Forum about Philosophy

[TheBryceKrispy]

A Forum to Talk about Philosophy.

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I hate philosophy unless it's whatever diogenes was going on about.

Diogenes was onto something.

[djwaglmuffin]

Lord...

The ancients were JERKS!

[bakasama25]

Isn't that guy who went around looking for a honest man with a lamp? Even in the daylight?

[TheBryceKrispy]

This made me laugh out loud. Diogenes is my new favorite philosopher.

[DiegoPalacios]

about philosophy.....a random inspiring quote generator gave me this quote:

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DUUUUUUUUUDE

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I feel like this thread didn't go the way OP intended

[silverraven0]

If you keep on thinking about the things that has happened or yet happening on your life, you would go nowhere beyond that thinking.

-made up by me, someone that's stuck with too many thought.

(Is this what you guys mean by philosophical thinking? Since I didn't learn it at school)

[DiegoPalacios]

I heard some people have the same conclusion about not been stuck in the past or been stuck thinking in what may be. But is still a good thought about how to approach life.

You may be interested in reading "The power of now" by Eckhart Tolle.

[qwerty]

Oh, I like philosophy (kinda)

The world is like a movie theater.
The projector at the back is consciousness. The light from the projector is perception. The screen is the 'true' world, which is unknowable. The image produced from the light hitting the screen is reality. The movie is our interpretation of reality after it has been filtered through our minds.

'Eastern' philosophers say the world is an illusion. This is because the screen, the pure image on the screen, the light, and the projector all exist objectively, but we do not see them. The movie exists only in our minds, but it is the only thing we normally see. We tend to experience what is not really there and fail to perceive what is there.

That's all I've got for now

[Jenny-Toons]

I just kinda make up my Philosophy on the fly, based more on my goal to live in the moment and love what life brings but also be prepared to take the pains and obstacles it can give too. As Bob Ross perfectly stated:

"Sometimes, we need a bit of darkness to truly feel the lightness. Those bad times come, but so do those good times."

[libs]

I feel like every writer should have some kind of knowledge on philosophy. Helps write a better story.

With that in mind, I am currently trying to write some new stories so I hope to learn about what "love" is.
also interested in the similarities and difference between horror and comedy as well as what's makes something scary or funny. Any ideas?

[AllynCrowe]

I am finishing my bachelors of philosophy this year, so here's a quote from one of my favourites:

"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things."
- Descartes

[Luminosophy]

I think a lot of people's stress comes from thinking way too far ahead in the future, where they're trying to make decisions to secure their life when in reality they don't have enough information (and time) to do so yet. So they stress and stress and stress about the what ifs around the circumstances of critical decisions but it's just simply that they're not at the right time to make them. But without being able to make it in advance, life feels big and scary. You only know what you can know now, and therefore can only influence what's now. Put all your thought towards making right now the best it can be, so that life later will never be bad. : 0

[qwerty]

I think someone once said, "comedy is tragedy from a distance", although that isn't true all the time.

I think comedy arises from expectations being violated. Punch lines and comedic incidents always seem to work because you don't expect them to unfold the way they do.

I'm not really a fan of horror but I think you can make a story scary by:

• making the readers feel empathy / connection with characters and then putting them in danger (readers fear for the character)
• portraying a character in a state of fear (readers experience the character's fear vicariously)
• portraying things that are repulsive on a visceral level ("creepy" or gory things, "uncanny valley" stuff)
• ambiguity. Unknown or ambiguous potential threats can generate more 'creeps' or fear than clearly defined threats and are better for creating suspense.

And about "love", my opinion is that what is most commonly referred to as love can actually be a few different things:

• 'unconditional love' - one person cares about someone else without expecting something in return. In other words, selflessness.
• 'liking' - one person has pleasant feelings towards someone else.
• 'attachment' / 'conditional love' - one person suffers without someone else, e.g. "I can't live without you!" This is often portrayed to be romantic but is actually unhealthy.
• The normal idea of 'romantic love' I think is an undefined blend of the above three things, but with sex and some social norms thrown in. 'Platonic love' is the same, but without sex and with different applicable social norms.

Wow, that got long. I guess I like geeking out about this stuff X/

[SoFt]

For all of Diogenes' new fans, here's a great source of more information about him:

He had some good ideas, but I'm more a fan of Socrates if we're talking Greeks =P.

[EntropicalForest]

I have seen comedy broken down into the subversion of expectations before, but i dont think it really holds water. Some jokes are funny explicitly because their obvious. Like such things as watching someone sneak up behind some one to try and scare them, or when you get the giggles in anticipation when a prank is about to go off. Those things are seem to be funny on the bases of them playing out how you expected.

Comedy might be more rooted in the concept of truth and less so in Subversion, which is kind of explored with theories of the Fool/Clown. And it might not be a literally truth either, but perhaps a meta-truth of sorts. I think some of the best examples of this is that while something like a pun might be received as funny or witty, it seems jokes or experiences which or more relatable (Meta-truth) get a more visceral response from people in general (think of something like a shared experience or inside joke).

So while I think being surprised is a big part of comedy I think its perhaps a little more complex than that.

[bakasama25]

I can see why he has fans, One story had Plato saying humans were "featherless bipeds", Diogenes being Diogenes just got a chicken plucked it's feathers and showed Plato saying, "Hey, Plato! Here's your perfect man!"

He comes off like being the Emperor Norton of Ancient Greece.

[Leon]

I'd like to share some thoughts I had before and see other people's opinions. I was doing my stuff and I started to think about the Big Bang and the usual representations of it when I start questioning myself what was before, be it an older universe that died, complete blackness or both. Following the first line of thought, I began to imagine these universes and questioning what started the chain, what started reality itself and what was before, if there was something. Did reality had always existed or had it been a total nothingness that we can't even imagine, a lack of anything?. Then I think about a deity and the God particle, Higgs boson, which creates new matter, and I ask myself "What created the God particle? What created God? When did the atoms and the particles that conform them appear?

Of course, we still don't have the knowledge and technology to answer these questions, but since recently I stumbled upon some Buddhist philosophy, I understand that we can live without knowing the truth behind them, even if they end up priving to be unanswerable.