

Authority? I asked a question.

 

How about "Are people afraid of living?"

The persistent assumption/ claim that people ARE afraid of living.

Yep:

With an unfounded unsupported assumption as the basis.

Not a smart way to proceed in this subforum.
Glaucon may well Cesspool this thread unless you get your act together, and I wouldn't blame him.

You have yet to show what you mean by "afraid of living" and that people (all people

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) are.

 

That would be your question not mine.

I asked a question. I asked it once as I recollect. You are the one repeating yourself.

I thought perhaps that people might respond to the question.

Is that an unsupported assertion? Or just a statement.

How else might I proceed in this subforum?

Are you the boss here?

I just demonstrated the difference between 'all people' and 'people'. I'll do it again for clarity:

Why are people afraid of living?
Why are all people afraid of living?

 

That's your failure.
An unsupported assumption as premise.

Yeah?
Post #22 doesn't count?

It's an assumption taken as premise.

Philosophically.

Why do you think I mentioned Glaucon?

They aren't.
Next question.

 

Oh dear.

No because I was demonstrating the difference between 'people' and 'all people'.

Demonstrate how the question is not one that might be pondered philosophically?

Because you like to drop the names of powerful people that you know and whom may have some authority over me so that I might feel threatened enough to shut up?

Is that an assumption taken as a premise?

http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?t=71046

But thanks for being so unthinking and ruining this one which might have yielded something philosophically interesting ....

 

Life is painful, meaningless, ugly, bleak, and it ends usually in a really nasty way that involves more pain and lots of smelly, squishy liquids everywhere.

The glass is half empty...and probably was not a clean glass to begin with, In fact I'm not sure I'd drink out of it at all.

 

Yeah.

Right.

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It's quite simple. You haven't supported your premise, you've assumed it's true.

Wrong. But you're good at that.

Obviously.

WTF is that meant to illustrate?

Also wrong. You have a poor understanding of philosophy, apparently.
You've made an assumption, taken it as true and asked others to explain it.
How, for example, are YOU afraid of living?
How does this fear manifest itself?

 

Is there a difference between:

Why Are People Afraid of Living?
and
Why Are All People Afraid of Living?

Or not?

How do you know what exactly I have assumed?

Good at what? Have I made an assumption about why you mentioned Glaucon?

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That asking a question may yield interesting results.

Apparently, I do.

I have asked a simple question. Or have I simply asked a question?

Sometimes I am indecisive out of fear for the consequences. A kind of 'be careful what you wish for' type scenario.

 

Does it make a difference?
You're still assuming.

Er, is that not explicit in the question?
Why are people afraid of living? clearly assumes that they are.

Good at false assumptions. And yes.

Asking a question with an unsupported assumption as the basis?

Correct.

No, you've made an assumption and used that as the basis for further exploration.

And that translates to "fear of living" does it?

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Is not a rational caution (or fear) part of living?

 

It makes all the difference.

It poses a question. The answers, if there are any, may shed more light on the question. That, I believe, is philosophy.

You have yet to establish the assumption I made when I posed the question. Ah so I made a false assumption about why you mentioned Glaucon?

By asking a question.

Unsupported assumption, apparently.

I have asked a question which may or may not be explored further.

Fear of making a life choice is a kind of fear of living in my view.

It could be regarded as a preventative measure, yes.

 

None of the people I know are afraid of living. Well, at least none of the people I know in person. If they are, they hide it very well.

Are all teh people you know afraid of living? Are you? :shrug:

 

Wrong. You're still assuming.

Also wrong.
Unsupported assumptions aren't philosophy.

I see you're slow of comprehension: the assumption is that people are scared of living.

Correct.

One predicated on an unsupported assumption.

A false question.

Ah, now we're getting somewhere.

It could also be regarded as a survival measure.

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Is it possible to ask a philosophical question?


An obvious example:

Why do people believe in god?

 

Yes.
You lay out the premise and support it, then proceed from there.

Except that it is obvious that some people do so. Which is not the case with your question.