Who is your favorite philosopher?

draqon said:
myself, I am my own favorite philosopher. But than after all I would say Siddhartha Gautama is my great philosopher.
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Ahh yes, another great one. I'm surprised no one has said that yet. What do you like about him and his teachings?

OOHH! I also like Dostoevsky, if one considers him a philosopher.
 
skaught said:
Ahh yes, another great one. I'm surprised no one has said that yet. What do you like about him and his teachings?

OOHH! I also like Dostoevsky, if one considers him a philosopher.
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nah, the dude is a writer.

otherwise every writer is a philosopher.

What I liked about Gautama is adaptability to everything in life/people/animals/plants in a good natured manner.
 
I never did like Dostoevsky, too much grotesque sorrow...and outcomes are grim too. Not a way to look at life. I need excitement, happiness, and true love in air as an outcome.
 
Yeah but he writes stories that are of a very philosophical nature, and address philosophical issues.
 
draqon said:
I never did like Dostoevsky, too much grotesque sorrow...and outcomes are grim too. Not a way to look at life. I need excitement, happiness, and true love in air as an outcome.
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hardly a philosopher (whatever that may be), a good author though.
 
S.A.M. said:
Murakami

"Our responsibility begins with the power to imagine … where there's no power to imagine, no responsibility can arise."
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that is kind of cool

basically means the "instinctive" can do no wrong; they follow the laws naturally.
 
draqon said:
Enmos we all need teachers to realize ourselves. A baby we were all and taught by everything around us to form our philosophical concepts of everything.
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I hold the silly belief that people can think for themselves..
 
Enmos said:
I hold the silly belief that people can think for themselves..
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but a person alone always cannot think for him/herself.

Lets say you were isolated in a room from day of the birth until very old age...were fed when you were asleep...the room had nothing in it, excrements removed without you knowing of it.

What than? Enmos?
 
draqon said:
but a person alone always cannot think for him/herself.

Lets say you were isolated in a room from day of the birth until very old age...were fed when you were asleep...the room had nothing in it, excrements removed without you knowing of it.

What than? Enmos?
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Is that relevant ?
And.. are you saying that you can't think for yourself ?
 
Enmos said:
Is that relevant ?
And.. are you saying that you can't think for yourself ?
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without others in past or current...yes I cannot.

Oh wait...that does not include robots/machines/computers which teach...

actually I am probably wrong...
 
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draqon said:
but a person alone always cannot think for him/herself.
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that is the ignorance of religious teachings

it is like baptizing a child for sins just after birth; why not baptize on the death bed?

But to believe that mankind cannot think, is why religions rule the world!

Lets say you were isolated in a room from day of the birth until very old age...were fed when you were asleep...the room had nothing in it, excrements removed without you knowing of it.

What than?
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it would be like living within a religious belief, that someone else runs your life.

and that is not from God, but the corruption of religious imposition taught within the corruption of religious interpretations

Meaning; God promised equality to all mankind; not that some preachers is going to tell us what to believe.

So to Love God, then know you are equal and can think and are responsible for your actions.

Otherwise... followers will fall while the truth seekers will live!
 
Bishadi said:
not me, i know responsibility to accounting and honesty; what is your problem?
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Why should I have a problem ?
I was just surprised at you seeming surprised at SAM's quote, as if you never thought of that before.
 
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